Fundamental Study for Verbalization of Embodied Expertise based on Pattern Recognition

Embodied expertise, which expresses skills of experts, is a kind of tacit knowledge that is difficult to transfer from one person to another by writing it down or verbalizing it. The aim 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 of pattern recognition. Our study focused on the skills of Japanese penmanship, Pen Shodo, which is Japanese calligraphy using a pen, to translate tacit knowledge into onomatopoeias and investigated the possibility of constructing a training system for these skills.