- 著者
- Michiko OHKURA Sayaka GOTO Asami HIGO Tetsuro AOTO
- 出版者
- 日本感性工学会
- 雑誌
- 日本感性工学会論文誌 (ISSN:18840833)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.10, no.2, pp.109-114, 2011 (Released:2011-12-09)
- 参考文献数
- 30
- 被引用文献数
- 3 16 6
“Kawaii” is a Japanese word that represents a kansei value; it has positive meanings, such as cute, lovable, and small. In this article, we introduce our trials to measure kawaii feeling, a positive and dynamic feeling that occurs when “kawaii” stimulus is presented, by examining biological signals. The stimulus was presented as a screen with a colored surface in the first experiment, and as a virtual object of a certain size in the second experiment. The average heart rate obtained in these experiments indicated a significant difference between “kawaii” stimuli and “non-kawaii” stimuli, suggesting that the mental state while watching “kawaii” stimuli is more active than that while watching “non-kawaii” stimuli.
- 著者
- Miyuki YANAGI Yoshiyuki YAMARIKU Tomomi TAKASHINA Yoshikazu HIRAYAMA Ryota HORIE Michiko OHKURA
- 出版者
- Japan Society of Kansei Engineering
- 雑誌
- International Journal of Affective Engineering (ISSN:21875413)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.15, no.2, pp.189-193, 2016 (Released:2016-06-30)
- 参考文献数
- 11
- 被引用文献数
- 7
Kawaii describes Japanese culture and is used all over the world to express emotional feeling. This study hypothesized that kawaii feelings can be classified as excited and relaxed responses when watching photographs. Heart rate measurements were performed for subjects viewing exciting kawaii, relaxing kawaii, and uninteresting photographs. Statistical tests were conducted to relate heartbeat modulations and photograph conditions. Exciting kawaii photographs enhanced heart rates, while their relaxing counterparts did not increase heart rates to the same levels, validating the initial hypothesis.