Abstract: Consensus building is supported by providing multiple values to a consensus building process with good visibility. A consensus building support system includes: a graph generation unit configured to generate a ternary graph based on options regarding ternary values; an acquisition unit configured to acquire at least one of individual opinions about the options or a group opinion which is an aggregation of a plurality of individual opinions; and a display unit configured to display, on the ternary graph, a triangle formed by three line segments indicating the individual opinions or the group opinions regarding each of the ternary values by indicating each of the individual opinions or the group opinions regarding the ternary values with one line segment.

Abstract: An interaction system that interacts with a user is disclosed. The interaction system includes: an input device that receives a speech signal of the user; a computing device that determines a speech content of the interaction system for a speech content acquired from the speech signal of the user such that a frequency distribution of speech feature values of the speech content of the interaction system approaches an ideal frequency distribution; and an output device that outputs the determined speech content of the interaction system.

Abstract: An interaction system that provides an interaction interface comprising: a computer and a device that obtains information, wherein the computer stores information for managing data in which a type of a second feature value is associated with a listening pattern that defines a tendency of a response action performed by the interaction interface on a user; calculates a first feature value that is an index for evaluating a change in state during speech by the user on the basis of information obtained by the device; calculates second feature values on the basis of the first feature value; selects a target second feature value from among the second feature values; selects the listening pattern corresponding to the target second feature value; and generates output information for controlling the interaction interface on the basis of the selected listening pattern.

Abstract: A consensus building support device includes: a processor configured to execute a program; and a storage device configured to store the program, wherein the processor is configured to execute: acquisition processing of acquiring, for each of a plurality of evaluation indices with which a measure draft is evaluated, a numerical value range that is set for the evaluation index by each of a plurality of users; identification processing of identifying an overlap range in which a plurality of numerical value ranges that are each the numerical value range acquired for each of the plurality of evaluation indices through the acquisition processing overlap; and output processing of outputting the overlap range identified through the identification processing.

Abstract: An interaction system that interacts with a user is disclosed. The interaction system includes: an input device that receives a speech signal of the user; a computing device that determines a speech content of the interaction system for a speech content acquired from the speech signal of the user such that a frequency distribution of speech feature values of the speech content of the interaction system approaches an ideal frequency distribution; and an output device that outputs the determined speech content of the interaction system.

Abstract: In order to provide an interactive interface that arouses a user's sympathy and realizes a continuous interaction having much information, an interactive system of providing the interactive interface of performing an interaction with a user includes a computer and a measurement device of measuring a signal related to a user's speech. The computer calculates a first feature amount indicating feature of a user action in the speech of the user, based on the signal measured by the measurement device, calculates a second feature amount that is a control value of a response action to the user performed by the interactive interface, based on the first feature amount, calculates a control time of adjusting a timing of controlling the response action depending on the type of the response action, and controls the interactive interface, based on the second feature amount and the control time.

Abstract: A response apparatus includes a processor that executes a program, and is connected to an acquisition device that acquires biological data and to a display device. The processor executes a target identification process that identifies a feeling expression target of a user using the response apparatus on the basis of the biological data of the user acquired by the acquisition device, a feeling identification process that identifies a feeling of the user on the basis of facial image data of the user, a determination process that determines a feeling indicated by the image displayed on the display device on the basis of the feeling expression target identified by the target identification process and the feeling of the user identified by the feeling identification process. Image data indicating the feeling determined by the determination process is output to the display device.

Abstract: An interaction system that provides an interaction interface comprising: a computer and a device that obtains information, wherein the computer stores information for managing data in which a type of a second feature value is associated with a listening pattern that defines a tendency of a response action performed by the interaction interface on a user; calculates a first feature value that is an index for evaluating a change in state during speech by the user on the basis of information obtained by the device; calculates second feature values on the basis of the first feature value; selects a target second feature value from among the second feature values; selects the listening pattern corresponding to the target second feature value; and generates output information for controlling the interaction interface on the basis of the selected listening pattern.

Abstract: An action support device stores correspondence information in which an action and a feeling of a subject and an expression of a face are associated with respect to each of a series of tasks set in order, and performs a specification process in which a feeling of the subject is specified on the basis of the information related to an expression of the subject acquired by an acquisition device, an evaluation process in which an action related to the task of the subject is evaluated on the basis of the information related to a behavior of the subject, a selection process in which an expression of the face image is selected with reference to the correspondence information on the basis of the feeling of the subject and an evaluation result of the evaluation process, in which the face image of the expression selected by the selection process is output.

Abstract: An autopoietic information processing system which is an information processing system for collecting and outputting information includes: a means that inputs first information; a means that collects second information related to the first information; a means that selects third information from the second information; a means that outputs second or third information; a means that collects the second information by setting the third information as new first information; a means that merges the existing second information and new second information at a predetermined rate; a means that selects new third information from the merged second information; and a means that outputs the merged second information or the new third information. The means are recursively operated to continuously provide new information which leads to awareness and discovery of a user.

Abstract: A system for evaluating actions that a plurality of target objects performs to achieve communication, the system comprising at least one computer, the at least one computer is configured to: obtain a plurality of signals used for calculating a plurality of state values for evaluating an internal state of a target object in a case where the target object performed the action, from the plurality of target objects; calculate a state feature amount made up of the plurality of state values using the plurality of signals; and generate display information on the basis of the state feature amount, the display information for displaying a positional relationship of the internal state of each of the plurality of target objects in an evaluation space for visually illustrating a similarity of the internal state of the each of the plurality of target objects.

Abstract: In order to provide an interactive interface that arouses a user's sympathy and realizes a continuous interaction having much information, an interactive system of providing the interactive interface of performing an interaction with a user includes a computer and a measurement device of measuring a signal related to a user's speech. The computer calculates a first feature amount indicating feature of a user action in the speech of the user, based on the signal measured by the measurement device, calculates a second feature amount that is a control value of a response action to the user performed by the interactive interface, based on the first feature amount, calculates a control time of adjusting a timing of controlling the response action depending on the type of the response action, and controls the interactive interface, based on the second feature amount and the control time.

Abstract: An object is to continuously provide new information which leads to awareness and discovery of a user. An autopoietic information processing system which is an information processing system for collecting and outputting information includes: a means that inputs first information; a means that collects second information related to the first information; a means that selects third information from the second information; a means that outputs second or third information; a means that collects the second information by setting the third information as new first information; a means that merges the existing second information and new second information at a predetermined rate; a means that selects new third information from the merged second information; and a means that outputs the merged second information or the new third information. The means are recursively operated.

Abstract: Disclosed is a surveillance image retrieval apparatus capable of generating an image representing a search result that a surveillant can visually confirm, even if a face image used is not suitable for the visual identification of a person.

Abstract: A parallel computer system executes a plurality of processes each being assigned a memory space, by placing the information of a first graph vertex and the information of a first graph vertex group connected to the first graph vertex in a first memory space assigned to a first process, placing the information of the first graph vertex and the information of a second graph vertex group connected to the first graph vertex in a second memory space assigned to a second process, and sharing the result of computation concerning the first graph vertex in the first process and the result of computation concerning the first graph vertex in the second process between the first process and the second process.

Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide an information processing system which achieves efficient physical resource allocation to a virtual resource. An information processing system of the invention includes a plurality of physical resources mutually connected over a network, and an operating management computer which manages a virtual resource into which a plurality of physical resources are logically aggregated. The information processing system determines physical resources to be logically aggregated into and be allocated to a virtual resource on the basis of a resource usage amount of a workload to be processed by the information processing system and configuration information on the plurality of physical resources.

Abstract: Disclosed is a surveillance system that detects a suspicious person immediately without fail and presents the detected suspicious person to a surveillant even when the system includes a large number of networked surveillance cameras. An imager included in the surveillance system retains a dynamically-updatable suspicious person list within itself and detects a suspicious person in accordance with a feature amount extracted from an image.

Abstract: Disclosed is a surveillance image retrieval apparatus capable of generating an image representing a search result that a surveillant can visually confirm, even if a face image used is not suitable for the visual identification of a person.

Abstract: In cleaning using a self-propelled cleaning device, firstly the cleaning device moves alongside a wall surface and then a reference direction is set. Next, the cleaning device advances alongside the wall surface at a prescribed distance, makes a right-angle turn, and travels in the reference direction. When the cleaning device reaches the surface of an opposing wall, it moves in a spiraling manner. At that time, the orientation angle of the cleaning device, which is estimated using a gyro sensor, is checked and corrected. If an obstacle is encountered while traveling, the cleaning device travels on a path that avoids the obstacle or travels in a spiral manner in a region in front of the obstacle.

Abstract: In the cleaning using the self-propelled cleaning device, firstly the cleaning device moves alongside the wall surface and then a reference direction is set. Next, the cleaning device advances alongside the wall surface by a prescribed distance, makes a right-angle turn, and travels in the reference direction. When the cleaning device reaches the surface of the opposing wall, it moves in a spiraling manner. At that time, the orientation angle of the cleaning device estimated using a gyro sensor is checked and corrected. If an obstacle is encountered while traveling, the cleaning device travels on a path that avoids the obstacle or travels in a spiral manner in a region in front of the obstacle.