2026
Faculty Staff Masataka Tokumaru (Professor, Principal Investigator) Emmanuel Ayedoun (Associate Professor) Personal website Master’s course, 2nd year (M2) Arata Kawashima Yuto Tsubouchi Hayato Nakamura Sae Yamanaka Master’s course, 1st year (M1) Taiga Ikushima Yuzuto Okahashi Rina Sakagami Ryusei Naka Yuto Maeda Reo Yamatsuka Bachelor course, senior (B4) Yuta Inoue Ichiyo Komatsu Itsuki Sedooka Masashi Nishimura Iori Hasegawa Ryoto Machida Gao Yanxin Honoka Yamamura
2025
Faculty Staff Masataka Tokumaru (Professor, Principal Investigator) Emmanuel Ayedoun (Associate Professor) Personal website Master’s course, 2nd year (M2) Ryusei Azuma Keishi Oya Seiya Sakaguchi Yuma Shimosaka Sora Yamamoto Master’s course, 1st year (M1) Arata Kawashima Yuto Tsubouchi Hayato Nakamura Sae Yamanaka Bachelor course, senior (B4) Taiga Ikushima Yuzuto Okahashi Rina Sakagami Kakeru Takeuchi Ryusei Naka Ayumi Hayashi Renya Fujii Yuto Maeda Tomonari Kawano Han Yufeng
2024
Faculty Staff Masataka Tokumaru (Professor, Principal Investigator) Emmanuel Ayedoun (Assistant Professor) Personal website Master’s course, 2nd year (M2) Akira Inaba Yuri Kanazawa Tetsuaki Togo Yoshiki Tominaga Kaito Nagayasu Kazuki Matsumoto Ryoto Mikawa Master’s course, 1st year (M1) Ryusei Azuma Keishi Oya Seiya Sakaguchi Yuma Shimosaka Sora Yamamoto Bachelor course, senior (B4) Maho Asano Haruka Kadosugi Arata Kawashima Yuto Tsubouchi Hayato Nakamura Takuto Nishibata Tatsuya Yamashita Sae Yamanaka Reo Yamatsuka
2023
Faculty Staff Masataka Tokumaru (Professor, Principal Investigator) Emmanuel Ayedoun (Assistant Professor) Personal website Master course, 2nd year (M2) Misaki Endo Rikuto Kobayashi Yuki Koike Yusuke Sakabe Fuma Yamamoto Yuya Tsubokura Master’s course, 1st year (M1) Akira Inaba Yuri Kanazawa Tetsuaki Togo Yoshiki Tominaga Kaito Nagayasu Kazuki Matsumoto Ryoto Mikawa Bachelor course, senior (B4) Ryusei Azuma Keishi Oya Seiya Sakaguchi Yuma Shimosaka Shun Kato Sora Yamamoto Toji Morita Chengwen Ni
KISLAB News
2026.8.7~8 ゼミ旅行@彦根 / Seminar Trip@Hikone
2026.7.1~7.30 台湾からの短期留学生 / Welcome to Annie Lin
2025.11.30~12.6 学会発表 ICCE@インド / Conference Presentation: ICCE@India
2025.11.6~11.9 学会発表 ISIS@韓国 / Conference Presentation: ISIS@Korea
2025.8.9~10 ゼミ旅行@福知山 / Seminar Trip@Hukutiyama
2025.6.30~7.31 台湾・ポーランドからの短期留学生 / Welcome to Lee & Michał
2024.8.1~2 ゼミ旅行＠滋賀県 / Seminar Trip @Shiga Prefecture
2024.6.7 タイからの短期留学生 / Welcome to Gotj & Pajaree
2023.8.3~4 ゼミ旅行＠京丹波 / Seminar Trip @Kyōtanba
Key Papers
【Intl. Conf.】 Yuto Maeda, Emmanuel Ayedoun, Masataka Tokumaru, “IEC-Driven Camera Angle Recommendation System Considering User’s Latent Preferences”, 2026 Joint 14th International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems and 27th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems (SCIS&ISIS 2026), 2026.11 (Tokyo, Japan) (to be accepted).
【Intl. Conf.】 Ryusei Naka, Emmanuel Ayedoun, Masataka Tokumaru, “Thought Stimulation Dialogue System Using Contrasting Personality Agents”, 2026 Joint 14th International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems and 27th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems (SCIS&ISIS 2026), 2026.11 (Tokyo, Japan) (to be accepted).
【Intl. Conf.】 Yuzuto Okahashi, Emmanuel Ayedoun, Masataka Tokumaru, “An Intimacy-Building Agent that Facilitates the Sharing of Negative Impressions Based on Shared Experiences”, 2026 Joint 14th International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems and 27th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems (SCIS&ISIS 2026), 2026.11 (Tokyo, Japan) (to be accepted).
【Intl. Conf.】 Rina Sakagami, Emmanuel Ayedoun, Masataka Tokumaru, “Developing a Conversational Strategy Model for Dialogue Agents Considering Topic Weight in Collaborative Learning”, the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineers (IEEE TALE2026), 2026.12 (Pattaya, Thailand) (to be accepted).
【Intl. Conf.】 Taiga Ikushima, Emmanuel Ayedoun, Masataka Tokumaru, “Knowledge Graph-Based Support System for Autonomous Learning Path Design”, the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineers (IEEE TALE2026), 2026.12 (Pattaya, Thailand) (to be accepted).
【Intl. Conf.】Rina Sakagami, Emmanuel Ayedoun, Masataka Tokumaru, “Beyond Toxic Positivity: Interpersonal Affect Regulation in LLM-Based Dialogue Agents using Discourse Politeness Theory”, Computational Affective Science (CAS) Workshop @ LREC 2026, pp.244-255, 2026-05 (Palma de Mallorca, Spain).
【Journal Paper】Keishi Ohya, Emmanuel Ayedoun, Masataka Tokumaru, “Prompt-Optimized Music Generation: A User Feedback-Adaptive AI System”, Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, Vol.30, No.2, pp.579-588, 2026-03.
【Journal Paper】Yoshiki Tominaga, Emmanuel Ayedoun, Masataka Tokumaru, “Advertising Statement Optimization System based on Consumer Type Classification”, International Journal of Affective Engineering, Vol.25, No.1, pp.119-136, 2026-01.
Kansei Robots
In recent years, robots have become a bigger part of our everyday lives. People are especially interested in communication robots like SONY’s AIBO and SoftBank’s Pepper. These robots can respond to human speech, and they entertain us with gestures, showing emotions, and talking.
Kansei Retrieval Systems
In today’s modern world, if you want information, you can easily find it by searching keywords on the internet. But there’s so much information that pops up, it’s hard to find exactly what you’re looking for.
For example, if you try to buy fashion items online, you get too many results. It’s really tough to look at every single item to find one that matches what you like.
We’re working on solving this problem by making machines understand and address people’s preferences.
Health and Exercise Support System
In today’s world, lifestyle-related diseases are becoming a bigger threat. Because of this, people are paying more attention to ways to deal with these diseases. Recently, devices like Apple Watch and Fitbit have come out, making it easy to check how our bodies are doing. This means people can now take care of their health more easily, and they’re becoming more aware of their daily habits.
Interactive Evolutionary Computation
Interactive Evolutionary Computation is a method in which humans and computers collaborate through communication to create outputs that align with human sensibilities. These outputs can take many forms, such as clothing designs and color schemes, shoe designs and fashion coordination, music enhanced with sound effects, or video expressions like camera work in 3D spaces.
