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Senior citizens require a certain amount of daily nutrition and calories to maintain their health, especially because they often suffer from reduced appetites . Since using kawaii spoons might increase their appetites, while they looked at various kawaii spoon designs, we experimentally estimated their mental states by measuring their biological signals .
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Ohkura, M., Tivatansakul, S., & Akimoto, K. (2014). Kawaii spoons and heart rates of elderly. The IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, 97(1), 177–180. (in Japanese).
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We thank the visitors of Tsubame Welfare Volunteer Center who have volunteered to participate in the experiment.
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Ohkura, M., Tivatansakul, S., Akimoto, K. (2019). Kawaii Spoons for Senior Citizens. In: Ohkura, M. (eds) Kawaii Engineering. Springer Series on Cultural Computing. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7964-2_8
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