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Publications


Journal
  • Hironobu Takagi, Shin Saito, Kentarou Fukuda, Chieko Asakawa, C. 2007. Analysis of navigability of Web applications for improving blind usability. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 14, 3 (Sep. 2007), 13. 2007
  • Kentarou Fukuda, Hironobu Takagi, Junji Maeda, Shin Saito, Chieko Asakawa, "aDesigner: tool for improving Web accessibility", Journal of Japan Society for Software Science and Technology, pp. 26-35, 2006.
  • C. Asakawa, H. Takagi, S. Ino, and T. Ifukube, "The Optimal and Maximum Listening Rates in Presenting Speech Information to the Blind", Journal of Human Interface Society, Vol.7, No.1, pp. 105-111, 2005. (in Japanese)
  • J. Maeda, K. Fukuda, H. Takagi, and C. Asakawa, "Web accessibility technology at the IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory", Journal of Research and Development, Vol.48, No. 5/6, pp. 735-749, 2004.
  • C. Asakawa, H. Takagi, S. Ino, and T. Ifukube, "TAJODA: Proposed Tactile and Jog Dial Interface for the Blind", Transaction of IEICE, Vol.E87-D, No.6, pp. 1405-1414, 2004.
  • K. Fukuda, H. Takagi, J. Maeda, and C. Asakawa, "An Assistive Technology to Help Visually Impaired People Understand Web Page Structure", Journal of Human Interface Society, Vol.5, No.4, pp. 465-474, 2003. (in Japanese)
  • C. Asakawa, T. Itoh, "User Interface of a Non-visual Web Access System", IPSJ Human Interface and Interaction, Vol.40, No.2, pp. 453-459, 1999. (in Japanese)
  • C. Asakawa, "A Braille English/Japanese Dictionary System", Transactions of the IPSJ, Vol. 34, No.8, pp. 1844-1852, 1993. (in Japanese)

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International Conference
  • Kawanaka, S., Y. Borodin, J. P. Bigham, D. Lunn, Takagi, H., Asakawa, C., Accessibility commons: a metadata infrastructure for web accessibility. In Proceedings of the 10th international ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, October 13 - 15, 2008). Assets '08. ACM, New York, NY, pp. 153-160. 2008
  • Takagi, H., Kawanaka, S., Kobayashi, M., Itoh, T., C. Asakawa: Social accessibility: achieving accessibility through collaborative metadata authoring. In Proceedings of the 10th international ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, October 13 - 15, 2008). Assets '08. ACM, New York, NY, pp. 193-200. 2008
  • Sato, D., Miyashita, H., Takagi, H., and Asakawa, C. Automatic accessibility transcoding for flash content. In Proceedings of the 9th international ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Tempe, Arizona, USA, October 15 - 17, 2007). Assets '07. ACM, New York, NY, pp. 35-42. 2007
  • Miyashita, H., Sato, D., Takagi, H., and Asakawa, C. Aibrowser for multimedia: introducing multimedia content accessibility for visually impaired users. In Proceedings of the 9th international ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Tempe, Arizona, USA, October 15 - 17, 2007). Assets '07. ACM, New York, NY, pp. 91-98. 2007
  • Miyashita, H., Sato, D., Takagi, H., and Asakawa, C. Making multimedia content accessible for screen reader users. In Proceedings of the 2007 international Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4a) (Banff, Canada, May 07 - 08, 2007). W4A '07, vol. 225. ACM Press, New York, NY, pp. 126-127. 2007.
  • Miyashita, H., Takagi, H., Sato, D., and Asakawa, C. Making multimedia Internet content accessible and usable. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. UAHCI '07. pp. 98-107. 2007.
  • Asakawa, C., Itoh, T., Takagi, T., and Miyashita. H. Accessibility Evaluation for Multimedia Content. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. UAHCI '07. pp. 11-19. 2007.
  • Ifukube, T., Asakawa, C., Takagi, H., and Sakai, T. A Screen Reader Interface Dynamically Hastens Speech While Giving Emphasized Text to the Tactile Sense. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. UAHCI '07. pp. 141-145. 2007.
  • Ishihara, T., Takagi, H., Itoh, T., and and Asakawa, C. Analyzing visual layout for a non-visual presentation-document interface. In Proceedings of the 8th international ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Portland, Oregon, USA, October 23 - 25, 2006). Assets '06. ACM Press, New York, NY, pp. 165-172. 2006.
  • Saito, S., Takagi, H., and Asakawa, C. Transforming flash to XML for accessibility evaluations. In Proceedings of the 8th international ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Portland, Oregon, USA, October 23 - 25, 2006). Assets '06. ACM Press, New York, NY, pp. 157-164. 2006.
  • Sato, D., Takagi, H., and Asakawa, C. Accessibility evaluation based on machine learning technique. In Proceedings of the 8th international ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Portland, Oregon, USA, October 23 - 25, 2006). Assets '06. ACM Press, New York, NY, pp. 253-254. 2006.
  • Fukuda, K., Takagi, H., Maeda, J., and Asakawa, C. An Effective Accessibility Improvement Method for Server-side Java-based Web Applications. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. UAHCI '05. (CD-ROM). 2005.
  • Miller, D., Takagi, H., Fukuda, K., and Asakawa, C. Visualizing the Accessibility of HTML Tables for Web Page Developers. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. UAHCI '05. (CD-ROM). 2005.
  • Takagi, H., Saito, S., Fukuda, K., and Asakawa, C. How Can Tools Help Web Designers Ensure Real Usability for the Blind on the Web? In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. UAHCI '05. (CD-ROM). 2005.
  • Fukuda, K., Saito, S., Takagi, H., and Asakawa, C. Proposing new metrics to evaluate web usability for the blind. In CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Portland, OR, USA, April 02 - 07, 2005). CHI '05. ACM Press, New York, NY, pp. 1387-1390. 2005.
  • Saito, S. and Asakawa, C. aDesigner: Visualizing Blind Usability and Simulating Low Vision Visibility. In Proceedings of California State Univ. Northridge Center of Disabilities. CSUN '05. 2005.
  • Takagi, H., Asakawa, C., Fukuda, K., and Maeda, J. Accessibility designer: visualizing usability for the blind. In Proceedings of the 6th international ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Atlanta, GA, USA, October 18 - 20, 2004). Assets '04. ACM Press, New York, NY, pp. 177-184. 2004.
  • Asakawa, C., Takagi, H., Ino, S., and Ifukube, T. Maximum listening speeds for the blind. In Proceedings Conference of International Community for Auditory Display 2003. pp. 276-279. 2003.
  • Asakawa, C., Takagi, H., Ino, S., and Ifukube, T. A Proposal for a Dial-based Interface for Voice Output Based on Blind users' Cognitive Listening Abilities. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. UAHCI '03. vol.4, pp. 1250-1254. 2003.
  • Fukuda, K., Takagi, H., Maeda, J., and Asakawa, C. An Assist method for realizing a Web page structure for blind people. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. UAHCI '03. pp. 960-964. 2003.
  • Takagi, H., Fukuda, K., Asakawa, C. and RepairML: Linking Tools for the Web Accessibility. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. UAHCI '03. vol.4, pp. 627-631. 2003.
  • Asakawa, C., Takagi, H., Ino, S., and Ifukube, T. The Highest and the Most Suitable Listening Rates for the Blind in the Screen Reading. In Proceedings of Technology and Persons with Disabilities conference. CSUN '03. 2003.
  • Takagi, H., Fukuda, K., Maeda, J., and Asakawa, C., Detweiler, S. Disability Simulator. In Proceedings of Technology and Persons with Disabilities conference. CSUN '03. 2003.
  • Maeda, J., Fukuda, K., Takagi, H., and Asakawa, C. WebDigest: Layout-preserving Visually Enhanced Web Pages. In Proceedings of IEEE SAINT2003. pp. 418-421. 2003.
  • Takagi, H., Asakawa, C., Fukuda, K., and Maeda, J. Site-wide annotation: reconstructing existing pages to be accessible. In Proceedings of the Fifth international ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Edinburgh, Scotland, July 08 - 10, 2002). Assets '02. ACM Press, New York, NY, pp. 81-88. 2002.
  • Asakawa, C., Takagi, H., Ino, S., and Ifukube, T. Auditory and Tactile Interfaces for representing the Visual Effects on the Web. In Proceedings of the International ACM SIGCAPH Conference on Assistive Technologies. ASSETS '02. pp. 65-72. 2002..
  • Asakawa, C. Automatic Web Content Accessibility Compliance Tool for Section 508. In Proceedings of Technology and Persons with Disabilities conference. CSUN '02. 2002.
  • Takagi, H., Asakawa, C., Maeda, J., and Fukuda, K. Web Content Transcoding System for Voice Output. In Proceedings of Technology and Persons with Disabilities conference. CSUN '02. 2002.
  • Asakawa, C. and Takagi, H. An Automatic Web Content Accessibility Compliance Tool for Section 508. In Proceedings of CSUN 2002. 2002.
  • Asakawa, C. and Takagi, H. Document Reader for the Blind. In Proceedings of Universal Access in Human - Computer Interaction. UAHCI '01, vol.3. pp. 890-894. 2001.
  • Asakawa. C. and Takagi, H. One-dimensional User Interface for Retrieving Information from the Web for the Blind. In Proceedings of Universal Access in Human - Computer Interaction. UAHCI '01, vol.3. pp. 885-889. 2001.
  • Takagi, H. and Asakawa, C. Page-Customization Allowing Blind Users to Improve Web Accessibility by Themselves. In Proceedings of Universal Access in Human - Computer Interaction. UAHCI '01, vol.3. pp. 1003-1007. 2001.
  • Asakawa, C., Takagi, H., Fukuda, K., and Maeda, J. A Transcoding System for the Nonvisual Web Accessibility. In Proceedings of Technology and Persons with Disabilities conference. CSUN '01. 2001.
  • Takagi, H., Asakawa, C., Fukuda, K., and Maeda, J. Automatic Transcoding for the Web Accessibility. In Proceedings of Technology and Persons with Disabilities conference. CSUN '01. 2001.
  • Asakawa, C. and Takagi, H. Annotation-based Transcoding for Nonvisual Web Access. In Proceedings of the International ACM SIGCAPH Conference on Assistive Technologies. ASSETS '00. pp. 172-179. 2000.
  • Takagi, H. and Asakawa, C. Transcoding proxy for nonvisual web access. In Proceedings of the Fourth international ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Arlington, Virginia, United States, November 13 - 15, 2000). Assets '00. ACM Press, New York, NY, pp. 164-171. 2000.
  • Asakawa, C., Takagi, H., and Itoh, T. Document Reader for the Blind. In Proceedings of Technology and Persons with Disabilities conference. CSUN '00. 2000.
  • Takagi, H., Asakawa, C., and Itoh, T. Non-Visual Groupware Client: Notes Reader. In Proceedings of Technology and Persons with Disabilities conference. CSUN '00. 2000.
  • Laws, C. and Asakawa, C. IBM Home Page Reader: The Voice of the World Wide Web. In Proceedings of Technology and Persons with Disabilities conference. CSUN '99. 1999.
  • Kitamura, K. and Asakawa, C. Speech Pointer: A Non-visual User Interface Using Speech Recognition and Synthesis. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. SMC '99, vol.3. pp. 1083-1088. 1999.
  • Asakawa, C. and Itoh, T. User Interface of Non-visual Table Navigation Method. In Proceedings of The ACM CHI 2001 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. pp. 214-215. 1999.
  • Asakawa, C. and Itoh, T. User interface of a Home Page Reader. In Proceedings of the Third international ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Marina del Rey, California, United States, April 15 - 17, 1998). Assets '98. ACM Press, New York, NY, pp. 149-156. 1998.
  • Asakawa, C. A Web Reader for the Visually Disabled. In Proceedings of IWHIT 97. pp. 71-74. 1997.
  • Asakawa, C. User Interface of a Document-Processing Reader for the Blind. In Proceedings of MULTIMEDIA '96. pp. 493-496. 1996.

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Domestic Conference
  • Chieko Asakawa, "Striving to achieve an adaptive interface usable for all people", IEICE September, pp. 792-794, 2007 (in Japanese)
  • Daisuke Sato, Hironobu Takagi, Chieko Asakawa, "An Experimental Interface to Present Audio Description of Video for the Blind", Japan Society for Software Science and Technology(WISS2006),pp. 71-76, 2006.(in Japanese)
  • Daisuke Sato, Hironobu Takagi, Chieko Asakawa, "An Automatic Evaluation Technique for Presentation Documents Accessibility", Proceedings of Forum on Information Technology 2006 (FIT2006), pp.523--526, 2006. (in Japanese)
  • Tatsuya Ishihara, Hironobu Takagi, Takashi Itoh, Chieko Asakawa, "An interface for blind person using meta-data of presentation documents",　Forum on Information Technology , pp. K-064-067, 2006.(in Japanese)
  • Tatsuya Ishihara, Hironobu Takagi, Chieko Asakawa, "A Method to add meta-information to presentation documents for recognizing the structure of the documents", SIG-WIT, IEICE, pp. 1-6, 2006.(in Japanese)
  • Shin Saito, Kentaroh Fukuda, Hironobu Takagi, Chieko Asakawa, "A support method for Web accessibility improvement based on lifecycle management", The Seventh Workshop on Internet Technology (WIT2005), Japan Society for Software Science and Technology (JSSST) 2005.(in Japanese)
  • Chieko Asakawa, "Accessibility Technology for Visually Disabled People : Realizing the Universal Design for Information", IEICE November, 2005 Special Issue for "Expectations for Women Researchers", pp. 895-900, 2005. (in Japanese)
  • H. Takagi, K. Fukuda, J. Maeda, C. Asakawa, "Disability Simulator for Web Accessibility: aDesigner", Japan Society for Software Science and Technology (WISS2004), pp. 101-106, 2004. (in Japanese)
  • J. Maeda, K. Fukuda, H. Takagi, and C. Asakawa, "Presentation-based Web Accessibility Evaluation System", Technical Report of IEICE(Welfare) WIT2003-23 (SP2003-111), pp. 47-52, 2003. (in Japanese)
  • C. Asakawa and H. Takagi, "A Proposal for a New Interface for the Blind Based on their Cognitive Listening Abilities", Japan Society for Software Science and Technology (WISS2002), pp. 1-5, 2002. (in Japanese)
  • C. Asakawa, H. Takagi, S. Ino and T. Ifukube, "The Highest and the Most Suitable Listening Rate for the Blind in the Screen Reading Process", The Human Interface Symposium 2002, pp. 543-546, 2002. (in Japanese)
  • J. Maeda, K. Fukuda, H. Takagi, and C. Asakawa, "Evaluation of Web Digesting Technique", IEICE Technical Report, (PRMU2002-80), pp. 1-6, 2002 (in Japanese)
  • C. Asakawa, H. Takagi, and T. Ifukube, "An Information Retrieving System for the Blind While Text Editing Process", Japan Society for Software Science and Technology (WISS2001), pp. 39-44, 2001. (in Japanese)
  • J. Maeda, H. Takagi, K. Fukuda, and C. Asakawa, "Web digesting technique based on annotations", (WIT01), pp. 25-30, 2001. (in Japanese)
  • K. Fukuda, H. Takagi, J. Maeda, and C. Asakawa, "Common layout extraction from Web pages", Technical Report of IPSJ SigDD-28-02, pp. 7-14, 2001. (in Japanese)
  • K. Fukuda, H. Takagi, J. Maeda, and C. Asakawa, "Web Contents Transcoding System for Improvement of Accessibility", (WIT2001-15), pp. 31-36, 2001. (in Japanese)
  • H. Takagi, C. Asakawa, K. Fukuda, and J. Maeda, "Transcoding System for the Non-visual Web Access", Japan Society for Software Science and Technology (WISS2001), pp. 27-32, 2001. (in Japanese)
  • C. Asakawa, "The Web Accessibility for the Visually Impaired People", (IEICE), vol.83, no.8, pp. 643-644, 2000. (in Japanese)
  • C. Asakawa, "Realizing the Web Accessibility Based on Homepage Reader and Accessibility Transcoding Technology", Worktech21, 2000. (in Japanese)
  • C. Asakawa, H. Takagi, and T. Itoh, "Document Reader for the Blind", (WIT00-20), pp. 49-54, 2000. (in Japanese)
  • H. Takagi and C. Asakawa, "A WEB Page Simplification Method of a Transcoding System for the Blind", (WIT00-20), pp.67-68, 2000. (in Japanese)
  • C. Asakawa, H. Takagi, J. Maeda, and K. Fukuda, "User Interface of Web Contents Transcoding System for the Visually Disabled 1", Japan Society for Software Science and Technology (WISS2000), pp. 211-212, 2000. (in Japanese)
  • C. Asakawa, H. Takagi, J. Maeda, and K. Fukuda, "User Interface of Web Contents Transcoding System for the Visually Disabled 2", Japan Society for Software Science and Technology (WISS2000), pp. 213-214, 2000. (in Japanese)
  • K. Kitamura, C. Asakawa, T. Itoh, N. Itoh, and M. Nishimura, "A Method for Browsing Homepages by Using Speech Recognition and Synthesis", (SLP25-2), pp. 7-12, 1999. (in Japanese)
  • C. Asakawa and T. Itoh, "Japanese Input Method for the Blind", (SLP25-10), vol.99, no.14, pp. 49-50, 1999. (in Japanese)
  • C. Asakawa and T. Itoh, "Nonvisual Web Access System", (HIS77-11), pp. 57-62, 1998. (in Japanese)
  • C. Asakawa and T. Itoh, "A Voice of Conversion Method of HTML tags in a Web Access System for the Blind", Natural Language Symposium 1997. (Web) (in Japanese)
  • T. Ono and C. Asakawa, "Prototyping an Automatically Japanese Brail Translation English Based on a Morphological Analysis of a Text to Speech System", Natural Language Symposium 1997. (Web) (in Japanese)
  • C. Asakawa, "A Web Reader: An Internet Access System for the Blind", Worktech21, pp. 35-40, 1997. (in Japanese)
  • C. Asakawa, K. Kitamura and T. Itoh, "A Study of Nonvisual Web Access Using Voice Input and Output", IPSJ, pp. 53-58, 1997.(in Japanese)
  • C. Asakawa, "Enabling the Visually Disabled the Use the WWW in a GUI Environment", (IEICE HCS96-29), pp. 39-44, 1996. (in Japanese)
  • C. Asakawa, K. Sugawara, K. Katou and A. Koide, "Document Processing System for the Visually Disabled", IEICE, pp. 33-40, 1995. (in Japanese)
  • C. Asakawa, "Computer Access System for the visually disabled on DOS/V", IPSJ, pp. 367-368, 1995. (in Japanese)
  • K. Suzuki and C. Asakawa, "Kanji/Kana Conversion for Text-to-braille System", IPSJ, pp. 215-216, 1993. (in Japanese)

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Books
  • Asakawa, C. and Takagi, H. Transcoding. In Web Accessibility: A Foundation for Research, Simon Harper and Yeliz Yesilada. pp. 231-261, 2008.
  • Asakawa, C. and Takagi, H. Text Entry for People with Visual Impairments. In TEXT ENTRY SYSTEMS, Scott MacKenzie, I. and Tanaka-Ishii, K., Ed. Morgan Kaufmann. pp. 305-318, 2006.
  • Chieko Asakawa, "My History: How Did I Become a Researcher?", National Women's Education Center, Japan, 2005.
  • Chieko Asakawa, "Proficient for Software", pp. 88-115, NikkeiBP, 2005.

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Index