ACIT

In the social sciences, theory construction refers to the research process of building testable scientific theories to explain and predict observed phenomena in the natural world. Terms represent the theories' concepts or ideas and their meanings are ...

This research studies the problem of email overload and proposes a system that automatically detects whether the email is "to read" or "to do". The goal of our research is to test if we could automate both the features extraction and sentence ...

Hardness is often used as an index to compare similar objects. To measure an object's hardness, a hardness meter is required and certain conditions must be met. The object and the hardness meter corresponding to that object have to be close at hand. ...

The ways of present transformer design can be divided into two types: using spreadsheet like Excel and using design software. Our first work is to develop the design software that can be used by small companies for free. We developed design software ...

The efficiency of transformers is critical to save electrical energy. There are three types of current transformer design methods. The current methods have problems. In this paper, we described current ways of designing a transformer, and we also ...

To provide a relaxing environment by using suitable 3D virtual reality (3D-VR) images before surgery and/or in long-term hospitalization scenarios, we compared the autonomic nervous system activities between subjects presented with relaxing 2D images ...

For people who have physical disabilities, it is important that they can control assistive products just like their own body parts to keep and improve their quality of life. Especially, effective communication between patients and caregivers is ...

Venous needle dislodgment during dialysis treatment significantly reduces patients' QOL and can occasionally result in mortality. Therefore, a method of detecting needle dislodgement by monitoring pressure at the venous side (blood return side) during ...

This paper discusses that measurements of the impression of three pieces of sounds using box-and-whisker plot, univariate scatter plot and cluster analysis based on Visual Analog Scale (VAS) by small samples.

Eight healthy people are invited as the ...

Research on impression evaluation such as painting, music, and design is widely implemented in the field of psychology / affective engineering. However, the style of the questionnaire is stepwise in the most case. Numerical values obtained from these ...

Voice Output Communication Aid (VOCA) is used for students with disabilities in language communication in special support education. VOCA device plays back words or sentences recorded in human voice by pressing SWs. It may also read words or sentences ...

The Japanese government conducted measures for persons with disabilities in 2013 and they reported that about 2.2 million of challenged children aged 17 or younger live in Japan. Those children cannot communicate with others without somebody's help ...

Visually impaired people use Braille in their daily life. Braille text is printed in many ways like a handrail of stairs, guide maps, and so on. Visually impaired people read these Braille guides to navigate themselves. However, misprinted Braille may ...

The number of users of hearing aids is expected to increase along with the aging society. On the other hand, the hearing aid is not perfect device for listening, user have to guess what he cannot hear clearly. However, this guess requires a great deal ...

There are many situations in our everyday lives where we make determinations based on color. Yellow and red are used to gain our attention, and blue and pink are often used to make gender distinctions. If the visually-impaired can easily come to ...

This study is intended to produce a learning support system for middle-aged and elderly people with acquired visual disabilities. Our investigation results related to learning tools demonstrate that Braille and PC usage has decreased in classes of ...

Previously, an obstacle detection system for visually impaired people utilizing a smartphone was developed. However, this system lacked practicality because it depended on height information from a smartphone. In this study, ultrasonic, gyro, and ...

Our purpose of this study is to increase efficiency of learning sign language and fingerspelling, the visual language.

In general, illustrations and videos are used as learning materials to study these languages. However, the learning materials are ...

This paper describes effect for human feelings by using an electrical rocking chair (ERC) synchronized with moving pictures (MPs). The relations between human Kansei and rocking angles are clarified by using the ERC and the MPs. Furthermore, provision ...

In modern societies, wheelchairs serve a vital role for people with dysfunctions in their lower extremities. On a daily basis, they improve their quality of life. There are a wide variety of wheelchairs and some of them can move omnidirectional. However,...

"Handwritten characters" are a means of communication with deaf--blind person. "Handwritten characters" are written by caregivers with fingers on the palm of a deaf--blind person. "Handwritten characters" have the feature of being easy to learn because ...

Japan plans to host the Tokyo Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games in 2020. To do so, Japan's government and Tokyo metropolitan government are working on welfare environment improvements around stadiums and public facilities. In addition, the rapid ...

This paper presents our study on a development of a finger rehabilitation device, especially a prototype of pneumatic actuator we newly designed for a finger rehabilitation. Because the actuator made from nylon film can be actuated under low air ...

An internship program based on welfare-industry-academia collaboration is important opportunity for engineering students to touch such support and assistive technology (AT) in various environments. In a previous study, we started an internship program ...

In recent years, the number of children requiring special support has increased significantly, and satisfying supports for them and educational needs has been becoming a critical concern. Many students have been diagnosed with one or more developmental ...

This study deals with a smartphone application to support the walking of visually impaired people. It recognizes surrounding situation from image acquired by camera and notifies it of any danger.

According to the WHO (World Health Organization) fact ...

The current fishing population is getting small. As one of the causes, it is conceivable that young people in their 20s and 30s are getting away from fishing due to overuse smartphones. We thought that the population of fishing may increase by being ...

The purpose of this study is to develop a device that can make the choreography of dance easily.

Since ancient times, people have given meanings and various purposes to dance as an action to music such as expressing emotions, praying to God, and ...

In recent years, the demand for unmanned transfer robots is increasing. However, most unmanned transfer robots run on a predetermined route. It cannot easily change its route. There is a possibility of collision if there is a package in the route. The ...

The introduction of automatic guided vehicles is increasing in the world. However, it has a big problem of dropping luggage. As a method for preventing this, the automatic guided vehicle itself is required to measure the arrangement and size of the load ...