Committee |
Date Time |
Place |
Paper Title / Authors |
Abstract |
Paper # |
WIT |
2017-08-28 13:50 |
Akita |
Faculty of Engineering Science, Akita Univ. |
A User Survey of the Tactile Graphics Conversion Service for the Blind Tetsuya Watanabe (Niigata Univ.), Makoto Kobayashi (Tsukuba Univ. of Tech.), Kazunori Minatani (DNC) WIT2017-14 |
Visual graphics can be accessible by raising the lines of the graphics and converting printed letters into Braille. When... [more] |
WIT2017-14 pp.1-5 |
WIT |
2017-08-28 14:15 |
Akita |
Faculty of Engineering Science, Akita Univ. |
An Experiment on the Displaying Method to assist the Intuitive Understanding about Braille Mirror-Image Relation based on Order Effect Yuko Hoshino, Akihiro Motoki (Tsurumi Univ.) WIT2017-15 |
Hoshino and Motoki(2017) conducted the experiment for the determination of the displaying method to assist the intuitive... [more] |
WIT2017-15 pp.7-10 |
WIT |
2017-08-28 14:40 |
Akita |
Faculty of Engineering Science, Akita Univ. |
Clarification of the Braille Learners' Mistakes by Error Analysis Akihiro Motoki, Yuko Hoshino (Tsurumi Univ.) WIT2017-16 |
In this study, we conduct the error analysis of the tests for clarifying of the braille learners' mistakes. The learner... [more] |
WIT2017-16 pp.11-14 |
WIT |
2017-08-28 15:20 |
Akita |
Faculty of Engineering Science, Akita Univ. |
Basic Survey on Captioning of Non-Speech Information for a Movie
-- Comparison Between Captions for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing in English and Japanese -- Takahiro Fukushima (Otemon Gakuin Univ.) WIT2017-17 |
We conducted a basic survey on captioning of non-speech information (NSI) for a movie. We used North American version an... [more] |
WIT2017-17 pp.15-20 |
WIT |
2017-08-28 15:45 |
Akita |
Faculty of Engineering Science, Akita Univ. |
A study of quantitative evaluation and survey of captions and subtitles for older persons and the deaf and hard-of-hearing Yuki Harada, Junji Ohyama (AIST) WIT2017-18 |
(To be available after the conference date) [more] |
WIT2017-18 pp.21-26 |
WIT |
2017-08-28 16:10 |
Akita |
Faculty of Engineering Science, Akita Univ. |
Improvement and Evaluation of a Machine Translation System from Japanese Texts to Sign Language CG Animations for Weather News Naoto Kato, Taro Miyazaki (NHK), Seiki Inoue (NHK-MT), Tsubasa Uchida, Makiko Azuma, Shuichi Umeda, Yuko Yamanouchi, Hideki Sumiyoshi (NHK), Nobuyuki Hiruma (NHK-ES), Yuji Nagashima (Kogakuin Univ.) WIT2017-19 |
We have been developing a machine translation system from Japanese texts to Japanese Sign Language (JSL) CG animations f... [more] |
WIT2017-19 pp.27-32 |
WIT |
2017-08-28 16:35 |
Akita |
Faculty of Engineering Science, Akita Univ. |
Editing BVH File for Generation of Sign Language Motion Shori Kuno, Keiko Watanabe, Yuji Nagashima (Kogakuin Univ.), Naoto Kato, Tsubasa Uchida, Taro Miyazaki, Makiko Azuma, Shuichi Umeda, Yuko Yamanouchi, Hideki Sumiyoshi (NHKSTRL) WIT2017-20 |
[more] |
WIT2017-20 pp.33-38 |
WIT |
2017-08-29 09:30 |
Akita |
Faculty of Engineering Science, Akita Univ. |
Fundamental Investigation on Disaster Information Transmission for Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing (Part 2)
-- Experiment in Disaster Drill at Dormitories of Tsukuba University of Technology -- Daisuke Wakatsuki, Narito Kurata (Tsukuba Univ. of Tech.) WIT2017-21 |
Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) can not get enough disaster information because that information transmission immediately... [more] |
WIT2017-21 pp.39-44 |
WIT |
2017-08-29 09:55 |
Akita |
Faculty of Engineering Science, Akita Univ. |
Disaster information transmission system using a video compression based on the key frame of the sign language.
-- Information acquisition strategy of Deaf people when repeatedly playing sign language video. -- Kota Akiyama (Shibaura Inst. of Tech.), Ken Tsutsuguchi (NTT), Shun-ichi Yonemura (Shibaura Inst. of Tech.) WIT2017-22 |
The event of a disaster such as a major earthquake, there is a need to convey quickly and accurately disaster informatio... [more] |
WIT2017-22 pp.45-50 |
WIT |
2017-08-29 10:20 |
Akita |
Faculty of Engineering Science, Akita Univ. |
A pilot study of compact metal hydride actuator for a disaster rescue operation Minako Hosono, Kouji Sakaki, Manabu Chikai (AIST), Shigenobu Shimada (TIRI), Kouki Doi (NISE), Yumiko Nakamura, Shuichi Ino (AIST) WIT2017-23 |
Rescue operations often need to be done by disaster victims themselves due to delay in arrival of public rescue teams, h... [more] |
WIT2017-23 pp.51-54 |
WIT |
2017-08-29 11:00 |
Akita |
Faculty of Engineering Science, Akita Univ. |
Recommendation of travel destination through Nonverbal Information using Color Change Prediction Characteristics Extraction Masayoshi Namasu, Sawako Nakajima, Kazutaka Mitobe (Akita Univ.) WIT2017-24 |
The current traveling destination recommendation search system is primarily based on verbal information using words as c... [more] |
WIT2017-24 pp.55-59 |
WIT |
2017-08-29 11:25 |
Akita |
Faculty of Engineering Science, Akita Univ. |
Relationship between Existence of Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dual-task of Drawing and Counting Hidenori Kanou, Katsuya Fujiwara, Kazutaka Mitobe (Akita Univ.) WIT2017-25 |
In this study, we aimed to reveal the characteristics of mild cognitive impairment in dual-task performance. We develope... [more] |
WIT2017-25 pp.61-66 |
WIT |
2017-08-29 11:50 |
Akita |
Faculty of Engineering Science, Akita Univ. |
Design Sommelier : Integrated personalization design technology to reduce the workload of service providers and end users Junji Ohyama (AIST) WIT2017-26 |
(To be available after the conference date) [more] |
WIT2017-26 pp.67-72 |
WIT |
2017-08-29 13:30 |
Akita |
Faculty of Engineering Science, Akita Univ. |
Development of VR Inspection System for Optokinetic Nystagmus Examination Yukito Ebina, Kazutaka Mitobe, Sawako Nakajima (Akita Univ.) WIT2017-27 |
Dizziness has different symptoms depending on the site of disease occurrence, and abnormality occurs in optokinetic nyst... [more] |
WIT2017-27 pp.73-77 |
WIT |
2017-08-29 13:55 |
Akita |
Faculty of Engineering Science, Akita Univ. |
Development and Evaluation of Driving Simulator That Allows Interaction Between Car and Bicycle Mohd Zulfadhli, Naoto Handa, Kazutaka Mitobe (Akita Univ.) WIT2017-28 |
In Japan, the number of elderly people killed while riding bicycles is the largest, and elderly people's efforts to prev... [more] |
WIT2017-28 pp.79-83 |
WIT |
2017-08-29 14:20 |
Akita |
Faculty of Engineering Science, Akita Univ. |
Development of visual image sharing system for preoperative conference Wataru Kimura, Masachika Saito, Masataka Takahashi, Kazutaka Mitobe (Akita Univ.) WIT2017-29 |
In recent years, 3D models of surgical target area made by 3D printer are being utilized in preoperative meetings. Howev... [more] |
WIT2017-29 pp.85-89 |