Research Topics

Interactive Evolutionary Computation
What is Interactive Evolutionary Computation? Interactive Evolutionary Computation is a method enabling a system to interact with a user in order to automatically make objects that represent a good fi…

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Product Design Support System
Product design focuses on individual customers In recent years, customer needs have become increasingly varied. Very often, people will not favor a product that is owned by many others. It follows tha…

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Design Support System for Digital Signage
Vote freely anywhere!! Interface with digital signage This study is an attempt to construct a practical support system for cooperative design using Interactive Evolutionary Computation (IEC). In study…

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IEC System using Gaze-voting Interface
Estimate user’s preference from eye movements In recent years, companies and manufacturers have explored the needs of consumers by using big data analysis and to make use of them in the development of…

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Affective Information Retrieval System
Sensitivity search in light of user preferences Today, any desired information can readily be acquired by means of a keyword search. However, it can be difficult to find the information we really want…

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Music Recommendation System
Music distribution over the Internet has increased rapidly, greatly improving access to music. However, it remains difficult to find one’s favorite music in such a large market. To address this proble…

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Kansei Robot
Background In recent years, robots have become an everyday reality. These include humanoid robots that walk on two legs, guidance robots that look just like human beings and pet robots that act like t…

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Communication Robot
In our description of the Kansei robot, we explained the need for a robot with emotions. So, if the robot has emotion, can the robot determine its effect on us? One of our laboratory studies focuses o…

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Robot Model in a Group with Human Participants
Communication Robots In recent years, there has been an increasing effort to develop communication robots, for example Pepper and RoBoHoN. Their purpose is to communicate with people naturally by expr…

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Healthcare Management System
Supporting the health of the user In modern society, lifestyle-related diseases are a significant issue. In particular, obesity is considered to cause a range of diseases related to lifestyle. Product…

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Healthy Eating Habits Support System
What will you eat today? When you decide on your daily menu, what do you consider? While many people want to eat something delicious, it seems likely that some want to eat healthy foods. Given these f…

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Other Research Topics
In addition to evolutionary computation, neural networks, and robots, we are conducting research focusing on Kansei.

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SKIP - Subjective Kansei Information Processing Model -
In recent years, the word “Kansei” has emerged as an important keyword in the field of product development. As high-efficiency and high-performance products become commonplace, sensitivity takes prece…

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Kansei Data Mining
Product design in the era of sensitivity In recent years, any product can easily be acquired on the Internet, enabling us to make choices in terms of-performance, functionality and price. While this i…

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