This paper describes correlation between the subjective evaluation by using visual analog scale (VAS) and heart rate variability (HRV) for the effects of the 1/f fluctuation music. The experiment employed 21 healthy subjects. HRVs of the subjects when they listen to the 1/f fluctuation music and when they do not, are recorded separately. Furthermore, in order to investigate the psychological state change, the subjects are required to answer VAS questionnaire for both cases (listening to the 1/f fluctuation music, and not). When the subjects listen to the l/f fluctuation music, their LF/HF values are decreased. And the experiment result shows that there exists relationship between VAS data ("Like or Dislike") and HRV data. Therefore, the proposed method is very useful.

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In this paper we propose an Outer-Covering Haptic Display (OCHD) method to better teach learners how much force to apply to the tool during a laryngoscopy. Laryngoscopy is a medical procedure in which a tool called a laryngoscope is used to open a patient's mouth to view the vocal folds and glottis. The OCHD imparts haptic sensation to the back of the hand holding the laryngoscope, and guides the learner to perform the procedure. The learner moves the laryngoscope by his/her own force and receives the tool application force sensation on the palm of the hand. To evaluate the OCHD method, we conducted the comparison experiments with two existing methods, the haptic guidance method that directly actuates the tool, and the visual information guidance method. The results showed that, the OCHD method is more effective than existing methods for hand skill training which require learner to apply strong force to his/her palm such as in laryngoscopy.

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Using the iris data of the benchmark, the significant degree of each component was calculated by the Spherical Self-Organizing-Maps (SSOM) method. First of all, the algorithm of the significant degree was constructed and then, the method was applied to the iris data and other several benchmark data. The result could be quite reasonable. After completing the algorithm, the method was confirmed using the best group waves and the worst group waves of the Acceleration Plethysmogram pulse wave. Also, it was applied to the fatigue questionnaire data and the analysis was compared with the result of the multi regression analysis.

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The purpose of this study was to develop a psychological test that determines patients who are attached to their appearances by analyzing the similarity between the patients and their avatars. The subjects were 48 female university students and office workers with an average age of 23.9±4.1 years. The materials for this study were: full-faced photographs, favorite avatars created by the subjects themselves, and a questionnaire for the psychological test. The components of these photos and avatars-outlines of the face, eyes, nose, lips and eyebrows-were calculated into their principal component scores by using the reported data of Japanese facial components through principal component analysis. The sizes of the facial photos and avatars were standardized by using a portrait-making software and "FaceFit^<TM>" in a facial image processing system for human-like "Kansei" agents. The subjects were classified into a healthy group (H group; 10 participants, 21 % of all subjects) and a group who remained attached to their appearance (S group; 9 participants, 19%) by the scores of the Sheehan Disability Scale and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. Thirty two indicator points were set on the facial photos and avatars of the H and S groups. Using these points, the similarity between groups was investigated by inner products of vectors, polar coordinates and thin plate spline analysis between the facial photos and the avatars. The results from these analyses indicated that participants in the S group created avatars closer to their facial photos than those in the H group.

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The Oriental medicine is useful for preventive health care to evaluate health in the viewpoint unlike modern Western medicine. We compared the health questionnaire of the Oriental medicine (OHQ57) with the health evaluation by the medical examination of the Oriental medicine, and examined the usefulness of the OHQ57. The subjects who agreed with this study were 101 people. The efficiency of the health evaluation of OHQ57 and the evaluation of the Oriental medicine was low with 29%. However, the total score of OHQ57 in the disease group by the healthy evaluation from the Oriental medicine was significantly higher than mibyou group. The efficiency of the healthy evaluation of OHQ57 was different from the healthy evaluation each of the tongue diagnosis, an interview and a pulse diagnosis. The total score of OHQ57 in the disease group by the healthy evaluation of the pulse diagnosis was significantly higher than mibyou group. The total score of OHQ57 by the healthy evaluation of the interview was high in order of health, mibyou, and disease. It was concluded that the improvement of the evaluation standard is necessary to raise usefulness of OHQ57.

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What object is extracted as a conspicuous object by human? What factors compose the conspicuity? Finding out the factors is important for the image understanding technology. Up to now the contrast extracted by DOG filters has been used as the conspicuity of the area. In this paper, the factors, such as the eccentricity in the visual field and the size of object, other than the contrast are examined. The availability of them are tested by the touch-screen and the following results: 1)the conspicuity decreases according to the eccentricity,2)it in the lower visual field is higher than the upper one,3)it in the right ward one is higher than the left ward one,4)we cannot find out the significant difference between the conspicuities in the upper-right one and in the lower left one, and 5)the conspicuity increases according to the size of object.

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By the fall experiment using the dummy doll of the vertical posture, it has been suggested that the head rotates with a heel as a pivot point and free-falls. The purpose of this study is to examine whether each physical part of the dummy doll of various posture is modeled as a rotational, free-fall movement. The setting conditions of the experiment were fall posture, fall direction, kind of protective equipment, and with or without protective equipment. As a result, it was suggested each physical part was modeled as a rotational, free fall movement. And head injury criteria (HIC) almost supported the tendency of the previous study even if it was not vertical posture.

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When adverbs are used to evaluate certain events, the assumptions of the even stage and the fixed order among adverbs are made regardless of differences in the choice of words. The purpose of the present study was to test this assumption about the subjective magnitude of the adverb measured by two evaluation methods (i.e., the paired-comparison method as the discrimination scaling method and the graphical scale method as the partition scaling method). The adverbs used in this study were selected from ones used frequently in the evaluation of the vocational rehabilitation. The adverbs included 4 teido-fukushi (i.e., 'yaya' 'hikakuteki' 'aruteido' 'kanari') and 4 joutai-fukushi (i.e., 'hotondo' 'hobo' 'yoku' 'oomune'). Two types of verbs followed the target adverbs: (1) verbs that express ability ('dekiru (be able to)' --- 'dekinai (not be able to)') and (2) verbs expressing progress ('susumu (advance)' --- 'okureru (lab behind)'). In order to compare the subjective magnitude of the adverb obtained by both evaluation methods, it was transformed into fuzzy measure. As a result, it was suggested that the partition scaling measure value is more appropriate as measured value of the subjective magnitude of the target adverb, and that there is a problem in the hypothesis of the discrimination scaling method that the variability expressed in the psychological unit is constant on psychological continuum. The present study's findings also suggested that the subjective magnitude change depending on the evaluation method of words.

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The present study was to clarify the differences among 4 countries participated in the 4th B1 Futsal Asian Championships 2011 by focusing on the shoot area, and aimed to get a clue for improving the competitive ability of Japanese players of the blind football as well as for popularizing this game. From the analysis in the shoot area and the goal throw, the rate of shooting made within 6 m was 32.3% (Score: 2 points) for China, 30.4% (Score:1 Point) for Iran and 33.3% (Score: 1 Point) for South Korea. For Japan, however, the score was only 2 points obtained from the frontal shoots, despite the shooting rate of as high as 72.7% that was more than 2 times the rate registered by any other country, which showed a significant difference in the scoring power, compared with higher-ranked countries. The success rate of goal throw of China who won the championship, being one of the high-ranking countries in the world, was rather lower, compared with the other countries. However, China's rate of shoot from the goal throw was 22.3%, with a higher probability of shooting, compared with 9.3% in case of Japan and those of other countries. The fundamental style of attack in case of the above-mentioned 4 countries was the shoot from a dribble, but it was suggested that the rate of passing the ball for the 3 countries except China, was increasing, while the ranking was falling.

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By results of dummy's experiments, there was the point that the normal force at the rotational center (dummy's pastern) became zero when the dummy was in falling. So we proposed a model based on the falling of rigid bar, which was improved both hypothesis of the rotational & free falling and a rigid pendulum. Our models showed that the normal force of rigid bar became zero value by the way of the falling process. When the ratio (friction/normal force) went beyond a coefficient of static friction A μ_0 and an angular θ satisfied with a relation θ_l<θ<COS^<-1>(1/3), the friction force acted to opposite direction so as to counteract a centrifugal force of the falling rigid bar. This inversed frictions being caused by the centrifugal force corresponded to a stress, that stress prevented the dummy from being outthrown. Equations of the falling processes were described by the equations of rotation with using an articulatio ellipsoidea whose solutions were similar to the equations of the rigid pendulum.

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Living assistance equipments are strongly needed not only a machine centered safety but also the concepts of human centered safety. A various structural & functional criteria should be based on the knowledge of anatomical & physiological characteristics. A risk has commonly given by relative and comparative expressions, whose styles are various survival or death ratio. The choice of risk are judged from the weight -ratio of benefit and disbenefit for group members or each person, and the death ratio for the risk is almost reduced to below 10^<-5>〜10^<-6>, and final judgments of accept or rejects for the criteria (level acceptable) depend on consciousness of social members. The ISS3 of TRISS mentions that the injured persons, being in death ratio 0.0035, are estimated as lifelong death ratio 5.8%, an average duration of life 2.7 years and an annual death rate 0.0007, if our life span is about 90 years and an operating time of those equipments reaches 4 hours every day. Those values are much smaller than ratio of automobiles or that of accidental death, and are same levels of the death rate of natural calamity. The TRISS has some defects: one of them is no considered effects of multiple traumas in our same region of our body, and the others are taking no accounts of an effect of aging for seniors. However, an estimation of TRISS becomes similar to that of ASCOT in the case of slight or severe injury, and accompanied with single trauma in the same region.

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