MOYA-MOYA drawing: Proposing a drawing tool system which can utilize users´ expressed onomatopoeias as an drawing effect

Onomatopoeias are used when one cannot describe certain phenomena or event literally in the Japanese language, and it is said that one´s ambiguous and intuitive feelings are embedded in their expressed onomatopoeias. Therefore, an interface system that can use onomatopoeias as input information could comprehend such users´ feelings; Moreover, this system would contribute to augmenting creative activities such as with computer graphics and so on. In this study, we proposed a drawing tool system named MOYA-MOYA drawing that can utilize user´s expressed onomatopoeias as an drawing effect. The evaluation experiment showed that most users reported that this system succeeded in reflecting their feelings embedded in their onomatopoeias as certain drawing effects on the target pictures.