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Technical Committee on Speech (SP)
Chair: Satoru Hayamizu (Gifu Univ.) Vice Chair: Hisashi Kawai (KDDI Labs.)
Secretary: Hiroki Mori (Utsunomiya Univ.), Motoyuki Suzuki (Osaka Inst. of Tech.)
Assistant: Masakiyo Fujimoto (NTT), Yamato Ohtani (Toshiba)

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Technical Committee on Well-being Information Technology (WIT)
Chair: Michiko Okura (Shibaura Inst. of Tech.) Vice Chair: Shuuichi Ino (AIST)
Secretary: Masahiko Nawate (Shimane Univ.), Hiromi Watanabe (Univ. of Yamanashi), Daisuke Wakatsuki (Tsukuba Univ. of Tech.)
Assistant: Shinji Sakou (Nagoya Inst. of Tech.), Chikamune Wada (Kyushu Inst. of Tech.), Yoshinobu Maeda (Niigata Univ.)

DATE:
Fri, Sep 28, 2012 13:30 - 16:45
Sat, Sep 29, 2012 10:30 - 17:15

PLACE:
Toyosu Campus, Shibaura Institute of Technology(3-7-5 Toyosu, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-8548 Japan. 7 minute walk from Toyosu Station (Tokyo Metro Yurakucho Line). http://www.shibaura-it.ac.jp/access/index_e.html)

TOPICS:
Welfare and speech processing, etc.

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Fri, Sep 28 PM (13:30 - 15:00)
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(1) 13:30 - 14:00
Evaluation of the factor to affect the spatial recognition of enlarged presentation on a tactile display
-- To convey a figure/graph information to the visually impaired people --
Tadahiro Sakai, Takuya Handa, Toshihiro Shimizu (NHK)

(2) 14:00 - 14:30
Recognition of Upward Stairs Using a Kinect Cane and Its Performance Evaluation
Shotaro Yamaguchi, Hotaka Takizawa, Mayumi Aoyagi (Univ. of Tsukuba), Nobuo Ezaki (Toba National College of Maritime Technology), Shinji Mizuno (Aichi Institute of Technology)

(3) 14:30 - 15:00
Development of a DAISY player that utilizes a Braille display for document structure presentation and navigation
Kazunori Minatani (National Center for University Entrance Examinations)

----- Break ( 15 min. ) -----

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Fri, Sep 28 PM (15:15 - 16:45)
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(4) 15:15 - 15:45
A case survey on care facility staff's daily attempts
-- Toward technology introduction into care facilities --
Isamu Kajitani, Tamio Tanikawa, Takanori Shibata, Tetsuo Kotoku (AIST)

(5) 15:45 - 16:15
IT-based arithmetic learning method for children with difficulty in linguistic and attention skills.
Kimito Takamaru, Kouhei Yamada, Hiroyuki Inoue, Masahiko Nawate (Shimane Univ.)

(6) 16:15 - 16:45
Improvement of interactive system to assist rehabilitation of upper extremity
Tomohiko Miki (Shibaura Institute of Technology), Fumihito Kasai (Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Showa University School o), Michiko Ohkura (Shibaura Institute of Technology)

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Sat, Sep 29 AM (10:30 - 12:00)
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(7) 10:30 - 11:00
A Preliminary Study on Text Input Method using Statistical Model of Cerebral Blood Flow Change
Yoshiyuki Tazawa, Hiroki Mori (Utsunomiya Univ.)

(8) 11:00 - 11:30
Visualization system for a log of versatile communication aid "VCAN/1A"
Chihiro Ueno, Toyohiko Hayashi, Maiko Iriyama (Niigata Univ.), Satsuki Aoki (Meirin College)

(9) 11:30 - 12:00
A Proposal for Improvement of Supporting for Communication Aids
Fumihito Ito (Hitotsubashi Univ.), Keiji Imai, Emiko Nishina, Hiroki Okabe (ICT RT), Kentaro Ishijima (Tokyo Univ.), Yumiko Kawaguchi (Sakura Kai)

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Sat, Sep 29 PM (13:30 - 15:30)
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(10) 13:30 - 14:30
[Invited Talk]
When the near future sound study affects assistive technology, what happens?
Eiichi Ono (NRCD)

(11) 14:30 - 15:30
[Invited Talk]
Assistive Technology for Aged and Person with Disabilities
Takuro Hatakeyama (Waseda Univ.)

----- Break ( 15 min. ) -----

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Sat, Sep 29 PM (15:45 - 17:15)
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(12) 15:45 - 16:15
A fast speech rate conversion technology to assist efficient information acquisition for visually impaired persons
Naoyuki Tazawa (NHK-ES), Atsushi Imai (NHK STRL), Yukio Iwahana, Tohru Takagi (NHK-ES), Shinichi Torihara (Keio Research Institute at SFC)

(13) 16:15 - 16:45
The Development and Evaluation of Bandwidth Extension of Speech for Mobile Device
-- The Proposal of Adaptive Low-Frequency Bandwidth Extending Method and an Objective Evaluation Method --
Takashi Sudo (TOSHIBA/YNU), Masataka Osada, Yusaku Kikugawa, Hirokazu Tanaka, Shigenobu Minami (TOSHIBA), Ryuji Kohno (YNU)

(14) 16:45 - 17:15
Detection of Phoneme Boundary in Serial Inaudible Utterance Based on Center-of-Balance Transition by Wavelet Factors with Consideration of Muscle Activity
Kazushi Miyatake, Hidetoshi Nagai, Teigo Nakamura (KIT)

# Information for speakers
General Talk will have 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion.


=== Technical Committee on Speech (SP) ===
# FUTURE SCHEDULE:

Thu, Nov 8, 2012 - Fri, Nov 9, 2012: Ichibancho Lobby, Tohoku Institute of Technology [Fri, Sep 14], Topics: Speech Synthesis, Generation, Prosody, etc.
Thu, Dec 20, 2012 - Fri, Dec 21, 2012 (tentative): TITECH(Ookayama) [Thu, Oct 18], Topics: 14th Symposium on Spoken Language

# SECRETARY:
Hiroki Mori (Utsunomiya University)
E-mail: spee-

=== Technical Committee on Well-being Information Technology (WIT) ===
# FUTURE SCHEDULE:

Thu, Dec 6, 2012: AIST Tokyo Waterfront [Thu, Oct 11]

# SECRETARY:
Masahiko Nawate
Shimane University
E-mail: e-u


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