Publications

Japanese publications only

2024

  • Hayato Yamamot, Deborah Fels, Keiichi Yasu, and Rumi Hiraga: VIBS
  • Yuhki Shiraishi
  • Keiichi Yasu

2023

  • Rumi Hiraga, Yuhki Shiraishi, Keiichi Yasu: Audibility and preference of musical instrument by people with hearing loss. IEEE SMC 2023, pp. 961-966. doi: 10.1109/SMC53992.2023.10394016
  • Chiemi Watanabe, Miki Namatame, Rumi Hiraga: Onomatopoeia System for Animal Sounds Using Preconceived Expressions, Journal on Technology & Persons with Disabilities Volume 11. http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/225167
  • Santoshi Halder, Rumi Hiraga: Paradoxes of Inclusion and Segregation Through the Lens of Students and Teachers: Perspective from Japan, The Routledge Handbook of Inclusive Education for Teacher Educators–Issues, Considerations, and Strategies, Halder, Dada, Banerjee (ed.), Routledge 2022.
  • Rumi Hiraga: Music Puzzle: A Game to Support the Sound Environment of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students, The Routledge Handbook of Inclusive Education for Teacher Educators–Issues, Considerations, and Strategies, Halder, Dada, Banerjee (ed.), Routledge 2022

2022

  • Shiho Akaki; Rumi Hiraga; Keiichi Yasu; Keiji Tabuchi; Hiroko Terasawa: Design and Evaluation of Instrument Sound Identification Difficulty for the Deaf and Hard-Of Hearing, doi:10.23919/APSIPAASC55919.2022.9980104, APSIPA 2022.
  • Rumi Hiraga, Shogo Emori, Keiichi Yasu: Perception of intervals by Deaf and Hard of Hearing individuals– a preliminary study, SMPC 2022 (poster presentation).

2021

  • John R. Iversen, Joel Aftreth and Rumi Hiraga. The BEAT test: Assessing fundamental temporal perceptual-motor skills in Deaf and Hard of Hearing and hearing students, ICMPC16-ESCOM11.

2020

  • Rumi Hiraga and Kjetil Falkenberg. Computer-based music training with hearing impairments: Lessons from an experiment, SMC Sound and Music Computing Conference 2020, pp. 426-433, 2020.

2019

  • Rumi Hiraga, Daisuke Wakatsuki, Yuhki Shiraishi, Masayuki Inoue, Yuka Kogo, Yoshiki Fukunaga, Makoto Kobayashi, Manabi Miyagi, Takeaki Shionome, Jianwei, Zhang, and Atsuyuki Morishima: First Evaluation of Information Support of every- one by everyone for everyone TimeLine (ISeeeTL) applied to Deaf and Hard of Hearing People Watching Sport, AAATE 2019, pp. S135-S136.

2018

    • Wakatsuki, D., Hiraga, R., Kobayashi, M., Shiraishi, Y., Shiodome, T., Zhang, J., Fukunaga, Y., Miyagi, M., and Morishima, A.: A Study on Information Support for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People Using Sports Game Timeline,  Proc. IEEE SMC 2018, 2244–2249.
    • Hiraga, R. and Terasawa, H.: Music for Deaf and Hard of Hearing persons: on beat, 2018 OHMI Conference & Awards, Music & Physical Disability: From Instrument to Performance. 2018. 
    • Yuno, Y. Matsubara, M., Terasawa, H., Hiraga, R., and Tabaru, K.: A report on identification test of environmental sounds by hearing-impaired persons, IPSJ 2018-AAC7-6.  (Japanese)
    • Iguchi, M., Kato, Y., Shitara, A., Baba, T., Hiraga, R., Honda, T., and Yamazaki, Y.: Use of vibration for all of us, 2018-AAC7.  (Japanese)
    • Kato, Y., Hiraga, R., Wakatsuki, D., and Yasu, K: (Japanese)
    • Kato, Y., Hiraga, R., Wakatsuki, D., and Yasu, K: A preliminary observation on the effect of visual information in learning environmental sounds for deaf and hard of hearing people, ICCHP 2018, LNCS vol. 10896, Computers Helping People with Special Needs, pp. 183-186.
    • Nakahara, Y., Hiraga, R., and Kato, N.:A subjective evaluation of music beat recognition with different timbres by hearing-impaired people, ICCHP  2018 , LNCS vol. 10896, Computers Helping People with Special Needs, pp. 207-210.
    • Kobayashi, M., Hiraga, R., Wakatsuki, D., Fukunaga, Y., Shiraishi, Y., Zhang, JW, Shionome, T. Miyagi, M., and Morishima, A.: Information support for visually handicapped persons at sports watching, IEICE 2018 (Japanese)
    • Wakatsuki, D., Hiraga, R., Kobayashi, M., Shiraishi, Y., Shionome, T., Zhang, JW, Fukunaga, Y., Miyagi, M., and Morishima, A.: A Basic study for information support for hearing-impaired persons at sports watching, IEICE 2018 (Japanese)
    • Hiraga, R., Wakatsuki, D., Kobayashi, M., Shiraishi, Y., Shionome, T., Zhang, JW, Fukunaga, Y., Miyagi, M., and Morishima, A.: ISeee: information support at para-sports watching, IEICE 2018 (Japanese)
    • Kato, Y., Hiraga, R., Wakatsuki, D., and Yasu, K: ASJ (Japanese)
    • Nakahara, Y., Hiraga, R., and Kato, N.:ASJ (Japanese) awarded
    • Yuno, Y., Matsubara, M., Terasawa, H., Hiraga, R., and Tabaru, K.: ASJ(Japanese)
    • Kato, Y., Hiraga, R., Wakatsuki, D., and Yasu, K: AAC-6(Japanese)
    • Nakahara, Y., Hiraga, R., and Kato, N.: Towards auditory analysis of musical instruments based on hearing-impaired person’s beat recognition,  2018-AAC6-3. (Japanese)
    • Wakatsuki, D., Hiraga, R., Kobayashi, M., Shiraishi, Y., Shionome, T., Zhang, JW, Fukunaga, Y., Miyagi, M., and Morishima, A.: A Study on Information Support for Hearing Impaired People Using Sport Game Timeline, IEICE Tech report, WIT. (Japanese)
    • Hiraga, R.: An environmental sound learning system for hearing-impaired children, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Japan, 74(3), 171-177, in Feature “Speech technologies for people with diasabilities”, March 2018. (Japanese)

2017

    • Kato, Y., Nakahara, Y., Akama, Nishiyama, Kobayashi, Hirai, M., Hiraga, R., Kato, N., Wakatsuki, D., and Otsuka, K.: Everyday life/society/accessibility–deaf science major female students, 2017-AAC5-10. (Japanese) awarded
    • Hansen, K. F. and Hiraga, R.: The Effects of Musical Experience and Hearing Loss on Solving an Audio-Based Gaming Task. Applied Sciences, 7(12).
    • Hiraga, R. and Hansen, F. K.: Playing Music Game by Hearing-Impaired Youth -how do they play the game?-, Yamada Symposium 2017 on “Neuroimaging of Natural Behaviors”,  – , invited talk, October.
    • Kato, Y., Hiraga, R., and Wakatsuki D.: The preliminary study on environmental sound learning for hearing-impaired children with visual information,  2017-AAC4(2).(Japanese)
    • Yuno, Y., Matsubara, M., Tabaru, K., Terasawa, H., and Hiraga, R.: Sound features for identification of environmental sound by hearing-impaired persons,  2017-AAC-4(1) (Japanese)

2016

    • Hiraga, R., Kato, Y., Matsubara, M., Terasawa, H., and Tabaru, K.: A learning system of environmetal sounds for hearing-impaired children–a prototype and the future issues, Techno-Report of NTUT, 24(2), pp. 17–21. (in Japanese).
    • Kano, N., Matsubara, M., Terasawa, H., and Hiraga, R.: Investigation about hearing-impaired people’s rhythm-cognition ability by means of their long-term use of tapping game, IPSJ SIG-AAC, Vol. 2016-AAC-1 No. 8, 8 pages (in Japanese, Dec.)
    • Akita, Y., Shionome, T., Shiraishi, Y., and Hiraga, R.: Captioning by Speech Recognition for Research Presentation: Second Trial, IPSJ SIG-AAC, Vol. 2016-AAC-2 No. 6, 3 pages (in Japanese, Dec.)
    • Yuno, Y., Matsubara, M., Tabaru, K., Terasawa, H., and Hiraga, R.: Discrimination and identification of environmental sounds among people with hearing impairment, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 140-4, p.245.
    • Hiraga, R., Matsubara, M., Terasawa, H., and Hansen, K. F.: Promote Active Listening with Music games, 48, 2016 Music & Cochlear Implants Symposium.

    • Yuno, Y., Matsubara, M., Tabaru, K., Terasawa, H., and Hiraga, R.: Comparison between discrimination and identification in perception of environmental sounds of hearing impairments, IPSJ SIG-AAC, Vol. 2016-AAC-1 No. 19, 7 pages (in Japanese, Jul.)
    • Hiraga, R. and Akita, Y.: Captioning by Speech Recognition for Research Presentation (Trial), IPSJ SIG-AAC, Vol. 2016-AAC-1 No. 6, 5 pages (in Japanese, Jul.)
    • Rumi Hiraga, Yuu Kato, Masaki Matsubara, Hiroko Terasawa, and Kei Tabaru: A Learning System for Environmental Sounds on Tablets:

      toward a teaching resource for deaf and hard of hearing children, Universal Learning Design Symposium, 31-34, 2018.

  • Shionome, T., Xhang, J., Shiraishi, Y., and Hiraga, R.: A Survey on Communication Support for Live Broadcasting of Paralympic Games via Crowdsourcing, The 30th Annual Conf. of the JSAI (in Japanese).
  • Matsubara, M., Kano, N., Terasawa H., and Hiraga, R.: Short-term Learning Effect on Rhythm Cognition in a Tapping Game with Visual Cues by Hearing-impaired People, IPSJ Journal, 57(5), 1331-1340 (in Japanese).
  • Ito, T., Matsubara, M., Terasawa H., and Hiraga, R.: Trainings focusing on pitch range and envelope to recognize musical instruments for hearing impaired

    students. ASJ 2016 (Spring), pp. 1627-1630 (in Japanese).
  • Yuno, Y., Matsubara, M., Tabaru, K., Terasawa, H., and Hiraga, R.: Comparison between Discrimination and Identi cation for the environmental sounds listening test for hearing impairment people. ASJ 2016 (Spring), pp. 1465-1468 (in Japanese).
  • Yuu Kato, Rumi Hiraga, Masaki Matsubara, Hiroko Terasawa, and Kei Tabaru: A Learning System for Environmental Sound on Tablet

    -toward a teaching material for deaf and hard of hearing children-,

    The 78th National Convention of IPSJ, pp. 4-701-4-702 (in Japanese). Student Encouragement Prize
  • Yuu Kato, Rumi Hiraga, Masaki Matsubara, Hiroko Terasawa, and Kei Tabaru: A System for Understanding Environmental Sound Environmental Sounds and their Contexts -a learning system for deaf and hard of hearing children-. IEICE Technical Paper, WIT2015-88. 5 pages (in Japanese).

2015

    • Oshima, C., Terasawa, H., Baba, T., Hiraga, R., and Matsubara, M.: Inclusive music information processing, IPSJ Vol. 2015-MUS-109, No. 5, November 7, 2015. (Japanese)
    • Hiraga, R., Hansen, K. F., Kano, N., Matsubara, M., Terasawa, H., and Tabuchi, K.: Music perception of hearing-impaired persons with focus on one test subject, IEEE SMC 2015, pp. 2407–2412, DOI10.1109/SMC.2015.421
    • Kano, N., Matsubara, M., Terasawa, H., and Hiraga, R.: Development and short-term evaluation of tapping game for hearing-impaired students, RPPW15, p. 61.
    • Hiraga, R. and Bono, M.: Foreword, in Enhancing Social Participation in Collaboration with the Disabled and the Elderly (Hiraga, R. and Bono, M. edt.), IPSJ Magazine, 56(6), pp. 530–531. (Japanese)

-2014