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 onomatopoeic utterances and the lifting forces exerted by the test subjects. Here, we examined how the lifting forces are related to the way to utter onomatopoeia to make test subjects to exert light force. Human can utter the onomatopoeia with various "nuance". For example, we can "bellow", or "whisper". Then, we investigated how the lifting force is affected depending on this "nuance" that is expressed in human onomatopoeic utterance.
