Presentation 2016-12-20
Discomfort of dot pattern
Kayo Miura, Marina Yamazaki, Yuri Teshima,
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Abstract(in English) Yayoi Kusama is one of the influential contemporary artist in Japan. She is known as an artist of “polka dots”. However, her polka dots sometimes give viewers discomfort. Where does the discomfort and attractiveness of her works come from? We examined the impressions of her representative polka dot and its variations that changed density. We also analyzed the spatial frequency characteristics of the dot patterns that we used. Moreover, we investigated the relation between the disgust for the dot patterns and the individual disgust tendency measured by the DS-R (the disgust scale) in Japanese version. We found that the pattern that had the highest subjective density arouse discomfort feeling, which contained high contrast at mid-range of spatial frequencies. We also found that the participants who had strong disgust to contamination felt strong discomfort to the high density pattern. These results and previous findings suggest a possibility that this kind of discomfort derives from the avoidance system of the potential threats such as poisonous animals and sources of infection.
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Keyword(in English) dot pattern / discomfort / trypophobia / density / spatial frequency characteristics / contamination disgust
Paper # HIP2016-62
Date of Issue 2016-12-13 (HIP)

Conference Information
Committee HIP / ITE-HI / ITE-CE
Conference Date 2016/12/20(2days)
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Place (in English) Reserach Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University
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Topics (in English)
Chair Masahiro Ishii(Sapporo City Univ.) / 佐藤 雅之(北九州市大) / 南 浩次(三菱電機)
Vice Chair Miyuki Kamachi(Kogakuin Univ.) / Shuichi Sakamoto(Tohoku Univ.)
Secretary Miyuki Kamachi(Tokushima Univ.) / Shuichi Sakamoto(Univ. of Tsukuba) / (Nagoya Univ.) / (NTT)
Assistant Rika Mochizuki(NTT) / Mutsumi Suganuma(Waseda Univ.) / Atsushi Wada(NICT)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Human Information Processing / Technical Group on Human Information / Technical Group on Consumer Electronics
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Discomfort of dot pattern
Sub Title (in English) Where does the discomfort of Polka dots of Yayoi Kusama come from?
Keyword(1) dot pattern
Keyword(2) discomfort
Keyword(3) trypophobia
Keyword(4) density
Keyword(5) spatial frequency characteristics
Keyword(6) contamination disgust
1st Author's Name Kayo Miura
1st Author's Affiliation Kyushu University(Qdai)
2nd Author's Name Marina Yamazaki
2nd Author's Affiliation Kyushu University(Qdai)
3rd Author's Name Yuri Teshima
3rd Author's Affiliation Kyushu University(Qdai)
Date 2016-12-20
Paper # HIP2016-62
Volume (vol) vol.116
Number (no) HIP-377
Page pp.pp.7-10(HIP),
#Pages 4
Date of Issue 2016-12-13 (HIP)