Abstract
We have performed basic experiments for the purpose of applying onomatopoeia to engineering problems. In these experiments, test subjects were made to perform lifting actions while listening to onomatopoeic utterances. We thereby demonstrated that there is a relationship between the onomatopoeic utterances and the lifting forces exerted by the test subjects. We examined how the lifting forces are related to the magnitude of the onomatopoeic utterances and the envelope of these sounds. Furthermore, by comparing this phenomenon with the effects of simple tones and white noise, we investigated how the lifting force is affected depending on whether or not emotion is expressed when uttering the onomatopoeia.
