Hideki Kozima Identity Research Experience

Curriculum Vitae (January, 2013)
Hideki Kozima
(Ph.D in Computer Science and Information Methematics, UEC 1994)
Professor
Department of Design Informatics
School of Project Design
Miyagi University
Gakuen 1, Taiwa, Kurokawa, Miyagi 918-3298, Japan
e-mail: [email protected]
http://www.myu.ac.jp/˜xkozima/
Identity
Lastname: Kozima
Firstname: Hideki
Birthdate: Feb. 19, 1966 (Tokyo, Japan)
Sex: Male
Nationality: Japanese
Research Experience
• Miyagi University (MYU) (Miyagi, Japan)
– [Oct. 2008 – present]
Full Professor at Department of Design Informatics, School of Project Design
Research and education in welfare technologies, social robotics, physical computing, media
art, and cognitive sciences.
• National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (Heicadquarters:
Tokyo, Japan)
– [Apr. 2006 – Sep. 2008]
Senior Researcher in Universal City Group (Group-Leader: Hiromitsu Wakana), Knowledge
Creating Communication Research Center (Director: Takashi Matsuyama; Kyoto, Japan).
On April 1st, 2004, Communications Research Laboratory changed its name as National
Institute of Information and Communications Technology.
Research on developmental robotics and communication-care. I investigate the underlying
mechanism of human communicative development and its disorders. I designed and constructed the upper-torso humanoid, Infanoid 5 and 6 , for this study. Also, I designed and
constructed a small creature-like robot, Keepon, for remedial application for children with
developmental disorders.
• Communications Research Laboratory (Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan)
– [Apr. 2001 – Mar. 2006]
Senior Research Scientist in Social Interaction Group (Group-Leader: Hiroyuki Yano),
Keihanna Human Info-Communication Research Center (Kyoto, Japan). (Note that Social
Interaction Group is formerly Cyber Human Technology Section.)
– [Oct. 1999 – Mar. 2001]
Senior Research Scientist in Knowledge Systems Section (Section-Chief: Hiroyuki Yano),
Kansai Advanced Research Center (Kobe, Japan).
Research on epigenesis of human communication. I worked on psycho-robotic model of the
development of social skills, including non-verbal and verbal communication. I designed
and constructed a new infant robot, Infanoid 4 , as an experimental platform of this study.
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)
– [Oct. 1998 – Oct. 1999]
Visiting Researcher at Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (Supervisor: Prof. Rodney A. Brooks)
Research on attentional interaction between human and robot. I worked on cognitive
modules that enables humanoid robots to share visual attention with human users. I
designed and imlemented an eye-contact detector and a face-direction detector.
• Communications Research Laboratory (Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan)
– [Oct. 1996 – Oct. 1998]
Research Scientist in Knowledge Systems Section (Section-Chief: Akira Ito), Kansai Advanced Research Center (Kobe, Japan).
Research on pre-verbal communication. I worked on cognitive development of communication abilities, e.g. attention-sharing by gaze and pointing, in normal and autistic infants.
I designed and implemented an attention-sharing robot, Infanoid , which currently can
perform face-contact (i.e. orientation to human faces).
– [Apr. 1994 – Sep. 1996]
Research Scientist in Knowledge Systems Section (Section-Chief: Akira Ito), Kansai Advanced Research Center (Kobe, Japan).
Research on semantic processing of natural language. I developed a computational method
for measuring context-sensitive semantic distance between concepts. I designed and evaluated a discourse-scene-based model of word prediction, which predicts succeeding words
according to the preceding words in a text.
• The University of Electro-Communications (Tokyo, Japan)
– [Apr. 1990 – Mar. 1994]
Graduate student working for doctoral degree (Supervisor: Prof. Teiji Furugori).
Research on semantic measurement of linguistic concepts. I devised a method for computing
semantic distance between concepts by spreading activation on an English dictionary. Using
the semantic measurement, I devised a method for finding scene boundaries in a given text.
– [Apr. 1988 – Mar. 1990]
Graduate student working for master degree (Supervisor: Prof. Teiji Furugori).
Research on knowledge representation for natural language processing. I designed a psycholinguistic model of knowledge representation and implemented a simple converter between
text and the internal representation.
Teaching Experience (Other than at MYU
• Tohoku University (Miyagi, Japan)
– [Apr. 2009 – current]
Lecturer (Graduate school of Educational Informatics) for “IT Educational Network Technology”.
• Tohoku Gakuin University (Miyagi, Japan)
– [Sep. 2010 – Mar. 2011]
Lecturer (Faculty of Liberal Arts) for “Human Interface Design”.
• University of Electro-Communications (Tokyo, Japan)
– [Oct. 2005 – Mar. 2007]
Lecturer (Faculty of Electro-Communications) for “Natural Language Processing”.
• Gifu University (Gifu, Japan)
– [Oct. 2000 – Mar. 2001]
Lecturer (Faculty of Engineering) for “Special Course in Information Engineering”.
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Education
• The University of Electro-Communications (Tokyo, Japan)
Apr. 1990 – Mar. 1994
Received a Doctor of Engineering in Computer Science and Information Mathematics.
Thesis: “Computing lexical cohesion as a tool for text analysis” (in English). Supervisor:
Prof. Teiji Furugori.
• The University of Electro-Communications (Tokyo, Japan)
Apr. 1988 – Mar. 1990
Received a Master of Engineering in Computer Science and Information Mathematics.
Thesis: “A lexical/structural disambiguation model for natural language understanding” (in
Japanese). Supervisor: Prof. Teiji Furugori.
• The University of Electro-Communications (Tokyo, Japan)
Apr. 1984 – Mar. 1988
Received a Bachelor of Engineering in Information Mathematics.
Thesis: “A model of bi-directional conversion between text and meaning” (in Japanese). Supervisor: Prof. Teiji Furugori (Apr. 1983 – Mar. 1984).
Languages
• Japanese (native language)
• English (limited proficiency)
– TOEIC: 980 points (2000).
– STEP (Ei-ken): Pre-1st Grade (1996).
– Harvard University Extension School (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)
[Feb. 1999 – May. 1999] (Spring semester)
Completed the Intensive Intergrated Skills Course (High Advanced Level) in the Harvard
Institute for English Language Program.
Major Publications
• Articles in Journals and Book Chapters
– Hideki Kozima: Cognitive granularity: A new perspective over autistic and nonautistic
styles of development, Japanese Psychological Research, Vol.55, No.2, doi: 10.1111/jpr.12006,
2013.
– Hideki Kozima: Psychology for linking humans and robots (In Japanese), Robotics Society
of Japan (eds), Robot Technology, Ohm-sha, pp.16-19, 2011.
– Hideki Kozima: Microscopic predictability and macroscopic predictability (In Japanese),
Japanese Psychological Review, Vol.54, No.1, pp.25-28, 2011.
– Tetsuya Ogata, Shun Nishide, Hideki Kozima, Kazunori Komatani, Hiroshi G. Okuno:
Inter-modality mapping in robot with recurrent neural network, Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol.31, Issue 12, pp.1560-1569, 2010.
– Fumihide Tanaka, Hideki Kozima, Shoji Itakura, Kazuo Hiraki: Robotics for children:
New directions in child education and therapy (In Japanese), Journal of Robotics Society
of Japan, Vol.28, No.04, pp.455-462, 2010.
– Wataru Hinoshita, Tetsuya Ogata, Hideki Kozima, Toru Takahashi, Hiroshi Okuno: Emergence of dynamic communication based on two embodied robots with RNN, Journal of
Robotics Society of Japan, Vol.28, No.4, pp.532-543, 2010.
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– Hideki Kozima: Attentional and emotional links in the interactions with autistic children,
Hitoshi Matsubara, et al. (eds), Handbook on Robot Informatics, 10.4.1 (3), pp.663-667,
Nano-Optonics-Energy, 2010.
– Hideki Kozima: “Learning” in cognitive robotics (Japanese), Shin’ichi Watabe (ed), Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science of “Learning”, Taishukan Shoten, pp.509-524, 2010.
– Kentaro Yamamoto, Saori Tanaka, Hiromi Kobayashi, Hideki Kozima, Kazuhide Hashiya:
A non-humanoid robot in the ”uncanny valley”: Experimental analysis of the reaction to
behavioral contingency in 2-3 year old children, PLoS ONE, Vol.4, No.9, e6974, 2009.
– Hideki Kozima, Marek P. Michalowski: Rhythms in human-robot interactions (In Japanese),
Gengo (Language), Vol.38, No.6, pp.34-41, 2009.
– Hideki Kozima, Marek P. Michalowski, Cocoro Nakagawa: Keepon: A playful robot for
research, therapy, and entertainment, International Journal of Social Robotics, Vol.1, No.1,
pp.3–18, 2009.
– Hideki Kozima: Un robot interactif comme m?dia pour l’observation d’enfants: technique
du “Magicien d’Oz” dans le cadre de la th?rapie de l’autisme, Hiroko Norimatsu et Nathalie
Pigem (eds.), Les Techniques d’Observation en Sciences Humaines, Paris: Armand Colin,
pp.59–70, 2008.
– Hideki Kozima: Robots seen from children, children seen from robots (in Japanese),
Masahiro Fujita and Hideki Shimomura (eds.), Intelligence Dynamics 3, Tokyo: Springer
Japan, pp.139–173, 2008.
– Hideki Kozima: What do children see in the interaction with robots (in Japanese), Human
Interface, Vol.10, No.2, pp.99–104, 2008.
– Marek P. Michalowski, Hideki Kozima: Rhythm in human-robot social interaction, IEEE
Intelligent Systems, Vol.23, No.2, pp.78–80, 2008.
– Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno, Hideki Kozima: Motion from sound: Intermodal neural
network mapping, IEEE Intelligent Systems, Vol.23, No.2, pp.76–78, 2008.
– Hideki Kozima and Yuriko Yasuda: When an action grounds on the meaning — Findings
from autism therapy (in Japanese), The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Japan, Vol.49,
pp.36–42, 2008.
– Hideki Kozima and Cocoro Nakagawa: Agents who relate to people, agents who relate
people together: Case studies in autism therapy (in Japanese), in Seiji Yamada (ed.),
Designing the interaction between people and robots, Tokyo: Tokyo Denki University Press,
pp.223–241, 2007.
– Hideki Kozima, Cocoro Nakagawa, and Yuriko Yasuda: Children-robot interaction: A pilot
study in autism therapy, Claes von Hofsten (ed.), Progress in Brain Research — From
Interaction to Cognition, Vol.164, pp.385–400, 2007.
– Luc Berthouze, Christopher G. Prince, Michael Littman, Hideki Kozima, Christian Balkenius (eds): Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems, Lund University Cognitive Studies, Vol.135.
Lund: Lund University, 2007.
– Hideki Kozima and Cocoro Nakagawa: Interactive robots as facilitators of children’s social development, Aleksandar Lazinica (ed.), Mobile Robots: Towards New Applications,
Vienna: Advanced Robotic Systems, pp.269–286, 2006.
– Hideki Kozima and Cocoro Nakagawa: L’interazione uomo-robot e i disturbi neurologici:
una sperimentazione nella terapia dell’autismo (in Italian), Paolo Dario, Sergio Martinoia,
Giacomo Rizzolatti, Giulio Sandini (eds): Neuro-Robotica: Neuroscienze e robotica per lo
sviluppo di macchine intelligenti, Bologna: Pàtron Editore, pp.157-171, 2006.
– Frédéric Kaplan, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Arnaud Revel, Philippe Gaussier, Jacqueline Nadel,
Luc Berthouze, Hideki Kozima, Christopher G. Prince, and Christian Balkenius (eds):
Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive
Development in Robotics Systems, Lund University Cognitive Studies, Vol.128, Lund: Lund
University, 2006.
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– Hideki Kozima: “Can robot and human understand each other? — A possible mechanism
for empathy” (in Japanese), Shoko Ide and Masako Hiraga (eds.). Cutures and Communication, Social Linguistics Volume 1, Tokyo: Hituzi Syobô, pp.104-115, 2005.
– Luc Berthouze, Frédéric Kaplan, Hideki Kozima, Hiroyuki Yano, Jürgen Konczak, Giorgio
Metta, Jacqueline Nadel, Giulio Sandini, Georgi Stojanov, and Christian Balkenius (eds.):
Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotics Systems, Lund University Cognitive Studies, Vol. 123, Lund
University, 2005.
– Hideki Kozima: “Emergence of imitation and communication” (in Japanese), Journal of
Society of Bio-Mechanism, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp.26-30, 2005.
– Hideki Kozima and Shoji Nagataki: “When robots feel mind in humans / when humans feel
mind in robots” (in Japanese), S. Nagataki (ed.), Phenomenology and Scientific Knowledge
of 21st Centry, Tokyo: Nakanishiya, pp.108-136, 2004.
– Hideki Kozima, Cocoro Nakagawa, and Hiroyuki Yano: “Can a robot empathize with
people?”, Artificial Life and Robotics, Vol.8, pp.83-88, 2004.
– Luc Berthouze, Hideki Kozima, Christopher G. Prince, Giulio Sandini, Georgi Stojanov,
and Giorgio Metta (eds.): Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotics Systems, Lund University
Cognitive Studies, Vol.117, Lund University, 2004.
– Hideki Kozima: What can robotics contribute to the therapy for handicapped children (in
Japanese), Shinichi Watabe (ed.), Special Education and Technology of 21st Centry, Tokyo:
Gakuensha, pp.105-113, 2004.
– Hideki Kozima: Robots — Do humans feel mind in robots? (in Japanese), Understanding
Communication Sciences, AERA-Mook , Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun, pp.146-149, 2004.
– Christopher G. Prince, Luc Berthouze, Hideki Kozima, Daniel Bullock, Georgi Stojanov,
and Christian Balkenius (eds.): Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotics Systems, Lund University
Cognitive Studies, Vol.101, Lund University, 2003.
– Hideki Kozima: Emergence of communication: viewing from a baby robot (in Japanese),
Hattatu, Kyoto: Minerva Shobo, Vol.24, No.95, pp.52-60, 2003.
– Hideki Kozima: Is embodied communication ‘background’ or ‘figure’ ? (in Japanese), Baby
Science, Vol.2 pp.15-16, 2003.
– Hideki Kozima and Akira Ito: From joint attention to language acquisition, Jonathan
Leather and Jet van Dam (eds.), Ecology of Language Acquisition, Dordrecht: Kluwer
Academic Publishers, pp.65-81, 2003.
– Hideki Kozima: Infanoid: a babybot that explores the social environment, Kerstin Dautenhahn, et al. (eds.), Socially Intelligent Agents: Creating Relationships with Computers
and Robots (in series of “Multiagent Systems, Artificial Societies, and Simulated Organizations”), pp.157–164, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.
– Christopher G. Prince, Yiannis Demiris, Yuval Marom, Hideki Kozima, and Christian
Balkenius (eds.): Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics:
Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems, Lund University Cognitive Studies,
Vol.94, Lund University, 2002.
– Hideki Kozima and Akira Takada: Developmental approach to social interaction (in Japanese),
Journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Vol.17, pp.812-818, 2001.
– Hideki Kozima: Looking at humans from the viewpoint of robots (in Japanese), Understanding Human Sciences, AERA-Mook , Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun, pp.51-55, 2001.
– Christian Balkenius, Jordan Zlatev, Hideki Kozima, Kerstin Dautenhahn, and Cynthia
Breazeal (eds.): Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics:
Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems, Lund University Cognitive Studies,
Vol.85, Lund University, 2001.
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– Hideki Kozima: Prerequisites for language acquisition by robots (in Japanese), Language
Development Newsletter, Japan Society of Developmental Psychology, Vol.1, pp.4–8, 2001.
– Hideki Kozima: Artificial social intelligence — robotics and developmental psychology (in
Japanese), New Understanding Psychology, AERA-Mook , Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun, pp.80–
83, 2000.
– Hideki Kozima and Akira Ito: Context-sensitive word distance by adaptive scaling of a
semantic space, Ruslan Mitkov and Nicolas Nicolov (eds.), Recent Advances in Natural
Language Processing (in series of “Contemporary Issues in Linguistic Theory” 136), pp.111–
124, John Benjamins, 1997.
– Hideki Kozima and Akira Ito: A context-sensitive measurement of semantic word distance
(in Japanese), Transaction of Information Processing Society of Japan, Vol.38, pp.481–489,
1997.
– Hideki Kozima and Teiji Furugori: Segmenting narrative text into coherent scenes, Literary
and Linguistic Computing, Vol.9, pp.13–19, 1994.
– Hideki Kozima and Teiji Furugori: A disambiguation model for text interpretation using
knowledge and context (in Japanese), Transaction of Information Processing Society of
Japan, Vol.32, pp.1366–1373, 1991.
• Invited Talks at International Conferences*
– Hideki Kozima: Robots as mediators for therapeutic social interactions, Social Robotics
Seminiar ”The Future of Technology in Helping People” (Tampere, Finland), 2012.
– Hideki Kozima: The ability to imagine others’ mind, University of Southern Denmark
Conference on ”Why do we bother?” (Odense, Denmark), 2011.
– Hideki Kozima: Social robotics for children with developmental disorders, Aalborg University Workshop on ”Social Robots for Assisted Living - Challenges and Responsibilities”
(Aalborg, Denmark), 2011.
– Hideki Kozima, Marek Michalowski: Keepon by BeatBots, Pictoplasma NYC 2011 Conference (New York, NY, USA), 2011.
– Hideki Kozima: Robots-mediated interaction in the research and practice of autism therapy, International conference on Cognition, Experience and Creativity (Indian Institute of
Technology Gandhinagar, Chandkheda, Gujarat, India), 2010.
– Hideki Kozima: Robot as a mediator for therapeutic social interactions, MindTrek 2010
Conference (Tampere, Finland), 2010.
– Hideki Kozima: Research and practice on human-robot interaction for therapy and education for children, 6th Regional Seminar on ICT Cooperation and Networking between
France and Asia (ICT-Asia; Asian Institute of Technology, Pathumthani, Thailand), 2009.
– Hideki Kozima: Robot-mediated communication for therapeutic and pedagogical applications for children, First France-Japan Research Workshop on Human-Robot Interaction
(Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Japan), 2008.
– Hideki Kozima: Robot-mediated communication for autism therapy, International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS-2008; Vancouver, Canada), 2008.
– Hideki Kozima: A social robot in the wild world: practices in therapeutic and pedagogical
applications, ”Vancouver Society for Cognitive Science Conference: Robotics and Social
Science” (Vancouver, Canada), 2007/02/03.
http://ling75.arts.ubc.ca/cogs/roboticsforsociety/
– Hideki Kozima, Cocoro Nakagawa: Human-robot interaction and neurological disorders,
XXV Scuola Annuale di Bioingegneria (Bressanone, Italy), 2006/09/27.
http://www.bioing.it/ATTIVITA/CONGRESSI/BRESS06/
* Invited talks/papers at domestic (Japanese) conferences and workshops are excluded here. For details, refer to my
homepage: http://www.myu.ac.jp/˜xkozima/pubication.html
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– Hideki Kozima, Cocoro Nakagawa, Yuriko Yasuda: Peer interactions between autistic
children and a creature-like robot, Quatriemes Rencontres du Reseau Interdisciplinaire
Autisme-Science (Paris, France), 2006/09/19.
http://autisme.risc.cnrs.fr/
– Hideki Kozima: Children-robot interaction: From interaction to cognition, ESF Research
Conference on Brain Development and Cognition in Human Infants “From Action to Cognition” (Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy), 2005/10/5.
http://www.esf.org/esf genericpage.php?section=10&language=0&genericpage=2193
– Hideki Kozima: Social interaction between children and humanoid and non-humanoid
robots, Japan-Italy 2005 Workshop “The Man and the Robot” (Tokyo, Japan), 2005/9/7.
http://www.robocasa.net/old website/workshop2005/
• Presentations at International Conferences**
– Hideki Kozima: On behavioral complexity of therapeutic robots for autism spectrum disorders, IEEE-RAS/RSJ International Conference on Humanoid Robotics (Humanoids-2011;
Bled, Slovenia), Workshop on Human-Robot Symbiosis: Synergistic Creation of HumanRobot Relationships, 2011.
– Eric Sauser, Marek Michalowski, Aude Billard, Hideki Kozima: Chief Cook and Keepon in
the Bot’s Funk, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI2011; Lausanne, Switzerland), Video Session, 2011.
– Hideki Kozima: Observing human-robot interaction in therapeutic fields, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI-2010; Osaka, Japan), Workshop
on Learning and Adaptation of Humans in HRI, 2010.
– Wataru Hinoshita, Tetsuya Ogata, Hideki Kozima, Hisashi Kanda, Toru Takahashi, Hiroshi
G. Okuno: Emergence of evolutionary interaction with voice and motion between two
robots using RNN, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
(IROS-2009; St. Louis, MO, USA), 2009.
– Marek P. Michalowski, Reid Simmons, Hideki Kozima: Rhythmic attention in child-robot
dance play, IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
(ROMAN-2009; Toyama, Japan), WeC4.4, 2009.
– Hideki Kozima, Marek P. Michalowski: Keepon: A socially interactive robot for children,
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA-2008; Pasadena, CA,
USA), The ICRA Robot Challenge Workshop, 2008.
– Hideki Kozima, Marek P. Michalowski, Jeff Nichols, Melanie Cornwell: Keepon dancing
to Spoon’s ”Don’t You Evah”, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot
Interaction (HRI-2008; Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Video Session, 2008.
– Hideki Kozima: Robot-mediated communication for therapeutic and pedagogical services
for children, International Workshop on Interaction Dynamics, Embodiment, and Implicit
Primordial Knowledge Model (at Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan), 2008.
– Hideki Kozima: Keepon: Socially interactive robot in therapeutic, educational, and entertainment fields, International Workshop on Intelligent Robotics (at NTUST; Taipei,
Taiwan), 2007.
– Hideki Kozima, Yuriko Yasuda, Cocoro Nakagawa: Robot in the loop of therapeutic care
for children with autism, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and
Systems (IROS-2007; San Diego, CA, USA), Workshop on Assistive Technologies: Rehabilitation and Assistive Robotics, 2007.
– Hideki Kozima, Marek P. Michalowski: Keepon and the BeatBots, IEEE International
Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN-2007; Jeju, Korea),
Interactive Demonstration Session, 2007.
** Regular talks/papers at domestic (Japanese) conferences and workshops are excluded here. For details, refer to my
homepage: http://www.myu.ac.jp/˜xkozima/pubication.html
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– Hideki Kozima, Cocoro Nakagawa: A robot in a playroom with preschool children: Longitudinal field practice, IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive
Communication (ROMAN-2007; Jeju, Korea), WB3-4, 2007.
– Hideki Kozima, Yuriko Yasuda, Cocoro Nakagawa: Social interaction facilitated by a
minimally-designed robot: Findings from longitudinal therapeutic practices for autistic
children, IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
(ROMAN-2007; Jeju, Korea), TB4-3, 2007.
– Marek P. Michalowski, Hideki Kozima: Methodological issues in facilitating rhythmic play
with robots, IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN-2007; Jeju, Korea), MA4-2, 2007.
– Hideki Kozima, Cocoro Nakagawa, Marek P. Michalowski: Keepon: A playful robot in
therapeutic, educational, and entertainment fields, International Conference on Playful
Robotic Art (Odense, Denmark), 2007. (Robots at Play Grand Prize)
– Hideki Kozima, Cocoro Nakagawa: Longitudinal Child-Robot Interaction at Preschool,
AAAI Spring Syposium on ”Multidisciplinary Collaboration for Socially Assistive Robotics”
(Palo Alto, CA, USA), 2007.
– Marek Michalowski, Hideki Kozima: A dancing robot for rhythmic social interaction, The
2nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI-2007; Washington DC, USA), 2007.
– Tetsuya Ogata, Yuya Hattori, Hideki Kozima, Kazunori Komatani, Hiroshi G. Okuno:
Generation of Robot Motions from Environmental Sounds using inter-modality mapping
by RNNPB, International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob-2006; Paris, France),
2006.
– Hideki Kozima, Cocoro Nakagawa, Yuriko Yasuda: Wowing together: What facilitates
social interactions in children with autistic spectrum disorders, International Workshop on
Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob-2006; Paris, France), 2006.
– Hideki Kozima: An anthropologist in the children’s world: A field study of children’s
everyday interaction with an interactive robot, International Conference on Development
and Learning (ICDL-2006; Bloomington, IN, USA), 2006.
– Hideki Kozima, Cocoro Nakagawa: Social robots for children: Pactice in communicationcare, IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Motion Control (AMC-2006; Istanbul,
Turkey), pp.768–773, 2006.
– Hideki Kozima, Cocoro Nakagawa, Yuriko Yasuda: Interactive robots for communicationcare: A case-study in autism therapy, IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human
Interactive Communication (ROMAN-2005; Nashville, TN, USA), pp.341–346, 2005.
– Yuya Hattori, Hideki Kozima, Kazunori Komatani, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno:
Robot gesture generation from environmental sounds using inter-modality mapping, International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob-2005; Nara, Japan), pp.139–140,
2005.
– Hideki Kozima, Cocoro Nakagawa, Yuriko Yasuda: Designing and observing human-robot
interaction for the study of social development and its disorders, IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation (CIRA-2005; Espoo,
Finland), Tu-A2-2, 2005.
– Hideki Kozima, Cocoro Nakagawa, Hiroyuki Yano: Using robots for the study of human
social development, AAAI Spring Symposium on Developmental Robotics (DevRob-2005;
Palo Alto, CA, USA), pp.111–114, 2005.
– Hideki Kozima, Cocoro Nakagawa, Hiroyuki Yano: The role of facial and gestural information in child-robot interaction, ATR Symposium on the Cross-modal Processing of Faces
and Voices (Kyoto, Japan), pp.23–24, 2005.
– Hideki Kozima, Cocoro Nakagawa, Daisuke Kosugi, Nobuyuki Kawai, Yoshio Yano: A
humanoid robot in company with children, IEEE-RAS/RSJ International Conference on
Humanoid Robotics (Humanoids-2004; Santa Monica, CA, USA), CD-ROM, 2004.
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– Hideki Kozima: Humanoid and non-humanoid robots in company with children, IEEERAS/RSJ International Conference on Humanoid Robotics (Humanoids-2004; Santa Monica, CA, USA), Workshop “Humanoid Robots as Helpful Partners for Peple”, 2004.
– Hideki Kozima, Cocoro Nakagawa, Yuriko Yasuda, Daisuke Kosugi: A toy-like robot in the
playfroom for children with developmental disorders, International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL-2004; San Diego, CA, USA), CD-ROM, 2004.
– Hideki Kozima, Cocoro Nakagawa, Hiroyuki Yano: Attention coupling as a prerequisite for
social interaction, IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN-2003; San Francisco, CA, USA), CD-ROM/2B2, 2003. (Best Paper
Award)
– Hideki Kozima, Cocoro Nakagawa, Hiroyuki Yano: Can a robot empathize with people?, International Symposium “Artificial Life and Robotics” (AROB-2003; Beppu, Japan),
pp.518–519, 2003.
– Hideki Kozima, Cocoro Nakagawa, Hiroyuki Yano: Designing a robot for spatio-temporal
contingency-detection game, International Workshop on Robotic and Virtual Agents in
Autism Therapy (Paris, France), 2002.
– Hideki Kozima, Cocoro Nakagawa, Hiroyuki Yano: Emergence of imitation mediated by objects, International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob-2002; Edinburgh, Scotland),
pp.59–61, 2002.
– Hideki Kozima, Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson: Communicative criteria for processing time/spacevarying information, IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN-2001; Paris, France), pp.377–382, 2001.
– Hideki Kozima, Hiroyuki Yano: Designing a robot for contingency-detection game, International Workshop on Robotic and Virtual Agents in Autism Therapy (Hertfordshire,
England), pp.35–38, 2001.
– Hideki Kozima, Hiroyuki Yano: A robot that learns to communicate with human caregivers,
International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob-2001; Lund, Sweden), pp.47–52,
2001.
– Hideki Kozima, Hiroyuki Yano: In search of ontogenetic prerequisites for embodied social
intelligence, International Conference on Cognitive Science (ICCS-2001; Beijing, China),
Workshop on Emergence and Development of Embodied Cognition (EDEC-2001), pp.30–34,
2001.
– Hideki Kozima: Ontogeny of socially communicative robots, Interactivist Summer Institute
(ISI-2001; Bethlehem, PA, USA), 2001.
– Hideki Kozima, Hiroyuki Yano: A robotogenetic model of human social development, International Workshop on the Relationship between Cognitive and Linguistic Development
(Bangkok, Thailand), p.35, 2001.
– Hideki Kozima, Jordan Zlatev: An epigenetic approach to human-robot communication,
IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Communication (ROMAN-2000; Osaka, Japan), pp.346–351, 2000.
– Hideki Kozima??? Attention-sharing, behavior-sharing, and acquisition of language, International Workshop “Ecology of Language Acquisition” (EcoLang-1999; Amsterdam, The
Netherlands), 1999.
– Hideki Kozima: Attention-sharing and behavior-sharing in human-robot communication,
IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Communication (ROMAN-1998; Takamatsu, Japan), pp.9–14, 1998.
– Hideki Kozima, Akira Ito: An attention-based approach to symbol acquisition, IEEE
ISIC/CIRA/ISAS International Joint Conference on the Science and Technology of Intelligent Systems (ISIC/CIRA/ISAS-1998; Gaithersburg, MD, USA), pp.852–856, 1998.
– Hideki Kozima, Akira Ito: Towards mindreading by an attention-sharing robot, International Symposium “Artificial Life and Robotics” (AROB-1998; Beppu, Japan), pp.478–481,
1998.
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– Akira Ito, Hideki Kozima: An architecture of an artificial mind for collaborating and
communicating robots, International Symposium “Artificial Life and Robotics” (AROB1998; Beppu, Japan), pp.474–477, 1998.
– Hideki Kozima, Akira Ito: Towards language acquisition by an attention-sharing robot,
International Conference “Computational Natural Language Learning” (CoNLL-1998; Sydney, Australia), pp.245–246, 1998.
– Hideki Kozima, Akira Ito: A scene-based model of word prediction, International Conference on New Methods in Language Processing (NeMLaP-1996; Ankara, Turkey), pp.110–
120, 1996.
– Hideki Kozima, Akira Ito: Context-sensitive measurement of word distance by adaptive
scaling of a semantic space, International Conference “Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing” (RANLP-1995; Bulgaria), pp.161–168, 1995.
– Hideki Kozima: Text segmentation based on similarity between words, Annual Meeting of
the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-1993; Ohio, USA), pp.286–288, 1993.
– Hideki Kozima, Teiji Furugori: Similarity between words computed by spreading activation on an English dictionary, Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (EACL-1993; Utrecht, the Netherlands), pp.232–239, 1993.
Other Academic Activities
• International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL)
Governing Board (Member)
Feb. 2005 – 2011.
• International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob-2005)
Organizing Committee (Chair)
Oct. 2004 – Sep. 2005.
• International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL-2005)
Organizing Committee (Member)
Jun. 2004 – Jul. 2004.
• University of Electro-Communication
Advanced Human-Machine Interface Research Station (Research Member)
May 2004 – 2009.
• RobotCub Project (A project of Unit E5 “Cognition”)
International Research Partner (Member)
Jan. 2004 – 2011.
• Robotic Audition Committee, Robotics Society of Japan
Committee (Member)
Nov. 2003 –.
• International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob-2004)
Organizing Committee (Member)
Oct. 2003 – Oct. 2004.
• IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Autonomous Mental Development
Technical Committee (Member)
Attention and Joint Attention Task Force (Chair)
Robotics Task Force (Member)
Oct. 2003 – 2011.
• International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob-2003)
Organizing Committee (Member)
Oct. 2002 – Oct. 2003.
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• Japan Society of Developmental Psychology (JSDP)
Planning Committee (Member) Jan. 2002 – Dec. 2003.
• International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob-2002)
Organizing Committee (Member)
Oct. 2001 – Oct. 2002.
• International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob-2001)
Organizing Committee (Member)
Oct. 2000 – Oct. 2001.
Honors and Grants
• Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (Ministry of Education and Science and Technology,
Japan), “Ethics in human and robots” (PI: Kotaro Matsumto, Ibaraki University), Apr. 2011 –
Mar. 2014.
• Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (Ministry of Education and Science and Technology,
Japan), “Mentalizing filter hypothesis and robotic therapy for children with autism”, Apr. 2009
– Mar. 2014.
• Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Exploring A New Academic Field) (Ministry of Education
and Science and Technology, Japan), “Reliable relationship with robots” (PI: Michita Imai, Keio
University), Apr. 2009 – Mar. 2014.
• ICRA-2009 (IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation), ”Kobe City Mayor’s
Award” for outstanding performance in the 2009 ICRA Human-Robot Interaction Challenge,
”BeatBots” (Marek Michalowski, Hideki Kozima)
• ICRA-2008 (IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation), The ICRA 2008
Robot Challenge, Winner of the 1st Grand Challenge in Human-Robot Interaction, ”Keepon”
(Hideki Kozima, Marek Michalowski)
• ROMAN-2007 (IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication), Best Interactive Demonstration Award, ”Keepon and the BeatBots”, 2007. (Hideki
Kozima, Marek Michalowski)
• Robots at Play Prize 2007 (Winner), Robots at Play, Odense, Denmark. (Hideki Kozima, Marek
Michalowski)
• Human Agent Interaction 2006, Outstanding Research Award, The first prize (HAI-2006; Tokyo,
Japan), “Human-robot interaction in therapeutic and pedagogical fields”, Mar. 2007.
• Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (Ministry of Education and Science and Technology,
Japan), “Exploratory reserach on robotic therapy for autistic children”, Apr. 2006 – Mar. 2009.
• IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN-2003;
San Francisco, CA, USA), Best Paper Award, “Attention coupling as a prerequisite for social
interaction” (Hideki Kozima, Cocoro Nakagawa, Hiroyuki Yano), Sep. 2004.
• SICE System Integration 2002 (SI-2002; Kobe, Japan), Best Session Award, “What is the prerequisite for empathetic communication”, Jan. 2003.
• Communications Research Laboratory, Outstanding Research Award, “Research on cognitive
mechanisms of preverbal communication”, Aug. 2002.
• Science and Technology Agency, the Japanese Government, Long-term Visiting Research Grant,
“Visiting research on humanoid robotics at MIT AI Lab.”, Oct. 1998 – Oct. 1999.
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• The Okawa Foundation for Information and Telecommunications, Grants for Individual Researchers and Research Groups, “Memory based natural language understanding”, Jul. 1996 –
Jun. 1997.
• Japanese Foundation for Education (Nihon Ikuei Kai ), Scholarship for Undergraduate Student,
Apr. 1985 – Mar. 1988. Scholarship for Master’s Candidates, Apr. 1988 – Mar. 1990. Scholarship
for Doctoral Candidates, Apr. 1990 – Mar. 1993.
Research Interests
• Objectives: I am a scientist working on cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and robotics.
My major research interest is “the ability to imagine others’ mind”, which is the underlying
core mechanism for interpersonal communication specific to human species. Where did it come
from? How does it develop over time? Investigating these issues, I would like to make robots and
artificial systems that have “the ability to imagine others’ mind”, which would enables them to
understand people’s feelings and pain, to make a promise with people, and then to live together
with people in the community.
Keywords: human-robot communication, development of communication and its disorders, empathy and imitation, acquisition of language and culture, communication-care for children and
aged.
• Background knowledge: General linguistics (semiotics), developmental/cognitive psychology, ethnomethodological approach to human behavior.
• Techniques: Designing and building mechanical apparatus (e.g., robots) and electrical apparatus (e.g., sensors and computers), 3D-CAD, machining and soldering.
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