近年，マンガを工学的に解析しようと試みるコミック工学が機械学習の急速な発展を背景として注目されている．本研究では，

本論文は，博物館の展示をよりわかりやすくするための２段展示のデザインについて報告する．２段展示とは，大人と子供の対比だけではなく，広くユニバーサルな方向にも展開可能な手法である．博物館は，各コーナーの展示の概要を説明しているが，概要説明は文字で表現されており，小さい子供や外国人，障がいを持つ人たちにとってわかりづらい表現となっていることが多い．この問題を解決するために，豊橋市自然史博物館では，

本研究では，計算機はストーリーを創作することが可能なのか？ という問い基づき，

研究の目的　自閉症スペクトラム障害児に対する、

This research attempts to analyze qualitatively (and partly quantitatively) how comic strips of the three major national newspapers in Japan, Mainichi, Yomiuri, and Asahi, both in morning and in evening editions, characterized Donald Trump during the pre-inauguration year and first half of his primary term, from 2016 to 2018.

The titles of the comics examined are as follows: Mainichi’s “Asatte Kun”(Mr. Day-after-Tomorrow), “Sakurada Desu!”(Hi, we are the Sakuradas!) and “Uchi no Baai ha”(In Case of our Family), Yomiuri’s “Kobo Chan”(Kobo, the Li’l Rascal) and “Office Kenta”(Kenta, the Office Dog), and Asahi’s “Nono Chan”(Little Nono) and “Chikyu Boei Ke no Hitobito”(The Earth-Saver Family).

From those comic strips, this study picked up all pieces representing Donald Trump whether verbally or visually. For comparison, those depicting Barack Obama are analyzed in the same manner.

The quantitative analysis has found that comic strips of Trump far outnumbered those of Obama. While Obama counted 5 during the pre-inauguration year and first half of his primary term (2008–10), Trump counted 45 during the same time period (2016–18). Trump even outnumbered Obama’s all-time total of 30 from the pre-inauguration year to the end of his second term (2008–16). As the qualitative analysis indicates, Trump’s remarkable prominence can be attributed to keen public interest due to his excessively negative images as well as his potentially immense impact on Japan and the whole world.

The qualitative analysis in the pre-inauguration year (2016) has found that offensiveness, anxiety, and fear are the most common factors of Trump’s characterization in newspaper comic strips. Both verbally and visually, he is represented as a violent and intimidating person not competent for the highest political leader of one of the most powerful nations in the world. Meanwhile, positive or favorable depiction was nonexistent. Such excessively negative portrayal makes a stark contrast with that of Obama who tended to be described as a hopeful, able, and successful figure.

Offensiveness, anxiety, and fear emerged even more conspicuously after inauguration (2017–18). As Trump began to exert political power as the President, comic strips came to characterize him more as a troublesome person causing actual harm to Japan and the rest of the world. Some pieces even showed such reactionary attitudes as helplessness, defeatism, and escapism. The gap between Trump and Obama widened further.

This research concludes that the lopsidedly negative characterization of Trump by Japanese newspaper comic strips exemplifies a form of journalism’s watchdog function. It is a primary role of mass media to inform and alarm the general public when social anxiety and fear arise as an offensive person takes power. Moreover, Japanese newspaper comic strips are unique in that they saw Trump from a rather detached and objective standpoint while the conflict between Trump and major American domestic media such as CNN kept heating up. They looked at Trump from a different perspective from Japanese national media, too, and reflected the general public’s common perception of Trump as reported by the press.

画像工学の研究分野においてまんがコンテンツの中でも

本研究では，人工知能によって

本研究ではコンテンツ創作支援のため，ストーリーを持つ最もシンプルなコンテンツの1つである

人工知能（ＡＩ）に人間の創作物を理解させようとする研究が盛んである．しかし，それらは依然として難しいタスクである．本研究では，人間の創作物の中でも特に