<i>Kansei</i> engineering toolkit for the packaging industry

TQM Journal - 2008
CathyBarnes1, TomChilds1, BrianHenson1, StephenLillford1
1Affective Engineering Research Group, School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to describe the Kansei engineering toolkit that has been developed to provide a set of tools and techniques to support better packaging design.Design/methodology/approachThe toolkit has its foundations in Kansei engineering but the work has extended the scope and increased reliability of results by: including structured linkages to designers; replacing “highest level Kansei” from Kansei type 1 with brand values; introducing a more structured process for the elicitation of type 2 selection of pack physical properties; reducing the complexity of the semantic differential survey used to elicit consumer perceptions; and structuring a process for selection of the Kansei words.FindingsThe work has shown that the proposed toolkit is able to support the design of packaging by illustrating the process with industrial case studies.Research limitations/implicationsKansei engineering and the techniques presented in this toolkit are inevitably simplifications of the real situation, since many more variables affect the consumers purchase decision than is tested in this process. There is still a need to test the insights gained by the toolkit into a wider investigation.Practical implicationsThis paper offers the packaging industry a robust and repeatable method to develop better packaging.Originality/valueThe paper presents an overall description of the Kansei engineering toolkit for packaging design and is a structured process that provides quantitative results for the relationship between branding, consumer perception and design variables.

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