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| Committee | Date Time | Place | Paper Title / Authors | Abstract | Paper # | |
| WIT | 2013-08-30 16:10 |
Hokkaido | Graduate School of Information Science and Technology Bldg. | Development of High-strength and Lightweight White Cane Fabricated Using Armid-fiber Reinforced Plastic and Its Evaluation
-- A Case Study of Verification of Its Effects on Physical Load of Upper Limb -- Kouki Doi (NISE), Atsushi Sugama (TMU), Takahiro Nishimura (Waseda Univ.), Akihiko Seo (TMU), Shuichi Ino (AIST), Kiyohiko Nunokawa (Tokyo International Univ.), Kazuhiko Kosuge (KOSUGE), Akito Miyazaki (A-Tech), Masaaki Sugiyama (Japan Braille Library), Yoshihiro Tanaka, Mayumi Sawada, Takeshi Kaneko, Susumu Oouchi, Katsuhiro Kanamori (NISE)  WIT2013-41 |
The purpose of this research is to clarify the influence of the weight of white canes on body load. More specifically, w... [more] | WIT2013-41 pp.97-99 |
| WIT | 2012-01-28 10:15 |
Aichi | Nagoya Institute of Technology | Evaluation of Discriminability of Textures with Various Dot Patterns on Embossed Graphics Ken Watanabe, Tetsuya Watanabe, Toshimitsu Yamaguchi (Niigata Univ.), Susumu Oouchi (NISE), Yutaka Takaoka (Kobe Univ. HP), Shinichi Kita, Kazuya Ishibashi (Kobe Univ.) WIT2011-59 |
We conducted an experiment to find highly discriminable combinations of area symbols on embossed graphics with sighted a... [more] | WIT2011-59 pp.45-49 |
| WIT | 2012-01-28 10:45 |
Aichi | Nagoya Institute of Technology | Search Methods of Landmarks Along the Route for Producing Route Guidances by Speech George Akiyama (Niigata Univ.), Tetsuya Watanabe (NiigatFaculty of Engineering, University of Niia Univ.), Ken Watanabe, Toshimitsu Yamaguchi (Niigata Univ.), Kazunori Minatani (DNC), Manabi Miyagi (Tsukuba Univ. Tech.), Susumu Oouchi (NISE) WIT2011-60 |
Route guidances are one of walking assistance for visually impaired people. We are developing the route guidance automat... [more] | WIT2011-60 pp.51-56 |
| WIT | 2011-05-21 14:30 |
Niigata | Niigata Univ. | 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) WIT2011-18 |
We developed a route guidance automatic creating system to help blind people know their route by speech. The route guida... [more] | WIT2011-18 pp.97-100 |
| WIT | 2011-05-21 15:15 |
Niigata | Niigata Univ. | 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) WIT2011-19 |
To assist blind persons’ mobility, we are developing a tactile map automated creation system. As it is important to read... [more] | WIT2011-19 pp.101-105 |
| WIT | 2011-01-22 11:30 |
Kyoto | Ritsumeikan | A Protocol Analysis on a Walking Experiment of a Blind Person using Tactile Maps Tetsuya Watanabe, George Akiyama, Ken Watanabe, Toshimitsu Yamaguchi (Niigata Univ.), Kazunori Minatani (NCUEE), Manabi Miyagi (Tsukuba Univ. of Tech.), Susumu Oouchi (NISE) WIT2010-60 |
To assist blind persons' mobility, we are developing a tactile map automated creation system. By using tactile maps crea... [more] | WIT2010-60 pp.19-24 |
| ET | 2010-09-25 15:40 |
Kanagawa | National Institute of Special Needs Education | The effect of difference of size in tactile perception of the tactile painting for visual impairments Susumu Oouchi (NISE) ET2010-37 |
[more] | ET2010-37 pp.67-72 |
| WIT | 2010-05-21 15:45 |
Niigata | Tokimate, Univ. of Niigata | Map Embossing Function in Tactile Map Automatic Creating System Ken Watanabe, Tetsuya Watanabe, George Akiyama, Toshimitsu Yamaguchi (Niigata Univ.), Kazunori Minatani (Nati. Center for Univ. Entrance Examination), Manabi Miyagi (Tsukuba Univ. of Tech.), Susumu Oouchi (Nati. Inst. of Special Needs Education) WIT2010-6 |
We are developing the Tactile Automatic Creation System (TMACS) which enables blind persons to produce tactile maps with... [more] | WIT2010-6 pp.27-31 |
| WIT | 2010-05-21 16:15 |
Niigata | Tokimate, Univ. of Niigata | Development of a Mail Service that Supplys Surrounding Information Using the GPS Function of Mobile Phones George Akiyama, Tetsuya Watanabe, Ken Watanabe, Toshimitsu Yamaguchi (Niigata Univ.), Kazunori Minatani (Nati. Center for Univ. Entrance Examination), Manabi Miyagi (Tsukuba Univ. of Tech.), Susumu Oouchi (Nati. Inst. of Special Needs Education) WIT2010-7 |
Fujitsu's RakuRaku phone series with the voice output function can send GPS information by e-mail. Using this informatio... [more] | WIT2010-7 pp.33-37 |
| WIT | 2009-03-23 15:00 |
Shimane | Shimane Univ. | Development of a Tactile Map Production System Accessible to Blind Persons Tetsuya Watanabe, Toshimitsu Yamaguchi, Kazunori Minatani, Susumu Oouchi (Nat. Inst. of Special Needs Education), Manabi Miyagi (Tsukuba Univ. Tech.), Yasushi Iwashita (Mainichi Newspapers) WIT2008-71 |
To promote independent mobility of blind persons, we are developing a system which enables them to produce tactile maps ... [more] | WIT2008-71 pp.13-18 |
| ET | 2009-01-24 15:50 |
Kanagawa | Development of Shape ReproductionEevaluation System for Education of Blind Children Yuichro Kume, Miyu Kitta, Hidenori Kuribayashi, Yosuke Suzuki, Ken-ichro Kawamoto (Tokyo Polytechnic Univ.), Tomohiro Sato, Naoko Sato, Takeshi Yamada, Yoshio Miyazaki (Univ. of Tsukuba School for the Blind), Susumu Oouchi (NISE) ET2008-87 |
It is important for children with visual impairment to learn shapes by touching. We have been developing a PC-based sys... [more] | ET2008-87 pp.77-80 |
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| ET | 2009-01-24 16:10 |
Kanagawa | Product and evaluation of the tactual characteristics of tactile pictures for the blind students used 3D CAD Molding System Susumu Oouchi, Tetsuya Munekata, Tetsuya Watanabe (NISE) ET2008-88 |
We approached product of tactile picture used 3D CAD molding system. It was possible to apply 3D digitizing of figure in... [more] | ET2008-88 pp.81-86 |
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| WIT | 2007-10-19 - 2007-10-20 |
Osaka | A Study on the legibility of braille with wider interdot spaces than the standard Tetsuya Watanabe, Susumu Oouchi (NISE) WIT2007-30 |
Persons who acquired visual disability late in life sometimes find it easier to read enlarged braille rather than the st... [more] | WIT2007-30 pp.13-16 |
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| WIT | 2007-03-23 15:30 |
Aichi | Chukyo Univ | Relationship among braille reading speed, contact pressure, finger movements, and the attributes of braille readers. Tetsuya Watanabe, Susumu Oouchi, Takeshi Kaneko, Toshimitsu Yamaguchi (Nat. Inst. of Special Education), Shigenobu Shimada (Tokyo Metro. Industrial Tech. Res. Inst.), Makoto Shimojo (Univ. of Electro-Comm.) |
We analyzed the relationship among braille reading speed, contact force, tactile movements, and attributes of thirty-two... [more] | WIT2006-116 pp.67-72 |
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