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Safe Walker–Shoes That Alert the Wearer to a Danger
We propose new device that gives the user a warning against walking in a dangerous area. This device provides the warning to avoid crashing an automobile into a user.
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Captioning System with Function of Inserting Mathematical Formula Images
We propose a captioning system with a function of inserting mathematical formula images. [We match/The system matches?] mathematical formulas presented orally during a lecture with those simultaneously project...
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Application of E-learning System Reality in Kyoto-style Earthen Wall Training
In this paper, application of e-learning system in Kyoto-style earthen wall training was introduced and investigated. Simultaneously, a new design of e-learning (on-line) “Kyokabe” coating teaching system was ...
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Timeaxis Design of a Service System Growing Values of Mobility Using the M-V Model
This paper describes the design of a service system which belongs to a basic system realizing a Value Growth Mobility: a concept of next generation mobility intended to increase the different values that the u...
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Designing a Metal Hydride Actuator with Human-Compatible Softness and High Power-to-Weight Ratio for Future Quality-of-Life Technologies
Japan faces a rapidly growing elderly population that is unprecedented in the world. As a result, there are emerging needs for quality-of-life technologies, such as rehabilitation equipment, long-term care, an...
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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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Experience-Based Curiosity Model: Curiosity Extracting Model Regarding Individual Experiences of Urban Spaces
Many online advertising and web-based recommendation systems have been developed, however not so many services consider individual’s real activities in the real world for real time recommendation, regarding th...
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Haptic Perception of Real and Virtual Curvature
In this study we compared human discrimination performance for real and virtual curved shapes. To simulate a curved shape we used a device that could independently orient and elevate a moving surface that was ...
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New Real-Time Closed-Captioning System for Japanese Broadcast News Programs
A new real-time closed-captioning system for Japanese broadcast news programs is described. The system is based on a hybrid automatic speech recognition system that switches input speech between the original p...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Electrotactile Stimulation Based on Strain Energy Density of the Fingertip
The shape recognition of an object is important for dexterous manipulation by humans. Therefore, we have developed a haptic display that integrates both electrotactile and kinesthetic sensations to present sha...
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Tactile Illusion Caused by Tangential Skin Strain and Analysis in Terms of Skin Deformation
We describe a new tactile illusion of surface geometry that can be easily produced with simple materials. When the fingertip skin is strained by loading it in traction along a narrow band surrounded by two fix...
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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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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Proposal of Requirement Definition Method with Patterns for Element / Network Management
For the efficient development of Operation Support Systems (OSSs), we propose a requirement definition method to help specifiers create high quality specifications easily and quickly. A feature of the method i...
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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
Non-uniform Set-Associative Caches for Power-Aware Embedded Processors
Power consumption is becoming one of the most important constraints for microprocessor design in nanometer-scale technologies. Especially, as the transistor supply voltage and threshold voltage are scaled down...
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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-...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Braille Printing System
It is believed that for the newly blind, to use large size Braille is more effective than to use that of standard size in practising Braille recognition. On the other hand, it may be preferable to use small si...