A bio-inspired evolutionary approach to identifying minimal length decision rules in emotional usability engineering

Abstract

Many of the applied methods and measurement tools of emotional usability engineering have been recommended for use designing products. A rough set method can also be a useful tool to be integrated with the basic concepts of emotional usability engineering. If such a method is applied, the groups of sensory words have to be investigated and their values reduced and classified to provide comprehensive information to product designers. However, a computational problem exists regarding the number of samples, groups of sensory words, and values required when resolving sense-based minimal decision rules. Considering this problem, we discuss the use of DNA computing, and propose a bio-inspired evolutionary method based on the rough set method, which should provide a new tool for emotional usability engineering. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.