IEICE Technical Report

Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685 Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380

Well-being Information Technology

Workshop Date : 2008-05-29 - 2008-05-30 / Issue Date : 2008-05-22

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WIT2008-1
Tactile Visual Display and development of the figure of most moving passage spread technique by the Internet -- New development to push forward the figure of most moving passage --
Ryuichi Tanaka, Toshiharu Miwa, Eiko Ojima (UI)
pp. 1 - 6

WIT2008-2
A Survey on the Use of Personal Computers among People with Visual Impairments 2007
Tetsuya Watanabe (Nat. Inst. of Special Needs Education), Manabi Miyagi (Tsukuba Univ. of Tech.), Kazunori Minatani (Univ. of Tokyo), Hideji Nagaoka (Tsukuba Univ. of Tech.)
pp. 7 - 12

WIT2008-3
A Survey on the Use of the Internet among People with Visual Impairments 2007
Manabi Miyagi (Tsukuba Univ. of Tech.), Tetsuya Watanabe (National Institute of Special Needs Education), Kazunori Minatani (Univ. of Tokyo), Hideji Nagaoka (Tsukuba Univ. of Tech.)
pp. 13 - 18

WIT2008-4
A Telephone Interview Survey to Estimate the Usage Rate of ICT among People with Visual Impairments
Kazunori Minatani (Univ. of Tokyo), Tetsuya Watanabe (Nat. Inst. of Special Needs Education), Manabi Miyagi, Hideji Nagaoka (Tsukuba Univ. of Tech.)
pp. 19 - 24

WIT2008-5
Considerations on web search strategy used by visually impaired persons
Junichi Iizuka, Akira Okamoto (NTUT), Yasuo Horiuchi (Chiba Univ), Akira Ichikawa (Chiba Univ./Waseda Univ.)
pp. 25 - 30

WIT2008-6
NetTv: Cross-Platform Video Retrieval and QA System with Speech Interface
Katsuyuki Tanaka, Tetsuya Takiguchi, Yasuo Ariki (Kobe Univ.)
pp. 31 - 36

WIT2008-7
Integration of Metamodel and Acoustic Model for Speech Recognition
Hironori Matsumasa, Tetsuya Takiguchi, Yasuo Ariki (Kobe Univ.), Ichao Li (Otemon Univ.), Toshitaka Nakabayashi (Kobe Univ.)
pp. 37 - 42

WIT2008-8
A Study on Robust Speech Recognition against Unknown Reverberation Using Single Speech Model Trained under Multiple Reverberant Environments
Kenta Nishiki (Tokyo Univ.), Shinji Watanabe (NTT), Takuya Nishimoto, Nobutaka Ono, Shigeki Sagayama (Tokyo Univ.)
pp. 43 - 48

WIT2008-9
Powered Wheelchair Steered through Voice Commands
Masaharu Mizuguchi, Masato Nishimori, Akira Murai, Takeshi Saitoh, Tomoyuki Osaki, Ryosuke Konishi (Tottori Univ.)
pp. 49 - 54

WIT2008-10
Visual feedback methods for the error-tolerant scanning communication system
Hiroki Mori (Utsunomiya Univ.)
pp. 55 - 60

WIT2008-11
Development of 3D Pointing Voice Interface Using Three Axis Microphone Array
Yasuharu Hashimoto (AIST/Tsukuba Univ), Akira Sasou, Hiroaki Kojima (AIST), Kazuyo Tanaka (Tsukuba Univ)
pp. 61 - 66

WIT2008-12
Computer operation training for people with disorder in divided attention
Satoshi Morimoto, Koki Tanoue, Kouichi Fujikawa, Masahiko Nawate (Shimane Univ.)
pp. 67 - 72

WIT2008-13
Gaze estimation of people with attention disorder during computer operation
Koki Tanoue, Satoshi Morimoto, Masahiko Nawate (Shimane Univ)
pp. 73 - 78

WIT2008-14
Development of the training support software for writing motions
Kanako Yoshino, Masami Takata (Nara Women's Univ.), Seiichi Tenpaku (Arcadia), Kazuki Joe (Nara Women's Univ.)
pp. 79 - 84

WIT2008-15
Analysis of Hand Movement Variation about the Speed of Japanese Sign Language
Yuta Yasugahira, Yasuo Horiuchi, Masafumi Nishida, Shingo Kuroiwa (Chiba Univ.)
pp. 85 - 90

WIT2008-16
Analysis of Nods and Conjunctions in Japanese Sign Language
Yasuo Horiuchi, Hiroko Kamesaki, Masafumi Nishida, Shingo Kuroiwa, Akira Ichikawa (Chiba Univ.)
pp. 91 - 96

WIT2008-17
Study of information assurance methods for hearing impaired people -- Comparing textual information with sign language --
Kaoru Nakazono, Sunyong Kim (NTT Labs.)
pp. 97 - 102

WIT2008-18
The system which supports that it makes up for the hearing ability of the person of hearing loss
Yoshio Nomura (AUT), Kouki Yamaji (AZDC)
pp. 103 - 106

WIT2008-19
Study of original algorithm for finding alarm signals -- For development of the alarm signals recognition device --
Osamu Ueno, Junji Tada (Yazaki), Yoshikazu Nishino, Naohiro Horikawa (Mato)
pp. 107 - 112

Note: Each article is a technical report without peer review, and its polished version will be published elsewhere.

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