Product Subjective Sustainability: Analysis of the Japanese Users’ Kansei Evolutions over their Short/Long-lived Products’ Lifetimes

Abstract

專注於產品的可持續性的主觀方面，考慮到缺乏一個廣泛的表達，包括產品，有助於產品的壽命與可持續發展的價值觀方面的主觀問題，目前的工作提出了概念的產品主觀的可持續性（PSjS）的特別指示“能力的產品，最後在其預期壽命長/短“令人滿意和愉快的情緒，情感和/或美學。為了擴大這個概念的經驗，利用感性工學的方法，本文提出的日本用戶的感性對他們的產品在其整個生命週期短/長壽命的演變分析研究的過程和結果。指定的短期和長壽命的產品類型，分別為這項分析研究，移動電話，私人轎車和日本的工藝品或傳統的家具。作為這一分析的主要成果，制定和感性工學的結構和趨勢PSjS這些產品之間的比較。 Focusing on the subjective side of product sustainability and considering the lack of a wide expression to encompass product subjective issues that contribute to products’ longevity with regard to sustainability values, the present work proposes the concept of Product Subjective Sustainability (PSjS) to particularly indicate ‘the emotional, affective and/or aesthetical capability of a product to satisfyingly and pleasantly last during its expected long/short lifetime’. Aiming to expand this concept experientially by using the Kansei Engineering approach, this paper presents the process and results of an analytical study on the evolution of Japanese users’ Kansei toward their short/long-lived product during its entire lifetime. The specified short and long lived product types for this analytical study are, respectively, mobile phone, private passenger car and Japanese handicraft or traditional furniture. As the main outcome of this analysis, the Kansei structures and the trends of PSjS are drawn and compared between these products.