Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (international conference proceedings)  

DOI： https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAIIC57133.2023.10067079

Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)  

Publisher：Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)  

The COVID-19 pandemic, which began in 2020, has changed people’s lives, and people are shopping more online. While the analysis of online shopping is becoming increasingly important, regional differences in consumption trends exist. This study proposes a data-driven regional modeling method based on EC purchase data to examine the regional characteristics of online shopping purchase trends. Using the proposed method, we quantified and visualized the degree of similarity of consumption trends among regions and the degree of dispersion of consumption trends within regions using approximately 300,000 lines of online shopping history for 3 years in Japan. As a result, we found that there was some disruption in the early stages of e-commerce for food products by region, while there was little difference in consumption trends among regions for daily necessities. In addition, for consumer durables and clothing, regional differences in consumption trends were confirmed in terms of the number of cars owned per capita, urbanization status, and other regional characteristics.

DOI： 10.1007/978-3-031-34668-2_26

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Publisher：Communications in Computer and Information Science  

This research proposes a communication system called Mobility Link XR that connects physical space and cyberspace with mobility. Mobility Link XR is a system that enables remote users to view panoramic video from a 360-degree camera attached to a mobility vehicle in different space by wearing a VR device, and mobility users to view the remote user as an avatar by wearing an MR device. In this way, sharing space in three dimensions using XR enables a higher level of human communication. In this paper, we apply Mobility Link XR to an electric wheelchair and design two types of scenarios: an assistance mode that reproduces the positional relationship of communication in a conventional wheelchair, and a passenger mode that reproduces the positional relationship inside a vehicle, which is said to be a suitable distance for conversation. We also evaluated the reproducibility of communication in the wheelchair and the effectiveness of communication using the avatar. The results showed that the reproducibility of voice and emotion was highly evaluated and that the side-by-side positional relationship enabled higher quality communication as the avatar was more easily seen and felt present.

DOI： 10.1007/978-3-031-35992-7_43

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Publisher：Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)  

This study explores the feasibility of dialogue systems with individuality capable of providing continuous and lasting assistance via a multiple device dialogue system. A framework has been devised to manage dialogue history, allowing for the use of a singular identity across various interfaces, including chatbots and virtual avatars. This framework can summarize and save the dialogue history, which can be utilized to generate responses. The impact of dialogue history sharing on users’ interactions with a particular character across various devices was assessed for naturalness, continuity, and reliability. The results indicate that dialogue history sharing can foster more natural and continuous conversations, thereby enhancing the potential for long-term support. This research advances the proposition that a digital agent endowed with a consistent identity across multiple devices can provide personalized and sustained support to users.

DOI： 10.1007/978-3-031-35602-5_25

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Publisher：2023 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events, PerCom Workshops 2023  

Crowd flow forecasting is expected to have a wide range of applications such as human resource allocation, guidance design, marketing, disaster mitigation and congestion prediction for avoiding epidemic such as COVID-19. Crowd flow forecasting is challenging because it requires considering both the task of capturing the temporal dependency of data and capturing the spatial dependence. To address these challenges, in this paper, we propose a mechanism for referencing time-series features that are important for forecasting and incorporating graph convolution into Transformer, and we introduce CrowdFlowTransformer(CF-Transformer), a deep learning model based on Google's Transformer framework captures the Spatio-temporal dependency of time series. CF-Transformer captures the time series dependency by extracting important local time series from the past time series, inputting them to the decoder of Transformer, and encoding critical features into the model's input. We adapted CF-Transformer to a real-world crowd flow dataset. We evaluated it by comparing its forecasting accuracy with conventional models, and the results demonstrate that our model outperforms the conventional models.

DOI： 10.1109/PerComWorkshops56833.2023.10150301

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Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (international conference proceedings)   Publisher：ACM International Conference Proceeding Series  

With the introduction of the IoT, communication is becoming more diverse. While IoT is becoming more and more widespread, there are some forms of human communication are being lost. The development of self-propelled robots has progressed, and electric and automated wheelchairs are also being utilized. A caregiver was originally required to operate a wheelchair. However, with the advent of IoT wheelchairs, wheelchairs can be operated by wheelchair users only, increasing convenience. On the other hand, wheelchairs have been used as a kind of communication between caregivers and wheelchair users, and the development of IoT wheelchairs has reduced the opportunities for communication between caregivers and wheelchair users. In this paper, we propose a method to reproduce communication scenarios in the following two scenarios using an IoT wheelchair and present the design and implementation of the prototype created.

DOI： 10.1145/3567445.3571111

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Publisher：UbiComp/ISWC 2022 Adjunct - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2022 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers  

The recognition of complex and subtle human behaviors from wearable sensors will enable next-generation human-oriented computing in scenarios of high societal value (e.g., dementia care). This will require large-scale human activity corpus and much improved methods to recognize activities and the context in which they occur. This workshop deals with the challenges of designing reproducible experimental setups, running large-scale dataset collection campaigns, designing activity and context recognition methods that are robust and adaptive, and evaluating systems in the real world. We wish to reflect on future methods, such as lifelong learning approaches that allow open-ended activity recognition.

DOI： 10.1145/3544793.3560377

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Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (international conference proceedings)   Publisher：Proceedings - SIGGRAPH 2022 Posters  

We introduce MetaPo, a mobile robot with spheric display, 360° media I/O and robotic hands for creating a unified model of interspace communication. MetaPo works as a portal between pairs of physical-physical, cyber-cyber and cyber-physical spaces to provide 1) panoramic communication for multiple remote users, and 2) immersive interspace migration with mobility functionality. The paper overviews our concept and first prototype of MetaPo with its hardware and software implementation.

DOI： 10.1145/3532719.3543255

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Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)  

DOI： https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05463-1_21

Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (conference, symposium, etc.)  

Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (conference, symposium, etc.)   Publisher：The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence  

DOI： 10.11517/jsaikbs.125.0_03

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Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (international conference proceedings)   Publisher：Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST  

Recently, there has been an increasing demand for traffic simulation and congestion prediction for urban planning, especially for infection simulation due to the Covid-19 epidemic. On the other hand, the widespread use of wearable devices has made it possible to collect a large amount of user location history with high accuracy, and it is expected that this data will be used for simulation. However, it is difficult to collect location histories for the entire population of a city, and detailed data that can reproduce trajectories is expensive. In addition, such personal location histories contain private information such as addresses and workplaces, which restricts the use of raw data. This paper proposes Agent2Vec, a mobility modeling model based on unsupervised learning. Using this method, we generate synthetic human flow data without personal information.

DOI： 10.1007/978-3-030-94822-1_36

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Publisher：Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)  

Workloads in logistics warehouses have been increasing to meet growing demand, and a labor shortage has become a problem. Utilizing information of laborer locations leads to an increase in productivity. We propose an integrated positioning method using solar-powered Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons. They are easy to install and maintenance-free since they can work without power sources. However, their advertisement interval depends on illuminance and is unstable. Moreover, there are many obstructions in warehouses, such as shelves and products, which cause signal attenuation, interference, and packet losses. We apply particle filters, map matching, and speed prediction with a neural network model to improve robustness and accuracy. We installed 94 beacons in a logistics warehouse. We evaluated the accuracy and found that our method is more accurate than a baseline method.

DOI： 10.1007/978-3-031-05463-1_21

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Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (conference, symposium, etc.)  

Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (international conference proceedings)  

DOI： 10.23919/ICMU50196.2021.9638853

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Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (international conference proceedings)  

DOI： 10.23919/ICMU50196.2021.9638789

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Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (international conference proceedings)  

Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (international conference proceedings)   Publisher：UbiComp/ISWC 2021 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers  

The recognition of complex and subtle human behaviors from wearable sensors will enable next-generation human-oriented computing in scenarios of high societal value (e.g., dementia care). This will require large-scale human activity corpus and much improved methods to recognize activities and the context in which they occur. This workshop deals with the challenges of designing reproducible experimental setups, running large-scale dataset collection campaigns, designing activity and context recognition methods that are robust and adaptive, and evaluating systems in the real world. We wish to reflect on future methods, such as lifelong learning approaches that allow open-ended activity recognition. This year HASCA will welcome papers from participants to the Fourth Sussex-Huawei Locomotion and Transportation Recognition Challenge and the Third Nursing Activity Recognition Challenge in special sessions.

DOI： 10.1145/3460418.3479266

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Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (conference, symposium, etc.)  

Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (conference, symposium, etc.)  

Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (conference, symposium, etc.)  

Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (conference, symposium, etc.)  

Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (conference, symposium, etc.)  

Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (conference, symposium, etc.)  

Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (conference, symposium, etc.)  

Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (conference, symposium, etc.)  

Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (conference, symposium, etc.)  

Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：IEEE Sensors Journal  

Every year, for ten years now, the IPIN competition has aimed at evaluating real-world indoor localisation systems by testing them in a realistic environment, with realistic movement, using the EvAAL framework. The competition provided a unique overview of the state-of-the-art of systems, technologies, and methods for indoor positioning and navigation purposes. Through fair comparison of the performance achieved by each system, the competition was able to identify the most promising approaches and to pinpoint the most critical working conditions. In 2020, the competition included 5 diverse off-site off-site Tracks, each resembling real use cases and challenges for indoor positioning. The results in terms of participation and accuracy of the proposed systems have been encouraging. The best performing competitors obtained a third quartile of error of 1m for the Smartphone Track and 0.5m for the Footmounted IMU Track. While not running on physical systems, but only as algorithms, these results represent impressive achievements.

DOI： 10.1109/JSEN.2021.3083149

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Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：一般社団法人 情報処理学会  

本研究では社交ダンスを対象とし，加速度・角速度，視覚のマルチモーダルセンサを用いたダンスフィガー分類手法を提案する．社交ダンスにおける基本技術であるフィガーは，その種類の多さや複雑さゆえ初心者や中級者にとって練習が困難である．フィガーの自動認識によりユーザは自身の踊りの客観的な把握が可能となるため，ダンスフィガーの学習支援が可能となると考えられる．一方で，社交ダンスは2人1組で多彩な動きを行うため，既存の行動認識手法をそのまま適用することは難しい．本稿では，社交ダンスの動作特性を考慮し，フィガーの複雑さや遮蔽などの課題を解決したダンスフィガー認識手法を実現した．本研究では一般的な行動認識手法をベースライン手法として実装したうえで，社交ダンスの姿勢や動作特性を考慮した特徴量を設計・利用した手法を提案・実現し，両者の評価を行った．結果，提案手法の認識精度はF値0.97となり，ベースライン手法を全体で0.06上回った．特にフィガー別の分類精度では，最大で0.6の精度向上を達成した．さらに提案手法が遮蔽物に対しても頑健さを有することを示した．

計算機科学の基礎数学として，離散数学の基礎概念・基礎知識を学び，演習を通じて身につけることを目的とする．

集合論，整数論，代数系の基礎的な定義を理解し，種々の問題を解くことができる．

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実験を通して、課題探求と問題解決の過程を体験し、そのテーマに関する確かな知識を獲得するとともに、計画力、応用力、チームワーク能力が養成されることを目的とする。

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