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2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

The ergonomic study on the reading process of isolating language without Kanji characters

Research Project

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Project/Area Number 22770246
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field Applied anthropology
Research InstitutionChiba Institute of Technology

Principal Investigator

KOUNOSU Tsutomu  千葉工業大学, 社会システム科学部, 准教授 (20316805)

Project Period (FY) 2010 – 2012
Keywords(B) 人間工学
Research Abstract

In this study , it is examined the characteristics of an isolating language without Kanji characters bymeasuring eye movement. It is noticed that when people read Thai, both the number of fixations due toan increase in difficulty and the amount of fixation time increased. This is different from tendencieswhen reading Japanese. The high level of cognitive processing required in reading Thai was suggestedas a reason for this difference. According to a fixation point analysis, there is no fixation onmorphological elements. The tendency in which peripheral search guidance (PSG) is dominant has notbeen observed; however, the tendency of fixating on the final consonant of a word was observed. A finalconsonant has the same form as a commonly used consonant, making it impossible to distinguishbetween the two only through morphological characteristics in languages like Japanese and English. Inaddition, the cognitive search guidance (CSG) must dominate in a visual search. The informationcapacity per one fixation in Thai contains 20-30 bits more than that in Japanese and German. It issuggested that this is a cognitive characteristic

  • Research Products

    (4 results)

All 2013 2012 2011

All Presentation (4 results)

  • [Presentation] A Study on the Prototype of Focusing onthe Operability for RequirementAcquisition2013

    • Author(s)
      Yusuke Emori, YusukeKishiyama, Tsutomu Konosu
    • Organizer
      Part I, HCII 2013, CCIS 373
    • Place of Presentation
      Posters
    • Year and Date
      20130000
  • [Presentation] Ergonomic study on the informationcapacity of isolating language withoutKanji characters2012

    • Author(s)
      Makoto Ikeda,Tsutomu Konosu
    • Organizer
      4th InternationalConference on Applied Human factors andErgonomics
    • Place of Presentation
      CHAPTER666
    • Year and Date
      20120000
  • [Presentation] プロトタイプの操作性忠実度が要求獲得に与える影響に関する研究2012

    • Author(s)
      小柳秀仁,岸山 優輔, 鴻巣努
    • Organizer
      日本経営工学会
    • Place of Presentation
      E03
    • Year and Date
      20120000
  • [Presentation] Development of Learning AchievementIndex for Project Human ResourceManagement2011

    • Author(s)
      Yusuke Emori, TakuyaFurusawa, and Tsutomu Konosu
    • Organizer
      14thInternational Conference onHuman-Computer Interaction
    • Year and Date
      20110000

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Published: 2014-08-29  

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