{"pk":25574,"title":"Investigating Ways of Interpretations of Artificial Subtle Expressions\nAmong Different Languages: A Case of Comparison Among Japanese, German,\nPortuguese and Mandarin Chinese","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Up until now, several studies have shown that a speech\ninterface system giving verbal suggestions with beeping\nsounds that decrease in pitch conveyed a low system\nconfidence level to users intuitively, and these beeping sounds\nwere named “artificial subtle expressions” (ASEs). However,\nall participants in these studies were only Japanese, so if the\nparticipants’ mother tongue has different sensitivity to\nvariations in pitch compared with Japanese, the\ninterpretations of the ASEs might be different. We then\ninvestigated whether the ASEs are interpreted in the same\nway as with Japanese regardless of the users’ mother tongues;\nspecifically we focused on three language categories in\ntraditional phonological typology. We conducted a web-based\nexperiment to investigate whether the ways speakers of\nGerman, Portuguese (stress accent language), Mandarin\nChinese (tone language) and Japanese (pitch accent language)\ninterpret the ASEs are different or not. The results of this\nexperiment showed that the ways of interpreting did not differ,\nso this suggests that these ways are language-independent","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Artificial subtle expressions (ASEs); tone\nlanguage; pitch accent language; stress accent language"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6t81n3r5","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Takanori","middle_name":"","last_name":"Komatsu","name_suffix":"","institution":"Department of Frontier Media Science, Meiji University","department":""},{"first_name":"Rui","middle_name":"","last_name":"Prada","name_suffix":"","institution":"INESC-ID, Av. Prof. Aníbal Cavaco Silva","department":""},{"first_name":"Kazuki","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kobayashi","name_suffix":"","institution":"Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shinshu University","department":""},{"first_name":"Seiji","middle_name":"","last_name":"Yamada","name_suffix":"","institution":"National Institute of Informatics/SOKENDAI/Tokyo Institute of Technology","department":""},{"first_name":"Kotaro","middle_name":"","last_name":"Funakoshi","name_suffix":"","institution":"Honda Research Institute Japan","department":""},{"first_name":"Mikio","middle_name":"","last_name":"Nakano","name_suffix":"","institution":"Honda Research Institute Japan","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25574/galley/15198/download/"}]}