アートとミラーディスプレイを用いた災害後の心理状態の改善に関する研究

Abstract

How disaster victims recover from trauma such as stress and depression is an essential issue. In the past, it was assumed that the victims gradually recovered on their own. However, it is conceivable to use the power of art to speed up the recovery. As there are many opportunities for disaster victims to look in a mirror in their everyday life, an interesting issue is what kind of effect it has when art content is displayed together. Using a mirror display that has a display function and a mirror function, we conducted psychological experiments in which art content is displayed along with one's face and full-body images, and how it affects mental state was evaluated. Through preliminary experiments, ten video artworks that are considered appropriate were selected as art content. Then, 35 subjects read the scenarios prepared in advance that led them into the stressed state or the depressed state. Then they watched the mirror display where the art content is displayed together with their face and whole-body images. The mental states between the art-display and the non-art-display conditions were compared and evaluated. As a result, it was revealed that without art content, there was not much change in their mental state, but when art content was displayed, the depressed and stressed state was improved to almost normal.