A KIND OF INFORMATION CONTENT APPLIED FOR THE

HANDICAPPED AND DEMENTIA SITUATION CONSIDERING

PHILOSOPHICAL ELEMENTS

Masahiro Aruga

1,4

, Shinwu Liu

Department of Human and Information Science, School of Information Science and Technology, Tokai University

Kitakaname 1117, Hiratsuka-shi, Kanagawa-ken, Japan

Research Student of Tokai University,

Kitakaname 1117, Hiratsuka-shi, Kanagawa-ken, Japan

Institute of Intelligent Communications (corporative NPO, Japan),

Kashiwanoha5-4-6, Kashiwa-shi, Chiba-ken, Japan

Shuichi Kato

3,4

Graduate school of informatics, Teikyo Heisei University, Uruido-Aza-Otani2289-23, Ichihara-shi, Chiba-ken, Japan

Institute of Intelligent Communications (corporative NPO, Japan), Kashiwanoha5-4-6, Kashiwa-shi, Chiba-ken, Japan

Keywords: The dementia, The information content, Peirce’s semiotic, Compartment system.

Abstract: There has been developed a communication system among the blind deaf persons and others, they have

been able to communicate easily. And its information contents are needed to be discussed when the situation

of their dementia is needed to be analyzed, and the information contents are needed to be estimated to

correspond to changing signals of this system when they become dementia. In this paper, firstly the outline

of an example of such communication system is described, and secondly the philosophical elements and its

structures are discussed and such information contents are considered from the philosophical side. Here on

the Peirce’s semiotic the interpretants which were defined by Peirce are introduced into the analytical

method as the philosophical elements to analyze the information structure and communication system of

handicapped and dementia situations. And the new information contents different from the Shannon’s

ordinary information content are discussed to be introduced into the method of analysis of information

process of handicapped and dementia situations. Thirdly considering the new information contents the

concept of compartment system is introduced into the consideration of relations among interpretants, and as

a result an example of concept of the new information content with regard to the elements of structure of the

handicapped and dementia situation is proposed on the basis of discussing the compartment system

characters.

1 INTRODUCTION

For the blind deaf persons A communication system

(Its name is “YUBITSUKYI” system) has been

developed to communicate among them and others.

Of course involving the ordinary people, such

system is able to be used for communication each

other, and it has been developed until now by

authors. This system is designed as a module of the

Life Support System which has been developed from

the Expanded EMR (Electric or Electronic Medical

Record) system, and embedded into the Life Support

System. This Life Support System is able to be

applied to the situation of the handicapped and

dementia situation. As in authors’ previous papers it

has already been defined that the dementia situation

is a kind of handicapped situation, here too this

definition is adapted. Therefore after this in this

paper the word “handicapped situations” means the

word which involves dementia situations. From this

view point the Life Support System is able to be

applied to such handicapped situation as a kind of

the compensated system which has been synthesized

along the ubiquitous concept. This Life Support

System is developed from the Expanded EMR

system that is the system that authors have subjected

from the beginning. Moreover it has been estimated

that the Life Support System shows some useful

signal data containing the information to be able to

find such handicapped situation, especially to be

able to find the dementia of blind deaf persons. In

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this Life Support System the accomplishment of

communication among such persons and others and

the analysis of its information structure are

important and these information contents in the

communication are fundamental elements. And in

this paper such new information contents differed

from the ordinary Shannon’s information content are

researched and some results are derived. Then firstly

the outline of the “YUBITSUKYI” system of a

module of the Life Support System is described and

the functions of the system are discussed from the

side of such information contents. There it is

described too that the Life Support System has been

synthesized on the concept that the “YUBITSUKYI”

system is structured on the technique of the finger

Braille which was developed from the ordinary

Braille rules. And it is described that the quantitative

consideration of such information process is

important and useful, and also the quantitative

expression of such information is needed to be

introduced into the analysis of the information and

communication mechanism of such handicapped

situation and of the ordinary people’s situation..

When the new information contents are considered

the three directions of consideration have been

adapted, and those discussions have been performed.

The first case is from the entire different view point

from the ordinary information concept like

Shannon’s information content and the second case

is from considering the philosophical view point like

Peirce’s semiotic and the third case is from

considering Fuzzy concepts expanded from the

ordinary information contents. In this paper the

second case is adapted and discussed and on the

author’s previous paper the philosophical concepts

to explain such handicapped situation are discussed

and developed. As a result, the idea of the

interpretants that the Peirce’s Semiotic had defined

and named is developed, and an example of a first

step of new information content and analyzing

method of such handicapped situations is proposed.

After that the concept of compartment system is

introduced into the consideration method of the

elements which exist really in a philosophical space

and discussed to analyze the new quantitative

information contents. There the outline of

compartment system is described and some

characters that have already been derived from the

analysis of compartment system are shown, and it is

discussed that they are applied to the method of

derivation of the new information quantitative

characters and those element meanings. Finally the

conclusions derived from the research of this time

are shown and the future tasks are described.

2 THE OUTLINE OF A

COMMUNICTION SYSTEM

AND DISCUSSION OF ITS

INFORMATION CONTENTS

In today’s Japan the blind deaf persons are seamed

to be about 20,000. From this estimation it is seamed

that the present whole world has much more such

persons. Although such persons have not sufficiently

supported until now, recently some communication

systems and techniques with which they can

communicate among themselves have developed. Of

course those systems and techniques are not

sufficient as communicating ones. As such one’s

examples the Finger Braille based on the ordinary

Braille rules which is designed by professor

Fukushima of University of Tokyo and his mother

and the ” YUBITUKYI” system which is made on

the Finger Braille techniques have been developed.

[see Figure 1, Figure 2, Figure 3]

Although there have been described the functions

of the ” YUBITUKYI” system in authors’ previous

paper the outline of the functions of the ”

YUBITUKYI” system is briefly described at the

following. That is; For the blind deaf persons the ”

YUBITUKYI” system has been developed for

themselves to communicate with it. And it was

designed as it was embedded into the Expanded

EMR (Electric or Electronic Medical Record)

system which was structured on the base of Linux

Operating System. As a result the Expanded EMR

was structured as a kind of Life Support System and

the "YUBITSUKYI” system is used as a module of

the Life Support System. Then the "YUBITSUKYI”

system of its module is made on the basis of the

Finger Braille communication techniques. And the

"YUBITSUKYI” system is designed as a kind of

system with which the blind deaf persons and others

are able to communicate among themselves. The

word "YUBITSUKYI”(see Figure 3) is the name of

terminal tool of this "YUBITSUKYI” system. The

"YUBITSUKYI" system has total 4x2=8 vibrating

points of its two terminals, and total 3x2=6 vibrating

points are used for communicating the Finger Braille

patterns each other. And total 1x2=2 vibrating points

are for functions of the “YUBITSUKYI” system.

Here 2 means Right and Left hands. Such vibrating

points are operated along the finger Braille

technique. In the Finger Braille technique the total

six fingers of right and left hand are used, (they are

from the index finger to the third finger) are used

along the method of the Braille system. And the

Braille system has two kinds of expression point

patterns of Convex side and Concave side. In this

paper Japanese point patterns are considered for the

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information content with regard to the handicapped

situation. A Braille pattern of Japanese character

"ka" is shown in the Figure 1 which shows too

symmetrical patterns of expression of the Braille and

the Finger Braille. The finger Braille patterns are

shown in the corresponding number fingers to show

the character “ka” of Japanese of the Braille

patterns. The “YUBITUKYI” system is able to show

such patterns with total its six vibrating points

corresponding to the patterns of six fingers of the

finger Braille.

Figu TUKYIs” (Left:Ver.1, Right: Ver.2).

will be presented in other papers.

点字凸側

点字凹側

3 2 1 4 5 6 6 5 4 1 2 3

左手左手右手右手

図 1 文字「カ」の点字と指点字との対応

Convex side Concave side

Braille Braille

The finger Braille

Left hand Right hand Left hand Right hand

Figure 1: The correspondence of Braille and the Finger

Braille.

Figure 2: The Finger Braille.

The data of the “YUBITUKYI” can be collected

with electric methods and its data processing are

able to be performed with electrical techniques and

their transformed data are too able to be used for

analysis of the information structure.

The users of the “YUBITUKYI” system able to

transmit their communicating information signals to

their companies, and they can send those signals to

strike 1-6 vibrating points of the ” YUBITUKYI”

terminals. As the “YUBITSUKYIs” are portable

terminals and the “YUBITUKYI” system has some

optional functions, for instance, a REPEATER TAG

function, a BROADCASTY function etc, they can

walk and use the system carrying them and can

receive the telegram message of Braille from the

re 3: The ” YUBI

attaching TAG and the telegram message translated

by computer into Finger Braille patterns. As a result,

without touching directly as before they can know

the every objects which has the recorded memory in

the TAG about characters of the object; for example,

its existence position, size, material character, form,

other necessary characters and so on. As its system

can translate the Finger Braille patterns into the text

forms doctors can communicate with such blind deaf

persons by the functions of it. Therefore with the

Life Support System it is made possible to make the

measurement of signal changing from ordinary

situation. Therefore, to analyze the handicapped

situations it is useful for the information structure of

the Life Support System to be made clear. Especially

this system has most simply 2

patterns in its

expression and its entropy is 6 bit from the view

point of ordinary Shannon’s information theory. But

considering changing meaning from the view point

of inner contents of the situation the ordinary

Shannon’s information theory is not sufficient. Then

it is needed for some new information contents to be

discussed and analyzed. Therefore, at preset the

following three cases have been subjected in parallel

as their meanings were described in authors’

previous papers. That is;

Case 1: The information content is discussed

from the entirely and essentially different view point

from the information content of Shannon’s theory.

This case has studied by authors in parallel, and this

case will be taken up in other papers.

Case 2: The information content is discussed

from the stand point taking account of the

Philosophy and the structure of the recognition of

human beings. This case has been advanced by

authors to some extent, and has been presented in

this paper considering the Peirce’s Semiotic and the

compartment system.

Case 3: The information content is discussed

from the view point taking account of the concept of

Fuzzy Set to be applied for the handicapped

situation and to be expanded over the information

content of ordinary Shannon’s theory. This case 3

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In this paper the Case 2 is treated and discussed

to make the new information content applied for the

han

3 THE CONSIDERATION OF

be analyzed more detail in the Peirce’s semiotic

dicapped situation clear and the Peirce’s

Semiotic and its philosophical elements are

considered as elements of new information contents

introducing the compartment system to analyze their

relations.

PHILOSOPHICAL ELEMENT

AND COMPARTMENT SYSTEM

e process of recognition of human being is able to

consideration than the one is able to be analyzed in

Kant’s epistemological consideration. As the

Peirce’s semiotic consideration is useful to the

discussion of new information contents, firstly the

Peirce’s semiotic idea, a sign process as Triadic

relations is introduced into the analysis of the basic

mechanism of recognition process of human beings.

In the Peirce’s semiotic, a sign, or representamen is

something which stands to somebody (interpretant)

for something (an object). Although these words

“representamen, interpretant” are used in Peirce’s

Semiotic, in this paper the consideration of the

information contents use these words after this.

Here at the following the triadic relations example

is shown. The scene is that a hunter finds a damaged

rtain tree in a forest and supposes that a deer is in

his neighbourhood. Here, the triadic relations are

structured among the "a wound (a sign) of a tree",

the "deer (an object)” and the "knowledge /

experience (interpretant) of a hunter". And this

triadic relations are shown in the following figure 4,

and it is important and useful ontology for the

analysis of new information contents that they give a

kind of sign process on the consideration, and

human recognition process has been performed with

the interpretants. That is; as the Figure 4 the arrow

(1) suggests that “a deer” causes “a wound of a

tree”(Diadic relations), and the arrow (2) suggests

that “a wound of a tree” makes a hunter know that

there is “a deer”(Triadic relations). Here it is the

fundamental structure that the interpretant is

involved as something to be real (of course it is a

philosophical realty.) and it is able to be considered

as the element of the information system.

Figure 4: Triadic relations of a sign process.

There nts

must be investigated. In this paper the concept of

4 A KIND OF NEW

ONTENT

information contents different from the Shannon’s

fore the relation among such interpreta

mpartment system is introduced into the

discussion of the relation among interpretants which

exists in the ontology of human recognition situation

process and represents the handicapped situations

too. As a result it is estimated that such semiotic

concept and compartment system concept are useful

to analyze the information theory and contents over

the ordinary Shannon’s information theory and

contents.

INFORMATION C

TAKING ACCOUNT OF

PHILOSOPHICAL ELEMEN

AND COMPARTMENT SYSTEM

As previous chapters describe, the various

information content are able to be considered.

Considering the interpretants the probability

distribution is applied to such philosophical entities

although the Shannon’s information theory uses the

probability distributed to the events. Now the

Shannon’s events are not such philosophical entities,

but to consider the new information contents here

the philosophical entities interpretants are introduced

as the targets for probability to be distributed. Of

course although the distributed values may be not

necessary probabilities and other values may be

introduced into this discussion here the probabilities

are considered as the distributed values. To analyze

the new information contents quantitatively, for

example, as author’s previous paper proposed, the

following relations are proposed again And the

expanded concepts of relations into which the

compartment system concepts and characters are

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introduced are proposed. For example, the

probability values are the following. That is; firstly

the probability value of an event arising is P(a), and

the quantitative expression of every interpretants

like these probability values is the total probability

value P(b

) and it becomes the following formula

expression.

P(b

)= P(b

) P(b

)

Here, P(b

) luet, P(b

)

is the Immediat e, P(b ) is

the

)= f

)

he les

erived from the compartment system characters.

tor x and

+Bu

And her artment

rresponds to each interpretant. Therefore

he every

the every node. And generally

ｇ

ｉｋ

≠

ｇ

ｋｉ

is defined.

CLUSIONS AND

FUTURE TASK

and BITSUKYI” system

embedded into the Life Support System and the

of the IIC

support of

researches with regard to the communication

, Tokyo : A

a design of the electric medical

record system on the basis of Linux, The 2th United

system to be expanded from Electric Medical Record

is the whole probability va

e object probability valu

sign probability value, and P(b

) is the

interpretant probability value. And b

, b

are like

arising events. Here the each P(b

) , P(b

), P(b

) is

firstly a value of distributed probability, but each

one is not necessary to be fixed, it may be

considered as a function derived from the model of

object situation (here the compartment system is

introduced as such model). That is;

P(b

)=f

) , P(b

)= f

), P

re, x

are the characteristic variab

n the other hand, the outline of compartment

system and its characters is the following.

Ordinary compartment system is expressed with a

transfer matrix A and the state variable vec

u is controllable term and t is time.

d x./dt =A x. or d x./dt =A x

e it is considered that each comp

considering such compartment system as a model of

relations among the interpretants the characters of

them are derived from the electric circuit analogy.

As a result the distributed probabilities to the

interpretants are given as the values which are

functional values derived from the compartment

system corresponding to the object situation, for

example, to the handicapped situation. As an

example the following compartment system model

which is represented with the electric circuit analogy

is used as a model of such situation. And in this

analogy model such electric elements are like the

real circuit elements and not the real circuit elements

themselves. And the following concepts are used

with regard to the circuit Laws. That is;

① Every

ｉ

（ｔ）satisfies the Ohm’s Law and

the characteristics of capacitance on t

node.

② Every

ｉ

（ｔ）satisfies the Kirchffof’s current

Law on

As a result this compartment system model is

proposed to be applied to the relation model among

the interpretants.

5 THE CON

It was clear that to discuss the information proce

structure of the “YU

Peirce’s Semiotic and the compartment system the

new information contents and theory could be

obtained, and it is estimated for them to be applied

to the handicapped situation. As a result the

introduction of the compartment system model is

proposed to analyze the new information contents.

And the information contents considering the

situation of handicapped situation are discussed on

the backbone of a philosophy and the compartment

system model. And the characters of its information

contents are estimated to be able to be analysed.

After this the concrete function of the compartment

system is needed to be obtained and the better

function models for the handicapped situation must

be derived and the concrete analysis method of the

information contents able to be applied for such

situations is needed to be subjected.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We thank much advices and efforts

members who made the help and

systems for the handicapped persons.

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