The relationship of environment to communication in case of “Tea-friend”

6th Asian Design Conference

AUTHOR:
Toshimasa YAMANAKA
Kai TAMURA


ABSTRACT:

 In the hulistic communication, a number of tacit things such as non-verbal information, objects which make the environment, make the situation of the communication. Even though we cannot tell the effect, we sometimes prefer the situation, dislike the situation or tend to change the situation for better communication. It is very valuable to study how the tacit object works for the communication. In this paper, we focused on the so called ‘Cha-nomi tomodachi (Tea-friend)’. We sat up two different experimental communication environments: 1) without tea, and 2) with the tea. For each environment, we hired ten sets of two-person conversation. We expect that the behavior of conversation can show the difference of the existing of tea. For analysis, we checked out the distance data of panels during the conversation of from the video record. The major findings of the research as a result of time-dependent analysis are follows,

1. With a tea drinking, the panels’ action became milder.
2. With a tea drinking, the panels’ position tend to be closer.
3. Tea drinking give panels for a short time-rug that control the pace of conversation.
As a result, it is proved that tea drinking has an tacit and indirect effect on communication.

Key words: Kansei, Communication, Interface

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