Special Session: "The Intellectual Human Support Technologies and its Application"
In order to develop the next-generation Intellectual Human Support System for human health promotion and
restoration, it is necessary to combine appropriately, various Information and Communication Technologies. These
technologies include language processing, speech recognition, image processing technologies, information
technology and biological information processing. An example of Information Communication Technologies is
Artificial Intelligence (AI) system used for supporting persons with disabilities. With this technology, it is critical to
take into consideration how to devise communication with humans and AI system. The most important thing that in
order to apply engineering technology in a clinical setting is the products cannot be used if we do not provide the
appropriate responses to meet the user's demand. This session aims to share the experiences in the development of
clinical and recipient/user needs among researchers. Therefore, we invite you to submit papers relevant to the
following topics:
・ Patient Outcome Management using IT and/or AI
・ Emotion Data Processing
・ Speech and Language Recognition
・ Data Processing for Human Caring
・ Data Processing for Rehabilitation
Authors are requested to submit an extended abstract of no more than two A4 pages in PDF, MS-Word or LaTeX
format to Tetsuya Tanioka RN; PhD by 22nd May, 2006. We will select the best papers suitable for this special
session according to our selection criteria and usual process. Please send your paper using the required format to the
following e-mail addresses.
tanioka@medsci.tokushima-u.ac.jp
Session Chairs
Tetsuya Tanioka RN; PhD
Associate professor, Dept. of Community and
Psychiatric Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences,
The University of Tokushima
3-18-15, Kuramoto-cho, Tokushima, Japan
Tel & Fax: +81-88-633-9021
E-mail: tanioka@medsci.tokushima-u.ac.jp
locsin@fau.edu
Rozzano C. Locsin, RN; PhD
Professor, Florida Atlantic University
Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing
777 Glades Road
Boca Raton, FL 33431-0991
Tel: 561-297-2875; FAX: 561-297-3652
e-mail: locsin@fau.edu
Paper list
#1 Development of a walking support machine
Naoki FUJII1)，Yoshihiro KAI2), Koichi KOGANEZAWA2)，5amkm059@keyaki.cc.u-tokai.ac.jp
1) Graduate School of Engineering, Tokai Univ. 1117, Kitakaname, Hiratsuka,
Kanagawa, 259-1292, Japan.
2) Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Tokai Univ. Japan
#2 Development of a six-axis force sensor system to measure the ground reaction forces of human by
using flexible tactile sensors
Yoshihiro KAI1), Masaki MARUYAMA2), Kazuyoshi TSUCHIYA 3),Yasuhisa HATTORI1) and Nobuhiro
TSUDA3)
kai@keyaki.cc.u-tokai.ac.jp
1) Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Tokai Univ.1117, Kitakaname, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa, 259-1292, Japan.
2) Graduate School of Engineering, Tokai Univ. Japan
3) Dept. of Precision Engineering, Tokai Univ. Japan
#3 Characteristic of stress of elderly dementia in facilities
Mitsuko Omori1), Chiharu Oura1), Haruo Kobayashi2), Misako Noto3), Tetsuya Tanioka4), Toshiko Tada4),
Yoshihiro Kai5), and Kazuyoshi Tsuchiya6)
mituko@kms.ac.jp
hkobaya@mw.kawasaki-m.ac.jp
1) School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University.
2) Department of Medical Social Worker, Faculty of Medical Welfare, Kawasaki University. Japan
3) Department of Social Welfare, Faculty of Literature, Kurume University. Japan
4) Department of Community and Psychiatric Nursing, School of Health Science, Tokushima University. Japan
5) Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tokai University. Japan
6) Department of Precision Engineering, Tokai University. Japan
#4 Functions required for walking supporting devices to improve the level of elderly people’s quality of
life in Japan
Toshiko Tada; Ph.D. 1), Yasuko Matsushita; MS 1), Tetsuya Tanioka; Ph.D. 1), Ruriko Yamashita; MS1) Sumiko
Yamamoto; MS2), Sachiko Okamoto; MS3), Sachiko Hara; MS4), Chiemi Kawanishi Ph.D.5), Shu-ichi Ueno;
Ph.D. 1) Haruo Kobayashi 6)
tada@medsci.tokushima-u.ac.jp
1) Department of Community and Psychiatric Nursing, School of Health Sciences, The University of
Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan
2) Department of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan
3) Department of Nursing, School of Health and Social Services, Saitama Prefectural University, Saitama,
Japan
4) Department of Community Nursing, School of Nursing, Shimane University, Shimane, Japan
5) Department of Fundamental Nursing, the University of Tokushima, Japan
6) Department of Medical Welfare, Faculty of Medical Welfare, Kawasaki University of Medical Welfare,
Okayama, Japan
#5 Consideration of the measuring method for empathic understanding as technological competency of
nursing
Chiemi Kawanishi1) Tetuya Tanioka2) Toshiko tada2) Fuji Ren3) 5) Kyoko Osaka3)
Shunji Mituyoshi3) Rozzano C Locsin 4) Ruriko Yamashita2) Shu-ichi Ueno2)
Kazuyuki Matumoto3)
ckawa@medsci.tokushima-u.ac.jp
1）Department of Fundamental Nursing, the University of Tokushima, Japan
2）Department of Community and Psychiatric Nursing, School of Health Sciences, the University of
Tokushima, Japan
3）Department of Information Science and Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Engineering , the University of
Tokushima, Japan
4）Florida Atlantic University Christine E. Lynn Collage of Nursing Boca Raton, FL, USA
5）School of Information Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
#6 Development of the psychiatric patient outcome management and variances analysis system using
artificial intelligence
Kazuyuki Matsumoto1), Tetsuya Tanioka2), Fuji Ren1), Yoichiro Takasaka3), Takuya Matsuda3), Toshiko Tada2),
Chiemi Kawanishi4), Syu-ichi Ueno2),
matumoto@is.tokushima-u.ac.jp
1) Department of Information Science and Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Engineering , the University of
Tokushima, Japan
2) Department of Community and Psychiatric Nursing, School of Health Sciences, the University of
Tokushima, Japan
3) Hosogi Unity Hospital, Japan
4) Department of Fundamental Nursing , the University of Tokushima, Japan