Introduction of Suzuki SV

SUZUKI Satoshi V., Ph.D.: Research Assistant at HiRC, Aoyama Gakuin University.

History

I was born on 1977. I graduated from Division of Natural Science (computer science major), and Division of Education (psychology major, as a submajor), College of Liberal Arts, International Christian University in 2002 (B.A.). I graduated master's course of DCISS, IGSSE, Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2004 (M.Eng., Chair: Dr. YAMADA Seiji). I graduated Ph.D. course of DCISS, IGSSE, Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2007 (Ph.D. (Engineering), Chair: Dr. NITTA Katsumi).

I worked at National Institute of Informatics as a Research Assistant (part-time) during April 2004 and March 2007 and as a Technical Assistant during April 2007 and August 2007, under supervision of Dr. TAKEDA Hideaki.

I have been working at HiRC, Aoyama Gakuin University from June 2007 (Visiting Fellow: June 2007–May 2008, Research Assistant (full-time): June 2008– ).

Research Interest

I have interests in human-computer social interaction from human-centered perspective, human interfaces, cognitive science, etc.

Current Research Topics

Computer-supported learning environment for academic writing

Very few universities in Japan attempt to improving curricula for academic writing. Our research group is now investigating what prevents students from acquiring academic writing skills with originality and logical consistency. Also, considering this analysis of acquisition of academic writing skills, our research group is now developing a web-based learning environment for academic writing targeting on Japanese undergraduate students.

User's voluntary perspective taking from an embodied agent

That is, I aim to design an embodied agent that induces user's consideration of agent's stance.

Design of human-computer social interaction

Mainly focusing on an embodied agent, I am attempting to design human-computer social interaction mainly in computer-supported learning environment.

Academic information sharing and career design for young researchers

This study deals academic information that has not been public like history of researchers and bibliography. I attempts to design information sharing system to share academic information not found in such public information itself and implication mined from the public information among researchers beyond generations.

Academic Activity

Member of JSAI, JCSS, IEICE, and JSET (only national academic societies in Japan so far).

Journal Paper

Social response to embodied agents

• Suzuki, S. V., Morishima, Y., Nakamura, M., Tsukidate, N., & Takeda, H. (2008). Influence of body orientation and location of an embodied agent on a user. Journal of Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 513–525. (English version of the abstract is available)

• Suzuki, S. V., & Takeda, H. (2006). Inducing user's perspective change by filling in a blank thought balloon emitted from an embodied agent. The Journal of Information and Systems in Education, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 46–54.

• Suzuki, S. V., & Yamada, S. (2005). Influence of overheard communication by life-like agents to user's attitude. IPSJ Journal, Vol. 46, No. 4, pp. 1093–1100. (English version of the abstract is available)

International Conference

Computer-supported learning environment for academic writing

• Suzuki, S. V., Shiraishi, A., & Suzuki, H. (2009). Problem finding in Academic Writing with Affective Tagging. In the Proceedings of Closing the Affective Loop in Intelligent Learning Environments, AIED 2009 Workshop, pp. 30–39, Brighton, UK.

• Suzuki, S. V., Shiraishi, A., & Suzuki, H. (2009). Eliciting Emotional Thought in Critical Reading for Academic Writing. In the Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2009), pp. 725–727, Brighton, UK.

• Suzuki, S. V., Shiraishi, A., & Suzuki, H. (2008). An Emotional Document Investigation Tool for Academic Writing. In the Proceedings of Research Goals and Strategies for Studying User Experience and Emotion, Workshop at NordiCHI 2008, Lund, Sweden.

Social response to embodied agents

• Suzuki, S. V., Morishima, Y., Nakamura, M., Tsukidate, N., & Takeda, H. (2007). Influence of body orientation and location of an embodied agent to a user. In the Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2007), pp. 1–10, Hasselt, Belgium.

• Suzuki, S. V., & Takeda, H. (2006). Inducing change in user's perspective with the arrangement of body orientation of embodied agents. In the Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2006), pp. 463–468, Hatfield, UK.

• Suzuki, S. V., & Takeda, H. (2006). Gradual Development of Human-Agent Social Relationship. In the Proceedings of the 5th International Conference of the Cognitive Science (ICCS 2006), pp. 199–200, Vancouver, Canada.

• Suzuki, S. V., & Takeda, H. (2006). Perspective sharing by body-orientation matching between a user and an embodied agent. In the Proceedings of the Workshop on Human Centered Technology (HCT06), pp. 225–232, Pori, Finland.

• Suzuki, S. V., & Yamada, S. (2005). Social influence of overheard communication by life-like agents to a user. In the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB 10th '05), Beppu, Oita, Japan.

• Suzuki, S. V., & Yamada, S. (2004). Persuasion through overheard communication by life-like agents. In the Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'04), pp. 225–231, Beijing, China.

Address

Personal Weblog

http://twitter.com/suzuki_sv.

http://svslab.jp/0x0a/ (only Japanese version available so far).