| Presentation | 2005/5/12 Conference System using Finger Braille Manabi MIYAGI, Atsuhisa KUSUNOSE, Masafumi NISHIDA, Yasuo HORIUCHI, Akira ICHIKAWA, |
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| Abstract(in English) | In this research, a conference system for deaf blind people was developed. It will help deaf blind people to participate in social communication. Since some deaf blind people have serious impairments in their visual and auditory sensations, they communicate with others using tactile sensation. We focused on finger braille as a real-time interactive media, which is communication means for deaf blind people. It is a communication method approximately equivalent to speech in terms of speed and accuracy. We have been analyzing the prosody in the time structure of finger braille. It has been confirmed that prosody information in finger braille enables real-time conversation, as the prosody information in speech does. The features (volatility (temporality), one-dimensional nature, and prosody) of finger braille were discussed, and the elements required for an interactive communication system were examined from the viewpoints of cognition, understanding, and utterance. The validity of the functions, which were incorporated in the finger braille conference system, was ascertained by an evaluation experiment. Furthermore, these ideas may be widely applicable to a conference system that uses two or more media or where participants have various disabilities. |
| Keyword(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Keyword(in English) | Deaf blind / Finger braille / Conference system / Prosody |
| Paper # | WIT2005-11 |
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| Committee | WIT |
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| Conference Date | 2005/5/12(1days) |
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| Language | JPN |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
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| Title (in English) | Conference System using Finger Braille |
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| Keyword(1) | Deaf blind |
| Keyword(2) | Finger braille |
| Keyword(3) | Conference system |
| Keyword(4) | Prosody |
| 1st Author's Name | Manabi MIYAGI |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Science and Technology, Chiba University() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Atsuhisa KUSUNOSE |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Science and Technology, Chiba University |
| 3rd Author's Name | Masafumi NISHIDA |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Science and Technology, Chiba University |
| 4th Author's Name | Yasuo HORIUCHI |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Science and Technology, Chiba University |
| 5th Author's Name | Akira ICHIKAWA |
| 5th Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Science and Technology, Chiba University |
| Date | 2005/5/12 |
| Paper # | WIT2005-11 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.105 |
| Number (no) | 66 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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