Toru Nakata

Toru Nakata, Ph.D.

Research Scientist
Digital Human Research Center,
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), JAPAN.
toru-nakata@aist.go.jp
2-3-26 Aomi, Kotoku-ku, Tokyo, JAPAN, #135-0064.

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Research Topics

I am a researcher of cognitive science and safety engineering. I have written several Japanese books about prevention of human error for general readers in Japan. Also, I am studying on relationship between cognition and human body movements.

Digital Human That Errs: Simulation of human error.

Motion Chopper: Automatic Segmentation of Human Body Motion.

Cooperative Researches

On-going and finished cooperative researches on human error prevention with several companiies in the areas of machine, finance, electronics, and construction.

Publications

Book

Two books about human error and safety engineering in Japanese.
Two books about techinical writing in Japanese.
Robotics Society of Japan (Ed.), Robotics Handbook 2nd ed., 2005. (Participaned)

Papers and Presentations in English

Toru Nakata, “Clustering Analysis to Evaluate Usability of Work-Flow Systems and to Monitor Proficiency of Workers”, In Aaron Marcus (Ed.), Design, User Experience, and Usability (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol.6770), pp.487-496, Springer, 2011.
Toru Nakata, "Temporal Segmentation and Recognition of Body Motion Data Based on Inter-Limb Correlation Analysis", IEEE/RSJ International conference on intelligent robots and systems (IROS 2007), 2007. (PDF)
Toru Nakata, "Recognizing human activities in video by multi-resolutional optical flows", IEEE/RSJ International conference on intelligent robots and systems (IROS 2006), 2006. (PDF, PPT)
Toru Nakata, Altion Simo, Koji Kitamura, Takeo Kanade. "Human Operational Errors in a Virtual Driver Simulation," Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, CD-ROM, 2005.
Toru Nakata. "Counting Effective Number of Buttons: An Informational Analysis of Input Device Performance," Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, CD-ROM, 2005.
Takahiro Urano, Toshihiro Matsui, Toru Nakata, Hiroshi Mizoguchi, "Human Pose Recognition by Memory-Based Hierarchical Feature Matching," IEEE Intl. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, pp. 6412-6416, Hague, Netherlands, 2004.
Yusuke Kida, Satoshi Kagami, Toru Nakata, Kochi Makiko, Hiroshi Mizoguchi, "Human Finding and Body Property Estimation by using Floor Segmentation and 3D Labeling," Proceedings of 2004 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man & Cybernetics, Oct. 2004.
Toru Nakata, "Bodily Expression and Informatical Expression: Analysis and Synthesis of Human-Robot Nonverbal Interaction," Visitor's Talk at Department of Computer Science , University of Texas at El Paso, Apr. 11th, 2003.
Toru NAKATA, "Automatic Generation of Expressive Body Movement Based on Cohen-Kestenberg Lifelike Motion Stereotypes," Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, Vol.7 No.2, pp.124-129, 2003.
Toru NAKATA, "Expression with Informatical Factor in Human Robot Interaction," Proc. of the ACM CHI 2003 Workshop on Subtle Expressivity of Characters and Robots, pp.11-14, 2003.
Toru NAKATA, "Control and Expression of Life-like Body Movement," Proceedings of Joint 1st International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems, CD-ROM 23Q1-7, 6 pages, 2002.
Toru NAKATA, "Generation of whole-body expressive movement based on somatical theories," Proceedings of the second international workshop on Epigenetic Robotics, pp.105-114, 2002.
Toru Nakata, Taketoshi Mori & Tomomasa Sato, "Analysis of Impression of Robot Bodily Expression," Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, Vol.14, No.1, pp.27--36, 2002.
Toru NAKATA, & Yoshiko MAKITA, "Algorithmic Choreography: Theories on Body-Mind Relationship and Methodologies on Generation of Life-like Body Movement," IEEE Humanoids 2001, p.14, 2001. (Invited Tutorial Talk)
Toru NAKATA, "Algorithmic Choreography of Animal-like Body Movement Based on Bartenieff's and Kestenberg's Theories," IEEE ROMAN 2001, pp.207-212, 2001.
Toru NAKATA, Tomomasa SATO & Taketoshi MORI: “Producing Animal-likeness on Artifacts and Analyzing its Effect on Human Behavioral Attitudes,” IROS'99 (International Conference of Robotics and Systems), pp.549-554, 1999.
Toru Nakata, T. Sato & T. Mori, "Expression of Emotion and Intention by Robot Body Movement," Intelligent Autonomous Systems 5 (IAS-5), IOS Press, pp.352-359, June 1998.
Toru Nakata, T. Sato, T. Mori & H. Mizoguchi, "Generating Familiarity by Robot Behavior toward a Human Being," Journal of Robotics Society of Japan, Vol.15, No.7, pp.1068-1074, 1997.
A. Daniele, Toru Nakata, L. Giarre, Murti. V. Salapaka, & Mohammed. Dahleh, "Robust Identification and Control of Scanning Probe Microscope Scanner," IFAC, 1997.
Toru Nakata, Tomomasa Sato, Hiroshi Mizoguchi, & Taketoshi Mori, "Synthesis of Robot-to-Human Expressive Behavior for Human-Robot Symbiosis," Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 1608-1613, November 1996.

Patent

US-2005-0044450-A1: "SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING USABILITY USING VIRTUAL USER"
US 6,879,877 B2: Method and apparatus for producing operation signals for a motion object, and program product for producing the operation signals. Filed Sep. 16, 2002.
Japan 2003- 89085
Japan 2001- 34306
Japan 2001- 34305

Society Memberships

ACM (SIGCHI), IEEE, RSJ (Robotics Society of Japan), JSME (Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers), JCCS(Japanese Cognitive Science Society), HARs (Society for the Study of Human Animal Relations, Japan).