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NAKATANI Yoshio

Department / Course College of Information Science and Engineering Department of Information Science and Engineering

Title / Position Professor

Other Affiliations
1.	Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering
2.	Kinugasa Research Organization Institute of Disaster Mitigation for Urban Cultural Heritage
3.	Kinugasa Research Organization Research Center for Cognitive Sciences,Ritsumeikan University
4.	Research Organization of Science and Technology Frontier Research Center for Natural Disaster Mitigation
5.	Research Organization of Science and Technology Research Centre for Palaeoclimatology
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Academic background
1.		│ Kobe University Ph.D.
2.	～1981	Department of Human Sciences (Social Psychology) │ School of Human Sciences │ Osaka University │ Graduated

Business career
1.	2014/06/01 ～ 2018/05/31	Vice President │ Society for the Advancement of Science and Technology │ Ritsumeikan
2.	2014/04/01 ～ 2018/03/31	Executive Director │ │ Ritsumeikan Academy
3.	2014/04/01 ～ 2018/05/01	Executive Director │ │ Osaka Hatsushiba Academy
4.	2014/04/01 ～ 2018/03/31	Dean of Graduate School of Information Science andEngineering │ │
5.	2014/04/01 ～ 2018/03/31	Dean of College of Information Science and Engineering │ │
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Committee and society
1.	1997 ～ 1998	8th World Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AI-ED''''97) Local Organizing Committee
2.	1997/01 ～ 1997/08	15th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI''''97) Chair of Organization Committee of Workshop on Practical Use of Case-Based Reasoning
3.	1998/01 ～ 1998/07	Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI''''98) Organization Committee of Workshop on Textual Case-Based Reasoning
4.	1998 ～ 2002	International Journal of Cognition, Technology and Works Editorial Board
5.	1999 ～ 2000	CSEPC2000 (Cognitive System Engineering for Process Control) Technical Program Committee
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Research activities
1.		Human Interface Society
2.		Information Processing Society of Japan
3.		The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
4.		The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers
5.		The Japanese Psychological Association
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Subject of research
1.	Disaster Mitigation: Tourist evacuation guidance support systems, business continuity management systems, computer simulations of evacuation of people and vehicles, disaster information sharing support systems, and so on.
2.	Intelligent Transportation Systems: Tourist navigation systems, driver support systems, fellow passenger support systems, and so on.
3.	Omoide (Personal Memory) Engineering: Computer-based systems to support remembering and using personal memories for the people who have lost their goods of memory in disasters, patients with cognitive dementia who are losing personal memories, long-term care persons, and so on.
4.	Kansei (Sensibility) Engineering: Fashion coordination support systems, skill acquirement support systems of sports, dietary education systems, and so on.

Research summary
1) Information Systems in Emergencies 2) ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems) 3) Personal Memory Engineering 4) Cognitive Engineering We study how to build the information systems that consider human cognitive properties. Application areas include information systems and risk communication, in particular, in disasters and other emergencies, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), personal memory engineering and affective engineering.

Present specialized field
Cognitive Science (Keyword：Disaster Mitigation Information Systems, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Reminiscence Engineering, Kansei Engineering, Human Interface, Cognitive Engineering, Artificial Intelligence)

Books
1.	2011/03	New Approach to a Tourist Navigation System that Promotes Interaction with Environment, in Matthias Schmidt (Ed.) Advances in Computer Science and Engineering │ ,pp.353-370
2.	2005/05	Technologies and Future of Tsunami Disaster Reduction Station │ ,pp.181-186
3.	2005/02	ITS for Road Maintenance and Administration │ ,pp.Vol.7, No.1
4.	2004/12	Hazard Mitigation Information Systems for Large-Scale Disasters │ ,pp.Vol.45,No.12
5.	2004/11	Hazard Mitigation Information Systems for Large-Scale Disasters │ ,pp.Vol.45,No.11

Papers
1.	2019/03	Evaluation of the Aid Link Generation System for a Disaster Management Platform │ IEEJ Transactions on Electronics, Information and Systems │ 139 (3),pp.247-258
2.	2019/02	Validated Animated Pictograms for the Advance Design of a Disaster Assistance Application │ IEEJ Transactions on Electronics, Information and Systems │ 139 (2),pp.170-179
3.	2018/03	Zone-Based Energy Aware Data Collection Protocol for WSNs │ IEICE Transactions on Communications │ E-101B (3),pp.750-762
4.	2016/04	A Support System for Developing Tourist Evacuation Guidance │ Transactions on Engineering Technologies – International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists 2015 │ ,pp.15-28
5.	2015/08	Nonlinguistic Disaster Information Sharing System using Visual Marks │ Kim, H.K. Amouzegar, M.A. and Ao, A.L. (Eds.) Transactions on Engineering Technologies – World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science 2014 │ ,pp.273-288
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2020/07/22	Comparison of Text Representation about Disaster Information to Induce Evacuation
2.	2020/07/22	Proposal of a Training Method of Beat Count Ability
3.	2020/07/21	Proposal of the Onion Watch Application for Enjoying a Stroll
4.	2020/07/21	Verification of the Effect of Presenting a Virtual Front Vehicle on Controlling Speed
5.	2019/10/15	Evaluation of a Vibration-based Route Indication for Children Who are Not Familiar with Maps
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Works
1.	2015/11/02	Application of Information Technology to Disaster Mitigation (Ritsumeikan University (Osaka Ibaraki Campus)
2.	2015/08/26	Omoide Engineering -social use of personal memories- (Kyoto University)
3.	2013/09/06	Round Table Discussion on Production Quality Control and Certification (Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics, Russia)
4.	2012/09/12	Innovations in Information and Communication Science and Technology (Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics, Russia)
5.	2011/12/07	Displays as Advanced human-Machine Interface (Nagoya Congress Center)
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Winning science prize
1.	2018/03	International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists 2018 (IMECS2018) Best Student Paper Award of The 2018 IAENG International Conference on Computer Science (A Proposal of a Scoring Method of Impatience with a Text-Based Emergency Call to Fire Department)
2.	2018/03	International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists 2018 (IMECS2018) Certificate of Merit (Student) for The 2018 IAENG International Conference on Computer Science (Gazing Point Analysis of Experts and Beginners DJ for Acquiring Basic Mixing Skills)
3.	2017/06	Best Journal Paper Award of IEEJ (A Study of the Location Search Based on Positional Relationship of Landmarks in Memory)
4.	2014/10	International Association of Engineers (IAENG) Best Student Paper Award of International Conference on Computer Science and Applications 2014 (WCECS2014) (Active Social Network System for the Creation of Self-relief Communities in Disasters)
5.	2014/10	International Association of Engineers (IAENG) Certificate of Merit (Student) for International Conference on Education and Information in World Congress on Computer Science and Applications 2014 (WCECS2014) (Disaster Information Sharing System including Multidimensional Objects)
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Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research -KAKENHI-
1.	2018/04 ～ 2021/03	Design Theory for Human Machine Systems based on Benefits of Inconvenience │ Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Achievements of joint.Funded research
1.	2005/04 ～ 2006/03	Research on Market and Technology of Large-Scale Disaster Information Systems │ Consigned Research by Company
2.	2004/04 ～ 2005/03	Advanced Highway Management Systems │ Consigned Research by Company

Activity in society
1.	2019/06/27 ～ 2019/06/27	Ritsumeikan University - Educational endeavors for promoting global diversity

Research exchange preferred theme
1.	Disaster Mitigation Information Systems Information systems are to be developed based on the cognitive engineering approach, in order to mitigate damages in disasters. Technical consultation Commisioned research Joint research
2.	Information systems to promote sightseeing Information systems are to be developed based on the cognitive engineering approach, considering human psuchology, to increase visitors and repeaters. Technical consultation Commisioned research Joint research
3.	Information systems to support human sensitivity (Kansei) Information systems are to be developed to consider human feelings and sensitivity. Technical consultation Commisioned research Joint research