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Parallel Quiet Acoustic Guides for Sensible Culture

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Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES 2011)

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Parallel Quiet Acoustic guides system (PQuA) with a digital signage enables people to effectively acquire adequate information for a short time on the way to the destination. We ensured that most users could simultaneously catch two voice explanations among three voice explanations based on the packaging method of a long sentence and synchronization method for removing duplication of voice guides. Most users could also simultaneously catch two short voice explanations of about 50 words without synchronization. We also discuss how a user utilizes his/her two ears in order to simultaneously listening to two voice explanations that come from different directions.

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  1. School of Information Science and Technology, Tokai University, 4-1-1 Kitakaname, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa, 259-1292, Japan

    Taizo Miyachi & Yuto Takubo

  2. University of Hawaii Manoa, USA

    Takashi Furuhata

  3. NEC Fielding, LTD, Japan

    Shosuke Watanabe

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  1. Institute of Integrated Sensor Systems, University of Kaiserslautern, Erwin-Schroedinger-str. 12, 67663, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Andreas König

  2. Knowledge-Based Systems Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Kaiserslautern, P.O. Box 3049, 67653, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Andreas Dengel

  3. School of Business, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Riggenbachstr. 16, 4600, Olten, Switzerland

    Knut Hinkelmann

  4. Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University, 1-1 Gakuen-cho, Sakai, 599-8531, Osaka, Japan

    Koichi Kise

  5. KES International, P.O. Box 2115, BN43 9AF, Shoreham-by-sea, UK

    Robert J. Howlett

  6. University of South Australia, Adelaide, 5095, Mawson Lakes, SA, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Miyachi, T., Furuhata, T., Takubo, Y., Watanabe, S. (2011). Parallel Quiet Acoustic Guides for Sensible Culture. In: König, A., Dengel, A., Hinkelmann, K., Kise, K., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6883. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23854-3_1

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