Biographical Outline
Born in Yokohama, graduated Shonan High School in 1995 and completed Bachelor of Environmental Information Department in Keio University at 1999 and Master of Media and Governance in Graduate School of Keio University at 2001. During her master course, she was an internship student researcher in ATR MIC from Sep. 1999 to Mar. 2001. After her master course, she was employed in NTT Japan, and worked in Cyber Space Laboratories from 2001 to 2003. Externally assigned to ATR in 2003, and have worked in Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories (IRC) from 2003 to 2011. Earned Doctor of Information Science in Nagoya University at Mar. 2007 with short-term completion. Since 2011, she began having a laboratory as an associate professor in Faculty of Informatics, Kansai University. Now she is a professor in Kansai University since 2017.
Post-secondary Education
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Apr. 1992 Mar. 1995 Kanagawa-prefectural Shonan High School Completed
Apr. 1995 Mar. 1999 Keio University Completed Bachelor of Environmental Information
Apr. 1999 Mar. 2001 Keio University Completed Master of Media and Governance
Apr. 2005 Mar. 2007 Nagoya University Completed Doctor of Information Science
Professional Experiences
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Sept. 1999 Mar. 2001 ATR Media Integration & Communication Laboratories Internship Student Researcher
Apr. 2001 Jun. 2003 NTT Cyber Space Laboratories Researcher
Jul. 2003 Mar. 2011 ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories Researcher
Apr. 2011 Mar. 2017 Kansai University Associate Professor
Apr. 2017 Kansai University Professor
Other Experiences
Music Performances
Music Composition
Interactive Arts
Drawings
Font Design
Skills
Programming
Music Composition
Interactive Arts
Drawings
Font Design
C
C Shell
VC++
Objective-C
python
Max-MSP
Pd
C-sound
processing
Arduino
Other Skills
robot engineering
Other Creative Activities
Music Composer / Arranger
Book Illustrator
Communication Languages
Japanese (native)
English (2nd)
French (3rd)
CURRICULUM VITAE
Date: September 1st, 2014.
First name: Tomoko
Surname: YONEZAWA
School: Kansai University
Faculty: Informatics
Present rank: Associate Professor
since: April 1st, 2011
Memberships on Scholarly Societies
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IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan) 1999-
HISJ (Human Interface Society of Japan) 2011--
VRSJ (Virtual Reality Society of Japan) 2000-
IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers) 2014-
ASJ (Acoustics Society of Japan) 2003-
JCSS (Japan Cognitive Science Society) 2017-
Contributions to Scholarly Societies
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Local Co-chairs, ROMAN 2015, 2015
Organizer, BICT 2015 Organized Session, Anthropomorphic Robot and Physiological Information for Cares and Anthropomorphic Robot and Physiological Information for Cares, approved and to appear.
Organizer, SCIS-ISIS 2014 Organized Session, Affective Mediation and Intermediation through Multimodal Interaction, 2014.
Organizer, SCIS-ISIS 2012 Organized Session, JS-11 Robot's mind and behavioral design, 2012
Organizer, Ubicomp 2011 Workshop CASEMANS (Context-Awareness for Self-Managing Systems), 2011
Vice Chief Editor of Special Session [HAI / HRI], HISJ (Human Interface Society of Japan), 2010
Editor, Journal of HISJ (Human Interface Society of Japan), 2008-2010
Boardman, HISJ (Human Interface Society Japan), 2011-
Governing Board, HISJ HI-SIG-DE Tech Meeting, 2009.1-2014.12
Program Committee, HAI (Human-agent Interaction), 2014-
Program Committee, CASEMANS Workshop in Ubicomp, 2011
Program Committee, Interaction2009
Program Committee, EC (Entertainment Computing) 2007--2008
Program Committee, UIC (Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing), 2009-2010
Program Committee, ICMC (International Computer Music Conference), 2006-2010
Program Committee, NIME (New Interfaces for Musical Expression), 2006-2014
Program Committee, IUI (Intelligent User Interfaces), 2005
Invited colloquia
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Hirotake Yamazoe, Tomoko Yonezawa. Physical Contact Expression using Air-pressure Actuator Array for Fixing-type Stuffed-toy Robot. Society of Serviceology. 2018.
Tomoko Yonezawa, Hirotake Yamazoe. Voisticky: Sharable and Portable Auditory Balloon with Voice Sticky Posted and Browsed by User's Head Direction. in The 1st International Scientific Conference on Hospitality and its Applications (ISCHA)2017.
(in Japanese)Tomoko Yonezawa, Real-world Communication with Robots. Hiroshima Institute of Technology Symposium. 2016.
(in Japanese)Tomoko Yonezawa, Living-being Representation of Partner Robots. Japan Society of Kansei Engineering. 2016.
(in Japanese)Tomoko Yonezawa, Natural Communication with Anthropomorphic Social Interaction. IPSJ-Kansai Social Intelligence Meeting. 2012.
(in Japanese)Tomoko Yonezawa, Anthropomorphic Interaction and Therapy Effects, Co-project Tech. Meeting in Tohoku University, 2012.
(in Japanese)Tomoko Yonezawa, Hirotake Yamazoe, Voisticky, BRIDGE 2009, 2009.
(in Japanese)Tomoko Yonezawa, Art and Science for Practical Use -- Motivation for Sound, Music, Movie Processings , Special Lecture for 'Art and Science' in Keio University SFC, 2009.
(in Japanese)Tomoko Yonezawa, Needs and Practics --Motivation for Technology and Science, Chiba University of Commerce, 2009.
(in Japanese)Tomoko Yonezawa, Interfaces Imagination and Evolution as Application Researches with Media, Devices, and Gaze Communications, Information Engineering Lecture in Keio University Yagami, 2009.
(in Japanese)Tomoko Yonezawa, Expressive Voices with Interfaces: Perception of Continuous Expression by Singing Voice Morphing, Keio University SFC, 2008.
Other Presentations
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(performance) Kenji Mase, Naomi Takano, Sidney Fels, Tomoko Yonezawa, Interactive Kaleidoscope --The world in the mirror, Badinage--, Keihanna Media Concert 2001, 2001.
Post-secondary Education
| From | To | School | State |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr. 1992 | Mar. 1995 | Kanagawa-prefectural Shonan High School | Completed |
| Apr. 1995 | Mar. 1999 | Keio University | Completed Bachelor of Environmental Information |
| Apr. 1999 | Mar. 2001 | Keio University | Completed Master of Media and Governance |
| Apr. 2005 | Mar. 2007 | Nagoya University | Completed Doctor of Information Science |
Professional Experiences
| From | To | Institute | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sept. 1999 | Mar. 2001 | ATR Media Integration & Communication Laboratories | Internship Student Researcher |
| Apr. 2001 | Jun. 2003 | NTT Cyber Space Laboratories | Researcher |
| Jul. 2003 | Mar. 2011 | ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories | Researcher |
| Apr. 2011 | Mar. 2017 | Kansai University | Associate Professor |
| Apr. 2017 | Kansai University | Professor |
Course Development and Teaching Experiences
| Courses Taught at Kansai University | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name of course | Class Size | Hours Taught (per year) | ||||
| Total | Lectures | Tutorials | Labs | |||
| Design Theory of Anthropomorphic Systems | about 20 | Master course | 22.5 | 12.5 | 10 | |
| Human-agent Interaction | about 200 | Bachelor | 22.5 | 15 | 6 | 1.5 |
| Sound Interaction | about 40 | Practicum | 22.5 | 3 | 4.5 | 15 |
| Basic Softwares | about 50 | 22.5 | 22.5 | |||
| Basic Seminar | about 20 | 22.5 | 9 | 4.5 | 9 | |
| Language for Computers | about 300 | 22.5 | 21 | 1.5 | ||
| Technical Practicum Seminar | about 15 | 45 | 3 | 42 | ||
| Graduate Research Seminar | about 15 | 45 | 3 | 42 | ||
| Visiting Lecturer (indicate university/organization and dates) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Name | Year | Course Style | Institute |
| Intelligent Robotics Advanced Course | 2018, | lecture , | at Nagoya University |
| Intelligent System Advanced Course | 2018, | lecture , | at Nagoya University |
| Intelligent Interface Advanced Course | 2017, | lecture and practicum, | at Nagoya University |
| Human Interface, | 2015--, | lecture and practicum, | at Nara Womens University |
| Human Interface (for master students), | 2014, | lecture and practicum, | at Nara Womens University |
| Design of Interaction in Anthropomorphic Systems (form master students), | 2013, | lecture, | at Nagoya University |
| Pattern Recognition, | 2012, | lecture and practicum, | at Nara Womens University |
| Communication System, | 2012, | lecture and practicum, | at Nara Womens University |
| Special Seminar I in Information Science (for master students), | 2010, | lecture, | at Nara Womens University |
| Systematic Informatics (for doctoral students), | 2010, | lecture, | at Nara Womens University |
| Sound Processing, | 2010, | lecture and practicum, | at Doshisha Womens College |
| Game Programming, | 2009, | lecture and practicum, | at Nara Womens University |
| Graduate Students Supervised | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Student Name | Program Type | from | to | Supervisory Role | School |
| Yuichi Koyama | Intern student (D) | 2008 | 2009 | co-supervisor | Nagoya Univ. |
| Naoki Okamoto | Intern student (M) | 2009 | 2010 | co-supervisor | Ritsumeikan Univ. |
| Airi Tsuji | Intern student (M) | 2008 | 2010 | co-supervisor | Kyoto Institute of Technology |
| Shinji Tsuruse | lab student (M) | 2011 | 2011 | co-supervisor | Kansai Univ. |
| Daiju Ishikawa | lab student (M) | 2012 | 2013 | co-supervisor | Kansai Univ. |
| Yukari Nakatani | lab student (M) | 2013 | 2014 | supervisor | Kansai Univ. |
| Naoto Yoshida | lab student (M) | 2013 | 2014 | supervisor | Kansai Univ. |
| Yuya Yoshida | lab student (M) | 2013 | 2014 | supervisor | Kansai Univ. |
| Xiaoshun Meng | lab student (M) | 2013 | 2014 | supervisor | Kansai Univ. |
| Misato Shiojiri | lab student (M) | 2013 | 2014 | supervisor | Kansai Univ. |
| Riki Ishino | lab student (M) | 2013 | 2014 | supervisor | Kansai Univ. |
| Yusuke Naka | lab student (M) | 2014 | 2015 | supervisor | Kansai Univ. |
| Yosuke Ino | lab student (M) | 2014 | 2015 | supervisor | Kansai Univ. |
| Hiroaki Ueda | lab student (M) | 2015 | 2016 | supervisor | Kansai Univ. |
| Kunihiko Fujiwara | lab student (M) | 2015 | 2016 | supervisor | Kansai Univ. |
| Haruka Mase | external lab student (M) | 2015 | 2016 | advisor (graduated our lab. in Kansai Univ.) | Nara Women's Univ. |
| Takemitsu Funata | lab student (M) | 2015 | 2016 | co-supervisor | Kansai Univ. |
| Yuta Nakamura | lab student (M) | 2015 | 2016 | co-supervisor | Kansai Univ. |
| Tomotsugu Matsuda | lab student (M) | 2013 | 2017 | co-supervisor | Kansai Univ. |
| Yipeng He | lab student (M) | 2016 | 2018 | supervisor | Kansai Univ. |
| Yuki Kitagishi | lab student (M) | 2017 | 2018 | supervisor | Kansai Univ. |
| Kaede Ueno | lab student (M) | 2017 | 2018 | supervisor | Kansai Univ. |
| Xin Wan | lab student (M) | 2018 | 2019 | supervisor | Kansai Univ. |
| Naoya Ito | lab student (M) | 2018 | 2019 | supervisor | Kansai Univ. |
| Naoto Yoshida | lab student (D) | 2015 | 2017 | supervisor | Kansai Univ. |
| Xiaoshun Meng | lab student (D) | 2015 | supervisor | Kansai Univ. | |
Scholarly and Professonal Activities
| Research or equivalent grants | ||||||
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| Granting Agency | Descriptsion | Subject | Budget | Year | Principal Investigator | Co-Investigators |
| JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science | Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research | Decision Making for Dementia People (tentative title in english) | 12,500,000 yen about 250,000 dollars | 2019-2021 (three fiscal years) | Noriaki Kuwahara | Tomoko Yonezawa et al. |
| JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science | Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research | Multiple Agent's Behavioral Model (Tentative Title in English) | 3,300,000 yen about 25,000 dollars | 2019-2021 (three fiscal years) | Naoto Yoshida | Tomoko Yonezawa et al. |
| JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science | Challenging Research (Exploratory) | A navigation system for visibility impaired persons using touch feel reproduction and dynamic placement of virtual braille guidance block and wall | 4,900,000 yen about 45,000 dollars | 2018-2019 (two fiscal years) | Yu Enokibori | Tomoko Yonezawa et al. |
| JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science | Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) | Indirect detection of small changes of surrounding persons based on unconscious awareness detection | 3,500,000 yen about 30,000 dollars | 2018-2020 (three fiscal years) | Hirotake Yamazoe | Tomoko Yonezawa et al. |
| Tateishi Science and Technoogy Foundation | Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) | Virtual Paving Block to Support Visual Impared People (Tentative Title in English) | 2,500,000 yen about 30,000 dollars | 2017.4-2018.3 (one fiscal year) | Yu Enokibori | Tomoko Yonezawa |
| JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science | Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research | Record and Memory System of Elderly People and Caregivers | 33,000,000 yen about 200,000 dollars | 2015-2017 (three fiscal years) | Noriaki Kuwahara | Tomoko Yonezawa et al. |
| JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science | Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research | Para-communication Environment with Auditory Space and Orientation | 12,700,000 yen about 130,000 dollars | 2013-2016 (four fiscal years) | Tomoko Yonezawa | |
| JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science | Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research | Expressive Stimulation for Treatment of the Apathy and Rehabilitation for Dementia Patients | 13,500,000 yen about 140,000 dollars | 2012-2014 (three fiscal years) | Noriaki Kuwahara | Tomoko Yonezawa et al. |
| Kansai University | Subsidy for Supporting Young Scholars | Ownership Intermediating and Learning Robot | 2,000,000 yen about 21,000 dollars | 2012-2013 (two fiscal years) | Tomoko Yonezawa | Masaki Ogino |
| Kansai University | Grants for Research on Reconstruction from East Japan Earthquake Disasters | Psycological Stableness through Tactile Communication on Stuffed-toy Robot | 450,000 yen about 4,700 dollars | 2011-2012 (one fiscal year) | Tomoko Yonezawa | |
| JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science | Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research | Supporting the daily-living of people with dementia by using media technology | 13,900,000 yen about 145,000 dollars | 2009-2011 (three fiscal years) | Noriaki Kuwahara | Tomoko Yonezawa et al. |
| JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science | Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research | Individualization of Multimodal Expression for Anthropomorphic and Embodied Media | 3,300,000 yen about 35,000 dollars | 2008-2010 (three fiscal years) | Tomoko Yonezawa | |
| IPA Cultivating IT Human Resources | MITOH Program | Wearable Voice Memorandoms in Browsing and Recording using Head/Gaze Direction | 7,000,000 yen about 73,000 dollars | 2009 (seven months) | Tomoko Yonezawa | Hirotake Yamazoe et al. |
| Nagoya University Grants for 21st century COE | Young Researchers Projects | Multimodal Database with Variety of Personality and Emotions for Anthropomorphic Expressions | 1,000,000 yen about 10,500 dollars | 2005-2006 (one fiscal year) | Tomoko Yonezawa | Hironori Tomobe |
| Keio University SFC Research Institute | Taikichiro Mori Memorial Research Grants | Extended Musical Instruments for Assisting Musical Composition | 300,000 yen about 3,100 dollars | 1999-2000 (one fiscal year) | Tomoko Yonezawa | |
| Research or equivalent contracts | ||||||
| Granting Agency | Description | Subject | Budget | Year | Principal Investigator | Co-Investigators |
| NTT Resonant Inc. | Joint Research | Multimodal Communication Media Project | 2012 | 500,000 yen about 510,000 dollars | Tomoko Yonezawa | |
| Nakamura Choukou Co. Ltd. | Assigned Contribution | Image Processing System Project | 2012 | 342,000 yen about 3,500 dollars | Tomoko Yonezawa | Hirotake Yamazoe |