IEICE Technical Report

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

Well-being Information Technology

Workshop Date : 2011-10-06 - 2011-10-07 / Issue Date : 2011-09-29

WIT2011-34
A note taking support system with 'Kikimimi' interface.
Kohei Ota, Hiromitsu Nishizaki, Yoshihiro Sekiguchi (Univ. of Yamanashi)
pp. 1 - 6

WIT2011-35
Evaluation of Multiparty Conversation Facilitation Strategies of A Conversational Robot
Akihiro Saito, Yoichi Matsuyama, Shinya Fujie, Tetsunori Kobayashi (Waseda Univ.)
pp. 7 - 12

WIT2011-36
Language Modeling for Automatic Speech Recognition of Lectures in Elementary and Secondary Education
Hiroaki Nanjo, Ippei Hisaki, Yuki Wada (Ryukoku Univ.)
pp. 13 - 18

WIT2011-37
A Study of Speaker Recognition using Phase Spectrum
Atsushi Ueda (Kanagawa Prefectural Police), Kiyoshi Mizui (Kanto Gakuin Univ.)
pp. 19 - 24

WIT2011-38
Trial of evaluation of interactive system to assist rehabilitation of upper extremity using fNIRS
Tomohiko Miki (Shibaura Inst. Tech.), Ryuichi Sugimoto, Shuto Murai (Former Shibaura Inst. Tehch.), Fumihito Kasai (Showa University), Masao Inoue (Shimadzu), Michiko Ohkura (Shibaura Inst. Tech.)
pp. 25 - 29

WIT2011-39
Posture Measurement of Child with AD/HD Gazing into PC Screen by Acceleration Sensor
Keita Tomonaga, Masahiko Nawate (Shimane Univ.)
pp. 31 - 36

WIT2011-40
Voice revitalization analysis in tele-coaching
Kazuhiko Ide (Toho Univ.), Masafumi Ono (Nippon Medical School), Yoshinao Shiraki (Toho Univ.)
pp. 37 - 42

WIT2011-41
Basic study on a pitch-control method of a speech synthesis device for articulation disorders
Ken-ichiro Yabu, Tohru Ifukube (Tokyo Univ.)
pp. 43 - 48

WIT2011-42
Analysis of laughter annotation; towards support for children with autistic spectrum disorders
Hiroki Tanaka (NAIST), Hideki Kashioka (NICT), Nick Campbell (TCD)
pp. 49 - 54

WIT2011-43
Investigation of the normalized articulatory space for audio-visual real-time feedback of vowel speech and its application
Tadashi Sakata, Yuya Saeki, Wataru Shibata, Yuichi Ueda (Kumamoto Univ.)
pp. 55 - 60

WIT2011-44
On an analysis of speaker dependency and speaker adaptation for the recognition of back-channeling expressions in dialog between an robot and persons with dementia
Ken Sadohara, Hiroaki Kojima (AIST), Takuya Narita, Misato Nihei, Minoru Kamata (Univ. Tokyo), Shin-ichi Ohnaka, Yoshihiro Fujita (NEC), Rina Ishiwata, Takenobu Inoue (NRCD)
pp. 61 - 65

WIT2011-45
Turn-taking of Spoken Dialogue by Non-native Speaker
Mariko Okawa (Waseda Univ.), Hiroki Ohashi (Tokyo Univ.), Akira Ichikawa (Waseda Univ.)
pp. 67 - 72

WIT2011-46
[Invited Talk] User-centered design approach for improved user experience
Toshikazu Shinohara (Sociomedia)
p. 73

WIT2011-47
[Invited Talk] Life support for elderly using a communication partner robot -- Speech technology, useful or not for assistive technologies? --
Takenobu Inoue (National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities)
p. 75

WIT2011-48
A Study on Switch Method to Suppress the Background Sound using Speech Segments Detection
Tomoyasu Komori (NHK ES), Atsushi Imai, Nobumasa Seiyama, Reiko Takou, Toru Imai, Shinichi Homma (NHK), Tohru Takagi (NHK ES)
pp. 77 - 82

WIT2011-49
Development of Mixing Balance Meter for Elderly Listeners
Kazuhiro Murakawa (YAMAKI), Tomoyasu Komori (NHK ES), Atsushi Imai, Kiyotake Shoda (NHK), Koichi Kurozumi (NHK ES), Hideaki Hoshi (YAMAKI)
pp. 83 - 88

WIT2011-50
Speech Science and Technology for Persons with Disabilities Presented in INTERSPEECH
Akira Ichikawa (Waseda Univ.)
pp. 89 - 94

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

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