Abstract:
Customers needs and feelings toward product is one of the foremost information in the product design and development process. Kansei Engineering (KE) is
a well-known methodology and widely used to translate the customers psychological feelings and needs into product's design properties and characteristics. The process of investigation and analyzing the customers perception is one of the essential processes of KE. Questionnaire is the most fundamental and effective tool used in
the investigation. However, the traditional paper-and-pencil questionnaire is hardship and a time-consuming process. Since the information technology has been everywhere, an online questionnaire is predominant. This study therefore proposes a web-based questionnaire system to support an application of KE in new product development of furniture products. A relational database, MySQL, is used as the system database. PHP is used to develop user interfaces and to process data. The system allows
the designer to create an online questionnaire having structure based on KE and enables respondents to complete the questionnaire anywhere anytime. The structure of questionnaire consists of three parts i.e. semantic space, space of properties, and product representatives. The investigate data is summarized in charts and tabular format. So that it can be further used for in-depth statistical analysis. The result of this study enhances the design team to obtain the customers feelings and needs much more accurate and also reduce the lead-time of data summarization.