Study on recognized space on plane surface and psychological evaluation in the tea ceremony room.

This study is aimed to clarify the characteristics of changes and psychological evaluation in guest's personal space and solidarity spaces during the tea ceremony. (1) The personal space hardly change, while the other's personal spaces increase. The solidarity space increases in the middle and decreases after exiting the tea ceremony. (2) The most influential factor of spatial recognition is "delivery of the tea and desserts." (3) The common psychological factors that change simultaneously among thick tea and thin tea are spatial factor, variability factor, richness factor, and impression factor, while comfortable factor, tension factor, and peculiarity factor change differently. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]