Development of a Stressor Evaluation System with Image Conversation

Abstract

In this report, development of a stressor evaluation system with image conversation comparing our formerly developed system with onomatopoeia was described. It is thought that stress reduction is possible by grasping eustressors and by doing aggressive coping. By such a principle, we have already developed the system which grasped these eustressors. And it was revealed that continuation of the use of the system was important to take the coping action. By the way, "image conversation" is a communication style of the mobile phone using images such as "emoji (emoticon)" or "LINE's stamps". Before we assumed the character (onomatopoeia) input with the mobile phone in consideration of convenience, but, by the spread of so-called smartphones, we hypothesized that the communication using images was simpler and easier. The results showed this image conversation system was much better than the onomatopoeia system from the questionnaires of 17 volunteers (21.82±1.38Y of 15 male and 2 female) in 7 days trial.