The first-ever book to explore the value of tactile sense studies for ergonomic engineering Introduces computational aesthetic analysis for the arts, which contributes to making human beings feel comfortable Includes novel haptic media, in which the tactile sensations produced by visual or auditory media are synthesized by extracting haptic sound vibrations

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Yasuhiro Suzuki is a professor at the Disaster Mitigation Research Center of Nagoya University, Japan. He graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1984 and received a doctoral degree in 1992. He joined Nagoya University as an assistant professor, and then moved to Aichi prefectural University and worked as a lecturer, and then an associate professor there. He was appointed to his current position in 2004. Yasuhiro Suzuki is currently a member of the Science Council of Japan and a member of the long-term evaluation subcommittee of the Earthquake Research Committee of Japan, and joined the regulation standard creation team of the Nuclear Regulation Authority of Japan (NRA) as an external expert. His main research interest is tectonic geomorphology research on active faults and tectonics.

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Inhalt
Computational Aesthetics.- The Significance of Natural Computing for Considering Computational Aesthetics of Nature.-Herder on Sentio, Ergo Sum: Seen from his Remarks on the Color Harpsichord.- A historical perspective on sound art and its relationship to tactile sense.- A Spectro-gestural-morphological Analysis of a Musical-tactile score.- Think of everything with back calculation Computational aesthetics of hair design.