Past publications

2014

• • Hiraga, R.: SIG MUS, Special Issue of the activities of SIGS, Vol. 55, No. 4, IPSJ Magazine, April, 2014.
  • Matsubara, M., Hansen, K. F., Terasawa, H., and Hiraga, R.: Music Training Project to Improve Auditory Ability of Hearing-Impaired College Students, IPSJ Vol. 2014-MUS-103 No. 24, May 24, 2014. (Japanese)
  • Hiraga, R., Otsuka, K., Matsuda, S., and Takahashi, K.: Using Music Visualizaiton Systems with Hearing-Impaired Children, Proc. ICMPC-APSCOM_2014, p. 348-352, August 5, 2014.
  • Matsubara, M., Terasawa, H., Hansen, K. F., and Hiraga, R.: An Inquiry into Hearing-Impaired Student’s Musical Activities–How do they Listen to the Music?, Proc. ICMPC-APSCOM_2014, p. 385, August 5, 2014.
  • Kano, N., Matsubara, M., Terasawa, H., and Hiraga, R.: Developing a Beat Tapping Game for Hearing-Impaired College Students and its Feasibility Test, IPSJ Vol. 2014-MUS-104, No. 4, August 25, 2014. (Japanese)
  • Matsubara, M., Terasawa, H., and Hiraga, R.: The effect of musical experience on rhythm perception for hearing-impaired undergraduates, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, pp. 1666-1669, October 7, 2014. DOI: 10.1109/SMC.2014.6974155
  • Hiraga, R. and Matsubara, M.: Appreciating Harmony-differences between the hearing-impaired, musically inexperienced, and musically experienced, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, pp. 3464-3469, October 9, 2014. DOI: 10.1109/SMC.2014.6974465

2013

• • Hiraga, R. and Hansen, K. F.: Sound preferences of persons with hearing loss playing an audio-based computer game, Workshop of ACM Mulimedia 2013, IMMPD, pp. 25-30, October 2013.
    doi:10.1145/2505483.2505489
  • Hansen, K. F., Hiraga, R., Li, Z., and Wang, H.: Music Puzzle: an Audio-Based Computer Game That Inspires to Train Listening Abilities, Creative Showcase of ACE 2013, pp. 540-543, LNCS, Springer International Publishing, November 3-5. ISBN 978-3-319-03160-6

2012

• Hiraga, R. and Otsuka, K.: On the recognition of Timbre, A first step toward understanding how hearing-impaired people perceive timbre, SMC2012, pp. 2013-2018 October 2012.
• Hiraga, R.: On the Relationship between Movement and Emotion, NTUT Education for Disabilities, vol. 10, March 2012.

2011

• Hiraga, R. and Takahashi,K.: Conveying Emotion with Moving Images: relationship between movement and emotion, Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, LNCS 6974, pp. 558–567, October 2011.
• Hiraga, R.: Emotion Recognition in Polygons and Curved Syapes, SMC2011, October 2011.
• Hiraga, R.: Image Properties and Emotion Elicited, NTUT Education for Disabilities, vol. 9, March 2011.

2010

• Hiraga, R. and Matsuda, N.: Emotion-intending Drawings–relationship between image properties and emotion elicited, SMC 2010, October 2010.
• Hiraga, R. and Matsuda, N.: The emotional intention of arbitrary drawings, ECVP ’10, August 2010.
• Hiraga, R. and Kato, N.: First steps toward determining the role of visual information in music communication, UbiCC Journal, 2010 vol. 5, Special Issue of Media Solutions that Improve Accessibility to Disabled Users, pp. 32-41, March 2010.
• Hiraga, R., Takahashi, K., and Kato, N.: Toward Music Communication with Suppemental Visual Information, NTUT Education for Disabilities, vol. 8, March 2010.

2009

• Hiraga, R. Takahashi, K., and Kato, N.: Toward Music Communication with Supplemental Visual Information, International Conference on Music Communnication Science, pp. 34-37, December, 2009.
• Hiraga, R. and Kato, N.: Is Visual Information Useful for Music Communication?, 1st ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Media Studies and Implementations that help Improving Access to Disabled Users, pp. 39-46, October, 2009.

2008

• Hiraga, R., Matsuda, N., and Kato, N.: Toward music structure of improvised drum performances, Measuring Behavior 2008, p. 348, August, 2008.
• Hiraga, R., Kato, N., and Matsuda, N.: Recognizing emotion in drum performances with/without visual information by hearing-impaired people, Conference of the American Music Therapy Association, November, 2008.
• Hiraga, R., Kato, N., and Matsuda, N.: Effect of visual representation in recognizing emotion expressed in a musical performance, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, pp. 131-136, October, 2008.
• Hiraga, R.: Towards Music Therapy for Hearing-Impaired People, JMTA Kanto, p. 47, December, 2008.

2007

• Hiraga, R. and Kato, N.: The catch and throw of music emotion by hearing impaired people, International Conference on Music Communication Science, p. 115, December, 2007.