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In the Special Moment project we prototype and evaluate the design of interfaces for casual sound recording devices. These devices are envisioned to be used by a casual user to capture and store their everyday experiences in the form of "sound albums" -- collections of recordings related to a certain situation. We formulate a number of design principles for such recording devices, as well as implement and evaluate two working prototypes. A candle recorder allows for capturing the general atmosphere at a party, and the children's book recorder records the interactions between parents and children while reading a book together.

Although graphical user interfaces started as imitations of the physical world, many interaction techniques have since been invented that are not available in the real world. This paper focuses on one of these "previewing", and how a sensory enhanced input device called "PreSense Keypad" can provide a preview for users before they actually execute the commands. Preview important in the real world because it is often not possible to undo an action. This previewable feature helps users to see what will occur next. It is also helpful when the command assignment of the keypad dynamically changes, such as for universal commanders. We present several interaction techniques based on this input device, including menu and map browsing systems and a text input system. We also discuss finger gesture recognition for the PreSense Keypad.

This paper introduces SmartPad, a new input device for mobile computers that is an enhanced physical keypad by a finger position sensor. This input device acts as a normal keypad for mobile devices, such as cellular phones, and also recognizes finger position on the keypad be before the user presses the key. This feature is used to recognize finger gesture on the keypad, and can also be used to give preview information to the user before the user actually pressing the key. This previewable function helps users to predict the effect of the action, and it is also helpful when the key definitions are frequently changed according to the context, such as in the case of universal commanders.

The DataTiles system integrates the benefits of two major interaction paradigms: graphical and physical user interfaces. Tagged transparent tiles are used as modular construction units. These tiles are augmented by dynamic graphical information when they are placed on a sensor-enhanced flat panel display. They can be used independently or can be combined into more complex configurations, similar to the way language can express complex concepts through a sequence of simple words. In this paper, we discuss our design principles for mixing physical and graphical interface techniques, and describe the system architecture and example applications of the DataTiles system.

Proceeding from a Japanese viewpoint I should like to indicate two important considerations for promoting a transfer of managerial and organizational methods to Eastern Europe. In this paper we must examine, firstly, the conditions necessary for and, secondly, the conditions sufficient for such a transfer. Necessary conditions are the existence of a market economy system and the establishment of proper infrastructure; sufficient conditions are product quality and information technology.

A sound constituting apparatus translates a sensor output, as detected by an input detection unit, such as state changes, into electrical signals. A data extracting unit makes use of these electrical signals as an information concerning an external environment to extract the results of analyses of the information concerning the external environment as data. A sound source controlling unit outputs sound source controlling data, based on the data extracted by the data extracting unit, and translates the output signals into a modified sound by a sound producing device to eliminate time constraint. In producing the sound, at least one of physical parameters, namely the noise of the external environment, vibrations, light, temperature, humidity or atmospheric pressure, time parameters such as time, day and season and biological information parameters, such as brain waves, body temperature, pulsation, perspiration, number of breaths, is selected to detect the state or changes in the state in such external environment or living body for conversion into electrical signals. The apparatus then fetches the information concerning the external environment to translate it instantly into an output sound totally different from the original sound. In this manner, a sound totally different from the original sound is produced and outputted without employing complex theories.

F1 に家蚕を戻交雜したものの次代、又は2回家蚕を戻交雜したものの次代の配偶子形成において四倍性細胞の出現することを観察した。この倍数性母細胞の染色体数は一定していないが、形状、大さからして一價、二價、三價のものの混在が考えられる。第二分裂が正常に進行するものと、異常のものが見られた。