1990年東京大学大学院教育学研究科修士課程修了.同年,日本電信電話(株)入社.2002年 MIT Media Arts & Sciences修士課程修了.同年より JST社会技術研究開発センター専門研究員,東京農工大学大学院工学府特任准教授,成蹊大学理工学部情報科学科准教授を経て,現在,成蹊大学理工学部情報科学科教授.知的で自然なユーザインタフェースの実現に向けて,人との言語・非言語コミュニケーションが可能な会話エージェントの研究に従事.博士(情報理工学).ACM,人工知能学会,電子情報通信学会,情報処理学会各会員.
Justine Cassell   Yukiko I. Nakano   Timothy W. Bickmore   Ace L. Sidner   Charles Rich   
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This paper addresses the problem of designing embodied conversational agents that exhibit appropriate posture shifts during dialogues with human users. Previous research has noted the importance of hand gestures, eye gaze and head nods in conversa...
We investigate the verbal and nonverbal means for grounding, and propose a design for embodied conversational agents that relies on both kinds of signals to establish common ground in human-computer interaction. We analyzed eye gaze, head nods and...
Yukiko I. Nakano   Kenji Imamura   Kenji Hnamura   Hisashi Ohara   
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While recent advancements in virtual reality technology have created a rich communication interface linking humans and computers, there has been little work on building dialogue systems for 3D virtual worlds. This paper proposes a method for alter...
Yukiko I. Nakano   Tsuneaki Kato   
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The purpose of this pape is to identify effective factors for selecting discourse organization cue phrases in instruction dialogue that signM changes in discourse structure such as topic shifts and attentional state changes. By using a machine lea...
The aim of this paper is to develop animated agents that can control multimodal instruction dialogues by monitoring user’s behaviors. First, this paper reports on our Wizard-of-Oz experiments, and then, using the collected corpus, proposes a proba...
Yukiko I. Nakano   Roman Bednarik   Hung-Hsuan Huang   Kristiina Jokinen   
ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems 6(1) 2016年4月
Eye gaze has been used broadly in interactive intelligent systems. The research area has grown in recent years to cover emerging topics that go beyond the traditional focus on interaction between a single user and an interactive system. This speci...