First Workshop of the Perceptual Psychology Unit

Date 16th December 2003 (Tuesday) 14.00 to 16.00 p.m. Location Faculty of design, Kyushu University Program leader's opening speech TOCHIHARA, Yutaka Agenda Lecture by one of the international advisers Gert ten Hoopen, Leiden University Non-chindogu design: How knowledge of visual, auditory, and tactile perception helps improving our artificial environment Students' lectures Tatsurou Yasutake, Kyushu Institute of Design The influence of amplitude differences between crossing glides in the gap transfer illusion OTSUKA,Koji Kyushu Institute of Design The split-off effect and feature integration in audition Ryuji Furuyama, Kyushu Institute of Design Pitch differential limens of synthesized speech: The effect of fundamental frequency change Megumi Inoue, Kyushu Institute of Design Evaluation method for hearing aid fitting under reverberation

Second research meeting

Date 27th November 2003 (Thursday) 15.00 to 17.00 p.m. Location Faculty of design, Kyushu University Agenda 1. Research topic UEDA,Kazuo (Perceptual Psychology Unit) Akira Yasukouichi (Environmental Physiology Unit) 2. Future planning 3. Financial report

First directorate meeting

Date 28th October 2003 (Thursday) 13.00 to 15.00 p.m Location Faculty of design, Kyushu University Agenda 1. Program leader's speech 2. Determining the structure and function of the directorate 3. Future planning

First researchers' meeting

Date 8th August 2003 (Thursday) 15.00 to 17.00 p.m. Location Faculty of design, Kyushu University Agenda 1. Speech by the President of Kyushu Institute of Design 2. Self-introductions by program members 3. Future planning

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