Robot Utilization for Nursing Technical Support Emphasizing Nurse-Patient Synchronization.

Handing down nursing skills of experienced nurses to newcomer nurses is difficult. Kawano's earlier studies have specifically examined brain wave synchronization between a nurse and patient during intravenous injection. Presumably, a good technique can be provided by inducing their synchronization.

Utilizing the Cyberforest live sound system with social media to remotely conduct woodland bird censuses in Central Japan.

We have developed a system that streams and archives live sound from remote areas across Japan via an unmanned automatic camera. The system was used to carry out pilot bird censuses in woodland; this allowed us to examine the use of live sound transmission and the role of social media as a mediator in remote scientific monitoring. The system has been streaming sounds 8 h per day for more than five years.