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Chapter and Conference Paper
Does Traffic Information Provided by Smartphones Increase Detour Behavior?
To ease traffic congestion on the Tohoku expressway during the nationwide summer holiday, we conducted two sets of interventional experiments applying the emotional persuasive strategy to persuade potential T...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Perceptual Force on the Wrist Under the Hanger Reflex and Vibration
The hanger reflex is a phenomenon that accompanies illusory force sensation and involuntary head rotation when the head is fastened with a wire hanger. This phenomenon is also observed on the wrist, and is exp...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Illusion of Wet Sensation by Controlling Temperature and Softness of Dry Cloth
In order to create a device that produces the sensation of wet cloth, we have proposed a method to augment the wet sensation of dry cloth. This paper investigated whether controlling the surface temperature an...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Augmentation of Thermal Sensation on Finger Pad Using Stimuli for Finger Side
This paper proposes a thermal display that can present a virtual thermal sensation to the finger pad using thermal stimuli on the finger side. The author developed the prototype device and evaluated the percei...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Rehabilitation Support System Using Multimodal Interface Device for Aphasia Patients
In this research, develops a novel system using Multimodal Interface Device for supporting the rehabilitation of aphasia. The system supports diagnosis by conducting statistical analysis of the diagnostic resu...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Human Reasoning with Proportional Quantifiers and Its Support by Diagrams
In this paper, we study the cognitive effectiveness of diagrammatic reasoning with proportional quantifiers such as most. We first examine how Euler-style diagrams can represent syllogistic reasoning with proport...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Performance Analysis in Advanced Tele-operation System Based on Introduction of Danger-Avoidance View
Unmanned construction machines are used after disasters. Compared with manned construction, time efficiency is lower because of incomplete visual information, communication delay, and lack of tactile experienc...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Evaluation and Fair Comparison of Human Tracking Methods with PTZ Cameras
Evaluation and comparison of methods, repeatability of experiments, and availability of data are the dynamics driving science forward. In computer vision, a database with ground-truth information enables fair ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Collaborative Pseudo-Haptics: Two-User Stiffness Discrimination Based on Visual Feedback
Pseudo-Haptic feedback has been the object of several studies exploring how haptic illusions can be generated when interacting with virtual environments using visual feedback. In this work we explore how the c...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
From Image Inpainting to Diminished Reality
Image inpainting, which removes undesired objects in a static image and fills in the missing regions with plausible textures, has been developed in the research fields of image processing. On the other hand, D...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Localization Ability and Polarity Effect of Underwater Electro-Tactile Stimulation
In this paper, we describe a method for presenting underwater tactile electrical stimulation for in-bath entertainment. We investigated the localization abilities of participants and the polarity effect of the...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Vibration and Subsequent Collision Simulation of Finger and Object for Haptic Rendering
Humans can discriminate object’s materials [5, 7, 9] and tap** position [8] perceiving tap** vibrations. Susa et al. [4] proposed to simulate natural vibration of object to present arbitrary structured object...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Development of Two-Handed Multi-finger Haptic Interface SPIDAR-10
This article describes the development of a wire-driven multi-finger haptic interface named SPIDAR-10(Space Interface Device for Artificial Reality), which can render a 3 degree-of-freedom spatial force feedba...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Evaluation of Stretchable Conductor for Measuring Clothing Pressure
In this study, we developed a stretchable conductor and evaluated whether it is capable of measuring clothing pressure. The experimental relationship between electrical resistance and strain, and the results r...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
“Make Your Own Planet”: Workshop for Digital Expression and Physical Creation
We propose the “Make Your Own Planet” workshop, which combines handicraft and digital representation tools (3DCG effects). In this workshop, a child uses a USB camera to select textures freely in the process o...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Empirical Study of Diagrammatic Inference Process by Recording the Moving Operation of Diagrams
In this study, we investigate how people manipulate diagrams in logical reasoning, especially no valid conclusion (NVC) tasks. In NVC tasks, premises are given and people are asked to judge whether “no consequ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Automatic Classification of Eye Blink Types Using a Frame-Splitting Method
Human eye blinks include voluntary (conscious) blinks and involuntary (unconscious) blinks. If voluntary blinks can be detected automatically, then input decisions can be made when voluntary blinks occur. Prev...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Characteristics of Elderly User Behavior on Mobile Multi-touch Devices
Smartphones and tablet devices have been rapidly proliferating, and multi-touch interaction, powerful processors and rich array of sensors make these devices an attractive service platform for older users. Whi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Lessons Learned from Crowd Accessibility Services
Crowd accessibility services for people with disabilities, driven by crowd-sourcing methods, are gaining traction as a viable means of realizing innovative services by leveraging both human and machine intelli...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Aesthetic Design of Interactive Museum Exhibits
Over the last five years, we have worked on creating museum exhibits by utilizing sensing technologies including RFID, fingerprint recognition, and face recognition. Unlike the complexity of underlying technol...