People's perceptions of the visual appearance of wood flooring: A kansei engineering approach

Forest Products Journal

Volumn 59, Issue 11-12, 2009, Pages 67-74

  Nordvik, Enar ^a   Schütte, Simon ^b   Olof Broman, N ^a  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING MATERIALS; FLOORS; SEMANTICS; VISUALIZATION; WOODEN FLOORS;

COMPUTER VISUALIZATION; DIGITAL PICTURE; KANSEI ENGINEERING; RESEARCH STRATEGY; THEORY AND PRACTICE; VISUAL APPEARANCE; VISUAL PROPERTIES; VISUAL STIMULUS;

WOOD;

CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; FLOORS; PROPERTIES; WOOD;

EID: 78349278909     PISSN: 00157473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13073/0015-7473-59.11.67     Document Type: Article

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