Abstract
It has often been pointed out that it is difficult for those without any scientific background to understand the experimental data on gait analysis. Thus, we introduced a linguistic approach of “onomatopoeias” in order to explain gait analysis in plain words while taking advantage of Lissajous figures as a scientific and quantitative way. In this research we used three onomatopoeias; “DosunDosun (clomp)”, “SutaSuta (walk briskly)”, “YochiYochi (toddle)”, whose sounds turned out to be useful for all kinds of people to have common understandings of their gait motions. And Lissajous figures enabled us to visualize gait acceleration data and to evaluate them in a more quantitative way. The linguistic approach of “onomatopoeias” and the graphic approach of “Lissajous figures” supplement each other and it is considered that the combination of the two approaches is a useful gait analysis method.
