Application of product differential semantics to quantify purchaser perceptions in housing assessment

Building and Environment

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2488-2497

  Llinares, Carmen ^a   Page, Alvaro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE BIOMECÁNICA DE VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Building design; Customer oriented design; Differential semantics; Kansei engineering; Principal component analysis; Subjective preferences

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

CUSTOMER ORIENTED DESIGN; DIFFERENTIAL SEMANTICS; KANSEI ENGINEERING; SUBJECTIVE PREFERENCES;

HOUSING;

HOUSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; HOUSING MARKET; PERCEPTION; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

COMUNIDAD VALENCIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 33847042365     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2006.06.012     Document Type: Article

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