Eye Tracking Based Analysis of Effects of Motif Composition on Impressions of Paintings

- In the Case of Katsushika Hokusai's “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji” -

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The presence of pictures that people recognize as great beyond the borders of cultural differences over 100 years could suggest that such paintings would have certain aesthetic elements in common, and if people are able to recognize them through a shared sense of beauty, it might be able to study what kinds of properties influence people's evaluation of paintings. This paper investigates influences of motif compositions on impressions of pictures. In the first experiment, participants were asked to answer their impressions of the printings using two kinds of rating scales: information rate scale and semantic differential scale, Results showed that particular three perceptual features influence strongly on people's impressions. However, this experiment poses some questions. To find answers to the questions, we conduct the second experiment to analyze the relationship between motif compositions and gaze movements detected by an eye-tracking system.