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Technical Committee on Well-being Information Technology (WIT) [schedule] [select]
Chair Tetsuya Watanabe (Niigata Univ.)
Vice Chair Takuya Nishimoto (Univ. of Tokyo), Noriko Okura (Shibaura Inst. of Tech.)
Secretary Atsushi Imai (NHK-ES), Kouichi Takeuchi (OKI)
Assistant Daisuke Wakatsuki (Tsukuba Univ. of Tech.), Masahiko Nawate (Shimane Univ.), Hiromi Watanabe (Univ. of Yamanashi)

Conference Date Fri, May 20, 2011 10:15 - 16:45
Sat, May 21, 2011 09:00 - 16:45
Topics  
Conference Place Satellite Campus, Univ. of Niigata 

Fri, May 20 AM  Visually Impaired and Blind (1)
10:15 - 11:45
(1) 10:15-10:45 Development of compositions of Kanji characters for recalling their shapes Tatsuro Arata, Kazuki Kishi, Toshimitsu Yamaguchi, Tetsuya Watanabe (Niigata Univ.)
(2) 10:45-11:15 Study on Navigation Messages for Blind People Kazuo Kamata, Tomoya Yamashita (Utsunomiya Univ.), Manami Okuhara, Tatsufumi Imai (Japan Signal)
(3) 11:15-11:45 Perception Characteristics for Visually Impaired and Blind People for Text-reading Voice Kazuo Kamata, Yoshiteru Matsumoto (Utsunomiya Univ.), Teruyoshi Fujinuma (ISTAL), Shunichi Yonemura (NTT)
  11:45-13:00 Lunch Break ( 75 min. )
Fri, May 20 PM  Hard of Hearing and Deaf (1)
13:00 - 14:30
(4) 13:00-13:30 A Basic Study on Learning Support System Applying Micro-Projector for Hearing Impaired Daisuke Wakatsuki, Ichiro Naito, Taichi Miyake (NTUT), Yohei Motonishi (Toshiba)
(5) 13:30-14:00 Information Assurance System for the Hearing Disabled People Using Mobile Device: Construction and Evaluation Sayuri Takahashi, Tsutomu Kimura (Toyota CT), Kazuyuki Kanda (Chukyo Univ.), Kazunari Morimoto (KIT)
(6) 14:00-14:30 Developing A Supporting System for Nursing Care Using Information Terminals Yukiko Sawada, Hiroetsu Sakai, Tsutomu Kimura (Toyota CT), Kazuyuki Kanda (Chukyo Univ.), Kazunari Morimoto (Kyoto Inst. of Tech.)
  14:30-14:45 Break ( 15 min. )
Fri, May 20 PM  Hard of Hearing and Deaf (2) and Others
14:45 - 16:45
(7) 14:45-15:15 Differences of visual attention between deaf and hearing people Kanji Tanaka (RCAST/JSPS), Miki Namatame (NTUT), Fuminori Ono, Katsumi Watanabe (RCAST)
(8) 15:15-15:45 Improvement of HMM-based Sign Language Recognition using Phonemic Structure of Japanese Sign Language Shinji Sako, Koki Ariga, Tadashi Kitamura (Nagoya Inst. of Tech.)
(9) 15:45-16:15 Development of an interactive wearable tactile device for communication support Yasushi Kaibai, Hironobu Yao (FE), Kazutaka Ueda (RCAST), Tohru Ifukube (IOG)
(10) 16:15-16:45 Development of interactive system to assist rehabilitation of upper extremity Tomohiko Miki, Ryuichi Sugimoto, Shuto Murai (Shibaura Institute of Technology), Fumihito Kasai (Showa University), Michiko Ohkura (Shibaura Institute of Technology)
Sat, May 21 AM  Agent Simulation
09:00 - 10:00
(11) 09:00-09:30 The study on the spatial simulation about the basic property of the social dilemma Kentaro Tani, Yoshinobu Maeda, Toyohiko Hayashi (Niigata Univ.)
(12) 09:30-10:00 An artificial class model and a feature on the ``flat'' communication Yoshinobu Maeda, Nao Ito, Kentaro Tani, Terutaka Sato (Niigata Univ.), Kosuke Kato (HIT)
  10:00-10:15 Break ( 15 min. )
Sat, May 21 AM  Developmental Disorders
10:15 - 11:45
(13) 10:15-10:45 Mental Rotation of Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders Keita Tomonaga, Masahiko Nawate (Shimane Univ.)
(14) 10:45-11:15 PC based training for children with difficulty of numerical concept comprehension Naoki Tsurukawa, Masahiko Nawate (Shimane Univ.)
(15) 11:15-11:45 Development of convenient oral reading and phoneme test "Easy Literacy Check (ELC)" for early detection of difficulty in reading of elementally school children Toshihide Kawaguchi, Masahiko Nawate (Shimane Univ.), Keiko Hara (Sophia Univ.), Hisako Ando (Ochanomizu Univ.), Junko Kato (Clinic Kato)
  11:45-13:00 Lunch Break ( 75 min. )
Sat, May 21 PM  Visually Impaired and Blind (2)
13:00 - 15:00
(16) 13:00-14:00 [Special Talk]
Transition of Assistive Technologies for Mobility of Blind People
Yoshikazu Seki (AIST)
(17) 14:00-14:30 Visual Presentation of Traffic Signs for Vulnerable Road Users Ryota Kosa, Yasushi Kanazawa (Toyohashi Univ. of Tech.)
(18) 14:30-15:00 Development of a Route Guidance System for Blind Pedestrians George Akiyama, Tetsuya Watanabe, Ken Watanabe, Toshimitsu Yamaguchi (Niigata Univ.), Kazunori Minatani (DNC), Manabi Miyagi (Tsukuba Univ. Tech.), Susumu Oouchi (NISE)
  15:00-15:15 Break ( 15 min. )
Sat, May 21 PM  Visually Impaired and Blind (3)
15:15 - 16:45
(19) 15:15-15:45 Evaluation of Findability and Discriminability of Tactile Symbols in Tactile Maps Ken Watanabe, Toshimitsu Yamaguchi, Tetsuya Watanabe, George Akiyama (Niigata Univ.), Kazunori Minatani (National Center for Univ. Entrance Exam.), Manabi Miyagi (Tsukuba Univ. of Tech.), Susumu Oouchi (NISE)
(20) 15:45-16:15 Study of recognizable graphic marks for the partially sighted. Tsuyoshi Oda, Aki Sugano, Kenji Miura, Yusuke Murai, Mika Ohta, Mineko Ikegami, Eiichi Maeda, Yutaka Takaoka (Kobe Univ. Hosp.)
(21) 16:15-16:45 Support programs and social support for the disabled persons in UK Aki Sugano, Mika Ohta (Kobe Univ.), Tetsuya Watanabe (Univ. of Niigata), Shinichi Kita (Kobe Univ.), Eiichi Maeda, Yutaka Takaoka (Kobe Univ. Hosp.)

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WIT Technical Committee on Well-being Information Technology (WIT)   [Latest Schedule]
Contact Address Hiromi Watanabe (Uinv. of Yamanashi) email: hbe 


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