Design of Chinese Traditional Jiaoyi Chair Based on Kansei Engineering and CNN-GRU-Attention

Xinyan YangNan ZhangJiufang Lv^*

• Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

This study innovatively enhances personalized emotional responses and user experience quality in traditional Chinese folding armchair (Jiaoyi chair) design through an interdisciplinary methodology. To systematically extract user emotional characteristics, we developed a hybrid research framework integrating web-behavior data mining: 1) the KJ method combined with semantic crawlers extracts emotional descriptors from multi-source social data; 2) expert evaluation and fuzzy comprehensive assessment reduce feature dimensionality; 3) random forest and K-prototype clustering identify three core emotional preference factors: "flexible and exquisite," "craftsmanship excellence," and "ergonomic stability." A CNN-GRU-Attention hybrid deep learning model was constructed, incorporating dynamic convolutional kernels and gated residual connections to address feature degradation in long-term semantic sequences.Experimental validation demonstrated the superior performance of our model in three chair design preference prediction tasks (RMSE=0.038953, 0.066123, 0.0069777), outperforming benchmarks (CNN, SVM, LSTM). Based on the top-ranked preference encoding, we designed a new Jiaoyi chair prototype, achieving significantly reduced prediction errors in final user testing (RMSE=0.0034127, 0.0026915, 0.0035955). This research establishes a quantifiable intelligent design paradigm for modernizing cultural heritage through computational design.