皮膚接触コミュニケーションにおける感情伝達に関する研究～指点字通訳者による感情表現実験～

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Finger Braille is one of tactual communication media of deafblind people. Deafblind people who are skilled in Finger Braille can communicate various emotions by changing durations and finger loads. In this study, we analyzed the characteristics of emotional expression by Finger Braille interpreters. And two kinds of emotional expression experiments were carried out. The one was the experiment of two-handed Finger Braille and the other one was the experiment of one-handed Finger Braille. In the experiments, two Finger Braille interpreters expressed four emotions (Neutral, Joy, Sadness and Anger) in two sentences ("Rain has fallen. " and "It is the time."). At first, we calculated the duration of code, the duration of pause and the finger load. The results of analysis of variances were:(1) the durations of code of Joy were particularly shorter than other emotions;(2) the durations of code of Sadness were particularly longer than other emotions;(3) the finger loads of Anger were particularly bigger than other emotions;(4)the durations of code in the end of sentence and clauses were particularly longer than other characters;(5)the durations of pause in the end of clauses were particularly longer than other characters.