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Subjective evaluations of tactile sensations have been quantified using several pairs of adjective words describing material properties such as roughness or smoothness. However, this method forces participants to analyze their tactile experience for as many bipolar adjective scales as to grasp variations of tactile sensations. Here we propose a system that evaluates tactile feelings expressed by a single sound symbolic word. When a user inputs a sound symbolic word into the system, the system refers to a database and estimates the relationship between the sounds used in the expression and its meaning. The result is expressed by 26 pairs of scales, such as “rough - smooth”, “warm - cold”, and “soft - hard”.
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This work was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “Shitsukan” (No. 23135510 and 25135713) from MEXT, Japan.
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Doizaki, R., Watanabe, J., Sakamoto, M. (2014). A System for Evaluating Tactile Feelings Expressed by Sound Symbolic Words. In: Auvray, M., Duriez, C. (eds) Haptics: Neuroscience, Devices, Modeling, and Applications. EuroHaptics 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8618. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44193-0_5
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