Designing A Reading Chair using Kansei Engineering Approach

Abstract

Supporting facilities such as reading chair are often used as a scene to read books. However, the existing reading chair has not satisfied the user. This Research uses Kansei Engineering which purpose to design a reading chair that fulfil user needs. Kansei Engineering was chosen in this research because it can translate customer’s impression, feeling, and demands on existing products or concepts to design concrete solutions and parameters into product design. This research is done on students in the Bandung area who use reading chair. Using a questionnaire as a tool to collect data that distributed online with google form to 347 respondents. Questionnaire data was processed using KMO statistical test and Barlett test, so from 23 Kansei word that had been obtained there was a reduction to 15 Kansei word would be used into designing reading chair in this research. The results of this research states, the implementation of Kansei Engineering could be done in the design of reading chairs, and there are innovations to meet user needs such as, armrest, headrest and footrest. Also USB port, lights, and book storage area. All of that can be used by users.