Hidekazu Kubota, Ph.D. Affiliations - National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Technical Staff - NEURONET Inc. CTO - Phyzios Inc. Adviser Research Interest - Content Visualization - Conversational Agent - Experience Media - Web Intelligence

Education

- B.S. in Engineering from Kyoto University in 1998.

- M.S. in Engineering from Nara Institute of Science and Technology in 2000.

- Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 2004.

Employment

- Research Fellow, Synsophy Project, Communications Research Laboratory (2001.4-2003.3)

- Research Assistant, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo (2003.4-2003.9)

- Postdoctral Fellow, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo (2003.10-2004.3)

- Postdoctral Fellow, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University (2004.4-2006.3)

- Part-time Lecturer, Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University (2006, 2007)

- Research Fellow PD, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) (2006.4-2008.11)

- Research Fellow, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) (2008.12-)

Selected publications

Major Articles in Refereed Journals

• Hidekazu Kubota, Satoshi Nomura, Yasuyuki Sumi and Toyoaki Nishida: Sustainable Memory System using Global and Conical Spaces, Special Issue on Communicative Intelligence in Journal of Universal Computer Science, Vol.13, No.2, pp.135-148, 2007.

• Ken Saito, Hidekazu Kubota, Yasuyuki Sumi, Toyoaki Nishida: Analysis of Conversation Quanta for Conversational Knowledge Circulation, Special Issue on Communicative Intelligence in Journal of Universal Computer Science, Vol.13, No.2, pp.177-185, 2007.

• Koji Yamashita, Hidekazu Kubota and Toyoaki Nishida: Designing conversational agents: effect of conversational form on our comprehension, AI & Society, Vol.20(2), pp.125-137, 2006.

• Hidekazu Kubota, Toyoaki Nishida: Generating creative conversation by multiple agents using past messages of users, Electronics and Communications in Japan (Part III: Fundamental Electronic Science), Vol.88, No.11, pp. 56-65, 2005.

• Hidekazu Kubota, Sadao Kurohashi, Toyoaki Nishida: Virtualized egos using knowledge cards, Electronics and Communications in Japan (Part II: Electronics), Vol.88, No.1, pp. 32-39, 2005.

(more have been published in Japanese)

Major Articles in Conference Proceedings

• Hidekazu Kubota, Satoshi Nomura, Yasuyuki Sumi, Toyoaki Nishida: Sustainable Memory System Using Global And Conical Spaces, In: Rajiv Khosla, Robert J.Howlett, Lakhmi C. Jain (eds.): Proc. KES'2005, pp. 861-867, KES2005 9th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information Engineering Systems, 2005 (Melbourne, Australia. September 14-16, 2005)

• Ken Saito, Hidekazu Kubota, Yasuyuki Sumi, Toyoaki Nishida: Analysis of Conversation Quanta for Conversational Knowledge Circulation, In: Rajiv Khosla, Robert J.Howlett, Lakhmi C. Jain (eds.): Proc. KES'2005, pp. 296-302, KES2005 9th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information Engineering Systems, 2005 (Melbourne, Australia. September 14-16, 2005)

• Hidekazu Kubota, Yasuyuki Sumi, Toyoaki Nishida: Sustainable Knowledge Globe: A System for Supporting Content-oriented Conversation, in Proceedings of AISB 2005 Symposium Conversational Informatics for Supporting Social Intelligence & Interaction, pp.80-86, 2005.

• Hidekazu Kubota and Toyoaki Nishida, "Channel Design for Strategic Knowledge Interaction", In Proc. KES'2003 (Seventh International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information Engineering Systems & Allied Technologies), 2003 (University of Oxford, United Kingdom, September 3-5, 2003)

• Hidekazu Kubota, Koji Yamashita, Toyoaki Nishida: Conversational Contents Making a Comment Automatically, In: E. Damiani, R. J. Howlett, L. C. Jain, and N. Ichalkaranje (eds.): Proc. KES'2002, pp. 1326-1330, KES2002 Sixth International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information Engineering Systems & Allied Technologies, 2002 (Crema, Italy. September 16-18,2002)

• Hidekazu Kubota and Toyoaki Nishida, "Maintaining Knowledge of Conversational Agents", In: N. Baba, L. C. Jain and R.J.Howlett (eds.): Proc. KES'2001 (Fifth International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information Engineering Systems & Allied Technologies), pp. 329-333, 2001 (Osaka-Kyoiku University, Osaka, Japan, September 6-8, 2001)

• Hidekazu Kubota, Toyoaki Nishida, Tomoko Koda: Exchanging Tacit Community Knowledge by Talking-virtualized-egos. Fourth International Conference on AUTONOMOUS AGENTS(Agents 2000, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. June3 -June 7),pp.285-292, 2000.

(more have been published in Japanese)

Major Book Chapters

• Hidekazu Kubota, Yasuyuki Sumi and Toyoaki Nishida: Visualization of Contents Archive by Contour Map Representation, New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: Proceeding of the 20th Annual Conferences of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer, 2007.

• Ken Saito, Hidekazu Kubota, Yasuyuki Sumi, and Toyoaki Nishida: Support for content creation using conversation quanta, New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: Joint JSAI 2005 Workshop Post-Proceedings, LNAI 4012, pp. 29-40, Springer, 2006.

• Hidekazu Kubota, Toyoaki Nishida, "EGOCHAT AGENT: A Talking Virtualized Agent that Supports Community Knowledge Creation", In Socially Intelligent Agents - creating relationships with computers and robots, Editors: Kerstin Dautenhahn, Alan Bond, Lola Cañamero, Bruce Edmonds, chapter 11, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp.93-100, 2002.

• Takashi Hirata, Hidekazu Kubota, and Toyoaki NISHIDA, ``Talking Virtualized Egos for Dynamic Knowledge Interaction'', In Dynamic Knowledge Interaction, chapter 6, CRC Press, Boca Raton FL, pp.183-222, 2000.(WebPage)