Presentation 2020-03-13
Effect of visual impression of emotion controlled by font design
Mifuyu Nukaga, Hibiki Matsumoto, Haruru Mitobe, Takayuki Watanabe,
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Abstract(in English) The purpose of this research is by use of font design of subtitle to visually convey emotions contained in tone of voice, which is one of the non-verbal information that cannot be presented only by textual information (such as situations where speech cannot be used). Four types of emotions, "anger", "fear", "joy", and "sadness" were taken up as references in previous research. First, a survey was conducted to select the fonts used in the experiment, and four types of fonts were determined. Next, four types of videos used in the experiment were determined. The experiment used a "Hello" as a subtitle. The experiment was carried out under 20 conditions, with four kinds of selected videos and four kinds of fonts decided by the survey and one control font as a subtitle. As a result, it became clear how much emotion each font can give on the videos. The fonts that considered "joy" had significantly higher "joy" results at the 1% CL in most videos. The fonts considered to represent "anger" gave the impression of "fear" in some of the videos, but in some videos the results of "anger" were significantly higher at the 1% CL. Fonts considered to represent "fear" had significantly higher "fear" results at the 1% CL for two emotions other than "sorrow". Fonts considered to represent "sadness" had a significantly higher "sadness" result at the 1% CL in most images. These results can be applied to subtitles of movies for the hearing impaired.
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Keyword(in English) Font / Emotion / Subtitle / Image / Impression / Hearing impaired
Paper # WIT2019-46
Date of Issue 2020-03-06 (WIT)

Conference Information
Committee WIT / IPSJ-AAC
Conference Date 2020/3/13(3days)
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Place (in English) Tsukuba University of Technology
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) Hearing / Visually impaired person support technology, etc.
Chair Daisuke Wakatsuki(Tsukuba Univ. of Tech.) / 澤田 秀之(早大)
Vice Chair Shinji Sakou(Nagoya Inst. of Tech.)
Secretary Shinji Sakou(Saitama Industrial Tech. Center) / (Teikyo Univ.)
Assistant Manabi Miyagi(Tsukuba Univ. of Tech.) / Minako Hosono(AIST) / Aki Sugano(Nagoya Univ.)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on Well-being Information Technology / Special Interest Group on Assistive & Accessible Computin
Language JPN
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Sub Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Title (in English) Effect of visual impression of emotion controlled by font design
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Font
Keyword(2) Emotion
Keyword(3) Subtitle
Keyword(4) Image
Keyword(5) Impression
Keyword(6) Hearing impaired
1st Author's Name Mifuyu Nukaga
1st Author's Affiliation Tokyo Woman's Christian University(TWCU)
2nd Author's Name Hibiki Matsumoto
2nd Author's Affiliation Tokyo Woman's Christian University(TWCU)
3rd Author's Name Haruru Mitobe
3rd Author's Affiliation Tokyo Woman's Christian University(TWCU)
4th Author's Name Takayuki Watanabe
4th Author's Affiliation Tokyo Woman's Christian University(TWCU)
Date 2020-03-13
Paper # WIT2019-46
Volume (vol) vol.119
Number (no) WIT-478
Page pp.pp.45-50(WIT),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2020-03-06 (WIT)