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Visualization of Tactile Material Relationships Using Sound Symbolic Words

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Haptics: Perception, Devices, Mobility, and Communication (EuroHaptics 2012)

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Although humans can richly perceive variations of tactile textures, the relationships among tactile sensation categories are not clearly generalized. Here we propose a novel method for classifying sensations for tactile textures using onomatopoeic words (sound symbolic words) in Japanese. The method generates a distribution diagram of onomatopoeic words based on subjective impressions of the words, and enables users to arrange and compare the tactile textures on the diagram in two-dimensionally visualized form. We describe two experiments performed to generate the distribution diagram and examine the validity of the diagram.

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Watanabe, J., Hayakawa, T., Matsui, S., Kano, A., Shimizu, Y., Sakamoto, M. (2012). Visualization of Tactile Material Relationships Using Sound Symbolic Words. In: Isokoski, P., Springare, J. (eds) Haptics: Perception, Devices, Mobility, and Communication. EuroHaptics 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7283. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31404-9_30

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