B.Eng.from Kyoto University(1985), M.Eng.from Kyoto Universit(1987), Dr.Eng.from Osaka University(1998)
2006 - 2007 : (独)情報処理推進機構 , 未踏ソフトウェア創造事業 , 開発者
2000 - 2003 : 科学技術振興事業団 , さきがけ研究21「情報と知」領域 , 研究員
1999 - : Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
1995 - 2001 : (株)ATR知能映像通信研究所
1992 - 1995 : (株)ATR通信システム研究所
1987 - 1995 : 松下電器産業株式会社
Human interfaces and interactions
Benefit of Inconvenience, Utilizing Unused Knowledge, Support by Disturbance, Supporting Informal Communications, Musical Creativity Support, Creativity Support
Informal Communication Supporting System
Informal communication is very important for fostering human relations and for sharing and creating knowledge among people. I have been studying supporting systems that enhance this characteristic of informal communication to enrich and to smooth communication of minds, e.g., systems that facilitate sharing professional knowledge among people in offices or laboratories, and systems that foster bonds of affection of family or couples.
Ubiquitous Knowledge-Creation Support System
The buildings of the school of knowledge science, JAIST are designed as a physical space where the knowledge creation process is executed. By overlaying the "Cyber-JAIST" constructed in information space with the physical space, I am aiming at achieving a "Ubiquitous Knowledge-Creation Support System" that supports and enhances knowledge creation in various aspects, i.e., intra-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary knowledge creation as well as knowledgecreation in daily life where knowledge creation is not obviously intended. The fruits of this research can be applied not only to JAIST but also to companies that consists of many specific people who loosely share a purpose. Thus, this is a research bridging "groupware" and "communityware".
Creative Activity Supporting Media
By utilizing mighty computational power of computers and huge amount of stored information, I am aiming at creating media that adroitly stimulate human creativity. While the ordinary AI research aims at making computers intelligent, the main purpose of this research is to make people more intelligent and creative with the media. For instance, how pieces of information that people overlook can be obtained, how musical performance can be enhanced without spoiling the joy of creation and so on are the typical rsearch issues.
Next-Generation Knowledge Science, Advanced Topics in Media Design(E), Knowledge Creation Support Media, Knowledge creation support systems, Media Interaction, 次世代知識科学特論, メディアデザイン特論(E), 知識創造支援メディア論, 知識創造支援システム論, メディア・インタラクション論
Virtual Reality Society, Japan, International Conference on Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems, Human Interface Society, ACM, The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, ICAD International Conference on Auditory Display, IEEE, Information Processing Society Japan
・ Fellow , Information Processing Society of Japan , 2019
・ Outstanding Paper Award: Exploiting Criticisms in Brainstorming: A Pilot Study , International Conference on Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems 2017 , 2017
・ Presentation Award , KICSS 2015 Program Committee , 2016