{"title":"A context-adaptive haptic interaction and its application","authors":"Youngjae Kim, Youmin Kim, Minsoo Hahn","doi":"10.1145/1667780.1667830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1667780.1667830","url":null,"abstract":"Haptic is a promising interface for the next generation ubiquitous computing environment. Most of the haptic-related study is limited to the first person-based human-computer interaction [5], not a human-to-human communication. The proposed system is focused on the personal communication such as chatting or text messaging. Our system is designed to provide manipulation ability of multiple sensors and multi actuators into a single framework. Our contribution can be summarized into three part; (1) design of a framework for a multi-sensor and multi-actuator interaction. (2) XML-based data structure for a haptic description. (3) context-adaptive actuation control using feedback mechanism.","PeriodicalId":103128,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd International Universal Communication Symposium","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123736793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rong Zhang, K. Zettsu, T. Nakanishi, Y. Kidawara, Y. Kiyoki
{"title":"SOBEX: distributed service search engine that exploits service collaboration context","authors":"Rong Zhang, K. Zettsu, T. Nakanishi, Y. Kidawara, Y. Kiyoki","doi":"10.1145/1667780.1667834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1667780.1667834","url":null,"abstract":"Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is emerging as a paradigm for developing distributed application. As the development of hardware and software technology, fast increasing of peers or services has issued critical problems for the popularity of SOA. One is system scalability and robustness, and the other one is service location validation. In this paper, we introduce-SOBEX -a web service search engine which designs a distributed indexing structure SIKA, and proposes proactive web services reuse mechanism by introducing service context model SPOT. SIKA is a community-oriented virtual hierarchical distributed indexing structure based on classic Chord algorithm. Though it groups nodes into interest-based communities, it is completely distributed and without central management. Then it promises system search efficiency together with scalability and robustness. The growing number of web services available with an organization and on the web raises new problem: locating the desired web services. Generally keyword-based search has meet with high recall and low precision. In order to improve search efficiency, SOBEX proposes to qualify services using service usage context model, which tries to reduce the concept understanding gap between human and computer by proactively assigning the services with their own story background. On the other hand, besides traditional keyword-based methods, it introduces context-based queries to improve service reusability.","PeriodicalId":103128,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd International Universal Communication Symposium","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125536447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A speech-driven embodied entrainment wall picture system for supporting virtual communication","authors":"Yoshihiro Sejima, Tomio Watanabe","doi":"10.1145/1667780.1667844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1667780.1667844","url":null,"abstract":"We have developed a speech-driven embodied entrainment system called \"InterPicture\" and have demonstrated the effectiveness of the system using an embodied virtual communication system. InterPicture is an image containing flowers that react to the speech input of talkers. We confirmed the importance of providing a communication environment in which not only avatars but also CG objects placed around the avatars are related to virtual communication. In this study, we have developed an advanced speech-driven embodied entrainment system called \"InterWall\". This system projects wall picture widely onto the wall surrounding avatars and behaves as a listener by producing nodding and body movements on the basis of the speech input of a talker. Further, a communication experiment has been performed, and the effectiveness of \"InterWall\" has been demonstrated by carrying out a sensory evaluation and a speech-overlap analysis for 20 pairs of 40 talkers.","PeriodicalId":103128,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd International Universal Communication Symposium","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129022642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis of hand movement variation related to speed in Japanese sign language","authors":"Yuta Yasugahira, Y. Horiuchi, S. Kuroiwa","doi":"10.1145/1667780.1667849","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1667780.1667849","url":null,"abstract":"To achieve the greater accessibility for deaf people, sign language recognition systems and sign language animation systems must be developed. In Japanese sign language (JSL), previous studies have suggested that emphasis and emotion cause changes in hand movements. However, the relationship between emphasis and emotion and the signing speed has not been researched enough. In this study, we analyzed the hand movement variation in relation to the signing speed. First, we recorded 20 signed sentences at three speeds (fast, normal, and slow) using a digital video recorder and a 3D position sensor. Second, we segmented sentences into three types of components (sign words, transitions, and pauses). In our previous study, we analyzed hand movement variations of sign words in relation to the signing speed. In this study, we analyzed transitions between adjacent sign words by a method similar to that in the previous study. As a result, sign words and transitions showed a similar tendency, and we found that the variation in signing speed mainly caused changes in the distance hands moved. Furthermore, we compared transitions with sign words and found that transitions were slower than sign words.","PeriodicalId":103128,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd International Universal Communication Symposium","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129852521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mariko Kawaba, H. Nakasaki, Daisuke Yokomoto, T. Utsuro, T. Fukuhara
{"title":"Linking Wikipedia entries to blog feeds by machine learning","authors":"Mariko Kawaba, H. Nakasaki, Daisuke Yokomoto, T. Utsuro, T. Fukuhara","doi":"10.1145/1667780.1667854","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1667780.1667854","url":null,"abstract":"This paper studies the issue of conceptually indexing the blogosphere through the whole hierarchy of Wikipedia entries. This paper proposes how to link Wikipedia entries to blog feeds in the Japanese blogosphere by machine learning, where about 300,000 Wikipedia entries are used for representing a hierarchy of topics. In our experimental evaluation, we achieved over 80% precision in the task.","PeriodicalId":103128,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd International Universal Communication Symposium","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130674164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Masahiro Yamaguchi, Junko Kishimoto, Y. Komiya, Yoshifumi Kanno, Y. Murakami, H. Hashizume, Ryouji Yamada, Kosuke Miyajima, H. Haneishi
{"title":"Video-based telemedicine with reliable color: field experiments of natural vision technology","authors":"Masahiro Yamaguchi, Junko Kishimoto, Y. Komiya, Yoshifumi Kanno, Y. Murakami, H. Hashizume, Ryouji Yamada, Kosuke Miyajima, H. Haneishi","doi":"10.1145/1667780.1667810","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1667780.1667810","url":null,"abstract":"High-fidelity color imaging technology that incorporates spectrum-based color reproduction system, called \"natural vision\" (NV) is applied to the field experiment of telemedicine. The experiment comprises mainly two parts; 1) High-fidelity color video of open surgery was captured by the six-band multispectral camera, and the image quality was visually evaluated by medical doctors, 2) Video-based teleconsultation experiment between a regional general hospital and a clinic in an island near the hospital, was conducted with using the natural vision system.","PeriodicalId":103128,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd International Universal Communication Symposium","volume":"17 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132319234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Normalization on the modulation spectrum of the subband temporal envelopes for automatic speech recognition in reverberant environments","authors":"Xugang Lu, M. Unoki, Satoshi Nakamura","doi":"10.1145/1667780.1667832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1667780.1667832","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, we proposed a feature extraction method based on the subband temporal envelopes (STEs) and their normalization for reverberated speech recognition. The STEs were extracted by using a series of constant bandwidth band-pass filters with Hilbert transform followed by a low-pass filtering. In the normalization, both the modulation spectrum (MS) of the subband temporal envelopes of the clean and reverberated speech are normalized to a reference MS calculated from a clean speech data set. Based on the normalized subband MS, the inverse Fourier transform was used to restore the subband temporal envelopes. We tested the proposed method on speech recognition in a reverberant room with different speaker to microphone distance (SMD). For comparison, the recognition performance of using the traditional Mel-cepstral coefficients with mean and variance normalization were used as the baseline. Experimental results showed that, by averaging the SMDs from 50 cm to 400 cm, there was a 44.96% relative improvement by only using subband temporal envelope processing, and further a 15.68% relative improvement by using the normalization on the subband modulation spectrum. Totally, there was about a 53.59% relative improvement, which was better than those of using other temporal filtering and normalization methods.","PeriodicalId":103128,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd International Universal Communication Symposium","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134549378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A computer scientist looks at the energy problem","authors":"R. Katz","doi":"10.1145/1667780.1667784","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1667780.1667784","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":103128,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd International Universal Communication Symposium","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131030756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Language technology infrastructures in support to multilingualism","authors":"J. Mariani","doi":"10.1145/1667780.1667782","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1667780.1667782","url":null,"abstract":"The challenges of multilingualism are many, and needs are important, both in Europe and internationally. Language Technologies can help to meet those needs, but necessitate developing appropriate infrastructures and generating the resources which are mandatory to conduct research for the different languages. Some programs support this area, but suffer from a lack of scale, continuity and cohesion. The effort deserves to be coordinated between nations and international organizations in order to facilitate multilingualism in Europe and globally.","PeriodicalId":103128,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd International Universal Communication Symposium","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133341633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spatial memorization aid system: registration of mental memory space","authors":"Kenji Ishigaki, Y. Ikei","doi":"10.1145/1667780.1667851","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1667780.1667851","url":null,"abstract":"The present paper proposes a novel approach to augment human memory based on spatial and graphic information mediated by an electronic device. A technique for memorizing a number of unstructured items is called mnemonics. Although its advantage is excellent, to acquire the skill to utilize the mnemonics is generally difficult. A new spatial mnemonics system presented in this paper has resolved the problem by facilitating the process of acquisition of the skill. A virtual memory peg is introduced for the purpose based on the images of the real space and object. The characteristics of the virtual memory peg was investigated in terms of the length of the peg that was created in the real physical environment. Another creation process based on the photographs provided by the experimenter was examined to show that the peg could be built without walking through the real environment. The both results clearly demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed method.","PeriodicalId":103128,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd International Universal Communication Symposium","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123640148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}