Abstract
We would assume that people look a moving target as a living thing. Such estimation is justified from the result of a study of mental attribution, which showed a moving target to be considered to have a heart, and a study of image schema, which indicated the elicitation of emotion from the meaning of verbal expression. In this paper, we examined by a psychological experiment whether people could have some common emotion in a moving target. The target was a small circle and acted in 1 simple ways such as uprising, reciprocation, circular motion, etc. As a result, the participants could feel a common emotion according to each moving way of the target. This result will be useful to the realization of the emotional interface.
