Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp.

Akinori Komura

Ryojiro Akashi

Takashi Uematsu

Yoshifumi Matsunaga

Hideto Yuzawa

Tomokazu Yago

Koji Masuda

Hiroyuki Hattori

Kazuo Asano

Yuji Suemitsu

Katsunori Kawano

Jun Kawahara

Masahiro Moriyama

Hiroaki Tsutsui

Kazuo Shibuta

Minoru Mitsui

Takashi Nagao

Masato Mikami

Hirohito Shibata

Masashi Ogasawara

Ryoji Horita

An information processing apparatus includes a first determination unit, a second determination unit, and a presentation unit. The first determination unit determines, based on biometric information of a speaker and a non-speaker, creativities of the speaker and the non-speaker, according to different indices. The second determination unit determines, according to the creativity of the speaker and the creativity of the non-speaker, a creativity of a group including the speaker and the non-speaker. The presentation unit presents the creativity of the group.

Information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium

An information processing apparatus includes a calculation unit, a designing unit, and a presentation unit. The calculation unit calculates autonomic activity of a participant, using biometric information measured by a measuring device that measures biometric information of the participant belonging to a group place. The designing unit designs a progress plan of communication at the group place in a design aspect corresponding to the calculated activity. The presentation unit presents the designed progress plan.

Information processing apparatus

An information processing apparatus includes a specifying unit that specifies an activity degree of each of a plural participants based on biometric information obtained from a living body of each of the plural participants participating in a gathering, an evaluation unit that evaluates each of the plural participants based on the specified activity degree, a selection unit that selects one or more of the plural participants based on an evaluation of the evaluation unit, and a requesting unit that requires an opinion on the gathering from the selected participant.

A workspace management method for managing a plurality of windows displayed in response to start-up of an application as a workspace for user interface, the method including: managing management information regarding the windows; detecting a change in a state of each of the windows; detecting, in a case where a movement of one window of the windows is detected in the detecting of the change, the other windows positioned in the neighborhood of the one window or overlapping the one window by referring to the management information; displaying, in a case where the other windows are detected in the detecting of the other windows, a docking position to be docked in each of the one window and the other windows; and docking, in a case where a stop of the movement of the one window is detected in the detecting of the change, the one window with the other windows via the docking position.

Workspace management method, workspace management system, and computer readable medium

An attention calling apparatus includes: a measurement unit for measuring at least one first job related physical quantity related to a performance status of a first job of a user; and an attention calling processing execution unit for executing processing for calling user's attention so as to perform a second job based on the first job related physical quantity measured by the measurement unit and at least one second job related physical quantity indicating a status of the second job which a user can perform.

Attention calling apparatus and method and information processing system

There is provided an operation supporting apparatus including a memory portion that stores characteristics of an operation to be multiplexed, and a determination portion that determines appropriateness of multiple operations to be multiplexed on the basis of the characteristics thereof stored in the memory portion.

Operation supporting system and operation supporting method

An information processing apparatus includes: a plurality of displays; a plurality of display instruction units; and an assignment unit that assigns a target selected on at least any one of the displays to one of the display instruction units so as to configure the display instruction unit that the target is to be displayed on one of the displays in accordance with a command input by the assigned one of the display instruction units.

Information processing apparatus, assignment method and display method of information processing apparatus, and computer-readable program product

A multilayered task supporting apparatus includes: a display area that is divided into three or more; an input unit that is provided with a group of control buttons for assigning a display object; and a control unit that controls a content to be displayed on the display area on the basis of an input from the input unit.

Multilayered task supporting apparatus and method for supporting multilayered task

An information processing system including a support section that displays a document in a given region and supports creation of the document, an acceptance section that accepts a search request in relation to a search target when the search target is selected from the document in the given region, and a search section that searches for information related to the search target based on the search request in relation to the search target.

Information processing system and information processing method that searches for peripheral information

The present invention relates to a light-controlling element comprising a polymer gel composition layer containing: a holding member; liquid held by the holding member; and a stimulus-responsive polymer gel which is held by the holding member and which changes in volume by absorbing or discharging the liquid due to an external stimulus, wherein the stimulus-responsive polymer gel is arranged in a single layer in the holding member, and also relates to a method for manufacturing the element. The polymer gel composition layer can be provided with a substrate on one side or both sides thereof, and further can be provided with a stimulus providing member.

Light-controlling element and method for manufacturing the same

Described is an optical element having plural electrodes and, disposed therebetween, a stimuli-responsive polymer gel, a liquid which can be absorbed therein and an ion supplying material. As the ion supplying material, preferred is a material showing a volumetric change, in the form of the element, of 0 to 100% under external stimuli. According to the present invention, a novel optical element showing a large change in light transmittance, reflectance or absorption amount and exhibits stable optical properties in repetition can be provided.

Optical element, optical element composition and method for controlling stimuli-responsive polymer gel

Disclosed are a composite material comprising a substrate having a three-dimensional structure which has, on substantially entire surface thereof, regions where a polymerizable unsaturated compound is graft-bonded and regions where the polymerizable unsaturated compound is not graft-bonded, a method for graft polymerization comprising the steps of reacting the surface of the substrate having a three-dimensional structure with droplets of a solution containing a graft polymerization initiator in a suspension or an emulsion comprising the solution containing a graft polymerization initiator and a solvent immiscible with the solution containing the graft polymerization initiator so as to form polymerization initiating regions on the surface of the substrate and thereafter graft-polymerizing a polymerizable unsaturated compound to the surface part where the polymerization initiating regions are formed, and a composite material comprising a substrate which has, on substantially entire surface thereof, regions where a polymerizable unsaturated compound is graft-bonded and regions where the polymerizable unsaturated compound is not graft-bonded.

Composite material and process for production thereof

Polymeric particles of a desired particle size improved with the dispersion state of a pigment contained in the high polymeric particles can be obtained by a production method, which includes solution-polymerizing monomers having polymerizable unsaturated bonds in the presence of ionic particles sulfonic group or carboxyl group on the surface thereof.

Polymeric particles and production method thereof

An optical material has a polymer gel whose volume is reversibly changed by absorbing or releasing a liquid in response to an external stimulus and a light scattering member covering at least a part of the surface of the polymer gel.

Optical material and optical device

A volume-modulation coloration producing material which is characterized by high contrast, high response and excellent durability; a composition including this material; an optical element and a method for optical modulation using the composition are disclosed. The volume-modulation coloration producing material includes a polymer gel capable of swelling-contracting by absorbing or desorbing a liquid when an external stimulus is given, and a pigment contained in the material at a concentration equal to or higher than a saturation absorption concentration. The volume-modulation coloration producing composition, which includes the volume-modulation coloration producing material and a liquid, exhibits a reversible volume change to swell or contract by the application of a stimulus such as, for example, heat, light, an electric current, an electric field, change in pH, change in ionic concentration, absorption or desorption of a substance and addition of a solvent. The pigment in the gel is in a diffused state (a) when the polymer gel is swollen while the pigment in the gel is in a flocculated state, (b) when the polymer gel is contracted so that the absorption efficiency of the light of the coloration producing material in a swollen state is higher than the absorption efficiency of the light of the coloration producing material in a contracted state.

Volume-modulation coloration producing material, volume-modulation coloration producing composition, and optical element and method for optical modulation using the composition

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Akinori Komura