A Proposal of Embodied Communication Model on Design Thinking Process

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26560016
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Design science
• Research Institution: Doshisha University
• Principal Investigator: Okubo Masashi 同志社大学, 理工学部, 教授 (10233074)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 身体性 / 合意形成 / 周波数 / うなずき / 頭部動作 / 合意プロセス

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Purpose of this research is to elucidate the relationships between the consensus building process in the group and the embodied communication. And based on the results, this research shows the possibility of the systems construction to estimate a process of the consensus building process from the physical communication of the group.
As a result of this research, I was able to observe a synchronizing phenomenon between the frequencies of the head movement in an consensus building process in the scene where the dialogists agreed. In other words, in the scene where the dialogists agreed to, a relationship was seen in the head movement of a listener and the speaker, and it is obviously that an consensus building process can be estimated from physical movement. These results of research are available for support of the joint learning, and it is thought that the applied range is wide.

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