Masahiro Shiomi

Computational Social Touch for Symbiotic Human-Robot Interaction

Research Director

Masahiro Shiomi

Collaborator

Aya Nakae

Senior researcher Deep Interaction Laboratory Group Advanced Telecommunications Research Institue International

Outline

Physical embodiment of social robots enables them to realize active social touch interaction, which plays an essential role in human-human interaction. This project aims to develop a mechanism for safe and trustworthy social touch interaction between human and robots based on computational approach. We will evaluate the effectiveness of social touch interaction with robots in both childcare and elderly care contexts.

Hiroyuki Shinoda

Materialized Graphics for Multidimensional Interaction

Research Director

Hiroyuki Shinoda

Collaborator

Hideki Kakeya	Associate Professor Faculty of Engineering, Information and Systems University of Tsukuba
Masashi Sugiyama	Professor Graduate School of Frontier Sciences The University of Tokyo
Masahiro Fujiwara	Lecturer Faculty of Science and Technology Nanzan University

Outline

This project aims to realize aerial computer images called materialized graphics that can physically interact with people and the environment in the real world as if they were real objects. Tactile sensation of the aerial image surface is produced by airborne ultrasound, which transmits the physical entity instantaneously. This technology achieves a workspace where multidimensional interactions are freely programed. It is applied to and innovates operation interfaces and communication and provides new tools for affective support and behavior modification.

Tsutomu Terada

Interaction Platform based on Psychological Informatics for Information Presentation

Research Director

Tsutomu Terada

Collaborator

Chihiro Hosoda	Associate Professor Graduate Schoo. Of Information Sciences Tohoku University
Yutaka Yanagisawa	CTO Development department mplusplus Co., Ltd.

Outline

In this research, we will clarify/formulate the psychological effect of information presentation. We also establish a screening method to know the effect beforehand by scanning brain before/after intervention. Based on these techniques, we will implement various applications including entertainments and learning, and formulate guidelines for safety information presentation.

Kazuo Hiraki

Pedagogical information infrastructure based on mutual interaction

Research Director

Kazuo Hiraki

Collaborator

Mitsuru Kawamoto	Senior Researcher Human Augmentation Research Center National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Koichi Hashida	Professor Graduate School of Information Science and Technology The University of Tokyo

Outline

In this research, we aim to build an intellectual information infrastructure to support the basic human’s ability teach and taught. We call the infrastructure as pedagogical database. Pedagogical database is sort of a study log which can support the basic human’s ability teach and taught. To do this, we focus on three learning scenes - mother-child interaction, e-learning, seminars style teaching. To clarify the interaction between the learner and the teacher under these scenes, we organically unify the advanced technologies such as brain measurement, wearable sensor, audio-image processing. And we accumulate and utilize the pedagogical database based on the idea of PDS (personal data store).

Takufumi Yanagisawa

Construction of representational Brain-Computer Interaction technology

Research Director

Takufumi Yanagisawa

Collaborator

Yukiyasu Kamitani	Department Head Computational neuroscience laboratories Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International
Haruhiko Kishima	Professor Graduate School of Medicine Osaka University
Hidenori Sugano	Associate Professor Department of Neurosurgery Juntendo University
Kentaro Tamura	Associate professor Department of neurosurgery Nara Medical University
Shinji Nishimoto	Professor Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences Osaka University

Outline

This research aims to create a technology to realize a novel interaction between information space representing real-world and the brain information corresponding to various thoughts of human.Moreover, we will unveil the neural basis to realize this technology and some influences to the brain functions.

Junichi Yamagishi

VoicePersonae: Speaker identity cloning and protection

Research Director

Junichi Yamagishi

Outline

Speech is a part of our identities and strongly related to biometrics, speech synthesis, voice transformation, and speech privacy. However, in these fields, research has been conducted individually toward conflicting goals. In this project, we remove the barriers of the fields concerning voice identity, improve the accuracy of speaker characterization modeling technologies, enhance the reliability and robustness of biometric speaker recognition, and further research on new technologies for protection of speech privacy.