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In this study, we comprehensively determine the evaluation indexes based on Kansei engineering (KE), establish an overall product evaluation system by using analytic hierarchy process (AHP), and establish the subjective product evaluation system by classifying the evaluation indexes in the overall product evaluation system into \u201cobjective evaluation index\u201d and \u201csubjective evaluation index\u201d, removing the objective evaluation indexes, and retaining the subjective evaluation indexes. Additionally, we select some modern chairs as experimental samples to verify the reliability and validity of this subjective product evaluation system by means of questionnaires. The experimental results show that, in this subjective product evaluation system, the subjective evaluation of the product is positively correlated with the \u201cfavorite\u201d level of the product in comprehensive evaluation, and negatively correlated with the \u201cleast favorite\u201d level of the product in comprehensive evaluation, indicating that this subjective product evaluation system realizes a symmetry between subjective product evaluation and comprehensive product evaluation. Therefore, it can be concluded that this subjective product evaluation system based on KE and AHP proposed in this study has reliability and validity, and can be used for product evaluation to judge the popularity of products and enhance the competitiveness of products.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym12081340","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,8,11]],"date-time":"2020-08-11T10:56:12Z","timestamp":1597143372000},"page":"1340","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":39,"title":["Subjective Product Evaluation System Based on Kansei Engineering and Analytic Hierarchy Process"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Yaxue","family":"Zuo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechanical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250061, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zhenya","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mechanical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250061, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,8,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3","DOI":"10.1016\/0169-8141(94)00052-5","article-title":"Kansei Engineering: A new ergonomic consumer-oriented technology for product development","volume":"15","author":"Nagamachi","year":"1995","journal-title":"Int. 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