A new approach to the KANSEI coordinates: automatic color arrangements

This paper deals with a problem to coordinate objects according to their impressions. First, the authors propose and define a KANSEI coordination problem, especially the color harmonization and arrangement for color combinations, and then formulate this problem. They simplify the practical complicated problem of arranging and coordinating colors for interior coordinates. This simplification enables one to formulate and finally resolve the problem into an optimization of the evaluation function under some constraint formulas. Therefore, it is expected that many kinds of constraint satisfaction methods can be used. The authors also point out that the evaluation function can be considered as a KANSEI model which can represent the relationship between subjectivity (the degrees of color harmony) and coloring styles.