International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare
Purpose This study aims to establish a Japanese-style healthcare program customized for Japan and... more Purpose This study aims to establish a Japanese-style healthcare program customized for Japan and Asia under ISO 9001: 2008 (ISO: International Organization for Standardization) to improve problem areas and to inspect the effectiveness of the program. Furthermore, the authors wanted to create this health program using the ISO widely available in Asian countries and make an international contribution. Design/methodology/approach The authors implemented a 6- to 10-month health program in Minowa Town, Matsumoto City and Nagano City in Japan. This study assessed findings from pedometric, anthropometric and blood pressure measurements and physical fitness, blood chemistry and brain function tests. Findings The comparisons were made by examining the interaction effects between groups of participants. Groups from three regions in Japan showed significant differences on the physical fitness tests; regarding the 10-meter obstacle walk, the results of the Minowa participants showed the greate...
Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics
This paper discusses how a mobile robot may express itself to get help from users in a cooperativ... more This paper discusses how a mobile robot may express itself to get help from users in a cooperative task. We focus on a situation in which a robot expresses its state of mind to get a user to lend it help. The design we propose, called motion overlap (MO), enables a robot to express human-like behavior in communicating with others. We reasoned that human-like behavior in a robot could help the user to understand its state of mind. We designed a small sweeping robot based on MO that conducts back and forth movement, and compared its MO expression in experiments with other nonverbal communication, i.e., buzzers and blinking LEDs. We found that the MO expression encouraged most users to help the robot. Differences among results obtained for the three types of expression were statistically significant, and results demonstrate that MO has potential in the design of robots for the home.
This paper describes a novel remote control operational with stroking its surface. There are lots... more This paper describes a novel remote control operational with stroking its surface. There are lots of remote controls in our houses for TVs, air conditioners, and so on. However, when we use a remote control, we need to look at both our fingers and the target appliance that we would like to control. It may be not significantly problematic for
Proceedings of the adjunct publication of the 26th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology - UIST '13 Adjunct, 2013
ABSTRACT In this paper, we describe a notification method with peripheral cognition technology th... more ABSTRACT In this paper, we describe a notification method with peripheral cognition technology that uses a human cognitive characteristic. The method achieves notification without interrupting users' primary tasks. We developed a shape changing device that change its shape to notify the arrival of information. Such behavior enables a user to easily find and accept notifications without interruption when their attention on the primary task decreases. The result of an experiment showed that the successful notification rate was 45.5%.
Proceedings of the 2014 International Workshop on Web Intelligence and Smart Sensing - IWWISS '14, 2014
ABSTRACT Many researches support farmers to collect physiological and environmental data automati... more ABSTRACT Many researches support farmers to collect physiological and environmental data automatically to increase the value of agricultural products. In the research area of a field monitoring, this paper proposes a monorail type field monitoring system for multiple point observation. The proposed system, including a moving camera, a station, and rail can automatically move on a rail and can take pictures of targets at different points in a field. Collected data such as image and sensor values are transferred to cloud services such as Flickr and Twitter through the Internet. Our system can realize low cost and high quality field monitoring. Hardware experiments to confirm the capability of the proposed monorail-based monitoring system in terms of the photographed image quality were performed. The experimental results showed that the system stably moved on the rail and obtained the same composition images when targets to be photographed were placed in different places.
ABSTRACT This paper proposes a novel interaction model of a human-robot cooperative task. The mod... more ABSTRACT This paper proposes a novel interaction model of a human-robot cooperative task. The model employs CEA (Commands Embedded in Actions), which reduces a human cognitive load because it requires less explicit human-robot communication than direct commanding methods in conventional interaction models. We propose a guideline along which to design robots’ actions based on CEA, and apply it to a cooperative sweeping task by a human and a small mobile robot. CEA is experimentally shown to reduce the human cognitive load more than direct commanding methods do in this sweeping task.
In this paper, we deal with the problem that will arise in the near future from robots with a lot... more In this paper, we deal with the problem that will arise in the near future from robots with a lot of functions. The problem is that the robot users will have to read thick operation manuals. We designed an interaction that allows users to easily notice a robot's function without reading the manuals. We define Function Awareness as "to notice the relationship between a user's action and a robot's action." We propose a guideline for designing robot's actions as, "Action Sloping," which allows a robot to gradually express its internal state and also allows the user to naturally notice the robot's function by observing its actions. We designed the concrete robot's actions for a sweeping robot, and the robot changes the velocity of its motion to indicate its internal state according to the distance between the robot and its user. We develop a robot that can perform Action Sloping using low-cost infrared sensors and simple rules for actions. Thr...
This paper proposes a novel interaction model for human-robot cooperative task. The point of the ... more This paper proposes a novel interaction model for human-robot cooperative task. The point of the interaction model is an introduction of CEA (Commands Embedded in Actions) by which a human work-load is reduced because it need less inputs and outputs of a user of a robot than that of using direct commanding methods in a conventional interaction model. We build a procedure of the design for the proposed interaction model, and apply the method of interaction design to a cooperative sweeping task by a human and a small mobile robot. We then conduct experiments to confirm that reduction of a human work-load on our interaction design in the sweeping task. Human cognitive loads are examined to evaluate human work-load while a human interacts with a robot, and loads between CEA and direct control of a robot are compared. The results of the experiments show that the CEA minimizes a human cognitive load in comparison with other direct commanding methods.
Life-like agents have the potential to make e-shopping sites on the Web more attractive and persu... more Life-like agents have the potential to make e-shopping sites on the Web more attractive and persuasive; our interest is to determine how multiple life-like agents should behave as a team to persuade customers. To know how the social relationships among two agents and a human user impacts the effectiveness of persuasion from the viewpoint of the balance theory, we develop a multi-agent persuasion system. In the system, the agents construct a social relationship to the user, and they then try to persuade him/her to select items that they recommend. An evaluation shows that a balanced relationship yields better performance than an imbalanced one.
International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare
Purpose This study aims to establish a Japanese-style healthcare program customized for Japan and... more Purpose This study aims to establish a Japanese-style healthcare program customized for Japan and Asia under ISO 9001: 2008 (ISO: International Organization for Standardization) to improve problem areas and to inspect the effectiveness of the program. Furthermore, the authors wanted to create this health program using the ISO widely available in Asian countries and make an international contribution. Design/methodology/approach The authors implemented a 6- to 10-month health program in Minowa Town, Matsumoto City and Nagano City in Japan. This study assessed findings from pedometric, anthropometric and blood pressure measurements and physical fitness, blood chemistry and brain function tests. Findings The comparisons were made by examining the interaction effects between groups of participants. Groups from three regions in Japan showed significant differences on the physical fitness tests; regarding the 10-meter obstacle walk, the results of the Minowa participants showed the greate...
Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics
This paper discusses how a mobile robot may express itself to get help from users in a cooperativ... more This paper discusses how a mobile robot may express itself to get help from users in a cooperative task. We focus on a situation in which a robot expresses its state of mind to get a user to lend it help. The design we propose, called motion overlap (MO), enables a robot to express human-like behavior in communicating with others. We reasoned that human-like behavior in a robot could help the user to understand its state of mind. We designed a small sweeping robot based on MO that conducts back and forth movement, and compared its MO expression in experiments with other nonverbal communication, i.e., buzzers and blinking LEDs. We found that the MO expression encouraged most users to help the robot. Differences among results obtained for the three types of expression were statistically significant, and results demonstrate that MO has potential in the design of robots for the home.
This paper describes a novel remote control operational with stroking its surface. There are lots... more This paper describes a novel remote control operational with stroking its surface. There are lots of remote controls in our houses for TVs, air conditioners, and so on. However, when we use a remote control, we need to look at both our fingers and the target appliance that we would like to control. It may be not significantly problematic for
Proceedings of the adjunct publication of the 26th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology - UIST '13 Adjunct, 2013
ABSTRACT In this paper, we describe a notification method with peripheral cognition technology th... more ABSTRACT In this paper, we describe a notification method with peripheral cognition technology that uses a human cognitive characteristic. The method achieves notification without interrupting users' primary tasks. We developed a shape changing device that change its shape to notify the arrival of information. Such behavior enables a user to easily find and accept notifications without interruption when their attention on the primary task decreases. The result of an experiment showed that the successful notification rate was 45.5%.
Proceedings of the 2014 International Workshop on Web Intelligence and Smart Sensing - IWWISS '14, 2014
ABSTRACT Many researches support farmers to collect physiological and environmental data automati... more ABSTRACT Many researches support farmers to collect physiological and environmental data automatically to increase the value of agricultural products. In the research area of a field monitoring, this paper proposes a monorail type field monitoring system for multiple point observation. The proposed system, including a moving camera, a station, and rail can automatically move on a rail and can take pictures of targets at different points in a field. Collected data such as image and sensor values are transferred to cloud services such as Flickr and Twitter through the Internet. Our system can realize low cost and high quality field monitoring. Hardware experiments to confirm the capability of the proposed monorail-based monitoring system in terms of the photographed image quality were performed. The experimental results showed that the system stably moved on the rail and obtained the same composition images when targets to be photographed were placed in different places.
ABSTRACT This paper proposes a novel interaction model of a human-robot cooperative task. The mod... more ABSTRACT This paper proposes a novel interaction model of a human-robot cooperative task. The model employs CEA (Commands Embedded in Actions), which reduces a human cognitive load because it requires less explicit human-robot communication than direct commanding methods in conventional interaction models. We propose a guideline along which to design robots’ actions based on CEA, and apply it to a cooperative sweeping task by a human and a small mobile robot. CEA is experimentally shown to reduce the human cognitive load more than direct commanding methods do in this sweeping task.
In this paper, we deal with the problem that will arise in the near future from robots with a lot... more In this paper, we deal with the problem that will arise in the near future from robots with a lot of functions. The problem is that the robot users will have to read thick operation manuals. We designed an interaction that allows users to easily notice a robot's function without reading the manuals. We define Function Awareness as "to notice the relationship between a user's action and a robot's action." We propose a guideline for designing robot's actions as, "Action Sloping," which allows a robot to gradually express its internal state and also allows the user to naturally notice the robot's function by observing its actions. We designed the concrete robot's actions for a sweeping robot, and the robot changes the velocity of its motion to indicate its internal state according to the distance between the robot and its user. We develop a robot that can perform Action Sloping using low-cost infrared sensors and simple rules for actions. Thr...
This paper proposes a novel interaction model for human-robot cooperative task. The point of the ... more This paper proposes a novel interaction model for human-robot cooperative task. The point of the interaction model is an introduction of CEA (Commands Embedded in Actions) by which a human work-load is reduced because it need less inputs and outputs of a user of a robot than that of using direct commanding methods in a conventional interaction model. We build a procedure of the design for the proposed interaction model, and apply the method of interaction design to a cooperative sweeping task by a human and a small mobile robot. We then conduct experiments to confirm that reduction of a human work-load on our interaction design in the sweeping task. Human cognitive loads are examined to evaluate human work-load while a human interacts with a robot, and loads between CEA and direct control of a robot are compared. The results of the experiments show that the CEA minimizes a human cognitive load in comparison with other direct commanding methods.
Life-like agents have the potential to make e-shopping sites on the Web more attractive and persu... more Life-like agents have the potential to make e-shopping sites on the Web more attractive and persuasive; our interest is to determine how multiple life-like agents should behave as a team to persuade customers. To know how the social relationships among two agents and a human user impacts the effectiveness of persuasion from the viewpoint of the balance theory, we develop a multi-agent persuasion system. In the system, the agents construct a social relationship to the user, and they then try to persuade him/her to select items that they recommend. An evaluation shows that a balanced relationship yields better performance than an imbalanced one.
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