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Creation of Human-Harmonized Information Technology for Convivial Society

Research Supervisor: Yoh'ichi Tohkura
Affiliation: Professor / Deputy Director General, National Institute of Informatics
Year Started: 2009

Outline

This research area aims for the establishment of fundamental technologies to achieve harmony between human beings and the information environment by integrating element technologies such as real-space communication, human interfaces, and media processing.

Specifically, this research area promotes trans-disciplinary approach among following research scopes to establish Human-Harmonized Information Technology.
・Recognition and comprehension of human behavior and real-space context by utilizing sensor networks and ubiquitous computing
・Technologies for facilitating man-machine communication by utilizing robots and ubiquitous networks
・Contents technologies related analysis, mining, integrating and structuring of a variety of different types of media, including text, voice, music, and picture images
Furthermore, this research area also promotes researches that create the breakthrough technologies for the harmonious interaction of human and information environments, and trans-disciplinary researches on cognition processes in the perspective of creating human harmonized information technologies.

Strategic Sector

Creation of Basic Technology that Enables an Information Environment that is in Harmony with People

Research Projects

Year Started : 2011
Research Director	Affiliation	Research Project
Masataka Goto	Prime Senior Researcher, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)	Building a Similarity-aware Information Environment for a Content-Symbiotic Society
Kazuo Hiraki	Professor, The University of Tokyo	Pedagogical Machine: Developmental cognitive science approach to create teaching/teachable machines
Keiichi Tokuda	Professor, Nagoya Institute of Technology	User Generated Dialogue Systems: uDialogue
Takeshi Naemura	Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo	Harmonized Inter-Personal Display Based on Position and Direction Control

Year Started : 2010
Research Director	Affiliation	Research Project
Hiroshi Ishiguro	Visiting group leader, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International	Studies on cellphone-type teleoperated androids transmitting human presence
Shiro Ise	Associate Professor, Kyoto University	Development of a sound field sharing system for creating and exchanging music
Takayuki Kanda	Senior Research Scientist, Advanced Telecommunication Research Institute International	Enabling a mobile social robot to adapt to a public space in a city.
Koichi Kise	Professor, Osaka Prefecture University	Development of Fundamental Technologies for Innovative Use of Character/Document Media and Their Application to Creating Human Harmonized Information Environment
Yasushi Yagi	Professor, Osaka University	Behavior Understanding based on Intention-Gait Model

Year Started : 2009
Research Director	Affiliation	Research Project
Kiyoharu Aizawa	Professor, The University of Tokyo	Life Log Infrastructure for Food
Masatoshi Ishikawa	Professor, The University of Tokyo	Dynamic Information Space based on High-speed Sensor Technology
Makio Kashino	Group Leader, NTT Corporation	Developing a communication environment by decoding and controlling implicit interpersonal information
Tatsuya Kawahara	Professor, Kyoto University	Smart seminar room baesd on multi-modal recognition of verbal and non-verbal information
Yasuharu Koike	Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology	Elucidation of perceptual illusion and development of secse-centered human interface
Yoichi Sato	Professor, The University of Tokyo	Sensing and controlling human gaze in daily living space for human-harmonized information environments
Kazuya Takeda	Professor, Nagoya University	Modeling and detecting overtrust from behavior signals
Susumu Tachi	Professor, Keio University	Construction and Utilization of Human-harmonized "Tangible" Information Environment