Abstract
Man shows interest in moving things, such as toys, robots, vehicles or machines. A large number of motion patterns are proposed in the fields of mechanical engineering. Cybernetics motion is a kind of mechanical motion pattern and it shows a smooth and noiseless characteristic. This new proposed motion pattern will give agreeable feelings to man who sees the motion. Individual person, who look at a moving article according to different motion patterns, will have his own different emotions. In order to obtain the emotional differences of subjects among motions of cybernetics, cycloidal, two stepped constant speed and constant rate, the simulated door movements were displayed on a computer CRT and showed them to 461 subjects, and also showed a flat plate which was forced to move up-and-down by means of a servo-mechanism to 67 subjects. Data of each subject were obtained by semantic differentials, and the data were analyzed by means of a factor analysis. As the results, it was found that the cybernetics motion gave the most agreeable and speedy feelings, and the cycloidal motion was the second, the two stepped constant speed motion pattern was the third, and the constant rate gave the most offensive and slowly feelings to the subjects.
