2017 年 16 巻 1 号 p. 181-187
Evaluation of the gait movement is very important in the study of basic movements. It is needed that gait movement tells itself using plain expression method. The concept of onomatopoeia in linguistics indicates gait movement clearly. In this research, an animation of walking model of the patient under rehabilitation was made. The impressions of the patients were evaluated using onomatopoeia based on this model. The aim of this research was to clarify the relationship between the impression evaluation and movement evaluation. It was revealed that there was an association between impression evaluation of gait using onomatopoeia and movement evaluation of gait. Further, results indicated the possibility that gait movement can be evaluated relatively easily using onomatopoeia.