Onomato planets
Aya Miyazaki, Kiyoshi Tomimatsu · 2009
We proposed a design idea of an interactive educational toy for children based on Japanese onomatopoeia. Onomatopoeia "is a word or a grouping of words that imitates the sound it is describing, such as animal noises like "oink" or "meow", or suggesting its source object". Thus, onomatopoeia words have interesting sound and rhythm. There are a large number of Japanese onomatopoeia words and in the Japanese language in particular, they are also used to describe phenomena apart from the purely auditive.