Development of an Onomatopoeia Learning Support System for Congenital Visually Impaired Individuals Using Haptic Devices

Congenital visually impaired individuals especially in Japan, have difficulty understanding some onomatopoeia because Japanese onomatopoeia is often formed from visual information. To solve this problem, in this paper, we developed a system that enables users to experience and understand the movemen...

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Published inJournal of Information Processing Vol. 33; pp. 259 - 263
Main Authors Kano, Toru, Akakura, Takako
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Information Processing Society of Japan 2025
一般社団法人 情報処理学会
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haptic devices
onomatopoeia
understanding support
visually impaired individuals
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Summary:Congenital visually impaired individuals especially in Japan, have difficulty understanding some onomatopoeia because Japanese onomatopoeia is often formed from visual information. To solve this problem, in this paper, we developed a system that enables users to experience and understand the movements of objects through a haptic device. As a result of the evaluation experiment, it was suggested that our system could convey the image of onomatopoeia to users only using force feedback. In other words, the results indicate that congenital visually impaired individuals would be able to understand onomatopoeia based on visual information by using our system.
ISSN:1882-6652
1882-6652
DOI:10.2197/ipsjjip.33.259