Preliminary Study on Nonintrusive Measurement of ECG and Respiration while Sitting on a Chair for Human States Estimation

Mieko Ohsuga,Hidenori Boutani 대한인간공학회 2014 대한인간공학회 학술대회논문집 Vol.2014 No.5

The adaptive control of robot’s behaviors depending on human states is important to an affective human-robot interaction. We are trying to detect a decrease in concentration of human who is working or doing something not to make an alarm but to capture opportunity to interrupt without giving nuisance. We conducted an experiment with tasks simulating computer work and confirmed that the measures derived from ECG and respiration change significantly by the degraded concentration. In the present study, we introduced the non-intrusive measurement and conducted similar experiments. For ECG we used the capacity coupled electrodes instead of the electrodes attached on the skin. Chips of conductive tape were attached on the back of the seating face of the chair. The pair of them was used as the electrodes for the differential input of the amplifier. The earth electrode was placed on the seat. Respiration was measured detecting the variations of back pressure by pressure sensors attached to the air bags on the back of chair. Five healthy adults who gave written informed consent participated in the experiment. As a result, respiration was measured successfully for most of the time during computer work for three of five participants. ECG measurement was failed during most periods for one participant who moved or changed postures frequently. R-waves were found during 60-90% period for others. The frequency of body movements or changes of postures caused the differences in the performance of measurement.

Preliminary Study on Nonintrusive Measurement of ECG and Respiration while Sitting on a Chair for Human States Estimation

( Mieko Ohsuga ),( Hidenori Boutani ) 한국감성과학회 2014 춘계학술대회 Vol.2014 No.-

The adaptive control of robot`s behaviors depending on human states is important to an affective human-robot interaction. We are trying to detect a decrease in concentration of human who is working or doing something not to make an alarm but to capture opportunity to interrupt without giving nuisance. We conducted an experiment with tasks simulating computer work and confirmed that the measures derived from ECG and respiration change significantly by the degraded concentration. In the present study, we introduced the non-intrusive measurement and conducted similar experiments. For ECG we used the capacity coupled electrodes instead of the electrodes attached on the skin. Chips of conductive tape were attached on the back of the seating face of the chair. The pair of them was used as the electrodes for the differential input of the amplifier. The earth electrode was placed on the seat. Respiration was measured detecting the variations of back pressure by pressure sensors attached to the air bags on the back of chair. Five healthy adults who gave written informed consent participated in the experiment.

Conditions and difficulties faced by mid-career nurse approval of the behaviors of colleagues

Mieko Ishizu,Hiroe Yonezawa 한국간호과학회 2019 한국간호과학회 학술대회 Vol.2019 No.10

Interfacing Neurons Derived From Central Nervous Tissues To Silicon-Based Substrates

Mieko Matsuzawa,Andreas Offenhausser,Christoph Sprossler,Wolfgang Knoll 한국고분자학회 1997 한국고분자학회 학술대회 연구논문 초록집 Vol.1997 No.4

Current Systems of National and Regional Nutrition Surveys and Future Direction

Nakamura, Mieko,Yoshiike, Nobuo The Korean Society of Community Nutrition 2003 Journal of community nutrition Vol.5 No.2

The National Nutrition Survey in Japan (NNS-J) started in 1945 and has provided information on dietary intake and health status of Japanese citizens to the public and policymakers for more than half a century. We summarized several relevant issues on the survey in this report : the current framework of the NNS-J in accordance with the Nutrition Improvement Law, utilization of the survey for nutrition and health policy in Japan, the Health Promotion Law recently enacted in 2003, the national plan for health promotion and disease prevention (Health Japan 21), and possible measures to improve the survey systems under the new law. We also mentioned implementation structures of regional health and nutrition surveys, because the Health Promotion Law designates an active role of local governments on promoting health for their citizens, which will enhance the needs for appropriate assessment of health and nutrition conditions in each community as well as the monitoring at the national level. (J Community Nutrition 5(2) : 59-64,2003)

多和田葉子「犬婿入り」論 ―ジェンダー的規範の解体を中心に―

松崎美?子(Mieko, MATSUZAKI) 한국일본문화학회 2020 日本文化學報 Vol.0 No.84

This paper discusses the heterogeneity illustrated in “The Bridegroom Was a Dog(Inumukoiri)”(1992)by Yoko Tawada, by connecting with her viewpoint on cotemporary Japanese society. It is pointed out that the central characters, Mitsuko and Taro are described as being liberated from gender norms and it is also confirmed that such liberation will break down the marriage and family system. Moreover, the social taboo of sexual minorities like Mitsuko and Taro is rezealed. Focusing on the fact that the people living in Tama area which developed during the high economic growth period of Japan, were considered to be typical examples or norms, the author of this novel expresses her discomfort with such a society by describing people who are not bound by such norms. The heterogeneity in this novel discussed in preceding studies may be considered to have been established by the non-conscious norms of its readers.

大江健三郎「核時代の森の隱遁者」論 -「贖罪羊」と「自由」を通してみる沖繩の姿を中心に-

松崎美惠子 ( Matsuzaki Mieko ) 한국일본근대학회 2018 일본근대학연구 Vol.0 No.61

本稿では、大江健三郎の「核時代の森の隱遁者」(1968)をテクストが發表された1968年を中心とした時代背景と照らし合わせ分析を行った。「贖罪羊」と「自由」というキ一ワ一ドに注目し考察を行なうことでこの作品が核問題について言及されているだけでなく、明治から現代にいたるまでの沖繩に向けられた作者の視線と本土の日本人への批判が描かれていることを明らかにした。大江は「贖罪羊」と「自由」という言葉を用い、明治以來、多くの犧牲を强いられてきた沖繩の姿をあらわすと同時に、そのような苦難の狀況の中においてもアイデンティティ一を回復する「自由」を意識し續けた人々の强さを描き出した。「核時代の森の隱遁者」では沖繩返還を前に、沖繩の强いられてきた犧牲的な歷史と沖繩の抱える米軍基地と核問題、つまり國家權力によって犧牲を强いられる人々の姿を顯在化しようとしたのである。 This paper is analysis of Oe Kenzaburo’s “Eremite of the forest in the atomic age” published in 1968, focused historical background around 1968. It was proved that the text does not tell us about nuclear but also drew Oe’s eyes to stare at Okinawa from Meiji to the present age, and his criticism to Japanese of the mainland. By using the wards, ‘expiation sheep’ and ‘freedom’, Oe expressed that Okinawa had been forced to much sacrifice since Meiji, and even in the thorny situation, Okinawa people had continued being conscious of “freedom” to restore identity. “Eremite of the forest in the atomic age” advocated the need to be thought about the sacrificial history of Okinawa, US bases and the nuclear issue in Okinawa by all Japanese, before the reversion of Okinawa to Japan.

大江健三郎「アトミック·エイジの守護神」論

松崎美?子(Matsuzaki, Mieko) 대한일어일문학회 2016 일어일문학 Vol.69 No.-

Published in 1964, “The Guardian of the Atomic Age” was Kenzaburō Ōe"s first book addressing the victims of the atomic air raid in Hiroshima. This thesis deals with not only the issue related to the ways to compensate the victims of the atomic air raid, but also Ōe"s viewpoints on the victims by closely examining each character appearing in “The Guardian of the Atomic Age”. “The Guardian of the Atomic Age” features a middle-aged man who adopts boys who have lost their parents during the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and has them insured for life. However, ironically, he is later insured by the boys who find out that he has stomach cancer. It may appear that the fact that a ‘middle-aged man’ who visits Hiroshima for the good cause of taking responsibility for atomic bombing victims as an individual turns into having orphan boys insured for life makes him look hypocritical. However, it is also possible to realize that the ‘middle-aged man’ lives life in order to atone for his wrongdoing through his experience as a war correspondent and a self-giving life after the war. In addition, the boys who overturn the commonly regarded images of atomic bombing victims and the ‘journalist’ are another type of atomic bombing victims who try to overcome the realty laid ahead of them with their own morals. Through them, the novel symbolically portrays the people who strive to free themselves from the horrors of war after the war has ended in ways that can not be explained with humanism and morals. “The Guardian of the Atomic Age” is not trying to depict the victims of the atomic air raid as a whole, but rather reveals the images of people living life to self-salvation after the war through Ōe"s eyes toward individual victims with experience of being exposed to radiation. And at the same time, his work can also be viewed as a novel criticizing the journalism back then which became part of the entertainment industry, ignoring the existence and reality of those victims.

大江健三郎「父よ、あなたはどこへ行くのか?」論

松崎美?子(Matsuzaki Mieko) 대한일어일문학회 2018 일어일문학 Vol.79 No.-

Ōe Kenzaburō’s “Father, Where will you go?” published in October, 1968 is the story that a main character ‘I’ restores his father. By consideration to 3 father-son relationships, It was found out that the text is showing the contents of emperor criticism. Ōe tried to project the critical eyes to an Imperial system onto a work and figure emperor"s image from the multilateral angle as my father and son. The restoration work of ‘my father’ was Ōe’s try to inspect importance of existence of the emperor who has ruled inside himself, and it was necessary that an imagination is used as its means and it`s made identical. It was pointed out that ‘gap’ is an appearance of uneasiness and incomprehensibility to the emperor that Ōe feeled, and also e estrangement of Oe`s sense to an Imperial system and Japanese society’sense in those days.It is finded out that Ōe expects the continuation of discord to an Imperial system, As far as an Imperial system is continued, it will be made clear by the ending that ‘I’ begin to write a biography of ‘Father’ again.

大江健三郎「生け贄男は必要か」論

松崎美?子(Matsuzaki, Mieko) 대한일어일문학회 2017 일어일문학 Vol.73 No.-

Ōe Kenzaburō published “Is a sacrificial male human necessary?” in 1968 when the Vietnamese War was worsening. The book was created with a motif of cannibalism, overlapping two historic events: the Vietnamese War and the Korean War. This paper took a deeper look into Zen, the main character of the book, and focused on the cannibalistic elements including the introduction of Lu Xun’s ‘A madman’s diary’ to extend Ōe’s understanding of the Vietnamese War beyond warfare and rehabilitation. Being a humanist on the one hand and a violent man on the other, Zen speaks and acts on the basis of his good will. In other words, his good will was expressed through rabid behaviors at times. The description of his brutality based on his good will can be understood as the description of the United States that intervened in the Vietnamese War with its unilateral good will to stop the communization of the region. The ‘young man’, a blinded follower of Zen, can be perceived as a symbol of Japan that joined the war following the United States at the time. Lu Xun’s ‘A madman’s diary’ is highlighted in the book to depict Zen as a person who actively participates in the war with ‘conscious parallelism’, while symbolizing the other non-active characters around him as the onlooker attitude of Japan. This implies that the double-sidedness of Zen, where nothing seems right nor wrong, can be viewed as the ‘ambiguity’ of the good will. The lunatic behaviors of the ‘war veteran’ and the ‘boy’ were not derived from their ill will but from their background as the war victims and their struggling to protect their own lives. Through this enunciation, their ‘innocence’ becomes clarified, and their atrocity can be considered the madness of the ‘innocent’, which also applies to the Japanese society described in Ōe’s work. Japan, which joined the war without any malice, is this ‘innocent agent’ despite its indifference in the appalling war and the spectator’s attitude it maintained while enjoyin the economic benefits from the increasing demands. This suggests that Ōe paid attention to the ambiguity of the good will reflected in the Vietnamese War and the prevailing madness of the ‘innocent’ Japanese people. By overlapping the Korean War and the Vietnamese War, Ōe described the system of the repeated warfares and rehabilitations as well as the Japanese society that could not give up on becoming part of the system. Through Zen’s quote, “Save the children!”, Ōe tells the readers whether the cycle of the innocent madness that was prevalent in the Japanese society can be stoped.