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Generally, a hearing impaired person is supported by staffs to take a note while hearing a lecture. However, the lecture note cannot express a tone of the teacher’s voice. Further, non-verbal information such as a chatting voice in a classroom, speed, loudness and tone of speaker’s voice are also difficult to express. As a result, it is difficult for a hearing impaired person to feel the atmosphere in the classroom. In this study, we develop a system to inform atmosphere in the classroom to a hearing impaired person. The system utilizes expression techniques used in Japanese cartoons; they are “Ambient Font”, “Balloon & Symbols” and “Onomatopoeic Word”. These techniques enable us to inform to the hearing impaired person not only the textual information but also the non-verbal information.
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Nambo, H., Seto, S., Arai, H., Sugimori, K., Shimomura, Y., Kawabe, H. (2012). Visualization of Non-verbal Expressions in Voice for Hearing Impaired. In: Miesenberger, K., Karshmer, A., Penaz, P., Zagler, W. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7382. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31522-0_74
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