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Abstract Our goal is to facilitate real-time serial cooperative work. In real-time serial cooperative work, the order of subtasks is important because a failure of the order leads to a failure of the whole task. So, coordinating the order of workers’ subtasks is necessary to smoothly accomplish the tasks. In this paper, we propose a method that uses vibration to present the action order and coordinate the orders. We conducted a user study to verify the effectiveness of the method…

Takeshi Kamita, Tatsuya Ito, Atsuko Matsumoto, Tsunetsugu Munakata, Tomoo Inoue, A chatbot system for mental healthcare based on SAT counseling method, Mobile Information Systems, Vol.2019, Article 9517321, 11 pages, Hindawi, 2019.3 Takeshi Kamita, Tatsuya Ito, Atsuko Matsumoto, Tsunetsugu Munakata, Tomoo Inoue, A chatbot system for mental healthcare based on SAT counseling method, Mobile Information Systems, Vol.2019, Article 9517321, 11p., https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/9517321, Hindawi, 2019.3. Kosuke Sasaki, Tomoo Inoue, Coordinating real-time serial cooperative work by cuing the order in the case of theatrical…

Invited talk “Sharing roles between human and computer: collaborative work in the physical world” was given at the International Workshop on Human-Engaged Computing 2019.

Interaction Lab’s director, Professor Tomoo Inoue presented works titled “Speech Speed Awareness System slows down native speaker’s” at CollabTech 2019. His paper is becoming part of Springer’s LNCS 11677 book.

Held in Shibaura Institute of Technology in Toyosu, Tokyo at 12/1/2019, Interaction Lab. of Tsukuba University’s researches were presented and discussed with other professors and students from another university in Joint Seminar 2019

“Vibration Cues for Action Orders Improve Efficiency of Theatrical Performance Practice ” was presented at CSCW meeting Interactive Posters and Demos Reception session held in New York.

“A cuing system to support real-time sequential collaborative tasks” was presented at HCS meeting held in Tsukuba.

Abstract: In theatrical performance practices, actors are stressed once practice stops due to occurring mistakes. Our goal is to reduce the number of mistakes occurring in the theatrical performance practice by cuing the action order. We introduce a cuing system which uses tactile cues through vibrations and notifies actors of the turn of actions. We also reported the user study of the system. The results of the study suggested that the task-order coordination by the cuing system may be used…

Tokyo Newspapers, Morning edition page 4, 2018.10.22. (in Japanese)

Nippon no Syokutaku Part4 2018.10.11. https://mainichi.jp/articles/20181011/ddm/013/100/027000c (in Japanese)