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| NAKANISHI Hideyuki | |
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Assistant Professor Department of Social Informatics Kyoto University nakanishi@i.kyoto-u.ac.jp http://www.lab7.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~nuka/ |
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| Research in the Digital City Project | |
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I am designing the city simulator 'FreeWalk' that is a virtual space
simulating human behavior in physical cities. In that
three-dimensional space, embodied people (avatars) and software agents
with sociality (social agents) work together and interact with one
another. To analyze and design this world, I am working on social and
cognitive psychological experiments. I am studying sociality of social agents with Project Leader Ishida and Nakazawa. In FreeWalk, software agents play important roles to conduct city simulations and to support human collaboration. It is hard to implement such agents if people do not feel social agents are social entities at all. If people feel social agents are social, people may have relationships with social agents. If people have the relationships, agent-human relations may be similar to human relations. Another obvious issue for city simulation is the reality of virtual spaces. Expensive VR equipments may enable real simulation, but such approach cannot be acceptable in the case that many people have to join the simulation. For example, we have a plan to do a large-scale evacuation drill where many inhabitants of a physical city join. To solve this problem, I and Professor Ishida are engaged in the collaborative work with Okazaki group in the department of architecture, Kyoto University. |
| Biography | |
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I am an assistant professor in the Department of Social Informatics at Kyoto University. I obtained my bachelor's degree and master's degree in Information Science from the Kyoto University in 1996 and 1998, respectively, and my Ph.D. in Informatics from Kyoto University in 2001. I was a visiting scholar at Stanford University in 2000. I developed FreeWalk, a three-dimensional virtual meeting space, and the social agent acting as an in-between of people in the virtual space. I was a primary designer and programmer in the development of a NINTENDO64 game Chameleon Twist. |
| Recent Publications | |
| 1. | Hideyuki Nakanishi, Chikara Yoshida, Toshikazu Nishimura and Toru Ishida, "FreeWalk: Shared Virtual Space for Casual Meetings," Borko Furht Ed., Handbook of Internet Computing, CRC Press, pp. 227-247, 2000. |
| 2. | 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, pp.57-64, 2000. |
| 3. | 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. |
| 4. | Hideyuki Nakanishi, Chikara Yoshida, Toshikazu Nishimura and Toru Ishida, "FreeWalk: A Three-Dimensional Meeting-Place for Communities," Toru Ishida Ed., Community Computing: Collaboration over Global Information Networks, John Wiley and Sons, pp.55-89, 1998. |