A study on correspondence between writing features and embodied expertise onomatopoeias

Embodied expertise, which expresses expert skills, is a sort of tacit knowledge. It is difficult to teach it to other people who aren\´t familiar to the skills. The objective of our study is to translate embodied expertise into explicit knowledge, i.e. onomatopoeias. We call the onomatopoeias "embodied expertise onomatopoeias", which can enable people to understand the skills intuitively and easily. Acquiring embodied expertise onomatopoeias is considered as a problem to discover correspondences between the skills and onomatopoeic words. Our study focused on skills of Japanese penmanship, Pen Shodo, which is Japanese calligraphy using a pen, to translate tacit knowledge into onomatopoeic words and investigated a possibility of constructing a training system for the skills. In this paper, we investigated the correspondence between writing features and onomatopoeic words when writing a horizontal line and a vertical line which are basic factors of Japanese Kanji characters.