Curriculum Vitaes
Profile Information
- Affiliation
- Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Information and Communication Sciences, Sophia University
- Degree
- Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering(Mar, 1999, The University of Tokyo)
- Other name(s) (e.g. nickname)
- Ikuko Eguchi Yairi
- Researcher number
- 10358880
- ORCID ID
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7522-0663- J-GLOBAL ID
- 200901082419968115
- researchmap Member ID
- 6000011105
- External link
Research Field: Informatics, Media and Communication Science and Technology
Main theme:
Applied research:(1)Barrier-free ubiquitous mobility support system, (2)Geographic information system for disabled pedestrian navigation, (3)Universal-designed interactive map contents and interface, and so on.
Basic research: (1)Spatial and graphic information representation method with sound and touch without vision, (2)Interactive interface design for the aged, the disabled and children, (3)Community support for offering spatial information, and so on.
(Subject of research)
Clinical research on technical acceptance and human-centered design of socially vulnerable people such as the elderly and the impaired
Major Research Areas
3Research History
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Apr, 2016 - Mar, 2018
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Apr, 2008 - Mar, 2009
Education
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Apr, 1996 - Mar, 1999
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Apr, 1994 - Mar, 1996
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Apr, 1992 - Mar, 1994
Committee Memberships
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Dec, 2023 - Present
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Sep, 2023 - Present
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May, 2023 - Present
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Apr, 2019 - Present
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Apr, 2015 - Present
Awards
11Papers
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IEICE Communications Express, 15(7) 255-258, Jul, 2026 Peer-reviewedLast authorCorresponding author
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IEEE Access, 2026 Peer-reviewedLast authorCorresponding author
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Proceedings of the Annual Conference of JSAI, JSAI2025 4K2IS2e01-4K2IS2e01, Jun, 2025 Peer-reviewedLast authorCorresponding authorThe design ICT systems that can provide application services that quickly and flexibly integrate network and software is currently the key method in DX based on ICT. Non-etheless, the problem of the huge amount of time required for the automatic design of ICT systems has been paid more and more attention. Considering the rapidly changing demand for ICT systems in various industries, the need to build and monitor systems frequently, and the difficulty in securing engineers due to the declining birthrate and aging population, the huge design time problem cannot be ignored, especially if AI is expected to reduce design time. To this end, we study the problem of reducing the design time of ICT systems with deep reinforcement learning algorithms , Weaver. First of all, we set the graph neural network as the learning model, so that deep reinforcement learning algorithm is used to solve this problem. Secondly, we have designed an algorithm that combines the representative reinforcement learning algorithm Double DQN and Noisy Network. Then, we attempted to shorten the design time by changing the normal distribution to a truncated normal distribution at the optimal value among them. Finally, sufficient trials are conducted to verify our proposed method. The results show that, the proposed method reduces the learning time required to complete learning of the design.
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Proceedings of the Annual Conference of JSAI, JSAI2025 4K1IS2d02-4K1IS2d02, Jun, 2025 Peer-reviewedCorresponding authorIn pursuing an intelligent society, the deployment of Beyond 5G/6G is anticipated. A crucial aspect of realizing this vision lies in establishing a robust non-terrestrial network encompassing satellite-based communication systems. However, space-based communication faces challenges from atmospheric disturbances. For instance, Ka-band, a crucial frequency range for satellite communication, is attenuated by rain. Similarly, optical satellite communication links are disrupted by clouds. To ensure reliable and high-quality communication, it is imperative to accurately predict the impact of weather on signal propagation, enabling the selection of ground stations and modulation methods. This research focuses on developing a predictive model for radio wave attenuation during space-to-ground communication, leveraging data from meteorological satellites. The model's core is a deep learning architecture that integrates CNNs, renowned for their proficiency in image feature extraction. The rain attenuation prediction with this model achieved a high coefficient of determination. In addition, to improve the prediction accuracy, we analyzed the complex relationship between the radio wave reception strength and Himawari standard data, a comprehensive dataset acquired from the Himawari meteorological satellite.
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Proceedings of the Annual Conference of JSAI, JSAI2025 4K1IS2d03-4K1IS2d03, Jun, 2025 Peer-reviewedCorresponding authorObjective sleep deprivation detection can enhance workplace safety and productivity in professions that require long working hours. To address this, we proposed deep learning models for classifying sleep-deprived individuals using EEG data. In this study, we utilized resting-state EEG data collected from both sleep-deprived and well-rested participants and generated five datasets (EyesClosed, EyesOpen-Raw, EyesOpen-AR, EyesClosed+EyesOpen-Raw, and EyesClosed+EyesOpen-AR), then applied them to 1D CNN and 1D CNN-LSTM models. Both models achieved their peak performance with EyesOpen-AR, which slightly outperformed EyesOpen-Raw, while demonstrating comparable performance across all datasets. Applying feature extraction using differential entropy within delta, theta, alpha, and beta bands to the five datasets resulted in decreased performance. The results suggest that artifact-removal from EyesOpen-Raw is not essential for sleep deprivation detection using deep learning models. Additionally, they suggest that 1D CNN may be a more suitable choice for sleep deprivation detection, and non-feature-extracted data is more suitable than feature-extracted data.
Misc.
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The Transportation and Logistics Conference, 2007(16) 345-348, Dec 12, 2007A method of automatically and accurately detecting regions of sidewalks and recognizing their attributes is useful for assisting pedestrians. There are several types of sidewalk borders: steps, white lines, guardrails, walls, plants, and ditches, for example. However we can assume that the structure of an environment along some direction is uniform for several meters regardless of the components of the environment. Therefore, we present a method to detect the direction and extract borders of sidewalks by using this assumption. We mount stereo vision camera on low-speed electric buggy and generate gray scale images and disparity images. In this paper we show an algorithm to detect candidates of a borderline from these images by using affine transformation and active contour models.
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The Transportation and Logistics Conference, 2007(16) 365-368, Dec 12, 2007Recently, there has been an increase of research into the ubiquitous system for human mobility support which used RFID, infrared and FM data communication. IT Barrier-free Project is the one known research example which was done by NEDO, and performed demonstration experiments of guide support for visually impaired people in EXPO 2005 Aichi, Japan. This paper analyses the video data and questionnaire survey of the experiments of 95 examinees in EXPO, and presumes the cause that about 30 percent of examinees strayed from the guided course and did not reach goal points. We also report an additional experiment for 16 visually impaired people and its result of analysis to propose the grouping of visually impaired people from walking ability and the suitable guide method.
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First International Symposium on Universal Communication,Kyoto, 1-4, Jun, 2007 Invited
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Journal of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 22(2) 208-208, Mar, 2007 Invited
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IPSJ journal, 48(2) 770-779, Feb 15, 2007Robotic Communication Terminals (RCT) which has been proposed by us since 1999 is a ubiquitous system for improving human mobility by making environment virtually barrierfree. The purpose of the research project of RCT is to develop elemental technologies for a ubiquitous system assisting independent and comfortable transportation for all pedestrians, especially targeting elderly and disabled people. Compared to those in 1999 when RCT was first planned and proposed, the social and technological conditions have dramatically changed with mobile phones being used by general pedestrians as navigation system. Under these circumstances, RCT has been drawing a line against other human mobility support researches by setting an advanced target of "Developing human mobility support system to help recognition, actuation, and information access by actively gathering real world's information and by interacting with the users," and also by stressing the idea of "Pursuing the universal designs for human mobility support by targeting various users including the elderly and the disabled." This paper outlines our strategy for technology transfer to industry, and reports commercialization of our research results.
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ヒューマンインタフェースシンポジウム論文集(CD-ROM), 2007, 2007
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ヒューマンインタフェースシンポジウム論文集(CD-ROM), 2007, 2007
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Journal of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 21(3) 338-359, May, 2006 Invited
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Journal of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 21(2) 218-224, Mar, 2006 Invited
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IPSJ journal, 46(12) 2940-2951, Dec 15, 2005This paper introduces the novel geographic information system (GIS) which provides the accessibility information of routes and areas for all pedestrians including the disabled and the elderly. We developed universal-designed route-network for all pedestrians' needs of accessibility information retrieval, and collected the data of barrier/barrier-free objects in Koganei City (a commuterland of Tokyo, approx. 12 square km) and Higashiyama area of Kyoto (a famous sightseeing area, approx. 2 square km) by exploring roads. These prototype systems are being released on our website, and have intelligent user interface which offers suitable routes to all pedestrians with different physical difficulties and preference. Our final goal is to publish the GIS development know-how as a guideline, to release software tools for developing and managing the GIS, and to propose the universal database as a Japanese standard.
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Journal of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, 44(12) 853-858, Dec, 2005 Invited
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2005(114) 25-32, Nov 17, 2005In general, people communicate each other around a table. We designed contents for communication with fun using The MultiTouchable that completes with RFID interface for face to face communication. The content has 2 characteristics; (1) users can move their data with RFID-card. (2) Users can move and turn around and change size on the data. We report about the system architecture, contents and the analysis of experience.
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IPSJ SIG Notes, 2005(103) 19-24, Oct 21, 2005We propose a speech input interface for the Mobility Support Geographic Information System (GIS). It can provide optimal paths to destinations with information on barrier and barrier-free objects related to sidewalks for all pedestrians, especially elderly people and disabled people. For robust speech recognition, our method includes multi-condition training and parallel decoding with SNR-dependet acoustic models. Using acoustic models for elderly people, our method obtained almost the same performance for elderly people as that for younder people. We also evaluated our speech input interface for elderly people. Results indicated that speech input is much easier than mouse input for them. Furthermore, we investigated elderly peoples' behavior toward a dialog system by using Wizard of Oz. In this experiment, we applied several dialog styles. Experiment results show that their dialog durations are dependent on degrees of their own experience with computers.
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ITE technical report, 29(49) 149-154, Sep 8, 2005
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IEICE technical report, 105(264) 149-154, Sep 8, 2005Accessibility of pedestrians' environment is a catchall term which means basic amenities of walking, such as safety and facility. Providing the accessibility information is the useful service not only for the disabled and the elderly but also for almost of all pedestrians, such as the temporally disabled by diseases or injuries, baby stroller pushers and people carrying heavy luggage. Up to the present, digital maps which offer barrier-free facilities for special disabilities were only released. For above reasons, we have been developing a novel GIS which provides universal accessibility information of routes and areas for all pedestrians. This paper introduces the developing GIS prototypes, and proposed universal designed route network for pedestrians.
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Journal of Human Interface Society : human interface, 7(1) 27-32, Feb, 2005 Invited
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ヒューマンインタフェースシンポジウム論文集, 2005(1), 2005
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人工知能学会全国大会論文集(CD-ROM), 19th, 2005
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情報処理学会研究報告, 2005(114(HI-116)), 2005
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Journal of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 20(1) 82-89, Jan 1, 2005 Invited
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45(13) 11-20, Dec 15, 2004We have been developing the Robotic Communication Terminals (RCT) as a mobility support system for elderly and disable people, which assists for their impaired elements of mobility-recognition, actuation, and information access. The RCT consists of three types of terminals: "Environment Embedded Terminal (EET)","user-carried mobile terminal", and "user-carrying mobile terminal". The EET system robustly detects moving objects at an outdoor surveillance site all day, and presents walkers with information of their surrounding. In this paper, as a part of the EET, we propose a method for detecting moving object based on temporal differencing using adaptive thresholding calculated from intensity changes in the past few frames. We also proposed an evaluation method based on time duration for the object detection method. For 23 cases of video evaluation, a high detection rate was measured under the variations caused by meteorological effects. We have developed a test bed system implementing our proposed method of the object detection. In our test bed system, user can receive the information from the EET with 0.139[sec] in time delay. Evaluations using the test bed system demonstrate the effectiveness of our method as a part of next generation ITS for pedestrian.
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journal of Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics, 16(6) 498-505, Dec, 2004 Invited
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IPSJ Magazine, 45(9) 912-917, Sep, 2004 Invited
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Journal of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 19(5) 602-606, Sep, 2004 Invited
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IEICE technical report. Natural language understanding and models of communication, 104(234) 1-6, Jul 22, 2004We introduce a speech input interface to the Mobility Support Geographic Information System (GIS) that was developed by NICT to provide the accessibility information of routes for all pedestrians including disabled and elderly people. Voice can be used to set body status, departure place, and destination place. The speech input system can be used not only for each item but also it can input several items at the same time for experts. Considering the usage of this system outdoors, we proposed SNR-dependent acoustic models and parallel decoding, and evaluated performance. Additionally, we evaluated performances for elderly person's speech.
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2004 192-193, Jun 18, 2004
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Human Interface, 6(1) 91-96, Jan 22, 2004
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Human Interface, 6(1) 85-90, Jan 22, 2004
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Human Interface, 6(1) 79-84, Jan 22, 2004
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Human Interface, 6(1) 69-78, Jan 22, 2004
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3(4) 85-92, Jan 20, 2004One target of a ubiquitous computing environment is to aid users to get necessary information and services in a situation-dependent form. We have proposed a location- and orientation-based information support system using the Compact Battery-less Information Terminal (CoBIT). The CoBIT is a small, low cost communication terminal that works using. only energy from the information carrier and the user. In this paper, we propose sound direction detectable CoBIT that helps the user to recognize the direction of sound source and also to focus on a particular sound source. We also propose visual CoBIT that shows visual information to the user without any plug-in power, Furthermore various types of CoBITs are briefly explained and compared.
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Technical report of IEICE. HIP, 103(589) 17-22, Jan 16, 2004This paper introduces Mobility Support GIS which provides the accessibility information of routes for all pedestrians including the disabled and elderly people. We designed universal database for all pedestrians' needs for accessibility information retrieval, and collected the data of barrier/barrier-free objects in Koganei City (app.12km^2) and famous sight-seeing area of Kyoto (app. 2km^2) by exploring roads. These prototype systems have intelligent user interface which offers suitable accessibility information to all pedestrians with different physical difficulties and preference. Our final goal is to publish the GIS development know-how as a guideline, to release software tools for developing and managing the GIS and to propose the universal database as a Japanese standard.
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Technical report of IEICE. HIP, 103(589) 23-28, Jan 16, 2004We have been developing the mobility support geographic information system (GIS) for the elderly and disabled people. This paper presents a study of user interface using 3 dimensional landscape movie, and describes two prototype systems, one is PDA-based system that assume user uses it while he/she is walking, the other is PC-based system that user uses it to check a course at home in advance.
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Technical report of IEICE. HIP, 103(589) 7-16, Jan 16, 2004This study is on development of "Robotic Communication Terminals (RCT)" which supports the mobility of the elderly and the handicapped. We elaborately designed the survey concerning mobility problems for analyzing different physical characteristics and other relevant factors. The total number of respondents amounts to 3,634 (visually-impaired: 669; hearing-impaired: 1,135; walking-impaired: 866; elderly: 720; and non-handicapped: 244). It should be more emphasized that this study clarified some important points regarding the mobility problems of the duplication-handicapped. Even if it is a slight handicap, when a handicap overlaps, the problem at the time of movement would become large notably. We give attention to the point as stated above and analyze a slight single handicap and a slight duplication handicap according to two kinds of age group - the younger age group (under 65 years old) and the elder age one (not less than 65 years old). This paper describes a brief summary of our survey.
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Technical report of IEICE. HIP, 103(589) 29-34, Jan 16, 2004We have been developing the Intelligent City Walker (ICW), which is a user-carrying intelligent wheeled vehicle based on commercial electric scooter for outdoor use. ICW is one element of Robotic Communication Terminals (RCTs) project. In addition to supporting users' locomotion, ICW can receive information such as pedestrian GIS and trajectory of moving objects near the ICW from other RCT terminals. ICW also can recognize surrounding environments near the ICW by itself with equipped sensors. These collected information is accessible through the front monitor with touch panel of ICW. There are three display mode: normal, sensor information, map. Users can select appropriate mode in according to situations.
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人工知能学会全国大会論文集(CD-ROM), 18th, 2004
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情報処理学会シンポジウム論文集, 2004(5), 2004
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ヒューマンインタフェースシンポジウム論文集, 2004 (CD-ROM), 2004
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12 335-337, Sep 30, 2003
Presentations
202Professional Memberships
7Research Projects
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Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Jun, 2026 - Mar, 2029
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Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2025 - Mar, 2028
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上智大学学術研究特別推進費, 上智大学, Jul, 2023 - Mar, 2026
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Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Jun, 2023 - Mar, 2026
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Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2023 - Mar, 2026
Industrial Property Rights
5Academic Activities
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Planning, Management, etc., Panel moderator, Session chair, etc., Supervision (editorial)人工知能学会,第33回人工知能学会全国大会企画セッションKS-6, Jun 5, 2019