Accessibility research

List of publications

International conferences

• Shin Saito, Hironobu Takagi, Chieko Asakawa, "Transforming Flash Movies to XML for Accessibility Evaluations", ACM ASSETS 2006.
• Tatsuya Ishihara, Hironobu Takagi, Takashi Itoh, Chieko Asakawa, "A presentation document interface for the blind based on automated metadata", ACM ASSETS 2006.
• Daisuke Sato, Hironobu Takagi, Chieko Asakawa, "Accessibility Evaluation based on Machine Learning Technique", Proceedings of ASSETS 2006, ACM, 2006.
• Kentarou Fukuda, Hironobu Takagi, Junji Maeda and Chieko Asakawa, "An Effective Accessibility Improvement Method for Server-side Java-based Web Applications", Proceedings of Universal Access In Human-Computer Interaction (UAHCI 2005)
• Dorian Miller, Hironobu Takagi, Kentarou Fukuda, Chieko Asakawa, "Visualizing the Accessibility of HTML Tables for Web Page Developers" Proceedings of Universal Access In Human-Computer Interaction (UAHCI 2005)
• Hironobu Takagi, Shin Saito, Kentarou Fukuda, and Chieko Asakawa, "How Can Tools Help Web Designers Ensure Real Usability for the Blind on the Web?", Proceedings of Universal Access In Human-Computer Interaction (UAHCI 2005)
• Chieko Asakawa, "Whatfs the Web like if you canft see it?", Keynote, Proceedings of International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A 2005)
• Kentarou Fukuda, Shin Saito, Hironobu Takagi, Chieko Asakawa, "Proposing New Metrics to Evaluate Web Usability for the Blind", Proceedings of Conference on Human Factory in Computing systems (CHI 2005)
• Shin Saito, Chieko Asakawa, "aDesigner: Visualizing Blind Usability and Simulating Low Vision Visibility", Proceedings of California State Univ. Northridge Center onf Disabilities (CSUN) 2005.
• Hironobu Takagi, Chieko Asakawa, Kentarou Fukuda, and Junji Maeda, "Accessibility Designer: Visualizing Usability for the Blind," Proceedings of the Sixth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Assistive Technologies, ACM Press, 2004.
• Hironobu Takagi, Kentarou Fukuda, and Chieko Asakawa, "RepairML: Linking Tools for the Web Accessibility," Proceedings of HCI (UAHCI), pp. 627-631, 2003.
• Kentarou Fukuda, Hironobu Takagi, Junji Maeda, and Chieko Asakawa, "An Assist method for realizing a Web page structure for blind people," Proceedings of HCI (UAHCI), pp.960-964, 2003.
• Junji Maeda, Kentarou Fukuda, Hironobu Takagi, and Chieko Asakawa, "WebDigest: Layout-preserving Visually Enhanced Web Pages," Proceedings of IEEE SAINT2003, pp.418-421, 2003.
• Hironobu Takagi, Chieko Asakawa, Kentarou Fukuda, and Junji Maeda, "Site-wide Annotation: Reconstructing Existing Pages to be Accessible," Proceedings of ACM ASSET2002, pp.81-88, 2002.
• Hironobu Takagi, Chieko Asakawa, Junji Maeda, and Kentarou Fukuda, "Web Content Transcoding System for Voice Output," Proceedings of Technology and Persons with Disabilities conference - CSUN 2002, 2002.
• Chieko Asakawa and Hironobu Takagi, "An Automatic Web Content Accessibility Compliance Tool for Section 508," Proceedings of Technology and Persons with Disabilities conference - CSUN 2002, 2002.
• Chieko Asakawa and Hironobu Takagi, "One-dimensional User Interface for Retrieving Information from the Web for the Blind," Proceedings of Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction (UAHCI 2001), pp. 885-889, 2001.
• Chieko Asakawa and Hironobu Takagi, "Document Reader for the Blind," Proceedings of Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction (UAHCI 2001), pp. 890-894, 2001.
• Takashi Sakairi and Hironobu Takagi, "An annotation editor for nonvisual Web access," Proceedings of Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction (UAHCI 2001), pp. 982-985, 2001.
• Hironobu Takagi and Chieko Asakawa, "Page-Customization Allowing Blind Users to Improve Web Accessibility by Themselves," Proceedings of Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction (UAHCI 2001), pp. 1003-1007, 2001.
• Chieko Asakawa, Hironobu Takagi, Kentarou Fukuda, and Junji Maeda, "A Transcoding System for the Nonvisual Web Accessibility," Proceedings of Technology and Persons with Disabilities conference - CSUN 2001, 2001.
• Hironobu Takagi, Chieko Asakawa, Kentarou Fukuda, and Junji Maeda, "Automatic Transcoding for the Web Accessibility," Proceedings of Technology and Persons with Disabilities conference - CSUN 2001, 2001.
• Chieko Asakawa and Hironobu Takagi, "Annotation-based Transcoding for Nonvisual Web Access," Proceedings of ACM ASSETS 2000, pp. 172-179, Nov. 2000.
• Hironobu Takagi and Chieko Asakawa, "Transcoding Proxy for Nonvisual Web Access," Proceedings of ACM ASSETS 2000, pp. 164-171, Nov. 2000.
• Chieko Asakawa, Hironobu Takagi, and Takashi Itoh, "Document Reader for the Blind," Proceedings of CSUN 2000, Mar. 2000.
• Hironobu Takagi, Chieko Asakawa, and Takashi Itoh, "Non-Visual Groupware Client: Notes Reader," Proceedings of CSUN 2000, Mar. 2000.
• Kohzoh Kitamura and Chieko Asakawa, "Speech Pointer: A non-visual user interface using speech recognition and synthesis," Proceedings of IEEE international conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, October 1999.
• Chieko Asakawa and Takashi Itoh, "User Interface of a Nonvisual Table Navigation Method," Proceedings of ACM SIGCHI Conference (CHI) '99, May 1999.
• Catherine Laws and Chieko Asakawa, "IBM Home Page Reader: The Voice of the World Wide Web," Proceedings of CSUN 1999, 1999.
• Chieko Asakawa and Takashi Itoh, "User Interface of a Home Page Reader," Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCAPH Conference on Assistive Technologies (ASSETS) '98, pp.149-156, Apr. 1998.
• Kazuhide Sugawara, "Weighted Hough Transform on a Gridded Image Plane," Fourth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, P64, 1997.
• Chieko Asakawa, "A Web Reader for the Visually Disabled," Proceedings of the International Workshop on Human Interface Technology (IWHIT) '97, pp.71-74, Mar. 1997.
• Chieko Asakawa, "User Interface of a Document-Processing Reader for the Blind," Proceedings of the IEEE Multimedia Systems '96, pp.493-496, June 1996

Domestic conferences

• 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), 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 , 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, 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"
• Junji Maeda, Kentarou Fukuda, Hironobu Takagi, and Chieko Asakawa, "Presentation-based Web Accessibility Evaluation System," Technical Report of IEICE(Welfare) WIT2003-23 (SP2003-111), pp. 47-52, Oct. 2003.(J)
• Junji Maeda, Kentarou Fukuda, Hironobu Takagi, and Chieko Asakawa, "Evaluation of Web Digesting Technique," Technical Report of IEICE(Welfare) WIT2002-23 (PRMU2002-80), pp. 1-6, Sep. 2002.(J)
• Hironobu Takagi, Chieko Asakawa, Kentarou Fukuda, and Junji Maeda, "Transcoding System for the Non-visual Web Access," Proceedings of Workshop on Interactive Systems and Software (WISS) 2001, pp. 27-32, 2001.(J)
• Junji Maeda, Hironobu Takagi, Kentarou Fukuda, and Chieko Asakawa, "Web digesting technique based on annotations," Technical Report of IEICE (Welfare) WIT2001-14, pp. 25-30, Aug. 2001.(J)
• Kentarou Fukuda, Hironobu Takagi, Junji Maeda, and Chieko Asakawa, "Web Contents Transcoding System for Improvement of Accessibility," Technical Report of IEICE(Welfare) WIT2001-15, pp. 31-36, Aug. 2001.(J)
• Kentarou Fukuda, Hironobu Takagi, Junji Maeda, and Chieko Asakawa, "Common layout extraction from Web pages," IPSJ SIG Notes 2001-DD-28-2, pp. 7-14, May 2001.(J)
• Chieko Asakawa, Hironobu Takagi, Junji Maeda, and Kentarou Fukuda, "Web Contents Transcoding System for the Blind (1) - User Interface," Proceedings of Workshop on Interactive Systems and Software (WISS) 2000, pp. 211-212, 2000.(J)
• Hironobu Takagi, Chieko Asakawa, Junji Maeda, and Kentarou Fukuda, "Web Contents Transcoding System for the Blind (2) - System Architecture," Proceedings of Workshop on Interactive Systems and Software (WISS) 2000, pp. 213-214, 2000.(J)
• Chieko Asakawa, Hironobu Takagi, and Takashi Itoh, "Document Reader for the Blind," Technical Report of IEICE(Welfare) WIT00-20, pp. 49-54, Aug. 2000.(J)
• Junji Maeda and Makoto Kobayashi, "Web page transformation adapted to the visual ability of the user," Technical Report of IEICE(Welfare) WIT00-22, pp. 61-66, Aug. 2000.(J)
• Hironobu Takagi and Chieko Asakawa, "A WEB Page Simplification Method of a Transcoding System for the Blind," Technical Report of IEICE(Welfare) WIT00-23, pp. 67-72, Aug. 2000.(J)
• Junji Maeda and Makoto Kobayashi, "WebDigest: Visually Enhanced Web Page Presentation through Page Digesting," Technical report of IPSJ SIG-HI 87-4, Jan., 2000.(J)
• Chieko Asakawa, Takashi Itoh, "Japanese Dictation System for the Blind," Technical report of IPSJ SLP-25-10 Vol.99 No.14, pp.49-50, Feb. 1999.(J)
• Kitamura Kozo, Chieko Asakawa, etc., "A Method for Browsing Homepages by Using Speech Recognition and Synthesis" Technical report of IPSJ 25-2, Feb. 1999.(J)
• Chieko Asakawa, "Nonvisual Web Access System," Technical Report of Human Interface Research Group IPSJ HI77-11, pp.57-62, Mar. 1998.(J)
• Chieko Asakawa, Takashi Itoh, "A Web Access System of HTML Tags Conversion to Voice for the Blind," Technical report of SLP Symposium, Nov. 1997.(J)
• Chieko Asakawa, "WebReader," Proceedings of Worktech 21, Jul. 1997.(J)
• Chieko Asakawa, Kozo Kitamura and Takashi Itoh, "A Study of Nonvisual Web Access Using Voice Input and Output," Technical report of IPSJ SLP17-10, pp.53-58. Jul. 1997.(J)
• Chieko Asakawa, "Enabling the Visually Disabled to Use the WWW in a GUI Environment," Technical report of IEICE HCS96-29, pp.39-44, Sep. 1996.(J)

Journal papers

• Hironobu Takagi, Shin Saito, Kentarou Fukuda, Chieko Asakawa, "Analysis of Navigability of Web Applications for Improving Blind Usability", The ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) (in press) 2006.
• 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 (in press) 2006.
• Hironobu Takagi, Shin Saito, Kentarou Fukuda, Chieko Asakawa, "Analysis of Navigability of Web Applications for Improving Blind Usability", The ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) (in press) 2006.
• 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 (in press) 2006.
• Junji Maeda, Kentarou Fukuda, Hironobu Takagi, and Chieko Asakawa, "Web accessibility technology at the IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory," To appear, IBM Journal of Research and Development, Vol. 48, No. 4, 2004.
• Kentarou Fukuda, Hironobu Takagi, Junji Maeda, and Chieko 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, Nov. 2003.(J)
• Chieko Asakawa, Takashi Itoh, "User Interface of a Non-visual Web Access System," Domestic Journal Paper of IPSJ "Human Interface and Interaction," Vol.40 No.2, pp.453-459, Feb. 1999.(J)
• Chieko Asakawa, "A Braille English/Japanese Dictionary System," Transactions of the IPSJ Vol.34 No.8, pp.1844-1852, Aug. 1993.(J)

Research reports

• Takashi Sakairi and Hironobu Takagi, "An Annotation Editor for Nonvisual Web Access," RT-0407, Mar. 2001.
• Junji Maeda and Makoto Kobayashi, "WebDigest: Visually enhanced web page representation with layout preservation," RT-0345, Feb. 2000.