Genetic Fuzzy Modelling of User Perception of 3D Shapes

Defining the aesthetic and emotional value of a product is an important consideration for its design. Furthermore, if several designers are faced with the task of creating an object that describe a certain emotion/perception (aggressive, soft, heavy, etc.), each is most likely to interpret the emotion/perception with different shapes composed of a set of different geometric features. In this paper, the authors propose an automatic approach to formalize the relationships between geometric information of 3D objects and the intended emotional content using fuzzy logic. In addition, the automatically generated fuzzy knowledge base was compared to the user’s perceptions and to the manually constructed fuzzy knowledge base. The initial findings indicate that the approach is indeed valid to formalize geometric information with perceptions and validate the author’s manually developed fuzzy models.