Evaluation of Emotional Expression using Finger Braille
Finger Braille is one of the tactual communication media utilized by deafblind people. Deafblind people who are skilled in Finger Braille can understand the speech conversation and express various emotions. Because there is such a small number of non-disabled people who are skilled in Finger Braille, deafblind people communicate only through an interpreter. The objective of this study b development of a Finger Braille support device which assists not only verbal communication but also nonverbal (emotional) communication between deafblind people and nondisabled people who are not skilled in Finger Braille. In this paper, we evaluated the emotional expression by non-disabled people by applying the emotion feature vectors and their distances. The results showed that the range of the distances of infra subjects represented the degree of the emotional expression by the subject; the distances of inter subjects represented the similarities of the emotional expression by the two subjects.
Finger Braille communication aid emotional communication
Yasuhiro Matsuda Tsuneshi Isomura
Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Kanagawa Institute of Technology Atsugi, Japan
国际会议
哈尔滨
英文
163-168
2011-12-24（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）