International Workshop on Cognitive Prostheses and Assisted Communication
(CPAC 2006)

Workshop Program

January 29, 2006
9:00 - 10:30 Personalized Assistance (Chair: Norman Alm)
Using Semantic Web Technologies for Cognitive Prostheses in Networked Interaction Therapy
Kazuhiro Kuwabara (ATR), Noriaki Kuwahara (ATR), Shinji Abe (ATR), and Kiyoshi Yasuda (Chiba Rosai Hospital)
Towards a Wearable Cognitive Prosthesis to Support “What” and “Who” Type Memory Activities
Tatsuyuki Kawamura, Yasuyuki Kono, and Masatsugu Kidode (NAIST)
Vision based Behavior Detection for Monitoring and Assisting Memory Impaired People
Akira Utsumi (ATR), Daisuke Kanbara (Ritsumeikan University), Shinjiro Kawato (ATR), Shinji Abe (ATR), and Hironori Yamauchi (Ritsumeikan University)
  Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 Interface Design (Chair: Kazuhiro Kuwabara)
Developing an engaging multimedia activity system for people with dementia
Arlene Astell (University of St. Andrews), Norman Alm (University of Dundee), Gary Gowans (Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art), Maggie Ellis (University of St. Andrews), Richard Dye (University of Dundee), and Phil Vaughan (Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art)
Networked Reminiscence Content Authoring and Delivery for Elderly People with Dementia
Noriaki Kuwahara, Shinji Abe, and Kazuhiro Kuwabara (ATR)
An easy to use Interface for Evidential Reasoner
QingXiang Wu, David Bell, and Rashid Hafeez Khokhar (Queen’s University Belfast)
  Lunch Break
14:00 - 16:00 Communication and Cognitive Psychology (Chair: Michael J. Lyons)
A cognitive prosthesis to support communication by people with dementia
Norman Alm (University of Dundee), Richard Dye (University of Dundee), Arlene Astell (University of St. Andrews), Maggie Ellis (University of St. Andrews), Gary Gowans (Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art), and Jim Campbell (University of Dundee)
Promoting Virtual Social Interaction with Older People
Peter Bagnall, Guy Dewsbury, Victor Onditi, and Ian Sommerville (Lancaster University)
Talking with Individuals with Dementia on Video Phone: A Preliminary Study for Networked Interaction Therapy
Kiyoshi Yasuda (Chiba Rosai Hospital), Kazuhiro Kuwabara (ATR), Noriaki Kuwahara (ATR), Shinji Abe (ATR), and Nobuji Tetsutani (Tokyo Denki University)
The Relationships among Cognition, Parental Speech Patterns and Foreign Language Ability, and Multiple Intelligence Theory based Foreign Language Teaching
Keiko Hayashi (Hiroshima Jogakuin University)

Workshop Proceedings (PDF file)


Last update: January 20, 2006