Toru Nakata

Toru NAKATA

Leader of Human Modeling Team,
Digital Human Research Center,
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), JAPAN.
toru-nakata@aist.go.jp
Doctor of Engineering.

Japanese version -> Koko

Research Project

Digital Human That Errs: Simulation of human error.

Motion Chopper: Automatic Segmentation of Human Body Motion.

Motoin Print visualizes psychological condition of a dancer.

Automatic Choreography generates life-like body movements.

Digital Tanzkurven generates manga of human motions automatically.

Sociometrics and Pet Robot. Informatical foundation of human-animal relationship.

Background

Education

2001	Doctor of Engineering, RCAST, University of Tokyo, 2001. (Sato-Mori lab.)
1997	Master of Engineering, University of Tokyo, 1997.
1996-1997	International exchange student at Graduate School of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara.
1996-1997	Bachelor of Engineering, University of Tokyo, 1995.

Career History

1998-2001	Government-Granted DC-1 Researcher of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science,
2001-present	Researcher, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), JAPAN.
2007-2008	Planning Officer, Planning Headquaters, AIST.
2008-	Team Leader, Digital Human Research Center, AIST.
2003-2006	Part-time Lecturer, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology.
2004 -2008	Part-time lecturer at Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio Gijuku University.

Society Memberships

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

Publications

Book Sections

Robotics Society of Japan (Ed.), Robotics Handbook 2nd ed., 2005.

Papers and Presentations in English

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.
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, T. Mori & T. Sato, “Producing Animal-like and Friendly Impressions on Artifacts and Analyzing their Effect on Human Behavioral Attitudes,” IEEE System, Man and Cybernetics '99, 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