> CALL FOR ENTRIES FOR $5,000 IN PRIZES > FOR HUMAN-COMPETITIVE RESULTS > IN GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION I would like to make an entry to this competition. (1) the name, physical address, e-mail address, and phone number of EACH author, Hideyuki TAKAGI, Kyushu University Faculty of Design 4-9-1, Shiobaru, Minami-ku, Fukuoka, 815-8540 Japan TEL & FAX <+81>92-553-4555 e-mail: takagi@design.kyushu-u.ac.jp Tomohiro TAKAHASHI Kyushu University Faculty of Design 4-9-1, Shiobaru, Minami-ku, Fukuoka, 815-8540 Japan TEL & FAX <+81>92-553-4555 (c/o Prof. Takagi) e-mail: tomo-takahashi@k6.dion.ne.jp Ken AOKI Hiroshima International University Department of Kansei Information 555-36, Gakuendai, Kurose Kamo County, Hiroshima 724-0695 Japan Email: k-aoki@he.hirokoku-u.ac.jp TEL: +81-823-70-4892 (2) the title of at least one paper published in the open literature describing the work, Hideyuki Takagi, Tomohiro Takahashi, and Ken Aoki, "Applicability of Interactive Evolutionary Computation to Mind Measurement," 20th Fuzzy System Symposium, Kitakyushu, pp.605-606 (June 2-5, 2004) (in Japanese). (3) the abstract of the paper(s) We experimentally show the applicability of interactive evolutionary computation (IEC) to a new application field, {\em mind measurement}. We had 3 schizophrenics and 5 normal students design {\em happy} and {\em sad} impression computer graphics (CG) lighting images using IEC and asked other 33 students to evaluate the CG images using the Sheffe's method of paired comparison. Statistical test for the evaluation showed that the expression range of the three schizophrenics for ``happy-sad'' was significantly narrower than that of the normal students (p < 0.01). This experimental result implies that IEC has potential to contribute to psychiatry, and it also showed the possibility to expand the IEC applicability from conventional system optimization to new area, psychological measurement. (4) PDF file of the paper(s) Attached. It is a Japanese paper presented in this June. I wrote an extended abstract paper of SMC2004 based on the translation of this Japanese paper, and the paper was accepted. If you need, I can send the extended abstract. I am writing the final camera-ready paper for SMC2004 but have not completed it yet. (5) a statement specifically identifying one or more of the eight criteria (below) and stating why the result satisfies that criteria. ------------ G: The result solves a problem of indisputable difficulty in its field. ------------ There was no way to measure the dynamic expression range of human feeling or emotion. Due to this luck, there is no way for psychiatrists and psychotherapists to diagnose the condition of schizophrenics or mental patients except observing their behaviors. Our experimental result of our IEC approach showed that we might be able to measure the condition of human mind, which has a potential of developing new diagnostic method in psychiatry. As it takes long time till this IEC approach is accepted in psychiatry society completely, it is too little early to say that this result solves a problem of indisputable difficulty in psychiatry, exactly speaking. But, it is surely true that this research result showed the potential of measuring human mind which was completely impossible in past and which may be a break-through for psychiatric diagnostics. ///////////////////////////////-------------------------------- Hideyuki TAKAGI, Associate Professor Kyushu University Faculty of Design 4-9-1, Shiobaru, Minami-ku, Fukuoka, 815-8540 Japan TEL & FAX <+81>92-553-4555 e-mail takagi@design.kyushu-u.ac.jp URL http://www.design.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~takagi/ ------------------------------------------------------------- CFP for Special Issue on "Interactive Evolutionary Computation." See CFP in the left frame at http://www.ohmsha.co.jp/ngc. ------------------------------------------------------------- Effective Oct. 1, 2003, our affiliation name and sub-domain name have been changed. -------------------------------///////////////////////////////