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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Human-Computer Interaction Volume 2010, Article ID 830759, 23 pages doi:10.1155/2010/830759 Research Article Emotional Communication in Finger Braille Yasuhiro Matsuda,1 Ichiro Sakuma,2 Yasuhiko Jimbo,3 Etsuko Kobayashi,2 Tatsuhiko Arafune,4 and Tsuneshi Isomura1 1 Faculty of Creative Engineering, Kanagawa Institute of Technology, 1030 Shimo-Ogino, Atsugi-Shi, Kanagawa 243-0292, Japan 2 Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan 3 Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa-Shi, Chiba 277-8563, Japan 4 Institute for Human Science and Biomedical Engineering, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, 1-2-1 Namiki, Tsukuba-Shi, Ibaraki 305-8564, Japan Correspondence should be addressed to Yasuhiro Matsuda, yasuhiro@rm.kanagawa-it.ac.jp Received 29 March 2009; Revised 12 August 2009; Accepted 25 January 2010 Academic Editor: Kostas Karpouzis Copyright © 2010 Yasuhiro Matsuda et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. We describe analyses of the features of emotions (neutral, joy, sadness, and anger) expressed by Finger Braille interpreters and subsequently examine the effectiveness of emotional expression and emotional communication between people unskilled in Finger Braille. The goal is to develop a Finger Braille system to teach emotional expression and a system to recognize emotion. The results indicate the following features of emotional expression by interpreters. The durations of the code of joy were signi