HI Lab
Japanese

Tomoko Koda

Tomoko KodaTomoko koda Associate Professor
Human Interface Laboratory
Graduate Schoool of Information Science and Technology
Department of Information Science and Technology
Osaka Institute of Technology



Address: 1-79-1 Kitayama, Hirakata-city, Osaka 573-0190 Japan
Office: Room 222, Building No.2
Tel: +81-72-866-5182 (DI) Fax: +81-72-866-5197
email: koda_at_is.oit.ac.jp (replace _at_ with @)
Personal URL: http://www.is.oit.ac.jp/~koda/server/profile-e.html
Lab URL: http://www.is.oit.ac.jp/~koda/server/(in Japanese)

Education

  • 1996 M.Sc. in Media Arts and Sciences at the Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  • 2006 Docter of Informatics at the Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University.

Work Experiences

  • Systems Engineer, IBM Japan
  • Research Assistant, MIT Media laboraty
  • Research Scientist, StarLab (Belgium)
  • Research Director, Hakuhodo Inc.
  • Founder and CTO, i-chara k.k.
  • Senior Vice President, Lycos Japan Inc.
  • Researcher, Universal Design of Digital City, Japan Science and Technology Agency
  • Specially Appointed Associate Professor,Graduate School of Management (Service Innovation), Kyoto University (concurrent position)
  • Associate Professor, Department of Information Science and Technology, Osaka Institute of Technology (current)

Areas of Interest

  • Character-mediated Communication
  • Virtual characters and avatars
  • Intercultural Collaboration

Current Research Projects


Past Research Project

Accquired Research Grants

  • 2006-2007 Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (Start-up: 18800063) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
  • 2008-2010 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (20500196) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
  • 2011-2013 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (23500266) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

Selected Publications

Theses

  • Doctorial Thesis "Analysis of the Effects of Lifelike Characters on Computer-mediated Communication." (pdf)
    March, 2006. Supervisor: Professor Toru Ishida, Kyoto University
  • Master's thesis "Agents with Faces: The Effects of Personification of Agents." (zipped pdf)
    August, 1996. Supervisor: Professor Pattie Maes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Book Chapter

  • Matthias Rehm, Yukiko Nakano, Tomoko Koda, and Heike Winschiers-Theophilus. Culturally Aware Agent Communications. In: Marielba Zacharias, Jose Valente de Oliveira (eds): Human-Computer Interaction: The Agency Perspective. Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 396, pp. 411-436, Springer, 2012.

Journal Papers

  • Tomoko Koda, Toru Ishida, Matthias Rehm, Elisabeth Andre. Avatar culture: cross-cultural evaluations of avatar facial expressions. Journal of AI & Society, Vol.24, No.3, Springer London, pp.237-250, 2009. (DOI: 10.1007/s00146-009-0214-5)
  • Cho Heeryon,Toru Ishida, Naomi Yamashita, Rieko Inaba, Toshiyuki Takasaki, Tomoko Koda. Human Judgment of Cultural Differences in Pictogram Interpretations. Journal of Human Interface Society, Vol.10, No.4, pp.427-434, 2008/11. (in Japanese)
  • Tomoko Koda. Cross-cultural study of avatars' facial expressions and design considerations within Asian countries. In:Ishida, T., Fussell, S.R., Vossen, P.T.J.M. (eds.): Intercultural Collaboration I. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, pp.207-220, 2007. (pdf)
  • Cho, H., Ishida, T., Yamashita, N., Inaba, R., Mori, Y., Koda,T.Culturally-Situated Pictogram Retrieval. In:Ishida, T., Fussell, S.R., Vossen, P.T.J.M. (eds.): Intercultural Collaboration I. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, pp. 221-235, 2007.(pdf)
  • Tomoko Koda and Toru Ishida. Cross-cultural Comaprison of Interpretation of Avatar's Facial Expressions. Journal of Information Processing Society of Japan, Vol. 47, No. 3, pp. 731-738, 2006/3.(in Japanese)(pdf)
  • TomokoKoda. Development and Analysis of an Emotionally Expressive Communicaion Tool "Petaro". Journal of Human Interface Society, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 101-108, 2006/2. (in Japanese)(pdf)
  • Tomoko Koda, Satoshi Nakazawa and Toru Ishida. Talking Digital Cities: Connecting Heterogeneous Digital Cities via the Universal Mobile Interface. In:Peter van den Besselaar and Satoshi Koizumi (eds.): Digital Cities III, Information Technologies for Social Capital: a Cross-Cultural Perspective, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3081, pp.219-233, 2005.(pdf)
  • Tomoko Koda. User Reactions to Anthropomorphized Interfaces. IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol.E86-D, NO.8, pp.1369-1377, 2003/5.(pdf)

Refereed International Conferences and Workshops

  • Tomoko Koda, Zsofia Ruttkay. Eloquence of Eyes and Mouth of Virtual Agents: Cultural Study of Facial Expression Perception. Workshop on Culturally Motivated Cultural Characters (CMVC2011), 2011/09.
  • Tomoko Koda, Zsofia Ruttkay, Tomoharu Sano. From Cartoons to Robots Part 2: Facial Regions as Cues to Recognize Emotions. International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI2011), 2011/03.
  • Koda, T., Ruttkay, Z., Nakagawa, Y., Tabuchi. K. Cross-cultural Study on Facial Regions as Cues to Recognize Emotions of Virtual Agents. Culture and Computing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 6259, pp.16-27, Springer-verlag, 2010/11.
  • Tanaka, S., Nakakubo A., Kimura, M., Takeda, K., Koda, T., Development of a multilingual translation service for pictogram usage, Culture and Computing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science,Vol. 6259, pp.113-126, Springer-verlag, 2010/11.
  • Tomoko Koda,Zsofia Ruttkay.Cultural Differences on Facial Regions Used as Cues to Recognize Emotions of Animated Virtual Agents. Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA2010).
  • Tomoko Koda, Zsofia Ruttkay, Yuka Nakagawa, Kyota Tabuchi. From Cartoons to Robots: Facial Regions as Cues to Recognize Emotions. International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2010), 2010/3.
  • Tomoko Koda, Zsofia Ruttkay. Cultural Differences in Using Facial Parts as Cues to Recognize Emotions in Avatars. 9th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA2009), 2009/9.
  • Heeryon Cho, Toru Ishida, Naomi Yamashita, Tomoko Koda, Toshiyuki Takasaki.Human Detection of Cultural Differences in Pictogram Interpretations.ACM International Workshop on Intercultural Collaboration (IWIC 2009), 2009.
  • Tomoko Koda, Matthias Rehm, and Elisabeth Andre. Cross-cultural Evaluations of avatar facial expressions designed by Western and Japanese Designers. In:H. Prendinger, J. Lester, and M. Ishizuka (Eds.): Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2008), LNAI 5208, Springer-Verlag, pp.245-252, 2008.
  • Tomoko Koda. Cross-cultural evaluations of avatar facial expressions. Enculturating Conversational Interfaces by Socio-cultural Aspects of Communication, International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI2008), 2008.
  • Tomoko Koda. Cross-cultural study of avatars' facial expressions and design considerations within Asian countries. In:Ishida, T., Fussell, S.R., Vossen, P.T.J.M. (eds.): Intercultural Collaboration I. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4568, pp.207-220, Springer-Verlag, 2007/11. (pdf)
  • Cho, H., Ishida, T., Yamashita, N., Inaba, R., Mori, Y., Koda,T.Culturally-Situated Pictogram Retrieval. In:Ishida, T., Fussell, S.R., Vossen, P.T.J.M. (eds.): Intercultural Collaboration I. Lecture Notes in Computer Science,Vol. 4569, pp. 221-235, Springer-Verlag, 2007/11.(pdf)
  • Tomoko Koda, Toru Ishida. Cross-cultural study of avatar expression interpretation. International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT2006), pp. 130-136, 2006/1.(pdf)
  • Tomoko Koda. Interpretation of Expressive Characters in an Intercultural Communication, Negoita, M. G., Howlett, R., Jain, L.C. Eds. Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (8th International Conference, KES2004), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 3214, Part II, pp.862-868, 2004.(pdf)
  • Tomoko Koda, Satoshi Nakazawa and Toru Ishida. Talking Digital Cities: Connecting Heterogeneous Digital Cities via the Universal Mobile Interface. Digitalcity International Workshop, International Conference on Communities and Technologies, 2003.
  • Tomoko Koda. Consumer Communication on the Net-Findings from consumer interviews. Fourth International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems and Allied Technologies (KES2000), vol.1, pp.68-71, 2000/8.
  • Hidekazu Kubota, Toyoaki Nishida and Tomoko Koda. Exchanging tacit community knowledge by talking-virtualized-egos. Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents, pp.285-292, 2000/6.
  • Tomoko Koda and Pattie Maes. Agents with Faces: The Effects of Personification of Agents. Fifth IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Communication, pp.189-194, 1996/11.
  • Tomoko Koda and Pattie Maes. Agents with Faces: The Effects of Personification of Agents. Human-Computer Interaction '96, pp.98-103, 1996/8

Non-refereed International Conferences and Workshops

  • Zofia Ruttkay, Tomoko Koda. Cultural differences in perception of facial expressions. 3rd COST International Training School, 2010/3.
  • Tomoko Koda, Zsofia Ruttkay, Yuka Nakagawa, Kyota Tabuchi. Cross-cultural Study on Facial Regions as Cues to Recognize Emotions of Virtual Agents. International Workshop on Agents in Cultural Context,2010/2.
  • Tomoko Koda. Reports of the Effects of an Emotionally Expressive Interface for Intercultural Communication. Asia Broadband Workshop on Digital City Collaboration, Beijing, 2004.
  • Tomoko Koda. Expressive Communication on the Desktop: Let's Petaro! Lifelike Computer Characters 98, Snowbird, 1998.
  • Tomoko Koda and Pattie Maes. Agents with Faces. Lifelike Computer Characters 96, Snowbird, 1996.
  • Tomoko Koda. Exploring a Virtual Aquarium with a Multi-modal Interface. Lifelike Computer Characters 95, Snowbird, 1995.

Patents

  • Notification Information Display Apparatus Notification Information Display System and Recording Medium (US Patent No.6678866B1. July, 1999

Academic Awards

  • 1994-6 Fullbright Scholarship
  • 2005.6 JSAI SIG Research Award

Scientific Activities

Society

  • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)
  • The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI)
  • The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE)
  • Japanese Academy of Facial Studies (JFACE)
  • Human Interface Society
  • SIG Intercultural Collaboration, The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE)
  • SIG Grahical Communication, Language Grid Association

Events Organized

PC member/reviewer

  • 2006-current Reviewer, IPSJ Journal
  • 2007-current Reviewer, IEICE Journal
  • 2007-current Program Committee, Human-Agent Interaction Symposium
  • 2008 Program Committee, Enculturating Conversational Interfaces by Socio-cultural Aspects of Communication Workshop in International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI)
  • 2008 Program Committee, IADIS International Conference IHCI2008
  • 2008 Reviewer, International Journal of Information Technology and Management (IJITM)
  • 2009 Reviewer, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
  • 2009-current Program Committee, Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)
  • 2009-current GALA Committee, Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)
  • 2009 Program Committee, International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)
  • 2010 Program Committee, The First International Conference on Culture and Computing
  • 2010 Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
  • 2010 Reviwer, Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI)
  • 2011 Reviewer, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
  • 2011 Reviewer, Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces
  • 2011 Program Committee, Workshop on Culturally Motivated Cultural Characters (CMVC2011), 2010/9.

Talks

  • Communicating with Virtual Agents - Does Culture Matter?, Tech-Tea talk at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest, Hungary. March, 2010.
  • Cross-cultural study of avatar expression interpretation, Colloquium of J.F. Schouten School for User-System Interaction Research, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. March, 2007.
  • Lessons learned from starting up venture businesses with agent technologies in Japan, The Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) 22nd meeting. July, 2001.

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