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An Analysis of the Writing Japanese Characteristics of Left-Handed Calligraphers ~ Use as Infographics ~ 

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Human Interface and the Management of Information: Visual and Information Design (HCII 2022)

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In Japan, there are more right-handed people than left-handed people. For this reason, most of the things in our daily lives are designed with right-handed people in mind. This has led to many inconveniences that left-handed people experience in their daily lives. In spite of the fact that writing is a basic activity that is required from an early age and is performed many times in daily life, the inconvenience felt by left-handed calligraphers is much greater than that of right-handed calligraphers. In this study, we examined the inconvenience felt by left-handed calligraphers when writing Japanese. Therefore, we conducted a meta-analysis of the inconveniences felt by left-handed calligraphers when writing to find out what elements of calligraphy are responsible for the inconveniences they feel. The purpose of this study is to clarify the writing Japanese characteristics of left-handed calligraphers and to summarize them in a form that can be easily understood by people other than left-handers.

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  1. Tokyo Metropolitan University, Asahigaoka, Hino, Tokyo, Japan

    Miho Suto & Keiko Kasamatsu

  2. Tokyo University of Technology, Nishi-Kamata, Ota, Tokyo, Japan

    Takeo Ainoya

  3. VDS Co., Ltd., Higashiyama, Meguro, Tokyo, Japan

    Takeo Ainoya

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Suto, M., Kasamatsu, K., Ainoya, T. (2022). An Analysis of the Writing Japanese Characteristics of Left-Handed Calligraphers ~ Use as Infographics ~ . In: Yamamoto, S., Mori, H. (eds) Human Interface and the Management of Information: Visual and Information Design. HCII 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13305. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06424-1_19

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