2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Indexing of reassurance, attachment, and healing effects based on visual and tactile evaluation of textiles
Project/Area Number |
20K02365
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Section | 一般 |
Review Section |
Basic Section 08030:Family and consumer sciences, and culture and living-related
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Research Institution | Kyoto Institute of Technology |
Principal Investigator |
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Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2023-03-31
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Keywords | テキスタイル / 癒し / 触感 / 視感 |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study answered the academic question, "If textile designs that give people a sense of security and attachment can be clarified, can they have an effect on the "healing" of the mind?" This is an academic question. The evaluation terms that strongly correlate with "healing" are preference, comfort, and softness of fabrics, both in visual and tactile evaluation. The physical properties most strongly correlated with "healing" are surface properties, and in terms of fabric structure, fur and pile structures are effective in changing flexibility in response to finger movement. To evaluate the "healing" that people feel while moving their fingers, we set a characteristic value (Delta power) that indicates the change in contact vibration between the fingers and the fabric. As a result, it was found that the smaller the Delta power value, the stronger the "healing" was induced in the sample.
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Free Research Field |
テキスタイル評価
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Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
身近に日常接するテキスタイルから、安心感や癒しを感じることができれば、閉塞した社会における心のリラクゼーションに寄与できる。本研究の結果は、柔らかいファーなどに代表される布が、指の動きによって布の表面がなめらかに変形することで、指と布間に生じる接触振動が小さく、「癒し」を感じさせる要素になりえることを実験的に示している。また、「癒し」の評価に対する個人差が他の評価語対に比べて小さいことからも、布に対する評価者間に共通の基準が存在することが示唆された。今後は、データを布の設計に応用することで、愛着や安心感を使用者に与える商品開発にも応用できるのではないかと考える。
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