Artists, however, can express substantial characteristics of a human face by drastic deformation. Though physically such a face is different from a real human face, we can obtain a familiar feeling to such a face. By integrating these contrastive and supplementary creation methods of faces, a more natural and familiar agent can be expected. In our laboratory, based on the above idea, we started to employ artists in the Interactive Art field from last year and began new attempts to carry out research based on collaboration and joint activities between artists and engineers. Artists themselves have engineering knowledge and the ability to produce art work by adopting new technologies.
Artists present a new concept and engineers provide technologies to realize it.
Thus, there is collaboration. Thus, there is collaboration. Typical engineering research.