Wood/human Relations and the Future of Living Comfort Research in Wood Sciences

摘要

The future outlook for research on livability, living comfort, and amenity in wood sciences is discussed. The main purpose of wood research is how to use wood effectively. The important basic viewpoint using wood effectively is "to use wood is a human." Therefore, we establish a foundation on the perspective of "to use wood is a human" and study the relationship between the five human senses and the physical properties of wood. It leads to living comfort research and is encompassed simultaneously by the wood/human relations research. In this paper, I considered how to advance living comfort research in wood sciences in the future by surveying research trends past and present and by referring to the concept of wood/human relations research.