The purpose of this study is the development of a navigation system that will help enhance appreciation for urban art by connecting viewers with other people’s thoughts and opinions of art pieces. Hiroshima, located in western Japan, has many works of public art that have assumed a theme of peace. However, in Japan, it seems that the appreciation of art is restricted to the elite, and the majority of people do not seem interested enough to visit art museums. We have designed a system that allows users to share an appreciation of public art in urban spaces by using their mobile phones. The main characteristics of this study were to build a system that: induced a positive appreciation among users enabled the sharing of text and images heightened user-experience through involvement was based on User-centered design and had provisions for color blindness. The system which we have designed has been tested and improved on three occasions to date and is targeted at those who have few opportunities to appreciate art. The repetition of this experiment within the confines of Hiroshima City, found that the experience of public art was enhanced through the use of this mobile phone system. These results would seem to indicate that public art pieces do benefit the average person who rarely visits museums in a positive way. A presentation from Museums and the Web 2011 (MW2011).

2. Design of an Apprecia/on
Support System
for Public Art
Using Mobile Phones
■ Kiyoka Fushimi Hiroshima Kokusai Gakuin University, Japan
■ Karin Barac Griffith University, Australia
Hirokazu Yoshimura :Hosei University, Japan
Hiromi Sekiguchi : Oita Prefectural College of Arts and College, Japan
Hiroyuki Une : Hiroshima Kokusai Gakuin University, Japan
Takahiro Anasako : Hiroshima Kokusai Gakuin University, Japan

3. 2/10 Evolu/on of the Study
■ 2003:
Using PDA mobile devices
■ Test: Nagoya City Art Museum
■ 2005:
Using mobile phones loaned to viewer
■ Test: Toyota Municipal Museum of Art
■ 2006:
Using mobile phones owned by viewers
■ Test: Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
■ 2007:
Using mobile phones owned by viewers, loca/on undefined
■ Test: Hiroshima City

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6. 4/10 Implementa/on of our System
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7. 5/10 Public Art Loca/on City
■Children's Peace Monument ■Arch
□ Completed: 1954 □ Completed: 1958
□Sculptor Kazuo Kikuchi □Sculptor Henry Spencer Moore

8. 6/10 Chosen pieces
■Peace Bridge ■Memorial Monument for Hiroshima, ■Memorial Cathedral for
□ Completed: 1952 City of Peace World Peace
□ Sculptor Isamu NOGUCH □ Completed: 1952 □ Completed: 1954
□ Architect Kenzo TANGE □ Architect Togo MURANO
■Old Branch Office of ■West Fire Station ■MITISHIRUBE: Guidepost
Nippon Ginko Hiroshima □ Completed: 200 □Completed: 1995
□ Completed: 1920 □Architect Riken YAMAMOTO □Sculptor Kyubee KIYOMIZU
□ Architect Uheiji NAGANO

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12. 9/10 Contribu/ons to the System
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13. 10/10 Concluding Thoughts
□Ac/ve apprecia/on can be encouraged through the experience of adding
artworks especially with public art
■We have to extend our system to allow access from these smartphones
to achieve a wider user base for our system.
■We aim to realize a support system that is stress‐free
and makes art apprecia/on an ac/ve, social experience.
■Please try
hcp://seiryu.id.hkg.ac.jp/pa/
Password : hiroshima
■Thank you.