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| ISHIDA Toru | |
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Project Leader
Professor Department of Social Informatics Kyoto University ishida@i.kyoto-u.ac.jp http://www.lab7.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~ishida |
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| Research in the Digital City Project | |
| I am working as a project leader of the "Universal Design of Digital Cities," sponsored by JST CREST. My research in this project is: | |
| 1. | Social psychological study of software agents (with Nakanishi and Nakazawa) to understand social roles of agents in human community. For example, we are trying to figure out whether or not software agents can control human relations. |
| 2. | Designing scenario description language Q (with Gao and Fukumoto) for thousands of agents in the 3D virtual space to try out the world first crisis management experiment in a virtual Kyoto station. |
| 3. | Creating a new cyber mall (with Bolduan) for regional shopping street communities in Kyoto. |
| 4. | Understand world digital cities (with Yasuoka) and publish the first digital city book from the MIT press. The book includes 6 different activities from Helsinki, Amsterdam, Seattle, Blacksburg, Shanghai and Kyoto, and comparative studies on world digital cities. |
| Biography | |
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I received the B.E., M.Eng. and D.Eng. degrees from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1976, 1978 and 1989, respectively. From 1978 to 1993, I was a research scientist of NTT Laboratories. I was also a visiting research scientist at the Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, an invited professor at Le Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6), Pierre et Marie Curie, and a guest professor at Institut fuer Informatik, Technische Universitaet Muenchen. I have been working on parallel, distributed and multiagent production systems (Springer, 1994) from 1983. From 1990, I started working on realtime search for learning autonomous agents (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997). I also started working on communityware in 1995, and edited two books: community computing: collaboration over global information networks (John Wiley and Sons, 1998), and community computing and support systems (Springer-Verlag, 1998). I am currently working on digital cities: experiences, technologies and future perspectives (Springer, 2000). |
| Recent Publications | |
| 1. | Toru Ishida, "Digital City Kyoto: Social Information Infrastructure for Everyday Life," Communications of the ACM (CACM), 2001 (to appear). |
| 2. | Toru Ishida and Katherine Isbister Eds., Digital Cities: Experiences, Technologies and Future Perspectives, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1765, Springer-Verlag, 2000. |
| 3. | Katherine Isbister, Hideyuki Nakanishi, Toru Ishida, and Cliff Nass, "Helper Agent: Designing an Assistant for Human-Human Interaction in a Virtual Meeting Space," CHI-2000, 2000. |
| 4. | Makoto Yokoo and Toru Ishida, "Search Algorithms for Agents," In Gerhard Weiss Ed., Multiagent Systems: A Modern Approach to Distributed Artificial Intelligence, MIT Press, pp. 165-199, 1999. |
| 5. | Hideyuki Nakanishi, Chikara Yoshida, Toshikazu Nishimura and Toru Ishida, "FreeWalk: A 3D Virtual Space for Casual Meetings," IEEE Multimedia, Vol.6, No.2, pp.20-28, 1999. |
| 6. | Toru Ishida Ed., Community Computing and Support Systems, LNCS 1519, Springer-Verlag, 1998. |
| 7. | Toru Ishida Ed., Community Computing: Collaboration over Global Information Networks, John Wiley and Sons, 1998. |
| 8. | Toru Ishida, "Towards Communityware," New Generation Computing,Vol. 16,1998. |