Hiromitsu Inoue

Urgent mobile tool for hearing impaired, language dysfunction and foreigners at emergency situation

This paper introduces a mobile application that allows deaf, language dysfunctioned, or non-native language users to report emergencies. An earlier version (booklet) was designed for hearing impaired person to be able to communicate with others without speaking. The current smart phone application allows calls to be made from a remote location. The screen transitions application follows the dialogue models used by emergency services. Users interact with the dialogues by tapping on icons or pictograms instead of using text messages. Evaluation by deaf people and a non-native speaker found that it was about three times quicker to report an emergency using this tool than it was by using text messages.

Context analysis of universal communication through local sign languages applying multivariate analysis

This paper discusses universal communication with ICONs or pictograms in the field of assistive technology (AT) with human centred design (HCD) and context analysis by Persona model. Typical two personas are created as a deaf person in an emergency and a travelling woman from Hongkong. Then scenarios like diary are written and about 40 words are selected as minimum communication words in the dialogue. Several local sign languages of related selected words are referred in order to investigate universal signs. For this purpose a sensory evaluation method with multivariate analysis is applied. The outcome is plotted on one plane with relationships of subjects and samples of several local sign languages. Through proposed method by sensory evaluation, the relationship between fundamental words and local sign languages are initially explained.

Sensory Evaluation Method with Multivariate Analysis for Pictograms on Smartphone

New technologies have the potential to be used by anyone irrespective of age, gender, location, nationality, disability or time considerations. The session topic of well-being is close in meaning to User Experience (UX) which is considered a broader category under which usability and accessibility fall and is concerned with human perceptions and responses related to system attractive and comfortable use. To measure one quality of well-being, this paper discusses an original method: the Sensory Evaluation method. This method is demonstrated using multivariate analysis with the example of creating pictograms/icons of daily used signs from seven national sign languages on a smartphone. A usability evaluation test on its effectiveness and efficiency revealed that communication speed by tapping pictograms/icons on the smartphone was about five times more efficient than text message .

Emergent Application on Smart Phone for Deaf, Language Dysfunction and Foreigners: - Communication method to perform swift rescue report by refined icons with GPS technology.

This paper discusses the efficiency of the Emergent Application on Smart Phones (EASP). In an initial survey, hearing impaired people are asked to explain their difficulties in an emergency situation. With this survey as background, an application with five steps is implemented on Smart Phone touch panels using outcome icons and pictograms to communicate to a call centre in the fire brigade. The evaluation results with EASP application by deaf people found that it was about five times quicker to report an emergency using this tool, than it by using text message input.

Urgent communication method for deaf, language dysfunction and foreigners

This paper discusses a communication method with smart phones for deaf or language dysfunction people as well as foreigners at the urgent time of sudden sickness or fire in order to report to the nearest fire station. Such method is originally proposed by a hearing impaired person. Their appearances are the same in the daily life. However at the unexpected situation, they will be suddenly in trouble at such the occasion of disasters or accidents. The previous research, which was introduced at ICCHP 2010, proposed a method to create pictograms or icons referring to multiplex local sign languages with Multivariate Analysis (MVA). Those outcomes are drawn on a booklet to be held a dialogue between deaf and hearing people. This time they are implemented on a smart phone. Normally the usability is measured by the effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction. Then this time the outcome is measured by the efficiency, that how quickly to report the fire station nearby. The evaluation gathering deaf people and a foreigner found that this method is about three times quicker to do the first report to the station comparing with text messaging on a smart phone.

Service science method to create pictograms referring to sign languages

This paper discusses a method to create pictograms referring to several local sign languages with applying the concept of Service Science with Multivariate Analysis (MVA). Since pictograms are universal communication tools, human centred design (HCD) and context analysis by Persona model are applied. The experiments consist of two steps. Through the proposed method, the relationship between selected words and local sign languages are initially explained by sensory evaluation of the subjects. Under the cycle of HCD, the pictogram designer will perform to summarize the expression of several local sign languages by this method. The acquisition of user experience is to include it as a design guideline for context of emergency and traveling situations. Considering the results of the second experienced phase to prove the outcome design, the proposed method is one of the guidelines to create pictograms referring to several sign languages.

Sensory Evaluation Method for Determining Portable Information Terminal Requirements for Medical Doctors in Hospital Applications

Considering the 14th Triennial Congress of the IEA theme: “Ergonomics for the New Millennium”, we explore the emergence of powerful microprocessors with the potential to be used anyone regardless of age, gender, location, nationality, or time considerations. This paper explores sensory evaluation methods using an experimental Portable Information Terminal (PIT) platform to meet the requirements of medical doctors in hospitals. We use various aspects of multimedia access to evaluate user need to employ the PIT.