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Presentation 2007-05-24 15:15
Analysis of Prosody in Strength and Time Structure of Finger Braille
Manabi Miyagi (Tsukuba Univ. of Technology/Chiba Univ.), Kenji Miyazawa, Akinori Ueno (Tokyo Denki Univ.), Masafumi Nishida, Yasuo Horiuchi, Akira Ichikawa (Chiba Univ.), Makoto Noshiro (Kitasato Univ.) WIT2007-5
Abstract (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) Finger braille is one of the communication methods for the deaf blind. Finger braille seems to be the most suitable medium for real-time communication by its speed and accuracy of transmitting characters. We hypothesize that the prosody information exists in the strength and time structure of finger braille typing. In this study, we measured the surface electromyography of finger movement to analyze the typing strength and time structure of finger braille. We found that the typing strength increases, and the time duration extends at the end of a phrase. Also the time duration extends, and the typing strength increases at the end of a prominent phrase. The results show the possibility that the strength and time structure of finger braille reflect the sentence structure and prominent phrase. The results are expected to apply the finger braille output and enhance the understanding of finger braille.
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(in English) finger braille / deafbllind / prosody / / / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 107, no. 61, WIT2007-5, pp. 25-28, May 2007.
Paper # WIT2007-5 
Date of Issue 2007-05-17 (WIT) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Committee WIT  
Conference Date 2007-05-24 - 2007-05-25 
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Place (in English) Ryukyu Univ. 
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Topics (in English) Welfare Information in general 
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Conference Code 2007-05-WIT 
Language Japanese 
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Title (in English) Analysis of Prosody in Strength and Time Structure of Finger Braille 
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Keyword(1) finger braille  
Keyword(2) deafbllind  
Keyword(3) prosody  
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1st Author's Name Manabi Miyagi  
1st Author's Affiliation Tsukuba University of Technology/Chiba University (Tsukuba Univ. of Technology/Chiba Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Kenji Miyazawa  
2nd Author's Affiliation Tokyo Denki University (Tokyo Denki Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Akinori Ueno  
3rd Author's Affiliation Tokyo Denki University (Tokyo Denki Univ.)
4th Author's Name Masafumi Nishida  
4th Author's Affiliation Chiba University (Chiba Univ.)
5th Author's Name Yasuo Horiuchi  
5th Author's Affiliation Chiba University (Chiba Univ.)
6th Author's Name Akira Ichikawa  
6th Author's Affiliation Chiba University (Chiba Univ.)
7th Author's Name Makoto Noshiro  
7th Author's Affiliation Kitasato University (Kitasato Univ.)
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Date Time 2007-05-24 15:15:00 
Presentation Time 30 minutes 
Registration for WIT 
Paper # WIT2007-5 
Volume (vol) vol.107 
Number (no) no.61 
Page pp.25-28 
#Pages 4 
Date of Issue 2007-05-17 (WIT) 

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