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There are two kinds of consciousness which arise in the creative process of drawing. One is the consciousness that one is trying to draw a picture. The other is the consciousness that one is made to draw a picture while facing various material resistances. In this research, drawing experiments were conducted using a parallel link-type robot which played the role of medium, combining the two kinds of consciousness to show the subjectivity in dynamic flows of consciousness. The experimental system was as follows. Participant #1 draws a free line on a tablet computer. Participant #2 only holds the pen to a moving board on the robot. When the robot moves the drawing board under the pen, the line drawing is recreated on the board. The robot’s movements are inversely transformed by the participant’s. Results indicate that even if Participant #2 did not move their own hand, they recognize the picture drawn on the robot board as their own. Additionally, they could identify who drew the drawings on the tablet by using only haptic information from the robots movements.
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This work was partially supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) No. 26284035 from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). This study has received ethics clearance of Osaka Institute of Technology Life Science Ethics Committee (No. 2013-42).
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Goan, M., Tsujita, K., Kihara, S., Okazaki, K. (2016). Drawing as the Relative Movement Between Subject and Medium: Using a Robot to Show the Subjectivity in Dynamic Flows of Consciousness. In: Suzuki, Y., Hagiya, M. (eds) Recent Advances in Natural Computing. Mathematics for Industry, vol 14. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55429-5_7
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