Portable multimedia player (PMP) devices have been gaining in its popularity with the emerging digital convergence of data, video, audio, etc. Since the PMP devices are typically equipped with DSP, bigger display, and a hard disk, efficient power management has become more crucial than the other portable devices. This paper establishes a hardware/softwarebased power measurement system based on ...

This paper addresses the challenging scenario for the distanttalking control of a music playback device, a common portable speaker with four small loudspeakers in close proximity to one microphone. The user controls the device through voice, where the speech-to-music ratio can be as low as −30 dB during music playback. We propose a speech enhancement front-end that relies on known robust method...

While personal computers have been used for over twenty years in live music contexts, the proliferation of powerful and affordable portable systems (laptops) has spurred the emergence of new music creation styles and venues outside of academia. Laptop performance is the practice of live computer music using software tools exclusively. This paper surveys the current state of laptop performance p...

Forming one of the major genres of games, Role Playing Games (RPGs) have proven an extremely portable concept, and the games are situated across various cultural and format-related boundaries. The effect of porting RPGs between formats is however a subject of which very little is known. This paper presents results of an empirical study of multi-player RPGs, evaluating how the transference betwe...

Prior research in cross-cultural studies in technology adoption has mainly focused on national cultural level and conducted in western countries. This paper examines the impact of espoused national cultural values on consumer’s intention to use mobile payment devices using the UTAUT and Hofstede’s cultural dimensions as the basis for the research framework. The moderating effect of espoused unc...

AJapanese version of the Dissociative Experiences Scale (]DES) was developed and administered to 199 late adolescents, 40 normal adults, 16 schizophrenics, and 19 subjects with dissociative disorders whose diagnoses were made with a comprehensive assessment including a semi-structured interview. As a result, theJDES yielded comparable reliability and validity with those established for the Diss...