Human-care communication project in Keihanna Human Info-Communications Research Center: A new turn of human interface and contents processing technologies research in CRL

Abstract

In July 2000, Communications Research Laboratory founded Keihanna Human Info-Communications Research Center for the promotion of its research activity in the domain of human-network interface and digital data processing technology. Keihanna Research center was intentionally located in Kansai Science City at Keihanna to promote the real cooperation with other Universities and research organizations in private sector, and resultantly enhance the research activity of CRL in this research domain. The research center also aims to produce the technical basis for the human friendly communication technology in response to the expected drastic change in the people's life caused by the common use of computer network. The research center promotes a five-years research project which aims to realize the application systems in the domain of human care service like as welfare service or cultural service, through development of communication and information processing technology and through demonstration on real computer network system.