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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Efficacy of Diagrams in Syllogistic Reasoning: A Case of Linear Diagrams
We study the efficacy of external diagrams in syllogistic reasoning, focusing on the effectiveness of a linear variant of Euler diagrams. We tested subjects’ performances in syllogistic reasoning tasks where l...
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Effects of Touch Screen Response Time on Psychological State and Task Performance
The purpose of this study was to investigate how touch screen response time affected user’s psychological state and task performance. Ten male participants performed numeric entry task on the touch screen unde...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Design and Analysis of Interactions with Museum Exhibits
The Definition of Self is a museum exhibition at 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT in 2010, intended to speculate our attributes in the contemporary world. This paper discusses design and interaction of two exhibits created ...
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Table-Top Interface Using Fingernail Images and Real Object Recognition
Many researchers have proposed the development of table-top interfaces in the last decade. In a table-top system, for user satisfaction, they must be able to operate digital and analog media seamlessly. In thi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Subjective Difficulty Estimation for Interactive Learning by Sensing Vibration Sound on Desk Panel
In this paper, we propose a method which estimates the student’s subjective difficulty with a vibration sound on a desk obtained by a microphone on the back of the desk panel. First, it classifies the student’...
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Measurement of Olfactory Characteristics for Two Kinds of Scent in a Single Breath
This study describes a presentation technique of scent designed for users to recognize multiple scents during a very short time period. We measured the olfactory characteristics of subjects when two kinds of s...
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What’s Next? A Visual Editor for Correcting Reading Order
The reading order, i.e. the serialized form, of the webpage should be a meaningful order for alternative representations such as the audible forms needed for visually impaired users. However, the serialized fo...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Dynamic Social Simulation with Multi-agents Having Internal Dynamics
In this paper, we discuss a viewpoint to regard individuals in a society as cognitive agents having internal dynamics, in order to study the dynamic nature of social structures. Internal dynamics is the autono...
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Evaluation of Using Human Relationships on the Web as Information Navigation Paths
We investigated the use of human relationships on the web for information navigation paths. We propose a new information navigation method that uses personal names. It automatically extracts the human relation...
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A Framework of Context-Sensitive Visualization for User-Centered Interactive Systems
This research proposes an adaptive mechanism of information visualizing that responds to context changes in knowledge-intensive work. A framework of Context-Sensitive Visualization (CSV) was introduced as a co...
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An Implementation for Capturing Clickable Moving Objects
This paper discusses a method for identifying clickable objects/regions in still and moving images when they are being captured. A number of methods and languages have recently been proposed for adding point-a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Interface for Input the Object Region Using the Hand Chroma Key
We are develo** the mobile system to identify wild flowers and grasses mainly from object images captured by a camera in the outdoor scene. In such systems, it is essential to inform the system an object reg...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Menu-Selection-Based Japanese Input Method with Consonants for Pen-Based Computers
We have developed a menu-selection-based Japanese input method for a pen device. To obtain user-input kanji-form text rapidly, the system requires sequence of consonant. Following this, the user selects kanji-...