Abstract
In the design of multimedia database systems, one of the important issues is how to deal with "Kansei" of human beings. The concept of "Kansei" includes several meanings on sensitive recognition, such as "human senses," "feelings," "sensitivity," "psychological reaction" and "physiological reaction" [1]. In the field of database systems, the concept of Kansei is related to data definition and data retrieval with Kansei information for multimedia data, such as images, music and video. The important subject is to retrieve images and music dynamically according to the user?s impression given as Kansei information. We review some multimedia systems which manipulate Kansei information for defining and retrieving multimedia data.