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Art Innovation Academia-Industry Joint Research Division
Naoko TOSA, Yunian PANG, 〇Go KAZAWA, Ryohei NAKATSU

1. Introduction
The Art Innovation Academia-Industry Joint Research
Division (Art Innovation project) researches theapplication of art to social activities, including disasterprevention, centered on the art production activities ofits leader, Professor Naoko Tosa. The project is basedon joint research with companies. Specifically, basedon joint research with companies, we are developing
various systems using Tosa art and conducting
psychological and physiological evaluations of Tosa art.
(1) Development of immersive art appreciation systems(2) Psychological evaluation of immersive art
appreciation systems(3) Classification and psychological evaluation of art
focusing on movement
2. Development of an immersive art viewing system
Tosa art is expected to have a relaxing effect on people,
and at the same time, it is expected to have a positiveeffect on the mind and stimulate creativity. To takeadvantage of this feature, we have developed an"immersive art viewing system" that provides a senseof infinity. The system comprises two or more sets ofmirror displays facing each other, which function as amirror and a display. Once inside the system, visitors
are surrounded by endless images and their image,feeling a strong sense of immersion and floating. Figure
1 shows the concept of the system, Fig. 2 shows thesystem's exterior.
2. Psychological Evaluation of the Immersive Art
Viewing System
A psychological experiment was conducted to compare
how people feel when Tosa Art is displayed in thedeveloped system with the case of displaying geometricfigures. A total of 24 evaluation items consisting of"Impression Factor," "Relaxation Factor," "Motivation
Factor," and "Creativity Factor" shown in Table 1 wereused as evaluation items. Forty subjects were used. The
evaluation results are shown in Figs 3 - 6. The results
show that Tosa art is significantly superior to geometricfigures in the motivation and creativity factors,
providing new insight into the contribution of art
appreciation to improving human creativity.
Table 1. Evaluation items

3. Classification and Psychological Evaluation ofArt Focusing on Movement
rt is composed of complex elements, and it is aproblematic research theme to determine whichelements work in which way. While much research has
been conducted on color, many other research issues
are related to other elements. Since Tosa art belongs toa relatively new art genre called video art, we decided

movement was found to have a different effect, andto investigate the effect of movement in art by

new knowledge was obtained regarding movements inevaluating Tosa art with a focus on "movement," which

art and their effects on people.

is a characteristic of video art. A psychological

4. Publication

evaluation experiment was conducted with 30 subjects.

The results of the research were published as follows.

Tosa art was categorized into five types of movement

Journal articles (peer-reviewed): 2, DPRI Annuals: 2,(vertical,International

horizontal,scattering,rotating,andsymmetrical) and presented to the subjects forevaluation. The results are shown in Figs 7-10. Eachconferences

Domestic conferences: 5(peer-reviewed):

10,