NAKAGAWA Yuki (first-year doctoral student) of the Frontier Media Science, Graduate School of Advanced Mathematical Sciences,received the Best Presentation Award (Program Committee) at Workshop on Interactive Systems and Software 2025 (WISS 2025).
The title of the awarded research is “Pensaku: A Penguin Observation Method that Deepens Understanding through Drawing and Searching, and an Empirical Study with Aquarium Visitors.”
When animals are exhibited in groups at zoos and aquariums, visitors tend to observe them from a broad, overall perspective. As a result, attention is rarely paid to individual animals, making it difficult to gain a deeper understanding. To address this issue, Nakagawa focused on penguins and proposed a method that allows individuals to be searched for and observed by drawing the patterns on their bellies. In this study, conducted in collaboration with Sunshine Aquarium, the aquarium served as a field site. The research investigated how the method of drawing penguins’ belly patterns influences people’s observation behavior.
In the future, further field experiments will be conducted, and the method is expected to be expanded to various aquariums and zoos.
NAKAGAWA Yuki, NAKAMURA Satoshi (Meiji University);
ASHIKARI Harumasa, BANDO Eriko, YOKURA Ryota, WATANABE Kana, IWANAGA Nanami (Sunshine Aquarium)
Pensaku: A Penguin Observation Method that Deepens Understanding through Drawing and Searching, and an Empirical Study with Aquarium Visitors.
Proceedings of the 33rd Workshop on Interactive Systems and Software (WISS 2025), 2025.