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In Japan and other countries, pictographs have widely spread to add nuance to mails in mobile phones. We have developed a pictograph chat system, which enables communication using nothing but pictographs. We have prepared 550 pictograph symbols. The system has a history tab, which can save and reuse all pictographs used in the previous chat lines. We applied the system for communication to 2 groups of foreign students and Japanese students. We have carried out experiments 4 times. We report the results of the experiments as below. (1) The average number of chat lines was 29 lines in 30 minutes. (2) The subjects understood 83% of the chat contents. (3) The history tab is used about 24% of all selected pictographs. (4) History tab was used frequently in relation to the number of chat lines.
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Munemori, J., Fukuda, T., Mohd Yatid, M.B., Itou, J. (2008). The Pictograph Chat Communicator II. In: Lovrek, I., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5179. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85567-5_22
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