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Gel Robot Monograph

Mihoko Otake: Electroactive Polymer Gel Robots

- Modelling and Control of Artificial Muscles,

Springer-Verlag, 2009 (238 pages)

(Monograph based on Doctoral Dissertation)

Original Papers

Myagmarbayar Nergui and Mihoko Otake, Development of a Tool for Assisting Group Conversation by Re-voicing Supportive Responses, Applied Mechanics and Materials, Vol. 446 - 447, pp. 1040 - 1044, 2014.

Mihoko Otake, Myagmarbayar Nergui, Takashi Otani and Jun Ota, Duplication Analysis of Conversation and its Application to Cognitive Training of Older Adults in Care Facilities, Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 615 - 621, 2013.

Myagmarbayar Nergui and Mihoko Otake, Laughter Detection for an Assisting Tool of Group Conversation, International Journal of Signal Processing Systems, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2013.

Myagmarbayar Nergui, Yuki Yoshida, Nevrez Imamoglu, Jose Gonzalez, Mihoko Otake, Wenwei Yu, Human Activity Recognition Using Body Contour Parameters Extracted from Depth Images, Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 455-461, 2013.

Myagmarbayar Nergui, Lin Pai-hui, Gota Nagamatsu, Mikio Waki and Mihoko Otake, Automatic detection of laughter using respiratory sensor data with smile degree, Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics, ppB12 - 15, 2013.

Myagmarbayar Nergui, and Mihoko Otake, Facial Expression Detection through a RGB-D sensor for an Assisting Tool of Group Conversation, Proceedings of the International Conference on Modern Trends in Science Engineering and Technology 2013, pp.17 - 21, 2013.

Myagmarbayar Nergui, Yoshida Yuki, Nevrez Imamoglu, Jose Gonzalez, Mihoko Otake and Wenwei Yu, Human Body Contour Data Based Activity Recognition, Proceedings of the 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS, pp.5634-5637, 2013.

Mihoko Otake, Surya G. Nurzaman, and Fumiya Iida. Embodied Cognition in Psychological Therapy, Journal of Cognitive Science, Vol. 13, pp. 431 ? 452, 2012.

Taichi Yamaguchi, Jun Ota, Mihoko Otake. A system that assists group conversation of older adults by evaluating speech duration and facial expression of each participant during conversation. In Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 4481-4486, 2012.

Mihoko Otake, Seamless Connection of Present, Past and Future via Coimagination Method, Proceedings of the International Reminiscence and Life Review Conference 2011, pp.172 - 185, 2011.

Mihoko Otake, Motoichiro Kato, Toshihisa Takagi, Shuichi Iwata, Hajime Asama, and Jun Ota, "Multiscale Service Design Method and its Application to Sustainable Service for Prevention and Recovery from Dementia", Proceedings of the International Workshop on Innovating Service Systems, pp. 21 - 30, 2010.

Takashi Otani, Jun Ota, and Mihoko Otake, "Conversation Characteristics of Older Adults in Care Facilities", Proceeding of The 14th Asia Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems, pp. 283 - 292, 2010.

Takuya Ueshima, Jun Ota, and Mihoko Otake, "Semi-automated Conversation Measuring System", Proceeding of The 14th Asia Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems, pp. 293 - 304, 2010.

Tetsunari Inamura, Tomohiro Shibata, Hideaki Sena, Takashi Hashimoto, Nobuyuki Kawai, Takahiro Miyashita, Yoshiki Sakurai, Masahiro Shimizu, Mihoko Otake, Koh Hosoda, Satoshi Umeda, Kentaro Inui and Yuichiro Yoshikawa, "Simulator platform that enables social interaction simulation --SIGVerse: SocioIntelliGenesis simulator?", Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, 2010.

Mihoko Otake, "Development of Support Service for Prevention and Recovery from Dementia and Science of Lethe -Thought State Transition Model during Conversation and Set Theoretical Measure of Interaction-", Transactions of the Japanese Society fo Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 25, No. 5, pp. 662 - 669, 2010.

Mihoko Otake, "Development of Support Service for Prevention and Recovery from Dementia and Science of Lethe -Conversation Support Service for Social Interaction via Coimagination Method-", Transactions of the Japanese Society fo Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 24, No. 6, pp. 568 - 575, 2009.

Mihoko Otake, "Development of Support Service for Prevention and Recovery from Dementia and Science of Lethe -Proposal of Multiscale Service Design Method-", Transactions of the Japanese Society fo Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 24, No.2, pp. 295 - 302, 2009.

Mihoko Otake, Ryo Fukano, Shinji Sako, Masao Sugi, Kiyoshi Kotani, Junya Hayashi, Hiroshi Noguchi, Ryuichi Yoneda, Kenjiro Taura, Nobuyuki Otsu, and Tomomasa Sato, "Autonomous Collaborative Environment for Project Based Learning", Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 57, Issue 2, pp. 134-138, 2009.

Mihoko Otake, Motoichiro Kato, Toshihisa Takagi and Hajime Asama, "Coimagination method: supporting interactive conversation for activation of episodic memory, division of attention, and planning function and its evaluation via conversation interactivity measuring method", Proceedings of the 2009 International Symposium on Early Detection and Rehabilitation Technology of Dementia, pp. 167 - 170, 2009.

Mihoko Otake, "Coimagination method: sharing imagination with images and time limit", Proceedings of the International Reminiscence and Life Review Conference 2009, pp.97 - 103, 2009.

Masataka Murabayashi, Yusuke Ikemoto, Mihoko Otake, Takaki Maeda, Motoichiro Kato, and Hajime Asama, "Sense of Agency Effected by Causal Relationship Between Motor Command and Sensory Feedback", Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Mobiligence, pp. 304 - 307, 2009.

Mihoko Otake, Motoichiro Kato, Toshihisa Takagi and Hajime Asama, "Development of Coimagination Method towards Cognitive Enhancement via Image based Interactive Communication", Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, pp. 835 - 840, 2009.

Hiroshi Matsuyama, Hajime Asama, Mihoko Otake, "Design of differential Near-Infrared Spectroscopy based Brain Machine Interface", Proceedings of the18th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, pp. 775 - 780, 2009.

Mihoko Otake, Motoichiro Kato, Toshihisa Takagi and Hajime Asama, "Coimagination Method: Communication Support System with Collected Images and its Evaluation via Memory Task", Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction Constantine Stephanidis (Ed.), LNCS 5614, Springer-Verlag, pp.403-411, 2009.

Masataka Murabayashi, Yusuke Ikemoto, Mihoko Otake, Takaki Maeda, Motoichiro Kato, and Hajime Asama, "Analysis of the Sense of Agency using a Tactile Device", Proceedings of 17th CISM-IFToMM Symposium on Robot Design, Dynamics, and Control, pp. 35-42, 2008.

Mihoko Otake, Toshihisa Takagi, and Hajime Asama, "Open Brain Simulator Estimating Internal State of Human through External Observation towards Human Biomechatronics", Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1089-1093, 2008.

Mihoko Otake. Science for Society is to be Done within the Society, The 21st International CODATA Conference Abstracts, pp. 96 - 97, 2008.

Mihoko Otake, Toshihisa Takagi, and Hajime Asama, " Development of Open Brain Simulator for Human Biomechatronics", Transactions on Electronics, Information and Systems, Vol. 127, No. 10, pp. 1705 - 1711, 2007.

Mihoko Otake, Kohei Arai, Motoichiro Kato, Takaki Maeda, Yusuke Ikemoto, Kuniaki Kawabata, Toshihisa Takagi, and Hajime Asama, "Experimental Analysis of the Attribution of Own Actions to the Intention of Self or Others by the Multiple Forward Models", Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 482-488, 2007.

Mihoko Otake, Kohei Arai, Motoichiro Kato, Takaki Maeda, Yusuke Ikemoto, Kuniaki Kawabata, Toshihisa Takagi, and Hajime Asama, "Experimental Analysis and Computational Simulation of the Attribution of Own Actions by the Multiple Forward Models", Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, pp. 1417 - 1421, 2007.

Kanako Nakajima, Soichiro Morishita, Tomoki Kazawa, Mihoko Otake, Ryohei Kanzaki, Hajime Asama and Taketoshi Mishima, "Compensation of binarized CLSM images for extraction of the form of a single neuron in the silkworm moth brain", Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, pp. 1224 - 1229, 2007.

Yuuki Horita, Satoshi Ito, Kenji Kaneda, Takuya Nanri, Yasuyuki Shimohata, Kenjiro Taura, Mihoko Otake, Tomomasa Sato and Nobuyuki Otsu, "High Precision Gait Recognition Using a Large-Scale PC Cluster", Proceedings of the IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing, pp. 43 - 49, 2006.

Takayoshi Shiraki, Hideo Saito, Yoshikazu Kamoshida, Katsuhiko Ishiguro, Ryo Fukano, Tatsuya Shirai, Kenjiro Taura, Mihoko Otake, Tomomasa Sato and Nobuyuki Otsu, "Real-Time Motion Recognition Using CHLAC Features and Cluster Computing", Proceedings of the IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing, pp. 50 - 56, 2006.

Mihoko Otake, Ryo Fukano, Shinji Sako, Masao Sugi, Kiyoshi Kotani, Junya Hayashi, Hiroshi Noguchi, Ryuichi Yoneda, Kenjiro Taura, Nobuyuki Otsu, and Tomomasa Sato, "Autonomous Collaborative Environment for Project Based Learning", Intelligent Autonomous Systems 9 T. Arai et al. (Eds.) IOS Press, pp.756-763, 2006.

Mihoko Otake, Yoshihiko Nakamura, Masayuki Inaba, and Hirochika Inoue, "Wave-shape Pattern Control of Electroactive Polymer Gel Robots", Experimental Robotics IX, Marcelo H. Ang Jr. and Oussama Khatib (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, pp. 87 - 96, 2006.

Mihoko Otake, "From Muscle to Brain - Modelling and Control of Functional Materials and Living Systems", Intelligent Autonomous Systems 9 T. Arai et al. (Eds.) IOS Press, pp.1025-1032, 2006.

Mihoko Otake, "Human Science Integration through the Cycle of Communication, Contents and Community", Proceedings of the 20th CODATA International Conference, pp.16-17, 2006.

Mihoko Otake and Toshihisa Takagi, "Multiscale Neural Simulation Platform for Sharing and Integrating Neuroscience Knowledge", Proceedings of the 20th CODATA International Conference, pp. 137-138, 2006.

Mihoko Otake and Toshihisa Takagi, "Efferent copy activation and comparator inhibition model describes under-attribution and over-attribution in schizophrenic subjects", Society for Neuroscience Abstract, 122.4, 2006.

Mihoko Otake. "Agent Model of Electroactive Polymers: How can we bring out intelligence from smart materials?" Proceedingss of the Third Conference on Artificial Muscles, 2006.

Mihoko Otake and Toshihisa Takagi, "Reassembly and Interfacing Neural Models Registered on Biological Model Databases", Genome Informatics, vol. 16, no. 2, pp.76-85, 2005.

Mihoko Otake and Yoshihiko Nakamura, "Spinal Information Processing and its Application to Motor Learning Support", Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, Vol. 17, No. 6, pp. 617-627, 2005.

Mihoko Otake and Yoshihiko Nakamura, "Anatomical Model of the Spinal Nervous System and its Application to the Coordination Analysis for Motor Learning Support System", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotic Systems, pp. 847 - 852, 2005.

Mihoko Otake, Yoshihiko Nakamura, and Hirochika Inoue, "Pattern Formation Theory for Electroactive Polymer Gel Robots", Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2782-2787, 2004.

Mihoko Otake, Yoshihiko Nakamura, Masayuki Inaba, and Hirochika Inoue, "Wave-shape Pattern Control of Electroactive Polymer Gel Robots", Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, ID178, 2004.

Mihoko Otake, Yoshihiko Nakamura, and Hirochika Inoue. Wave-shape Pattern Generation of Electroactive Polymer Gel in Controlled Electric Fields. Proceedingss of the Second Conference on Artificial Muscles, 2004.

Mihoko Otake, Yoshiharu Kagami, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Masayuki Inaba, and Hirochika Inoue, "Inverse Dynamics of Gel Robots made of Electroactive Polymer Gel", Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp.2299-2304, 2003.

Mihoko Otake, Yoshiharu Kagami, Masayuki Inaba, and Hirochika Inoue, "Motion design of a starfish-shaped gel robot made of electro-active polymer gel", Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 40, pp. 185-191, 2002.

Mihoko Otake, Yoshiharu Kagami, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Masayuki Inaba, and Hirochika Inoue, "Inverse Kinematics of Gel Robots made of Electro-Active Polymer Gel", Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp.3224-3229, 2002.

Takashi Kiriyama, Mihoko Otake, Hiroya Tanaka, Junichi Tokuda, Haruka Tanji, Takeshi Matsushita, Masatoshi Arikawa, and Ryosuke Shibasaki", Exploring Exhibit Space in a Personal Perspective: An Interactive Photo Collage of a Folk Crafts Museum", Proceedings of ACM SIGCHI Designing Interactive Systems, pp. 393-398, 2002.

Mihoko Otake, Yoshiharu Kagami, Masayuki Inaba, and Hirochika Inoue, "Dynamics of Gel Robots made of Electro-Active Polymer Gel", Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp.1458-1462, 2001.

Mihoko Otake, Yoshiharu Kagami, Kohei Ishikawa, Masayuki Inaba, and Hirochika Inoue, "Shape Design of Gel Robots made of Electroactive Polymer Gel", Proceedings of SPIE Vol.4234 Smart Materials A. R. Wilson et al. (eds.), pp.194-202, 2001.

Mihoko Otake, Masayuki Inaba, and Hirochika Inoue, "Kinematics of Gel Robots made of Electro-Active Polymer PAMPS Gel", Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp.488-493, 2000.

Mihoko Otake, Yoshiharu Kagami, Masayuki Inaba, and Hirochika Inoue, "Behavior of a Mollusk-Type Robot Made of Electro-Active Polymer Gel under Spatially Varying Electric Fields", Intelligent Autonomous Systems 6 E. Pagello et al. (Eds.), pp.686-691, 2000.

Mihoko Otake, Masayuki Inaba, and Hirochika Inoue, "Development of Electric Environment to control Mollusk-Shaped Gel Robots made of Electro-Active Polymer PAMPS Gel", Proceedings of SPIE Vol.3987 Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) Y. Bar-Cohen (ed.), pp.321-330, 2000.

Mihoko Otake, Masayuki Inaba, and Hirochika Inoue, "Development of Gel Robots made of Electro-Active Polymer PAMPS Gel", Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Conference on Systems Man and Cybernetics, pp. II 788-793, 1999.

Reviews

Mihoko Otake. Robotics for Health and Well-being. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 88 - 91, 2014.

Mihoko Otake, "Measuring Amount of Words which can be Retrieved by Asking Questions - Introduction to Heart Warming Conversation for Effective Care 7 -", Ohayo21: Magazine for Nursing Care Professionals, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 60 - 63, 2011.

Mihoko Otake, "Measuring Attitude and Excitement of Conversation - Introduction to Heart Warming Conversation for Effective Care 6 -", Ohayo21: Magazine for Nursing Care Professionals, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 62 - 65, 2011.

Mihoko Otake, "Memorizing and Recording Conversation utilizing Photos - Introduction to Heart Warming Conversation for Effective Care 5 - ", Ohayo21: Magazine for Nursing Care Professionals, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 62 - 65, 2011.

Mihoko Otake, "Providing Place and Chance during Conversation - Introduction to Heart Warming Conversation for Effective Care 4 - ", Ohayo21: Magazine for Nursing Care Professionals, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 62 - 65, 2011.

Mihoko Otake, "Coimagination Method for Communication Disorder - Multilateral Approaches to Dementia - ", Rehabilitation in the Community, Vol. 5, No. 12, pp. 1049 - 1052, 2010.

Mihoko Otake, "Seeing Together What You Saw - Introduction to Heart Warming Conversation for Effective Care 3 - ", Ohayo21: Magazine for Nursing Care Professionals, Vol. 21, No. 13, pp. 60 - 63, 2010.

Mihoko Otake, "Blancing Listening and Speech during Conversation - Introduction to Heart Warming Conversation for Effective Care 2 - ", Ohayo21: Magazine for Nursing Care Professionals, Vol. 21, No. 12, pp. 60 - 63, 2010.

Mihoko Otake, "Looking for Topics to Share through Exploring Themes - Introduction to Heart Warming Conversation for Effective Care 1 - ", Ohayo21: Magazine for Nursing Care Professionals, Vol. 21, No. 11, pp. 60 - 63, 2010.

Mihoko Otake, "Development of Coimagination Method for Prevention of Dementia and Discussion", Kansei Engineering International Journal, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 160 - 166, 2010.

Mihoko Otake, "Novel Method for Prevention of Dementia - Coimagination Method - ", Group Home Care, Vol.16, pp. 22 - 31, 2009.

Mihoko Otake, "Why People Feel Time Flies When They are Getting Old? -Temporal Cognition of Older Adults- ", Clinical Neuroscience, Vol. 27, No.5, pp. 587, 2009.

Mihoko Otake, "Electroactive Polymer Gel Robots- Modeling and Control of Artificial Musclesh, WW-EAP Newsletter, vol. 11, no.2, pp. 20, 2009.

Mihoko Otake, "Development of Molluscan Gel Robots - Design of Deformable Robots made of Electroactive Polymer Gel ", Future Materials, Vol.8, No.12, pp. 2-5, 2008.

Motoichiro Kato, Mihoko Otake, Kohei Arai, Takaki Maeda, Yusuke Ikemoto, Kuniaki Kawabata, Toshihisa Takagi, and Hajime Asama, "Neural Mechanism of Gaze and Intention Understanding and Sense of Agency towards Robotic Design capable of Social Cognitionh, Journal of the Society of Instrument and Control EngineersCVol.46, No.12, pp. 940 - 944, 2007.

Kei Yoshimura and Mihoko Otake, "Reports on ICSU Global Scientific Challenges: Perspectives from Young Scientistsh, Journal of Japan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources, Vol. 20, No. 6, pp. 542-544, 2007.

Mihoko Otake, Tomomasa Sato and Masato Takeichi. Bidirectional Multiscale Neural Simulation and A Hundred Hour Workshop -Information Science and Technology Strategic Core-, Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, vol. 25, no. 3, pp.330-333, 2007.

Shinya Aoi, Hiroyuki Ishii, Kazuhiro Kawahara, Masaki Takahashi, Terumasa Narukawa, Hiroya Yamada, Yuichi Kurita, Yusuke Sugahara and Mihoko Otake, "Young Researchers in the 21st Century COE programh. Journal of Robotics Society of Japan, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. In Press, 2007.

Mihoko Otake, "What do we Develop? What will Happen by the Development? - Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium -, Kagaku, Iwanami, Vol.77, No.2, pp.123-124, 2007.

Mihoko Otake, Keiko Homma, Hiroshi Yokoi, Hajime Asama and Tamio Arai, "Women in Robotics towards Human Science, Technology and Society at IAS-9h, Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 564-569, 2006.

Mihoko Otake, "Smart Gelsh, Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 460-465, 2006.

Mihoko Otake, "Bilateral Neural Simulation: Reading the Motion from Inside the Human Bodyh, The Journal of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, vol. 88, no. 11, pp.909-913, 2005.

Mihoko Otake, Keiko Homma, "Women in Robotics for Communication and Outreachh, IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 15, 2006.

Mihoko Otake, "Gel Actuatorh, Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, vol. 21, no. 7, pp. 713 - 716, 2003.

Mihoko Otake and Hirochika Inoue, "Modeling, Design and Control of Electroactive Polymer Gel Robotsh, WW-EAP Newsletter, vol. 5, no.1, pp. 7, 2003.

Mihoko Otake, Yoshiharu Kagami, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Masayuki Inaba, and Hirochika Inoue, "Starfish-shaped Gel Robots made of EAPh, WW-EAP Newsletter, vol. 4, no.2, pp. 7-8, 2002.

Mihoko Otake, "The Seventh Anniversary of the Website of Japan Folk Crafts Art Museumh, Mingei, The Japan Folk Craft Association, vol.582, pp.28-32, 2001.

Mihoko Otake, "Diverse Encounters of Producers and Usersh, Mingei, The Japan Folk Craft Association, vol.551, pp.16-18, 1998.

Books and Book Chapters

Mihoko Otake, "Electroactive Polymer Gel Robots - Modelling and Control of Artificial Muscles", Springer-Verlag, 2009 (238 pages).

Mihoko Otake, Myagmarbayar Nergui, Seong-eun Moon, Kentaro Takagi, Tsutomu Kamashima, and Kazuhiro Nakadai, gDevelopment of a Sound Source Localization System for Assisting Group Conversationh, J. Lee et al. (Eds.): ICIRA 2013, Part I, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer-Verlag, Volume 8102, pp. 532-539, 2013.

Mihoko Otake, Motoichiro Kato, Toshihisa Takagi, Shuichi Iwata, Hajime Asama, and Jun Ota. gMultiscale Service Design Method and its Application to Sustainable Service for Prevention and Recovery from Dementiah, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Volume 6797, pp. 321-330, 2011.

Mihoko Otake, Motoichiro Kato, Toshihisa Takagi and Hajime Asama. The Coimagination Method and its Evaluation via the Conversation Interactivity Measuring Method, Early Detection and Rehabilitation Technologies for Dementia: Neuroscience and Biomedical Applications, Jinglong Wu (Ed.), IGI Global, pp. 356 - 364, 2011.

Mihoko Otake, gControl of Electroactive Polymer Gel Actuator by Electric Fieldsh, Soft Actuators Drive the Future - Research and Development of Polymers and Biomaterials -, Yoshihito Osada and Takahisa Taguchi (Eds.), CMC Press, Part 3 Chapter 21, pp.210 - 222, 2010.

Motoichiro Kato and Mihoko Otake, gUnderstanding of Others-Understanding the Intention of Others and Action of Selfh, Social Adaptation-Developmental Mechanism and Functional Disorder, Jun Ota and Hitoshi Aonuma (Eds.), Ohm Press, Mobiligence Series Volume 4 Chapter 5, pp. 161 - 212, 2010.

Mihoko Otake, gDesign Review by TRIZh, Introduction to TRIZ, Study Group on Real-world Design (Eds.), Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun Press (Business & Technology Daily News) Part 5 Chapter 2, pp.157 - 174, 1997.

Mihoko Otake, gThe Website of Japan Folk Crafts Art Museum Received Museum Incentive Awardh, Mingei, The Japan Folk Craft Association, vol.525, pp.68-69, 1996.

Mihoko Otake, gJapan Folk Crafts Art Museum Offers Information on the Interneth, Mingei, The Japan Folk Craft Association, vol.520, pp.62-64, 1996.