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• (2026.3.25) Eleven fourth-year students graduated. Sakamoto served as the Faculty of Engineering'sGraduating class representativeand received thePresident's Award. Congratulations to all our graduates!


• （2026.03.06）An interview titled “Designing a society where people and systems live together through dialogue with AI agents” is now available. The interview was published byNeurodiversity Projectas part of its interview series.
You can also watch the interview on YouTube below. ▶VIDEO / YOUTUBEDialogue with AI agents and the future of human–system symbiosisWatch on YouTube ↗

• （2026.03.03）An interview titled “How far can AI and people trust each other? New relationships with robots in an aging society” is now available. The interview was published byLC Asset Design LLCas part of its interview series.


• (2026.1.20) At the conference held January 18–21 in Macao, China,The 25th International Conference on Electronics, Information, and Communication（ICEIC2026）, first-year master's student 李基響 gave an oral presentation and received the WEIE Workshop'sBest Presentation Awardaward.
• G. Lee, T. Miyamoto, D. Katagami: Development of a Multimodal Driving Support System for Building a Sustained Relationship with the Driver, The 25th International Conference on Electronics, Information, and Communication（ICEIC2026）, (2026.1)


• （2025.12.19）Neurodiversity Award— award announcement:Press releaseis now available.


• (2025.12.13) At the conference held December 13–14 at National Taiwan Normal University in Taiwan,The 30th International Conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (TAAI2025), first-year master's student 李基響 gave an oral presentation.
• G. Lee, T. Miyamoto, D. Katagami: Development of a Conversational Agent System for Building Sustained Relationships Based on the Close Relationship Process, The 30th International Conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence(TAAI2025), 1-4, No. 146, (2025.12)


• (2025.11.12) At the conference held November 10–13 at Keio University's Hiyoshi Campus,International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI2025), fourth-year student 宇野愛華 presented a poster.
• M. Uno, T. Miyamoto, D. Katagami: Development of a Dementia Care Training System that Learns with Dementia Patient Agents based on LLM-Embedded Cognitive Architecture, 13th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI2025) (2025.11)


• (2025.12.15) Fourth-year student 坂本朗生's paper was accepted for the FSS2025 short-note special issue.
• Roki Sakamoto, Tomoki Miyamoto, Daisuke Katagami: Development of a conversational game support agent that creates a sense of rivalry appropriate to the user's skill level through peer learning (2026) (in press)Original record (Japanese) ↗


• (2025.11.11) At the symposium held September 3–5 at Kumamoto Prefectural Exchange Center Parea,Fuzzy System Symposium (FSS2025), fourth-year student 坂本朗生's presentation received theFSS Excellent Presentation Award.
• Roki Sakamoto: Development of a conversational game support agent that creates a sense of rivalry appropriate to the user's skill level through peer learning,Fuzzy System Symposium(FSS2025),2A2-2(2025.9)Original record (Japanese) ↗


• (2025.11.03) We exhibited at the Neurodiversity Project's event at Tokyo Portcity Takeshiba on November 2–3,Minna no Neuroscience 2025. Over two days, nearly 100 visitors experienced everyday interactions with an AI grandmother with dementia and interviews with an AI interviewer. At the event'sNeurodiversity Award 2025ceremony,our laboratory's work supporting family caregivers of people with dementia received theNeurodiversity Awardaward. The judges selected six projects from 170 entries across ten countries, placing our work in the top 3.5%.We were the only academic organization among the six selected projects. We are honored that our five years of work were recognized. Thank you to the organizers, visitors, alumni, and five lab members who helped with the demonstration.


• (2025.10.06) Professor Lin and his wife from National Pingtung University are staying with us for three months as visiting researchers. We took a photograph on their first day. Their research concerns educational support systems, and we are exploring international collaboration. We hope they have a rewarding stay.


• (2025.09.05) At the symposium held September 3–5 at Kumamoto Prefectural Exchange Center Parea,Fuzzy System Symposium (FSS2025), master's student 王俊杰 and fourth-year students 坂本朗生 and 髙野智椰 each gave oral presentations.
• Roki Sakamoto, Tomoki Miyamoto, Daisuke Katagami: Development of a conversational game support agent that creates a sense of rivalry appropriate to the user's skill level through peer learning,Fuzzy System Symposium(FSS2025),2A2-2(2025.9)Original record (Japanese) ↗
• A conversational mahjong game-record review support system visualizing contributions to tile-discard choices by deep-learning AI,Fuzzy System Symposium(FSS2025),2A3-4(2025.9)Full citation & author list (Japanese) ↗
• An adaptive AI system for learning Japanese and Chinese language and culture through cultural-friction scenarios,Fuzzy System Symposium(FSS2025),3A2-3(2025.9)Full citation & author list (Japanese) ↗


• (2025.07.30) At the conference held in May at Osaka International Convention Center,JSAI Annual Conference 2025, a presentation co-authored by Katagami received theJSAI 2025Annual Conference Excellent Presentation Award(General Session, Oral Presentation Division).
• Tomoki Miyamoto, Daisuke Katagami, Takahiro Tanaka: An utterance decision framework for driving support agents,JSAI Annual Conference(JSAI2025),2D5-GS-9-05(2025.5)Publication ↗Original record (Japanese) ↗


• (2025.07.28) Our lab was interviewed and several demonstrations were recorded. The photographs show the driving simulator and smart-home environment.


• （2025.07.09）An interview titled “Is AI our future companion? New relationships between people and agents” was published byKnowledge Art LLCas aninterview article.


• (2025.06.20) Tokyo Polytechnic University, Sumitomo Corporation, Nagoya University, and the University of Electro-Communications jointly organized the “Discover! Research × Social Implementation Workshop” at the Atsugi Campus. Two teams including our master's students 李 and 王 and fourth-year students 櫻井, 宇野, and 高野 received awards.
• Save Yuko's Mother!): Academia Award,Research and Social Implementation Workshop Discover!(2025.6)Full citation & author list (Japanese) ↗
• Mind Subtitle Research Institute): 1st Sumitomo Corporation Beyond Mobility SBU Business Design Award,Research and Social Implementation Workshop Discover!(2025.6)Full citation & author list (Japanese) ↗


• (2025.05.30) At the conference held May 27–30 at Osaka International Convention Center (Grand Cube Osaka),JSAI Annual Conference 2025, master's student 李基響 presented research. A presentation co-authored by Katagami was also given.
• Development of a dialogue agent system building sustained relationships through an interpersonal relationship-building process,JSAI Annual Conference(JSAI2025),3R1-OS-45-03(2025.5)Publication ↗Full citation & author list (Japanese) ↗
• Tomoki Miyamoto, Daisuke Katagami, Takahiro Tanaka: An utterance decision framework for driving support agents,JSAI Annual Conference(JSAI2025),2D5-GS-9-05(2025.5)Publication ↗Original record (Japanese) ↗


• (2025.3.24) One doctoral student and thirteen fourth-year students graduated. Fourth-year student 李 served as the faculty'sGraduating class representativeand received theand received the President's Award and Matsukawa Saku Industry Award. Congratulations to all our graduates!


• （2025.03.01） HAI Symposium 2025— fourth-year students 石黒仁菜 and 福島颯太 gave an oral presentation and a poster presentation respectively. 石黒仁菜 received theStudent Encouragement Award. A certificate will be awarded later. This research develops dementia care training based on Humanitude, aiming to improve family caregivers' understanding and reduce psychological burden. Analysis of correlations between voice characteristics and subjective evaluations from 150 experienced caregivers supported the usefulness of the system's speech-rate and intonation measures.
• A dementia care training system based on Humanitude,HAI Symposium2025,G-30(2025.3)Publication ↗Full citation & author list (Japanese) ↗


• (2024.12.01) Fourth-year students 浅倉昴輝, 石黒仁菜, 岩野良太朗, 木村太洋, 工藤悠, 篠原優太, 孫堅, 武井一晃, 田中悠貴, 南雲天来, 福島颯太, 湯川未帆, and 李基響 presented at the Joint Research Discussion Meeting on Communication and Interaction. Thank you to everyone for the many helpful comments.


• (2024.11.15) Research by March graduates 西尾 and 澁江 with Professor Miyamoto of the University of Electro-Communications and colleagues was accepted as a journal short note.
• Psychological evaluation of a driving support agent that praises drivers in real-vehicle experiments on public roads,Journal of Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics,Vol. 36,No. 4,pp. 740–746(2024.11)Publication ↗Full citation & author list (Japanese) ↗


• （2024.11.05）An interview titled “Praise and comfort: supportive partners and evolving communication robots” is now available. The interview was published byClick and Pay LLCpublished this exclusive interview.


• （2024.9.06） JSAI SIAI #6 Industry–Academia Cross Square: “AI Talent Creating the Future”was held September 6–7 at AIST in Odaiba. Katagami helped organize the event as leader of the university exhibitions.Fourteen university laboratories working on AI、and ten companiesparticipated, along with eight students from our lab. This new initiative connects students and young researchers seeking to apply AI and data analysis with AI-related companies.


• （2024.9.05） 32nd Intelligent System Symposium (FAN2024)— fourth-year students 南雲天来, 李基響, and 木村太洋 gave oral presentations.


• (2024.9.05) Katagami received a Contribution Award from the Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics.


• （2024.8.23） Katagami gave an invited talk at the 23rd Cognitive Communication Workshop.


• (2024.8.06) Katagami gave an invited talk at the 56th Tokai Fuzzy Workshop in Gamagori (Gamaken 2024).


• （2024.5.15）An interview titled “The ideal relationship between people and AI” is now available. The interview was published byEXIDEA Inc.published it in the web magazineSo-gúd.


• （2024.5.30） 38th JSAI Annual Conference (JSAI2024), Act City Hamamatsu—Organized session KS-8: AIWolf Contest 2024, Domestic Competition, Natural Language Division— Katagami helped organize this session.


• (May 15, 2024) Research by Professor Miyamoto at the University of Electro-Communications and master's student 山下智矢 has been accepted as a short note in a journal.
• Effects of linguistic consideration strategies used by a driving support robot for phased cancellation of automated driving on trust and annoyance,Journal of Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics,Vol. 36,No. 2,pp. 640–645(2024.5)Publication ↗Full citation & author list (Japanese) ↗


• (2024.5.04) For the Human Interface Society,Special Issue “Agents and Interaction Design”, Vol. 26, No. 2 (May 2024)was organized. Thank you to the editors, reviewers, and administrative staff.


• (2024.3.28) Administrative assistant 春木 temporarily left the position. Thank you for your support!


• （2024.3.25）Care-sul Kaigopublished an article on a listening training system for family caregivers of people with dementia, featuring research by 岩崎, 大井, and 山中.


• (2024.3.21) Five master's students and twelve fourth-year students graduated. Congratulations to everyone!


• （2024.3.05） HAI Symposium 2024— fourth-year students 太田泰介 and 山中祐樹 gave oral presentations; 原田和麻, 平野裕人, 西田裕一, 束野海紀, and 西尾駿一 presented posters. Thank you to the organizers and participants for their advice.


• （2024.2.20） International Conference CcSR2024— fourth-year student 澁江樹 gave an oral presentation.


• (2023.12.7) Five journal papers were accepted in 2023, recognizing the efforts of our students and co-authors. Second-year master's student 鈴木章弘 also received an award at the HAI Symposium:Most Outstanding Research Award（Best Paper Award). Congratulations and thank you for your hard work!


• (2023.9.19) Thirteen third-year students joined the lab. We look forward to their work!


• （2023.8.17） Guide for prospective lab members— updated.


• (2023.3.27) Administrative assistant 永島 retired from the position. Thank you for many years of support!


• (2023.3.24) Four master's students and eleven fourth-year students graduated. 侭田圭太 was top of the graduate program and served asGraduating class representative; 満田雄斗 served asGraduating class representativedeputy representative; 藤嶋大樹 received theSugiura Rokuemon Award for outstanding graduate research; 木原諒子, top of the undergraduate course, received theDean of Engineering's Award and Matsukawa Saku Industry Award; and 松尾篤 received theAlumni Association President's Award. Congratulations to all our graduates!


• (2023.3.18) At HSS-DC2023 and the 34th HSS Workshop, master's student 満田雄斗 and fourth-year student 大井晏吾 presented posters. 満田 received aSpecial Award. Thank you to everyone who participated.
• Special Award
• “Development and evaluation of conversational daily-life support using behavior prediction for people with severe physical disabilities, including ALS”Full record & author names (Japanese) ↗


• （2023.3.16）29th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing (NLP2023)— fourth-year student 松尾篤 gave an oral presentation.


• （2023.03.05） HAI Symposium 2023—— master's student 鈴木章弘 was selected for the discussion session, gave an oral presentation, and received an award:Most Outstanding Research Award（Best Paper Award)with a certificate and crystal trophy. This work proposes a dialogue system for building long-term human–agent relationships based on theories of interpersonal closeness. Congratulations!
• Most Outstanding Research Award（Best Paper Award）
• “A multi-device dialogue system that uses the development of closeness to build sustained relationships”Publication ↗Full record & author names (Japanese) ↗


• （2023.3.05） HAI Symposium 2023— master's student 鈴木章弘 was selected for the discussion session and gave an oral presentation; fourth-year student 梅木雄大 presented a poster. Thank you to the organizers and participants for their advice.


• （2023.3.3）85th National Convention of IPSJ— fourth-year student 佐藤涼樹 gave an oral presentation.


• （2022.12.16）HCG Symposium 2023— master's student 満田雄斗 gave oral and poster presentations.


• (2022.12.14) At the December 13–14 event organized by JSAI SIG-SLUD,Dialogue System Symposium Live Competition, Situation Track,fourth-year student 木原諒子 received anExcellence Award.This was joint research with the Maeda–Shuzo Laboratory at Tokyo Denki University. Congratulations!
• JSAI SIG-SLUD Dialogue System Symposium Live Competition — Situation TrackExcellence AwardFull record & author names (Japanese) ↗
• “A multimodal dialogue agent that apologizes to a friend by offering immediately effective alternatives”Full record & author names (Japanese) ↗
　
• Dialogue System Live Competition 5
• Dialogue System Live Competition: an event where dialogue systems operate and are evaluated in front of an audience.
• Situation Track: systems compete in producing context-appropriate, human-like dialogue in a specified situation, rather than open-ended conversation. It aims to advance dialogue systems that consider interpersonal relationships, time, place, and occasion.


• （2022.09.22） FSS2022—Fourth-year student 松尾篤 gave an oral presentation and received an award:FSS Excellent Presentation Award. Congratulations!
• FSS Excellent Presentation AwardFull record & author names (Japanese) ↗
• “A six-country comparison of acceptance of linguistic consideration by conversational embodied agents: large-scale crowdsourced impression survey 2”Full record & author names (Japanese) ↗


• (2022.6.28) From July 1 to 3, at Odaiba'sMiraikan — National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation—, we will conduct a dialogue experiment with an android.Please join us. If you would like to participate, contact us by email.


• (2022.5.1) Research led by March graduate Tomoki Miyamoto was accepted for publication by JSAI.
• Proposal and implementation of Risky Politeness Strategy in a non-task-oriented dialogue system,Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence,Vol. 37,No. 3 (2022.5)Publication ↗Full citation & author list (Japanese) ↗


• (2022.4.1) Tomoki Miyamoto, who completed his doctorate, took up a position at the University of Electro-Communications. We wish him every success!


• (2022.3.23) One doctoral student, four master's students, and nine undergraduates graduated. 宮本友樹, 磐下大樹, and 角田浩章 graduated at the top of their respective programs; 増田有貴 was namedGraduating class representative. Congratulations to everyone!


• (2021.3.23) Administrative assistant 中島 retired from the position. Thank you for your support!


• (2021.12.27) Based on the paper below, master's student 藤嶋大樹 received the Human Interface Society's Young Researcher Excellence Award.


• (2021.11.25) Research led by master's student 藤嶋大樹 proposing a way to reduce stress from embodied agents in digital signage was accepted by the Human Interface Society's journal.
• Daiki Fujishima, Daisuke Katagami: Reducing accumulated embodied social anxiety through an anthropomorphic agent in digital signage,Transactions of the Human Interface Society,Vol. 23,No. 4,pp. 489–500 (2021.11)Publication ↗Original record (Japanese) ↗


• (2021.11.9) Doctoral student 宮本 received an award atHAI2021(acceptance rate: 38.2%), with the work rated among the top 5%:Outstanding Research Award.Three of the 26 accepted papers (68 submissions) received this award; ours was the only student presentation among them. The study designs utterance strategies for a voice-based driving support agent. A video-based subjective experiment (n=240) compared indirect off-record strategies with explicit politeness strategies, showing the usefulness and distinctive effects of explicit, considerate instructions. Thank you to the organizers!
• Tomoki Miyamoto, Daisuke Katagami, Takahiro Tanaka, Hitoshi Kanamori, Yuki Yoshihara, Kazuhiro Fujikake: Should a Driving Support Agent Provide Explicit Instructions to the User? Video-based Study Focused on Politeness Strategies, The Ninth International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction. November 9-11th, 2021. Online.


• (2021.10.16) Tokyo Polytechnic University's public relations team visited our lab for an interview. Watch the video on YouTube below.
▶VIDEO / YOUTUBEA lab visit by Tokyo Polytechnic University's public relations teamWatch on YouTube ↗

• (2021.9.17) Eleven third-year students joined the lab. We look forward to their work!


• (2021.08.26) Research led by master's student 宮﨑健斗 proposing a job interview assessment model was accepted for publication by JSAI.
• An interviewee evaluation model for job interviews based on multimodal information,Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence,Vol. 36,No. 5(2021.9)Publication ↗Full citation & author list (Japanese) ↗
• (2021.08.26) Research led by doctoral student 宮本友樹 on the effects of psychologically close utterance strategies in casual dialogue systems was accepted for publication by JSAI.
• Tomoki Miyamoto, Motoki Iwashita, Mizuki Endo, Nozomu Nagai, Daisuke Katagami: Effects of psychologically close utterance strategies on dialogue evaluation in non-task-oriented dialogue systems,Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence,Vol. 36,No. 5(2021.9)Publication ↗Original record (Japanese) ↗
• (2021.07.31) Selected papers from the international sessions of JSAI2020, for which Katagami served as Program Chair, were published by Springer as"Advances in Artificial Intelligence - Selected Papers from the Annual Conference of Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence (JSAI2020)". Publication took over a year. Thank you to everyone involved.
• (2021.07.31) Research led by doctoral student 宮本友樹, presented in the international sessions of JSAI2020, was selected at an acceptance rate of 40% for publication by Springer.
• Tomoki Miyamoto, Daisuke Katagami, Mayumi Usami: A Politeness Control Method for Conversational Agents Considering Social Relationships with Users, Advances in Artificial Intelligence(JSAI2020), Springer, pp. 224–231 2021
• （2021.03.10） The following short presentation at HAI Symposium 2021 received anImpressive Short-paper Award(Excellent Paper Award(Short Paper); two of 60 short presentations were selected..This research with Professor Usami of NINJAL investigated cross-cultural acceptance of agents' linguistic consideration, with major contributions from master's student 山本 and doctoral student 宮本.
• Daisuke Katagami, Ryutaro Yamamoto, Tomoki Miyamoto, Mayumi Usami: A cross-cultural comparison of acceptance of linguistic consideration by conversational anthropomorphic agents: a large-scale impression survey using crowdsourcing,HAI Symposium2021,P-13 (2021.3)Publication ↗Original record (Japanese) ↗
▶VIDEO / YOUTUBEIntroduction to our laboratory's activitiesWatch on YouTube ↗

• （2020.3.10） HAI Symposium 2021— fourth-year student 藤嶋大樹 gave a long presentation; 鈴木智丸, 侭田圭太, and Katagami gave short presentations. Thank you for the many helpful comments and to the organizers and presenters.


• （2021.01.20） A paper led by doctoral student 宮本 was accepted by the peer-reviewed open-access journal Frontiers in Psychology (2020 IF: 2.390).The study concerns acceptance of utterance strategies by embodied driving support agents. It was a challenging review process, but we are pleased with the result. This was collaborative research with Tokyo Polytechnic University, NINJAL, and Nagoya University.
• Influence of Social Distance Expressed by Driving Support Agent’s Utterance on Psychological Acceptability
  Tomoki Miyamoto, Daisuke Katagami, Yuka Shigemitsu, Mayumi Usami, Takahiro Tanaka, Hitoshi Kanamori, Yuki Yoshihara and Kazuhiro Fujikake


• （2021.01.13） Doctoral student 宮本 received a provisional offer for a JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC2) for FY2021.This is an excellent achievement for our university. We look forward to his continued work!


• (2020.12.13) At the online six-university joint presentation meeting, master's student 永井望 and fourth-year students 満田雄斗 and 渡邊時貞 presented. 満田 received theExcellent Oral Presentation Award. Thank you to all participants.
• Excellent Oral Presentation Award — “Conversational support to improve quality of life for people with severe physical disabilities, including ALS”Full record & author names (Japanese) ↗


• (2020.10.26) Ten third-year students joined the lab. We look forward to their work!


• (2020.10.01) Administrative assistant 永島 returned in October. Welcome back!


• (2020.10.12) A lab information session for next year's assignments will take place on October 12. We look forward to meeting prospective members.


• (2020.7) Master's student 磐下大樹 presented at WCCI2020.
• M. Iwashita, D. Katagami: Psychological Effects of Compliment Expressions by Communication Robots on Human, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI) 2020, The International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) (2020.7)


• (2020.3.26) Today was administrative assistant 永島's final day after three years. Thank you for your support! 中島 will take over in April.


• （2020.3.6） HAI Symposium 2020— fourth-year students 鈴木誓梧 and 伊藤稜平 submitted poster papers. Unfortunately, presentations were canceled because of COVID-19. Thank you to the organizers and students for their work.


• (2020.3.23) Eight fourth-year students graduated. COVID-19 led to cancellation of the main ceremony, so a small degree-conferral ceremony was held. 磐下大樹 graduated top of the class, while 永井望 served asGraduating class representativedeputy representative. 磐下 received theDean of Engineering's Award for outstanding achievement. Congratulations to all our graduates!


• (2020.1.25) Fourth-year student 上野大雅 received the following award at HSS Design Contest 2020.
• HSS Design Contest Special Award — “Automated demonstration generation using AIWolf match logs” Awarded a certificate and trophyFull record & author names (Japanese) ↗


• (2019.12.01) Fourth-year students 宮崎健斗, 伊藤稜平, and 鈴木誓梧 presented at the five-university joint meeting. 宮崎 received anExcellent Oral Presentation Award, while 伊藤 and 鈴木 received theExcellent Poster Presentation Award. Congratulations, and thank you to all participants!
• Excellent Oral Presentation Award — “A multimodal model for evaluating job interview candidates”Full record & author names (Japanese) ↗
• Excellent Oral Presentation Award — “An embodied agent system using a smart speaker and holograms”Full record & author names (Japanese) ↗
• Excellent Poster Presentation Award — “An esports commentary system emphasizing excitement”Full record & author names (Japanese) ↗


• (2019.10.21) Ten third-year students joined the lab. We look forward to their work!


• （2019.08.30） FSS2019— doctoral student 宮本友樹 received the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Young Researcher Award for his oral presentation at the previous year's conference. Congratulations!
• IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Young Researcher Award
  Tomoki Miyamoto
  　Co-authored with Daisuke Katagami, Yuka Shigemitsu, Mayumi Usami, Takahiro Tanaka, Hitoshi Kanamori, Kazuhiro Fujikake, and Yuki Yoshihara
  Design of linguistic behaviors according to driver attributes support agent based on politeness theory


• (2019.08.16) At a leading international AI conference,IJCAI2019, held in Macao, a video submitted to the AI Video Competition by Katagami and master's student 山本隆太郎 received theMost Societally Beneficial Video Awardaward. This was the second-highest award among all submissions to the competition.
• Most Societally Beneficial Video Award
  Daisuke Katagami, Ryutaro Yamamoto, Fujio Toriumi, Hirotaka Osawa, Michimasa Inaba, Yoshinobu Kano, Takashi Otsuki
  Find a liar AI!: “The AIWolf game viewer” which visualizes the battle of the strongest five AI players in the AIWolf competition.
▶VIDEO / YOUTUBEFind a liar AI! — The AIWolf Game ViewerWatch on YouTube ↗

• (2019.03.19) One master's student and eight undergraduates graduated. 宮本 graduated at the top of both his program and the Graduate School of Engineering and received theSugiura Rokuemon Award for outstanding graduate research. Fourth-year student 清水 was also named the Faculty of Engineering'sAlumni Association President's Award. Congratulations to all our graduates!


• (2018.12.01) At the five-university joint meeting, fourth-year student 清水裕太郎 presented a poster and received theBest Poster Presentation Award. Congratulations, and thank you to all participants!
• Best Poster Presentation Award — “A speaking lap-pillow robot expressing pseudo-maternal care”Full record & author names (Japanese) ↗


• (2018.10.15) Eight third-year students joined the lab. We look forward to their work!


• （2018.09.04） FSS2018— master's student 宮本友樹 gave oral and poster presentations and received the poster session'sBest Presentation Award. Congratulations, and thank you to everyone who attended!
• Best Poster and Demonstration Award
  Tomoki Miyamoto, Daisuke Katagami, Yuka Shigemitsu, Mayumi Usami, Takahiro Tanaka, Hitoshi Kanamori, Kazuhiro Fujikake, Yuki Yoshihara
  “Designing linguistic behavior for a driving support agent based on politeness theory, driver attributes, and driving conditions”


• (2018.08.24) At the game developers' conference,CEDEC2018, Pacifico Yokohama,—the 4th AIWolf Competitionwas held. We introduced AIWolf agents developed by fourth-year students 曽根 and 山本.


• (2018.06.05) Following last year's activities,JSAI2018—an organized session on “AIWolf and Games with Incomplete Information”was held, featuring eight Werewolf research presentations and the special AIWolf Pre-Competition 2018. Thank you to everyone involved.


• (2018.05.25) Last year'sCEDEC2017event was covered ina detailed article about the AIWolf Competition. Thank you for the coverage. This year's event is planned for August 22–24. Build your own AIWolf agent and join us. Details are available on theAIWolf Project website.


• (2018.03.22) Two master's students and seven undergraduates graduated. Master's student 中村 wasTop of the graduate programandGraduating class representative; undergraduate 青木 wasTop of the departmentandand received the Dean of Engineering's Award. Congratulations to all our graduates!


• （2017.12.12） HAI Symposium 2017— master's student 宮本友樹 received theStudent Encouragement Award（Student Encouragement Award).。
• Student Encouragement Award（Student Encouragement Award） — “New relationships between people and embodied agents speaking with positive politeness strategies”Full record & author names (Japanese) ↗


• (2017.12.12) The symposium, for which Katagami served as Steering Chair,HAI Symposium 2017concluded successfully with 153 participants and a record number of poster and demonstration presentations. Thank you!


• (2017.9.24) Katagami appeared live on J-WAVE's STEP ONE, in the September 20, 9:20 a.m. “BEHIND THE SCENE” segment about AI playing Werewolf and whether AI can read human psychology. After discussing AI and Werewolf, he took a photograph with navigator Sascha and assistant Teraoka.


• （2017.9.24） HAI Symposium 2017will take place December 11–12 at Kanazawa Theatre. Please join us.


• (2017.9.24) We organized a “Mood Engineering” session at HCG Symposium 2017, Kanazawa Theatre. Please join us.


• （2017.9.13） FSS2017, Yamagata— organized a “Human Symbiotic Systems” session with Professor Maeda (Ritsumeikan University) and Professor Inoue (University of Fukui).


• （2017.6.1） SIG-AI2017, Waseda University— organized a workshop on “Communication and Atmosphere”.


• （2017.5.23） JSAI2017, Nagoya— organized a session titled “What is at the heart of HAI? Exploring AI-based interaction technologies” with Professor Imai (Keio University) and Professor Terada (Gifu University).


• (2017.3.22) The graduation ceremony was held. Fourth-year student 古屋敷さくら served asGraduating class representative, and 宮本友樹 served asGraduating class representativedeputy representative. 古屋敷さくら also received theAlumni Association President's Award. Congratulations to all our graduates!


• （2017.3.6） At HSS Design Contest 2017, threestudents received the following awards.
• HSS Design Contest Special Award — “Expressing human-like qualities by paraphrasing AIWolf protocol utterances using Werewolf BBS logs” Awarded a certificate and trophyFull record & author names (Japanese) ↗
• HSS Design Contest Special Award — “New relationships built through positive politeness: developing communication between people and embodied agents” Awarded a certificate and trophyFull record & author names (Japanese) ↗
• HSS Design Contest Judges'Special Award — “Creating a sense of familiar presence while watching TV using Twitter and a social conversational robot” Awarded a certificateFull record & author names (Japanese) ↗


• (2016.12.11) At the joint university research meeting, master's student 中村洋文 and undergraduate 亀田悠爾 each received an award:Excellence Award.
• Excellent Oral Presentation Award — “Creating atmosphere by paraphrasing AIWolf utterances using Werewolf BBS logs”Full record & author names (Japanese) ↗
• Excellent Poster Presentation Award — “An emotional-expression mechanism for a hearing assistance dog robot based on the empathy antenna AHOGE”Full record & author names (Japanese) ↗


• (2016.12.8) At HCG Symposium 2016,fourth-year student 古屋敷さくら received theExcellent Student Interactive Presentation Award.
• Excellent Student Interactive Presentation Award — “Creating an artificial atmosphere conveying familiar presence through Twitter and a social conversational robot”Full record & author names (Japanese) ↗
• (2016.12.8) We organized “Mood Engineering” at HCG Symposium 2016 in Kochi, with eight presentations across two sessions. Thank you to all participants.


• （2016.12.4） HAI Symposium 2016— March graduate菊地朗史 received the Impressive Poster Award (Excellence Award).。
• Impressive Poster Award（Excellence Award） — “Animacy for Anything: a device that adds lifelike expressions”Full record & author names (Japanese) ↗


• (2016.12.4) The symposium, for which Katagami served as Organizing Chair,HAI Symposium 2016concluded successfully. Held again at the University of Tokyo's Komaba Campus, it welcomed 150 participants and a record 37 posters. Thank you!


• (2016.10.17) Seven third-year students joined the lab. We look forward to their work!


• （2016.9.19）AIWolf Twitter Discussion 2: “What AI technologies does AIWolf develop?” — participated in the discussion.


• （2016.9.19）AIWolf Twitter Discussion 1: “What makes a strong AIWolf agent?” — a link to the earlier discussion has been added.


• (2016.9.19) Twitter discussion:Pre-talk for CEDEC2015 AI Challenge: AIWolf Competition — a link to the earlier discussion has been added.


• (2016.9.1) Katagami received a Contribution Award from SOFT. Thank you!


• （2016.6.15） An AIWolf book from Morikita Publishingwas published and is nowavailable on Amazon. We hope everyone interested in Werewolf finds it accessible and enjoyable. Please take a look!


• (2016.3.23) The graduation ceremony was held. Fourth-year student 中村洋文 received thePresident's Award. Fourth-year student 菊地朗史 served asGraduating class representativedeputy representative. Congratulations to all our graduates!


• (2016.01.08) WirelessWire News/AI article: “Creating AI that lies and is lied to: why we build AIWolf to play Werewolf (Part 2)” features a photograph of Katagami speaking at CEDEC2015.


• (2015.12.28) A “My Bookmark” article on Mood Engineering will appear in the JSAI journal. It is already available online.
  • My Bookmarks: Mood Engineering, Journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 31, No. 1 (2016.1).Publication ↗Full record & author names (Japanese) ↗


• (2015.12.17) At HCG Symposium 2015,master's student 宮田歩 received theExcellent Student Interactive Presentation Awardaward.。
• Excellent Student Interactive Presentation Award — “Effects on people of an explanatory agent using verbal fillers”Full record & author names (Japanese) ↗


• (2015.12.12) At the four-university joint research meeting, master's student 宮田歩 and undergraduate 佐藤翔吾 each received an award:Excellence Award.
• Excellent Oral Presentation Award — “Human qualities that begin with ‘Um...’: impressions of verbal fillers from an explanatory agent”Full record & author names (Japanese) ↗
• Excellent Poster Presentation Award — “An embodied agent that encourages safe driving through the passenger effect”Full record & author names (Japanese) ↗


• (2015.12.6) The symposium, for which Katagami served as Organizing Chair,HAI Symposium 2015concluded successfully at the University of Tokyo's Komaba Campus with 130 participants. Thank you!


• (2015.10.19) Eight third-year students joined the lab. We look forward to their work.


• （2015.10.2） JAWS2015—fourth-year student 中村洋文 presented a posterExcellence Award.。
• Poster presentationExcellence Award — “Building a natural AI discussion environment using Werewolf BBS logs” Coauthors: Daisuke Katagami (Tokyo Polytechnic University), Fujio Toriumi (University of Tokyo), Hirotaka Osawa (University of Tsukuba), Michimasa Inaba (Hiroshima City University), Kosuke Shinoda (University of Electro-Communications)Full record & author names (Japanese) ↗


• (2015.9.28) We introduced the laboratory to third-year students. Lab visits take place next week, October 5. We look forward to seeing you!


• (2015.9.15) The whole lab went on a retreat to Lake Suwa on September 14–15.


• (2015.9.11) A web server failure made our website unavailable for about two weeks. We apologize for the inconvenience.


• （2015.9.4） FSS2015, University of Electro-Communications— we organized “Human Symbiotic Systems”, featuring 26 presentations across six sessions. Thank you to all contributors and participants.


• （2015.9.4） FSS2015, University of Electro-Communications— we organized “Mood Engineering”, featuring four presentations. Thank you to all contributors and participants.


• （2015.8.28） We organized the AIWolf Competition and gave talks at CEDEC2015, Japan's largest game developer conference, held August 26–28 at Pacifico Yokohama. The competition received extensive media coverage.


• （2015.6.2） JSAI2015, Future University Hakodate— organized a session titled “Creating Sociability and Atmosphere through HAI” featured ten presentations. Thank you to all contributors and participants.


• (2015.3.23) The graduation ceremony was held. Congratulations to everyone!
  • A second-year master’s student served as the graduating class representative of the Electronic and Information Engineering program.Full record & author names (Japanese) ↗
  • A fourth-year student received the Supporters’ Association President’s Award.Full record & author names (Japanese) ↗
• （2015.3.10） At HSS Design Contest 2015, twostudents received the following awards.


• HSS Design Contest Impact Award — “Aromaroid: a robot using scent to improve human impressions” Awarded a certificate and trophyFull record & author names (Japanese) ↗
• HSS Design Contest Judges'Special Award — “Effects on people of the explanatory ability of an embodied agent with varied vocal expression” Awarded a certificateFull record & author names (Japanese) ↗
• (2014.12.18) At HCG Symposium 2014,master's students 小林 and 菅原 each received the following awards.
• Excellent Student Interactive Presentation Award — “A Werewolf match system creating a discussion atmosphere with embodied agents”Full record & author names (Japanese) ↗
• Excellent Student Interactive Presentation Award — “New communication spaces created by multiple discommunication robots”Full record & author names (Japanese) ↗
• (2014.12.17) We organized “Mood Engineering” at HCG2014 in Shimonoseki, with 16 presentations across four sessions. Thank you to all contributors and participants. Three presentations received session awards. Congratulations!


• （2014.11.19） JSAI Open AI Seminar: “An Introduction to AIWolf Research”— an AI program developed by master's student 小林 placedsecond.
• AIWolf AI Contest — 2nd PlaceFull record & author names (Japanese) ↗


• （2014.10.31） 2nd International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI2014)— master's student 小林's presentation received the following award.
• Honorable Mention Poster Award
  Yu Kobayashi, Hirotaka Osawa, Michimasa Inaba, Kosuke Shinoda, Fujio Toriumi and Daisuke Katagami
  "Development of Werewolf Match System for Human Players Mediated with Lifelike Agents"
  
• （2014.10.29） JAWS2014— a presentation co-authored by Katagami received aPresentation Award.
• Presentation Award — “Automatically extracting role coming-out information in Werewolf”, poster sessionFull record & author names (Japanese) ↗
• （2014.10.21） Intelligent System Symposium (FAN2014)—Two presentations co-authored by Katagami received the following awards.
• Excellent Paper Award — “Learning in Werewolf”Full record & author names (Japanese) ↗
• FAN PresentationAward — “Quantifying the strength of roles in Werewolf”Full record & author names (Japanese) ↗
• (2014.10.15) Nine third-year students joined the lab. We look forward to their work.


• (2014.9.29) We will hold an information session for third-year students considering joining next year. Please attend if interested.


• (2014.9.26) SOFT's Human Symbiotic Systems Research Group is inviting submissions to the special issue“Human Interactive Systems”. Submission deadline: February 23, 2015. Planned issue: Vol. 27, No. 6 (December 2015).


• (2014.9.21) Katagami gave an invited talk at the Cognitive Communication Workshop in Gamagori, Aichi.


• (2014.9.1) From September 1–3 at Kochi Castle Hall,FSS2014was held. The Human Symbiotic Systems Research Group organized five sessions over two days with 21 presentations. Thank you to everyone who participated and helped. Katagami also presented.


• (2014.8.22) At Ritsumeikan University's Suzaku Campus,HCS-VNV Workshop— Katagami gave an invited talk.


• (2014.5.16) At JSAI2014 in Ehime, following last year,the organized session “Mood Engineering”was held for the second time, featuring nine presentations including an invited talk. Thank you to everyone involved. Our group also gave five presentations at the conference.


• (2014.3.22) Nine fourth-year students graduated. Congratulations!


• （2014.3.2） At HSS Design Contest 2014, fourstudents received the following awards.
• HSS Design Contest Excellence Award — “Reproducing shared dining with a dining companion agent” Awarded a certificate and trophyFull record & author names (Japanese) ↗
• HSS Design Contest Excellence Award — “HAL Talk: interaction design using OBD to build new relationships between cars and drivers” Awarded a certificate and trophyFull record & author names (Japanese) ↗
• HSS Design Contest Excellence Award — “Artificial atmosphere generation and interaction design through cross-cultural simulation games” Awarded a certificate and trophyFull record & author names (Japanese) ↗
• HSS Design Contest Impact Award — “Effects of nonverbal information in Werewolf” Awarded a certificateFull record & author names (Japanese) ↗


• （2013.12.7） HAI Symposium 2013— fourth-year students 本郷 and 森田 presented. 本郷 was selected for the discussion session and gave a 40-minute presentation.
  • HAL Talk: developing an agent using OBD to build new relationships between cars and drivers. Selected for the discussion session.Full record & author names (Japanese) ↗
  • Can you trust the embodied agent in front of you? Improving trust through agent self-presentation.Full record & author names (Japanese) ↗


• （2013.10.26） Life Software Symposium 2013— a presentation by master's student 小林 and another co-authored by Katagami,two presentations in total, received theExcellent Presentation Award.
• Life Software Symposium 2013 Excellent Presentation Award — “Interactive digital signage that initiates conversation based on F-formation”Full record & author names (Japanese) ↗
• Life Software Symposium 2013 Excellent Presentation Award — “Creating a conversational atmosphere with agents: the possibilities of mood engineering”Full record & author names (Japanese) ↗


• （2013.9.20） JAWS2013— fourth-year students 江幡 and 高久, together with Katagami, presented posters.Two presentations received theExcellent Poster Award.
• Excellent Poster Award — “Effects of nonverbal information on Werewolf players”Full record & author names (Japanese) ↗
• Excellent Poster Award — “Mood engineering: toward further development of human communication research”Full record & author names (Japanese) ↗
• (2013.9.10) Master's student 菅原龍光 gave oral and poster-demonstration presentations at FSS2013, Osaka International University.


• (2013.8.06) Master's students 小林優 and 菅原龍光 attended the international conference at Hokkaido University,iHAI2013and presented their work.


• (2013.6.16) At Atsugi Junior High School,“Love Robots! Love Science! Come Join Us!”— the Human Symbiotic Systems Laboratory participated in this festival.


• (2013.6.7) At the JSAI Annual Conference listed as JSAI2013 in Toyama,the organized session “Mood Engineering”we organized this session for the first time, with 15 presentations across three sessions. Thank you!


• （2013.2.23） At HSS Design Contest 2013, threestudents received the following awards, including the top award.
• HSS Design Contest Best Award — “A discommunication robot” Awarded a certificate and trophyFull record & author names (Japanese) ↗
• HSS Design Contest Interactive Award — “Interactive digital signage based on F-formation” Awarded a certificateFull record & author names (Japanese) ↗
• HSS Design Contest Impact Award — “Expression model design and impression evaluation for an information announcer agent” Awarded a certificateFull record & author names (Japanese) ↗
• （2013.2.20） A paper submitted by fourth-year student 荒堀拓哉 was published in Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence.It appeared in the March 2013 issue.


• (2013.2.15) Eight fourth-year students completed their graduation thesis presentations. Well done!


• (2012.10.30) Eight fourth-year students completed their interim presentations.


• (2012.9.10) Master's student 仲地一世 presented at RO-MAN2012 in Paris, France.


• Nine third-year students provisionally joined the lab.


• The Human Interface Society special issue, for which Katagami serves on the editorial committee,“Minimal Design of Interaction”invited submissions. Deadline: July 31, 2012. Planned publication: February 2013.


• At WCCI2012 (FUZZ-IEEE2012), held June 10–15 in Brisbane, Australia,Special Session "Human Symbiotic Systems"we organized this session.


• From December 3–5 at Kyoto Institute of Technology,HAI Symposium 2011was held. 佐々木 and 高橋 presented from our laboratory.


• IEICE General Conference 2012, Okayama— we organized the symposium session“Agents and Sociality”on Thursday, March 22.


• For JSAI, we organized the special issue“Human–Agent Interaction”. Submission deadline: June 29, 2012. Planned publication was listed as Vol. 27, No. 2 (March 2013).


• For SOFT's Human Symbiotic Systems Research Group, we organized the special issue“Intelligent Systems Interacting with People”. Submission deadline: March 16, 2012. Planned publication: Vol. 24, No. 5 (October 2012).


• November 15 — Katagami received a Contribution Award from SOFT. Thank you!


• October 18 — Eight third-year students joined the lab.


• From September 12–14 at the University of Fukui,FSS2011was held. Our research group organized eight sessions over three days, with 32 presentations. Thank you to all participants and supporters. 奥森 and 仲地 presented from our lab. Read about the conference inthis article.


• From December 3–5 at Kyoto Institute of Technology,HAI Symposium 2011was held.


• JSAI Annual Conference— we presented our work. Thank you to everyone who supported us.


• 2011.02.03 — An article based on Nikkei BP's interview last September has been published. Thank you to everyone involved.


• 2010.11.17 — For the work presented at HAI Symposium 2009,
  Outstanding Research Award Best Award.
  Best Award：
  1C-6: Investigating group adaptability using KiSS-18 and a cross-cultural simulation game
  片上大輔、大村英史、新田克己(東京工業大学)
  HAI Symposium 2010 (http://tonolab.jp/hai10/）


• 2010.11.17 — Two papers submitted to the international journal JACIII were accepted.


• 2010.09.01 — The laboratory website was launched.