INTERSPEECH 2010, 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Makuhari, Chiba, Japan, September 26-30, 2010 266-269 2010 [Refereed]
Computers Helping People with Special Needs, 12th International Conference, ICCHP 2010, Vienna, Austria, July 14-16, 2010. Proceedings, Part I 368-375 2010 [Refereed]
Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology 4 236-247 Jul 2009 [Refereed]
-Purpose. To evaluate if marking up heading elements of Web sites improves usability and accessibility.
-Method. Task completion times and questionnaire responses were collected from sighted and blind users for two kinds of Web sites: sites marked...
Universal Access in the Information Society 6(3) 221-232 Nov 2007 [Refereed]
To determine how well user agents conform to UAAG 1.0, capabilities of user agents were investigated with UAAG 1.0 Test Suite. It was found that 20 Priority 1 checkpoints were met by all the user agents, while 12 Priority 1 checkpoints, relating t...
The effect of learning on listening to ultra-fast speech
Proceedings of the 2006 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A 2006): Building the mobile web: rediscovering accessibility? Edinburgh, UK, May 22, 2006 38-48 2006 [Refereed]
Nishimoto T, Sako S, Sagayama S, Ohshima K, Oda K, Watanabe T
Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference 1 5691-5694 2006 [Refereed]
The Human Society and the Internet - Internet Related Socio-Economic Issues, First International Conference, Human.Society@Internet 2001, Seoul, Korea, July 4-6 2001, Proceedings 92-99 2001 [Refereed]
Universal Access In HCI: Towards an Information Society for All, Proceedings of HCI International '2001 (the 9th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction), New Orleans, USA, August 5-10, 2001, Volume 3 446-450 2001 [Refereed]
Universal Access In HCI: Towards an Information Society for All, Proceedings of HCI International '2001 (the 9th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction), New Orleans, USA, August 5-10, 2001, Volume 3 349-353 2001 [Refereed]
Double beta decays and ELEGANT V and VI at Oto Cosmo Observatory
IEICE technical report. Welfare Information technology 112(475) 127-132 Mar 2013
The objective of the current research is to investigate if the Speacon, which is created by speeding up a TTS so that it is no longer comprehensible as a particular word, is useful to auditory represent the logical structure of Web (e.g. heading e...
IEICE technical report. Welfare Information technology 111(472) 67-74 Mar 2012
The ability of information search is needed to use the Internet efficiently and effectively. In this research, we conducted some investigations and experiments with the particular three older people to show the purpose and the characteristics of t...
Newsletter, ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing 04 30-42 Sep 2012
The objective of this article is to describe how and what Japan has carried out standard harmonization, both internationally with WCAG 2.0 and nationally in Japan, and achievement efforts of Web accessibility based on the harmonized national Web c...
IEICE technical report. Welfare Information technology 111(472) 95-100 Mar 2012
This research investigates what kind of auditory representation is suited for logical structure and visual representation of Web content. We carried out experiments with 24 female university students. We showed them various representations and mea...
IEICE technical report. Welfare Information technology 111(472) 101-106 Mar 2012
This research focused on "Audio description of a movie." Audio description is a narration explaining visual information. We were interested in the idea, what kind of audio description well expresses the 3D-effect of a three-dimensional movie? We f...
IEICE technical report. Welfare Information technology 110(418) 41-46 Feb 2011
It is important for Web usability that the mental model drawn by a user is same as that by a developer. However, it is difficult for a developer to construct an appropriate Web content with that model. We carried out experiments that used three ki...
IEICE technical report. Welfare Information technology 108(332) 83-88 Dec 2008
We carried out preliminary experiments to realize a speech-based CAPTCHA system to distinguish between software agents and human beings. Such systems are especially important for persons with visual disability. As the first step, we investigated t...
IEICE technical report. Welfare Information technology 108(332) 89-94 Dec 2008
We investigated the intelligibility of ultra-fast speech which may be used for screen reader for persons with visual disability. The subjects were divided into four groups and they listened to 150 words with the speed of approximately 20 morae/sec...
IEICE technical report. Welfare Information technology 108(332) 55-62 Dec 2008
The number of older persons (whose age is over 65) is increasing in Japan. Internet usage by older persons, however, remains low. Thus, usability and accessibility of Web content for older persons is important to increase their usage. We carried o...
We investigated the intelligibility of ultra-fast speech which may be used for screen reader for persons with visual disability. The subjects were 35 women who are university students and are not visually/hearing impaired. They were divided into f...
The Bilingual Emacspeak Platform(BEP) is a bilingual, Japanese and English, text-to-speech system for Japanese visually impaired Emacs users. Making full use of helpful functions of the existing Japanese screen-readers and trying to fulfill the re...
The Bilingual Emacspeak is the self-speaking Emacs editor that controls a bilingual, Japanese and English, speech server. The aim of the current system is to enhance Japanese visually impaired graduate students, researchers, and programmers to use...
HONDA H., KAMAE T., WATANABE T., KOIDE T., UNO S., KURIHARA T.
IEICE technical report. Speech 100(256) 23-28 Aug 2000
We are developing script-based software with which the visually disabled can exploit Windows 98 as much as the sighted do. The Script-based platform is an extension of Windows Scripting Host(WSH) with large format GUIs for users with low vision an...
WATANABE T., INOUE K., SAKAMOTO M., HONDA H., KAMAE T.
IEICE technical report. Speech 100(256) 29-36 Aug 2000
The Bilingual Emacspeak is the text-to-speech system that adds a bilingual, Japanese and English, speech output to an Emacs editor and runs on Windows and Linux. The aim of the current system is to enhance Japanese visually impaired graduate stude...
湘南工科大学紀要 = Memoirs of Shonan Institute of Technology 34(1) 101-114 Mar 2000
The Barrier-free information processing system is a system that enables the disabled to access information regardless of their disability. Computers are useful for the visually disabled because computers work as their eyes by reading aloud E-mail ...
The role of the visual-impairent coordinating group is to make organic cooperation among the scheduled research groups to promote each research as a result This role can be divided into five specific sub-roles below and concrete actions follow the...
1) Based on the user studies for visually impaired, we developed two new prototypes of remote control for air-conditioner; one was the voice recognition type and the other was the ten-key keyboard. We conducted the evaluation tests for these RCs. ...
A dedicated dilution refrigerator has been constructed. It is capable of cooling the detector material down to 10mK.It is made of specially selected raw materials to reduce natural radiation background from them.In order to manufacture thermistors...
A dedicated dilution refrigerator has been constructed. It is capable of cooling one-kilogram of absorber material down to 10mK.It is made of specially selected raw materials to reduce natural radiation background from them. Especially, the inner ...
We confirmed that an undoped cesium iodide crystal is a very efficient scintillator if it is cooled down to the liquid nitrogen temerature.We newly found that a cooled monocrystal of lead molybdate also functions as a scintillator at temperature b...
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