December 19, 2022
The work "Sideways Crab Walk Illusion" by Senior Assistant Professor Masaki Mori of the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Izumi Ayase (3rd-year doctoral student, Graduate School of Media and Governance), Keita Goto (1st-year master's student, Graduate School of Media and Governance), and Riko Kobayashi (4th-year undergraduate, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies) won an award at the 14th Best Illusion of the Year Contest.
The Best Illusion of the Year Contest is a competition that evaluates the academic and artistic excellence of works related to optical and auditory illusions.
The award ceremony was held online on December 3, 2022, during the 41st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Psychonomic Society.
Comment from Senior Assistant Professor Masaki Mori
I am greatly honored to receive this prestigious award along with Goto, Kobayashi, and Ayase. "Sideways Crab Walk Illusion" is an illusionary work where, when observing a large screen showing many crabs walking simultaneously both vertically (top to bottom) and diagonally (top-right to bottom-left) as in the video, focusing on one direction changes the perception of movement in the other. For this work, we chose the crab as our motif, a creature familiar from picture books and daily life. I hope that the "Sideways Crab Walk Illusion" will provide an opportunity for people to enjoy motion-related illusions in a familiar context.
Source: General Affairs Section, Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC) Office