Towards a Kansei WordNet by Color Design SNS Evaluation

Linguistic word nets usually focus on the semantic content and content relations of nouns while not taking into account to what degree those nouns can also reflect visual impressions in a user specific manner. Recently Color Design SNS like COLOURlovers or Adobe Color CC have gained popularity and the huge corpus of available data allows for gaining new insights into the way user associate color designs with impression words. We present the results of an experimental study for finding Kansei aspects of impression words and related user models by physiological closeness of color designs. The closeness relation between color designs is based on intensity impression matching, where a suitable way of reflecting intensity impression of contrasting colors was selected based on subjective impressions evaluation experiments. The first results of this novel combination of physiology and subjective impression can give raise to further investigations into such a direction.