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

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

2008

2007