著者
山口 武彦 赤羽 歩 村山 淳 寺西 望 佐藤 誠
出版者
一般社団法人情報処理学会
雑誌
情報処理学会研究報告 (ISSN:09196072)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.2005, no.95, pp.33-37, 2005-09-30

計算機の処理性能の向上に伴い, 視覚, 聴覚情報に加え, 力触覚情報によるインタラクティブ手法が様々に研究されている.また, Webアプリケーションなどのマルチメディアコンテンツの作成が大衆化する中, より簡単に触覚を提示できるような開発環境が求められている.しかし, 現状の開発環境では, 視覚提示部と触覚提示部とで別々の開発環境が必要となる.本稿では, 現在ブラウザに標準プラグイン化されているMacromedia Flashを用いて, ハプティックインタラクションを実現するシステムを提案する.このシステムは, 力触覚呈示部に触覚アクチュエータ(富士通コンポーネント(FCL)製)を用い, 既存のFlashプラットフォームから直接, 力触覚呈示が出来るようにActionScriptを実装した.これにより, Flashユーザは気軽に触覚提示のできるアプリケーションの開発ができるという利点がある.また, いくつかのFlashムービーに触覚を実装した際の効果の評価を行った.
著者
矢野 智昭
出版者
The Robotics Society of Japan
雑誌
日本ロボット学会誌 (ISSN:02891824)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.15, no.3, pp.330-333, 1997-04-15
被引用文献数
9 2
著者
伊藤 幸郎
出版者
日本医学哲学・倫理学会
雑誌
医学哲学医学倫理 (ISSN:02896427)
巻号頁・発行日
no.22, pp.69-75, 2004

What is meant when a doctor says, "You are healthy" after the health examination? Is it possible to diagnose a person to be healthy? In fact, this question comes from a confusion between science and values. Health is not a scientific term but a value-laden, normative concept. So your doctor can only say "I couldn't find any disease," not "You are healthy." Clinical medicine textbooks describe many diseases, but they never give a working definition of "health". There are many diseases to be diagnosed but only one "health." "Health" is unique for each person and stands outside any medical investigations. When one tries to define health he will tend to fall into a circular discussion: Health is an absence of diseases and disease is a lack of health. One typical definition of health has been given by the WHO (1946). The WHO defined health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being. Some critics say that the WHO definition merely replaced the word "health" with "well-being." Many philosophers have proposed non-circular, positive definitions of health. However, like the WHO, they eventually fall into theories of happiness, which are very important, but cannot be applied to medicine as science. In contrast to clinical, the textbooks of public health education have rich descriptions of health. Public health officers also stress the importance of health. As shown in the slogan "health promotion," the health and disease of a population is recognized as a quantitative concept which may increase or decrease. In conclusion, health examinations don't diagnose a person as being healthy. All we can do is a massscreening of diseases. The true meaning of health depends on each person's view of happiness and as such, it is not a pure medical problem.