Classification of writing-skill features using embodied expertise onomatopoeias

Embodied expertise, which expresses skills of experts, is a kind of tacit knowledge that is difficult to transfer to another person by means of 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 could facilitate people to intuitively and easily understand the skills. Acquiring "embodied expertise onomatopoeias" is considered as a problem of pattern recognition. Our study adopted a skill of Japanese penmanship "Pen Shodo" which is Japanese calligraphy using pen to be translated to onomatopoeias, and investigated a possibility to construct a classification system for the skill.