Traditional Japanese crafting presentation system based on VR and Kansei information processing techniques

Technical evolution of traditional crafting industries by multimedia and network technologies performs very important role to survive in modern industrialization in the world. In this paper we propose a three-dimensional CG presentation system using Kansei information processing and Virtual Reality technologies. A large number of data concerned with traditional Japanese fittings are stored in the database distributed over Internet. User can easily retrieve the desired fittings according to his/her Kansei and design not only the traditional Japanese interior but also combine those with western interior to build creative and original houses, hotels and other buildings. We built a prototype system in which user can also walk through the designed virtual space as a Japanese room organized by Japanese traditional fitting in Taturu-Hama-Cho and interactively change those fittings by the selected ones based on his Kansei from the distributed databases over Internet. As a result, we could verified the usefulness of our suggested system not only for Japanese crafting presentation fields but also for worldwide design industries.