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| Koh Kakusho | |
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Associate Professor
Center for Information and Multimedia Studies Kyoto University kakusho@media.kyoto-u.ac.jp http://www.mm.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ |
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| Research in the Digital City Project | |
| The topic of my research to join the research project of "Universal Design of Digital Cities" is non-verbal adaptive user interface for digital cities. Based on the viewpoint to see digital cities as infrastructures to support human communication using multimedia representations grounding on the functions of cities, I am currently working on the following two issues for this research topic: | |
| 1. | How to adapt the user interface of digital cities to each user? (with Dr. Masayuki Okabe) When users exchange information with a digital city by a user interface, the users interpret and represent the information based on their own mental models of the city. The interface of the digital city must be adaptive to those mental models for information exchange with the users. |
| 2. | How to formulate human communication in digital cities? (with Dr. Victor Kryssanov) Different users have different mental models of a city, and those models are modified through communications between users so that they can share the same information. It is necessary to formulate this communication process in order that the digital city can handle the dynamical change of the mental models of the users. |
| Biography | |
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I received my B.E. degree in electrical engineering from Nagoya University in 1988. I also received my M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in communication engineering from Osaka University in 1990 and 1993, respectively. From 1992 to 1993, I was a Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and spent a year from 1993 at the Robotics Laboratory in Stanford University, where I worked on exploration of unknown environments by a mobile robot, with Professor Jean-Claude Latombe as a Visiting Scholar. From 1994 to 1997, I worked on the research topics including image media understanding, human gesture recognition and human-robot communication, with Professor Tadahiro Kitahashi as a Research Associate at the Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (ISIR) in Osaka University. Since 1997, I have been working on human-computer interaction using non-verbal media including images, facial expressions, virtual reality, with Professor Michihiko Minoh as an Associate Professor at the Center for Information and Multimedia Studies (CIMS) in Kyoto University. I am also working for information technology based university education as a mission of CIMS. |
| Recent Publications | |
| 1. | Koh Kakusho, Takashi Kondo and Michihiko Minoh, "User-Oriented Face Translation Based on Examples Obtained by User Interaction," Proc. of Int. Conf. on Multimedia and Expo (ICME2001), 2001 (to appear). |
| 2. | Masayuki Murakami, Keisuke Yagi, Koh Kakusho and Michihiko Minoh, "Evaluation of Distance Learning Course shared by UCLA and Kyoto University", Proc. of lnt. Conf. on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHE2001), 2001 (to appear). |
| 3. | Katsuhito Sudoh, Koh Kakusho and Michihiko Minoh, "Modeling a String from Observing the Real Object," Proc. of Int. Conf. on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM2000), pp. 544-553, 2000. |
| 4. | K.Kakusho, J.Kitawaki, S.Hagihara and M.Minoh, "Adjusting the Difference between 3D Spaces in VR Systems and Human Perception through Object Manipulation," Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. on Virtual Reality (VR2000), pp.99-106 2000. |
| 5. | F.Shibata, M.Ashida, K.Kakusho and T.Kitahashi, "Concept Learning in Linguistic Navigation of Robots," Information Modeling and Knowledge Bases XI (IOS Press), pp.302-313, 2000. |