Development of an Automatic Location-determining Function for Balloon-type Dialogue in a Puppet Show System for the Hearing Impaired

Ryohei Egusa, Shuya Kawaguchi, Tsugunosuke Sakai, Fusako Kusunoki, Hiroshi Mizoguchi, Miki Namatame, Shigenori Inagaki

2017

Abstract

People with hearing impairments have a tendency to experience difficulties in obtaining audio information. They have difficult to watch puppet shows. In this study, we have undertaken the development of a dialogue presentation function in a puppet show system for the hearing impaired. The dialogue presentation function that was developed is an automatic location-determination system for balloon-type dialogue. The balloon-type dialogue turns the lines of dialogue into text and displays it as balloons in the background animation of the puppet show. This function automatically places the balloon-type dialogue in the vicinity of the locations of the puppets. In the evaluation test, 24 college students with a hearing impairment were used as participants, and a comparison was made between a system that implemented the automatic location-determination function for balloon-type dialogue and a system that did not implement said function. These results indicate the effectiveness of the location tracking function for balloon-type dialogue as a means for ensuring access to audio information in puppet shows.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Egusa R., Kawaguchi S., Sakai T., Kusunoki F., Mizoguchi H., Namatame M. and Inagaki S. (2017). Development of an Automatic Location-determining Function for Balloon-type Dialogue in a Puppet Show System for the Hearing Impaired . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-240-0, pages 340-344. DOI: 10.5220/0006377203400344

in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu17,
author={Ryohei Egusa and Shuya Kawaguchi and Tsugunosuke Sakai and Fusako Kusunoki and Hiroshi Mizoguchi and Miki Namatame and Shigenori Inagaki},
title={Development of an Automatic Location-determining Function for Balloon-type Dialogue in a Puppet Show System for the Hearing Impaired},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,},
year={2017},
pages={340-344},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006377203400344},
isbn={978-989-758-240-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,
TI - Development of an Automatic Location-determining Function for Balloon-type Dialogue in a Puppet Show System for the Hearing Impaired
SN - 978-989-758-240-0
AU - Egusa R.
AU - Kawaguchi S.
AU - Sakai T.
AU - Kusunoki F.
AU - Mizoguchi H.
AU - Namatame M.
AU - Inagaki S.
PY - 2017
SP - 340
EP - 344
DO - 10.5220/0006377203400344