JST Rapid International Collaborative Research Program (J-RAPID)

Rapid Prototyping Collaborative Dialogue Interfaces

An increasing number of consumer products for everyday use offer the user advanced programming capabilities. Existing technologies offer the potential to design human-product interaction supported by collaborative dialogue. Collaboration can afford a rich level of conversation between product and user. However, there are few methods and tools for designers, requiring a minimum of software engin...

ORCHESTRA: Rapid, Collaborative Sharing of Dynamic Data

Conventional data integration techniques employ a “top-down” design philosophy, starting by assessing requirements and defining a global schema, and then mapping data sources to that schema. This works well if the problem domain is well-understood and relatively static, as with enterprise data. However, it is fundamentally mismatched with the “bottom-up” model of scientific data sharing, in whi...

Rapid determination of total trans fat content--an attenuated total reflection infrared spectroscopy international collaborative study.

Interest in trans fat labeling has prompted efforts to develop new, more efficient methods for rapidly and accurately determining trans fat content of foods. A novel and rapid (5 min) attenuated total reflection-Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopic procedure was recently developed and applied to food products. This procedure was voted official method AOCS Cd 14d-99 by the America...

International Public Health Responses to COVID-19 Outbreak: A Rapid Review

Background: The outbreak of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has posed a significant threat to many countries. Since the disease does not currently have a particular treatment, there is a compelling need to find substitute means to dominate its expansion. In this rapid review, we aimed to determine some countries’ public responses to the COVID-19 epidemic.Methods: In this study, academ...

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