Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : March 14, 2019
When a non-handicapped person communicates with a handicapped person, a healthy person often feels difficult to understand non-verbal signs which are shown by a handicapped person. Because someone of handicapped persons always does overreaction, and another person keeps silence. In these situations, a non-handicapped person tries to understand them with the knowledge which has been got through communication with non-handicapped persons, but it often fails. These situations give some kind of stress to healthy persons, and they come to avoid communication. We are developing the communication support system to understand non-verbal signs which are unique to handicapped persons. First of all, we have studied an appropriate method to display information which supports to understand the meaning of non-verbal signs with knowledge of ergonomics. In this paper, we improved the display method to show information on a wearable monitor and did some communication experiments to examine the effectiveness of the system. By showing the meaning of signs of a handicapped person on a monitor in a real time, a non-handicapped person can understand the situation of communication and what a handicapped person is going to tell.
