Application of verbal conditioning to measurement of psychological effect of transmission delay in audiovisual communication

摘要

We propose an objective method to measure a psychological effect caused by transmission delay of the image and sound in audiovisual communication. The proposed method uses the change of the frequency of certain repertories in verbal conditioning as an index of the effects of the transmission delay. This article explains an overview of verbal conditioning used as the theoretical background of the measurement. Subsequently, it reports the result of preliminary experiments, and discusses the problems of measurement of psychological effect caused by transmission delay.