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.

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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


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@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