Development of the "Objective Emotion Display System" for Educating Therapeutic Communication Skills

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We nurses need to communicate effective therapeutic patient-nurse relationship in order to help patients motivate for illness recovery. However, it is very difficult for us to assess various feeling of them objectively. The purpose of this study is to develop the emotional estimation model combining information such as electroencephalogram (EEG), verbal expressions (intensity of voice, contents of speech, and words they use) and non-verbal expressions. We call this system as "Objective Emotion Display System" for Educating Therapeutic Communication Skills for nurses.We first performed the verification experiments for the emotion estimation model by EEG in the 2004 fiscal year as a developmental stage. The experiment which identifies the characteristic of "empathetic understanding" was conducted and published in the 2005 fiscal year. The future direction formulation as a system of "Objective Emotion Display System" was clarified in the 2006 fiscal year. We have also published the relation between caring and the emotional analysis using EEG. We conclude that emotional estimation technology permits nurses to know patients' feeling visually by recorded data at that moment. Nursing with technological competency permits nurses to care patients meaningfully.