This paper describes sensory integration using the food simulator. A taste of food arises from mixture of auditory, chemical, and force sensation. The food simulator is a haptic interface that can generate a force to user's teeth when the user bites a food. It consists of a film-like force sensor and one degree-of-freedom manipulator. The food simulator generates a food texture according to the force profile captured from a user's biting force of a real food. Then the profile of the biting force is replayed by controlling the reaction force of the device. By development of Food Simulator, we can extract only texture from taste. We experimented in sensory integration using texture, sound, and the taste. Our goal is to study integration among sensory modalities regarding a taste of food.

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The lips and mouth are one of the most sensitive parts of the human body. For this reason, we believe that research into the field of presenting various applications to the mouth and lips will be more widespread in the near future. We proposes an innovate methodology of presenting excitements to our mouth and lips. Based on the action of “drinking” from a straw, we have developed the Straw-like User Interface that could transmit virtual drinking sensations to the user. The aim of this research is to realize an innovate methodology for transmitting information to the mouth and lips.

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In this paper, recent advancement of wireless technologies is explained. Then, VMC (Vehicle Mobile Convergence) Concept for Advanced ITS service is explained. VMC is a high-level concept to increase safety and security by integrating the 3G cellular technologies and car electronics. The first examples of VMC is a seamless service between cellular phone, PC, and car navigation system, based on advanced location information which is explained in this paper, and confirmed the availability.

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On the way of ubiquitous or pervasive computing, now many researchers are working on Wireless Sensor Network and RFID integration for emergency disaster management. If we can use cellular network after disaster for rescue, in that case, it is easy to identify the survivors' locations. But in almost every case, after an enormous disaster, many Base stations are unable to communicate due to their destructions. From the experience, the cellular phone could not be used even due to the Nakagoshi earthquake in Japan. In this paper, we present an ad-hoc wireless sensor network (WSN) protocol to overcome this deficiency. In our considering network infrastructure, we assume survivors carrying mobiles, tagged with RFID tag. There are some sensor nodes in every cell of a cellular network. Normally these nodes only read periodic messages from their corresponding base station. After any disaster, if these nodes are unable to communicate with their base station, they will able to understand the occurrence of disaster and will from an ad-hoc network. In ad-hoc network, every sensor node will try to find out RFID tagged mobile users (survivors) to disseminate their locations' information to the ad-hoc network to make these available to rescuers.

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The writers participated in IrDA since 1995. We engaged in protocol standardization of infrared communication standard and standardization of mutual connectivity testing. We will look back on the history of IrDA infrared communication deployment from 1997 to now.

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This presentation is a summary of a paper submitted to IIEEJ journal. It will focus on in-vehicle display use and its related cognitive overload. Since visual interfaces are needed for in-vehicle information and tasks, their design must provide the driver a low cognitive demand. The display is not only a visual issue but rather a cognitive issue, which should be tackled by image engineering teams working on improving visual telematics interfaces. Concerns are often raised about the potential of displays technologies to distract drivers from their driving task, highlighting the importance of a well-designed visual human machine interface (VHMI), the telematics display. Visual Displays have the potential to be a double-edged sword for users. While the new information opportunities that telematics creates are clearly valuable, visual systems that are designed to assist in safe driving also add cognitive workload to the driving task, thus creating an unsafe driving environment.

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Recently, the RFID system has received considerable attentions and gotten wide variety of applications in many different areas from supply chain to healthcare. This technology is becoming the core technology of various ubiquitous services. In this paper, we propose to use the RFID technology for Road Traffic Management to improve the efficacy and the safety of the traffic. We will design a radio map based on UHF RFID tags that will serve as reference for the traffic system. And we will discuss how we can enhance the accuracy of the vehicle's position to send it with other useful information via the road RFID readers to the control station for processing and recording. From this data it will be possible to visualize the actual status of the traffic and to control the respect of the traffic rules such as traffic signs, over speed, forbidden parking zones, and the tracking of the stolen and suspicious vehicles. In addition to that, the position and the speed can be communicated between vehicles for anti-collision and accidents avoidance.

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The problem when the display information delivery system is applied to the delivery for the municipality community is analyzed, and the achievement method is described. The main problem was a difficulty of making contents, a difficulty of operation of the terminal, and a disagreement of viewing style. In this paper, we propose an environment of making contents and an environment of viewing contents.

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This paper proposes user interfaces with cameras equipped on mobile terminals. The interfaces support users to obtain information related to the objects taken by the cameras. The photos of the objects are sent to servers to analyze the photos, and their recognition results are sent back to the mobile terminals. The recognition results allow users to get information for the objects from the servers or to control the objects by selecting appropriate controllers. An electronic encyclopedia system for animals, for which a prototype system was built, and short-cut functionality to set up a television remote controller on mobile terminals are introduced.

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This paper proposes a multimedia communication system using home network appliances. The multimedia communication will be adapted for user requirements by using home network appliances such as televisions and cameras there are omnipresent in the home network. Therefore, to use home network appliances in the multimedia communications, multimedia communication systems need the protocol, the functions. In this paper, show the system architecture and the effectiveness of the proposed system in detail.

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A report regarding standardization activity on home network related technology for AV and multimedia equipment conducted in the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Technical Committee (TC) 100. This report introduces examples of home network related equipment such as high-end TV, Home video server and location-free TV. TC 100 is going to standardize home network related specifications intended to AV and multimedia application including DLNA and ECHONET. TC 100 is keeping good liaison ship between other home network related organizations, ITU-R, ITU-T and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 25.

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Existing international standards specify more than 70,000 coded characters. Most of the characters have their "Variants" relationships. It causes some difficulties to be dealt with, in particular, in educations, libraries and museums. Members of a committee established in "Center for Global Communications, International University of Japan" pay attention to a structure of relations between variants, and considered variants table as a technical standard, collected some variants data, created a proposal of variants table. In this paper, we report a part of the activity result of the committee with a proposal.

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This paper introduces background and outline of “Structured Model for Museum Object Information” and describes a prototype of collection management system. Then it discusses metadata vocabularies based on this model.

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A mapping method of properties of the Structured Model for Museum Object Information to the Dublin Core metadata has been discussed for integrated retrieval of humanities information. Introduction of switch elements is efficient for information exchenge between variety communities.

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In this paper, we propose Ontorogy Use Case to enable a seamless cross-searching for museum information.

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This project which was adopted for "Research and development for the science and technology promotion adjustment expense - important problem solution type research - digital contents creation in the 2005 fiscal year" by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology is gone on until March,2008. We have three themes, Research and development of digital content creation tool that needs large-scale crowd simulation, Research and development concerning rendering software plug-in to create photo-realistic CG by distributed computing and Research on multilingual image delivery in Internet and proof experiment with prototype.

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