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| Committee | Date Time | Place | Paper Title / Authors | Abstract | Paper # | |
| WIT, HI-SIGACI | 2015-12-09 13:20 |
Tokyo | AIST Tokyo Waterfront | Evaluation of Readability of Tactile Graphs Created by the Tactile Graph Automated Creation System Tetsuya Watanabe (Niigata Univ.), Kosuke Araki (Canon), Toshimitsu Yamaguchi (Niigata Univ.), Kazunori Minatani (DNC)  WIT2015-77 |
We conducted an experiment to evaluate the readability of tactile graphs that were created by our tactile graph automate... [more] | WIT2015-77 pp.91-96 |
| WIT | 2015-08-25 16:30 |
Nagano | Shinshu University Faculty of Engineering | Tactile Map Automated Creation System in the Field
-- Tactile Map Creation Service and the Development of a New System -- Tetsuya Watanabe, Toshimitsu Yamaguchi (Niigata Univ.) WIT2015-41 |
To encourage the dissemination of our tactile map automated creation system and to gain the know-how in understandable t... [more] | WIT2015-41 pp.27-32 |
| WIT | 2014-12-11 13:50 |
Tokyo | AIST Tokyo Waterfront | Improvement of erroneous inputs elimination of single switch GSN/1 for users with severe physical disabilities Masaya Endo, Toyohiko Hayashi (Niigata Univ.), Takashi Oda (JALSA), Naoki Tondokoro (WAIL), Toshimitsu Yamaguchi (NITSC), Hiroaki Inui (Nobuhara Hosp.) WIT2014-62 |
Persons with severe physical disabilities have to use personal computer (PC) for communication. To do so, they usually u... [more] | WIT2014-62 pp.51-56 |
| WIT | 2014-09-12 16:10 |
Hyogo | Kobe Univ. Kusunoki Campus | A Survey on the Use of Personal Computers and the Internet among Blind and Visually Impaired People in 2013 Tetsuya Watanabe, Toshimitsu Yamaguchi (Niigata Univ.), Kazunori Minatani (NDC) WIT2014-23 |
A survey was conducted on the use of personal computers and the Internet by blind and visually impaired people. Among 30... [more] | WIT2014-23 pp.25-30 |
| SP, WIT, ASJ-H | 2014-06-20 14:55 |
Ishikawa | Advantages and Disadvantages of Smartphones and Tablets to Blind People
-- Analysis of the Survey Results on the Use of ICT devices by Blind People -- Tetsuya Watanabe, Toshimitsu Yamaguchi (Niigata Univ.), Kazunori Minatani (National Center for University Entrance Examinations) SP2014-61 WIT2014-16 |
A survey was conducted on the use of ICT by visually impaired people. Among 304 respondents, 81 used smartphones and 44,... [more] | SP2014-61 WIT2014-16 pp.83-88 |
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| WIT | 2014-03-07 13:00 |
Ibaraki | Kasuga Campus, Tsukuba University of Technology | A Survey on the Use of Cell Phones, Smartphones, and Tablets among People with Visual Impairments 2013 Tetsuya Watanabe, Toshimitsu Yamaguchi (Niigata Univ.), Kazunori Minatani (DNC) WIT2013-71 |
A survey was conducted on the use of ICT by visually impaired people. Among 304 respondents, 246 people used cell phones... [more] | WIT2013-71 pp.25-30 |
| WIT | 2013-12-12 15:45 |
Tokyo | AIST Tokyo Waterfront | Development of a Tactile Map Automated Creation System Using OpenStreetMap Data Satoko Koda, Toshimitsu Yamaguchi, Tetsuya Watanabe (Univ. of Niigata) WIT2013-65 |
OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a worldwide open project to collect and create free-access geographic data.Besides being worldwid... [more] | WIT2013-65 pp.27-30 |
| SP, WIT | 2013-06-13 10:30 |
Niigata | Performance evaluation of geomagnetic sensor - based switch GSN/1 in case of tremor Masaya Endo, Toyohiko Hayashi (Niigata Univ.), Takashi Oda (JALSA), Naoki Tondokoro (Welfare Association of Independent Living), Toshimitsu Yamaguchi (IT Support Center) SP2013-31 WIT2013-1 |
Assistive technologies have enabled persons with severe motor disabilities to live more independently. They can operate ... [more] | SP2013-31 WIT2013-1 pp.1-6 |
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2013-03-12 13:55 |
Fukuoka | Fukuoka Institute of Technology | Modification of a Japanese-into-braille translating program for tactile maps Aki Sugano (Kobe Hosp. Univ.), Kenji Miura (Kobe Univ.), Mika Ohta (Kobe Hosp. Univ.), Shinichi Kita (Kobe Univ.), Toshimitsu Yamaguchi, Tetsuya Watanabe (Niigata Univ.), Eiichi Maeda, Yutaka Takaoka (Kobe Hosp. Univ.) IMQ2012-85 IE2012-189 MVE2012-146 WIT2012-95 |
[more] | IMQ2012-85 IE2012-189 MVE2012-146 WIT2012-95 pp.285-288 |
| WIT | 2013-02-02 10:35 |
Aichi | Nagoya Institute of Technology | Study on Discriminability of Sizes of Tactile Dot Symbols Printed on Swell Paper Hiroki Taguchi, Toshimitsu Yamaguchi, Tetsuya Watanabe (Niigata Univ.) WIT2012-34 |
We conducted a paired comparison experiment to find highly discriminable combinations of tactile circular dot symbols on... [more] | WIT2012-34 pp.7-12 |
| WIT | 2013-02-02 11:25 |
Aichi | Nagoya Institute of Technology | Development of Color Changeable Online Map and its Evaluation Masato Awano, Toshimitsu Yamaguchi, Tetsuya Watanabe (Niigata Univ.) WIT2012-36 |
Popular digital maps use light colors in the background and roads. This color arrangement makes it difficult for people ... [more] | WIT2012-36 pp.19-24 |
| ET | 2012-10-27 13:20 |
Nagano | Evaluation of Kouseiyomi by Blind Persons Tatsuro Arata, Kazuki Kishi, Toshimitsu Yamaguchi, Tetsuya Watanabe (Niigata Univ.) ET2012-44 |
“Kouseiyomi” is a set of expressions that consist of the names of the parts of kanji characters and the positional rela... [more] |
ET2012-44 pp.37-41 |
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| WIT | 2012-05-25 13:45 |
Niigata | Niigata Univ. satellite campus | Two preliminary surveys on blind persons' needs for tactile station plans and on station plans on the Web
-- For automatically making station plans tangible -- Tetsuya Watanabe, Toshimitsu Yamaguchi, Shota Masuda (Niigata Univ.) WIT2012-4 |
Before developing software which automatically makes station plans tangible, two preliminary surveys were conducted on b... [more] | WIT2012-4 pp.17-22 |
| 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 | 2012-01-28 15:45 |
Aichi | Nagoya Institute of Technology | Detectability characteristics of voluntary movement and elimination characteristics of involuntary movement in a geomagnetic sensor-based control-interface switch, GSN/1 Yuta Hiramatsu, Toyohiko Hayashi, Yoshinobu Maeda, Tetsuya Watanabe, Atsuhiko Iijima (Niigata Univ.), Yuko Wakabayashi, Takashi Oda (JALSA), Naoki Tondokoro, Toshimitsu Yamaguchi (NITSC) WIT2011-66 |
People with serious motor disabilities can operate electronic devices like personal computers with the help of a “contro... [more] | WIT2011-66 pp.79-84 |
| WIT | 2011-08-04 15:50 |
Kyoto | Sugiura Community Care Res. Center | Live Video streaming service on 58th WIT meeting Toshimitsu Yamaguchi (Niigata Univ.), Takuya Nishimoto (Olarbee Japan), Masao Yomoda (Fuji Xerox), Tetsuya Watanabe (Niigata Univ.) WIT2011-28 |
[more] | WIT2011-28 pp.43-48 |
| WIT | 2011-08-05 12:30 |
Kyoto | Sugiura Community Care Res. Center | Efficacy evaluation of parameter optimization for a Cartesian scanning method alternative to mouse-pointer manipulation Takuya Tsunoda, Toyohiko Hayashi, Yoshinobu Maeda, Tetsuya Watanabe (Niigata Univ.), Toshimitsu Yamaguchi (ITSC), Naoki Tondokoro (WAIL) WIT2011-32 |
Personal computers have become indispensable for persons with severe motor disabilities in order to ensure communication... [more] | WIT2011-32 pp.65-70 |
| WIT | 2011-05-20 10:15 |
Niigata | Niigata Univ. | Development of compositions of Kanji characters for recalling their shapes Tatsuro Arata, Kazuki Kishi, Toshimitsu Yamaguchi, Tetsuya Watanabe (Niigata Univ.) WIT2011-1 |
To convey shape images of Kanji characters to blind persons, we propose "kouseiyomi" or constitutional explanation of ka... [more] | WIT2011-1 pp.1-5 |
| 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 |
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