Emotional Communication in Finger Braille

Table 7

Responses of unskilled senders to questionnaire on expressing emotions.

Emotion	Subject	Answer
Neutral	1	As the standard of the other emotions
	2	Constant tempo, medium duration
	3	Mechanically, medium strength, medium speed
	4	Constant rhythm
	5	Constant speed, medium strength
	6	Somewhat weaker than angry
	7	Normally
	8	Not one of the other emotions
	9	Characterless, only considered dotting a sentence
	10	Flat rhythm, medium strength, somewhat long
	11	Somewhat slowly, medium strength
	12	Carefully, slowly
Joy	1	Quick tempo, airily
	2	Rhythmically, short duration, airily
	3	Rhythmically, medium strength
	4	Rhythmically, quick tempo
	5	Quickly, airily
	6	Quickly
	7	Rhythmically
	8	Weakly, rhythmically
	9	Short duration, somewhat quickly
	10	Quick rhythm, medium strength
	11	Quicker tempo than neutral, like flicking fingers
	12	Airily, quickly
Sadness	1	Considered to avoid recognition as neutral
	2	Slow tempo, long duration, softly
	3	Weakly, slowly
	4	Slowly, airily
	5	Slowly, weakly
	6	Weakly, slowly
	7	Slowly, airily
	8	Weakly, slowly
	9	Long duration, weakly, slowly
	10	Slow rhythm, quite weakly
	11	Quite weakly, airily
	12	Softly
Anger	1	Strongly, heavily
	2	Somewhat quickly, medium duration, strongly
	3	Strongly, quickly
	4	Strongly, slowly
	5	Strongly
	6	Strongly
	7	Strongly, somewhat slowly
	8	Strongly, like pushing fingers
	9	Same duration and speed as neutral, strongly
	10	Rhythm between joy and sadness, quite strongly
	11	Quite strongly, like pushing fingers
	12	Claw-like fingers