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IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems 2006 E89-D(6):1860-1867; doi:10.1093/ietisy/e89-d.6.1860
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Copyright © 2006 The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers

Special Section on Human Communication II -- Papers -- Language

Analysis on Empathy-Inducing Effect Brought by Haiku

Masami SUZUKI1, Yuichi KOBAYASHI2, Takahiro NAKAI2 and Kaori YOSHIDA3

1 The author is with KDDI R&D Laboratories, Fujimino-shi, 356–8502 Japan. E-mail: msuzuki{at}kddilabs.jp, 2 The authors were with ATR, Keihanna Science City, Kyoto-fu, 619–0288 Japan., 3 The author is with Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka-shi, 820–8502 Japan.

In this paper, we discuss the issue of empathy-inducing effect brought by Japanese Haiku, regarded as the world-shortest poetry. Its condensed form of word combination sometimes arouses deep impression and empathy in readers. Its possibilities as communication media would be enhanced in multimedia contexts, when considering educational purpose or cross-cultural interchanges. An experimental result is shown for evaluating multimedia effect on combined presentation of a CG drawing and its associated haiku in English. We confirmed that various aspects of visual impression and empathy were sometimes enhanced with certain haiku text as linguistic stimuli, compared with the condition of viewing a CG drawing only. The reason of raised empathy was analyzed from the various aspects of the content provided by the associated haiku text complementary for the drawing. Moreover, we examined the effects of poetic styles on subjects' empathy, using Japanese prose and conventional haiku style (5-7-5 syllabic rhyme), both of them were translated from the same haiku in English.

Key Words: haiku, CG drawing, empathy, subjective impression

Manuscript received September 25, 2005. Manuscript revised January 10, 2006.


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