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THAWONMAS Ruck

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

Title / Position Professor

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Other Affiliations
1.	Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering
2.	Kinugasa Research Organization Art Research Center
3.	Kinugasa Research Organization Ritsumeikan Center for Game Studies

Academic background
1.		│ Tohoku University Doctor of Engineering
2.	～1994	Doctorial Course │ Computer Science │ Graduate School, Division of Engineering │ Tohoku University │ Completed

Committee and society
1.	2022/08/01 ～	Heliyon Computer Science Associate Editor
2.	2022/01/01 ～ 2023/12/31	IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics (IEEE TCE) Associate Editor
3.	2021/01 ～ 2022/12/31	Entertainment and Gaming (ENT) Technical Committee, IEEE Consumer Technology Society (CTSoc), Inaugural Chair
4.	2020/10 ～ 2020/12	Entertainment and Gaming (ENT) Technical Stream Committee, IEEE Consumer Technology Society (CTSoc), Chair
5.	2020/09	The PhD in Games and Creative Technologies, IADE-UE and IPCA, Portugal. Monitoring commitee of external advisors
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Research activities
1.		ACM
2.		IEEE
3.		Japanese Association for Digital Humanities
4.		Game Amusement Society
5.		Information Processing Society of Japan
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Qualification and license
1.	2022/06/30	Certified Instructor: NVIDIA DLI University Ambassador

Research summary
Game AI, Well-being Games, SDGs Games Please check my recent findings at http://www.ice.ci.ritsumei.ac.jp/~ruck/paper

Present specialized field
Intelligent Informatics (Keyword：AI, Entertainment Computing, Computer Games, Digital Humanities)

Books
1.	2025/01	Immersive virtual reality and augmented reality in human-machine interactionArtificial Intelligence Applications in Healthcare and Medicine, Artificial Intelligence and Multimodal Signal Processing in Human-Machine Interaction │ ,pp.331-342
2.	2013/05	Content-Based Recommendation for Stacked-Graph Navigation │ ,pp.99-114
3.	2012/05	Constructing Japanese Language/Culture Learning Environment Using 3D Metaverse │ ,pp.274-292
4.	2012/05	Visual Analytics Tool for Visitor Circulaton in Virtual Environments: A Case Study from a Gallery in SecondLife │ ,pp.320-334
5.	2012/03	Automatic Comic Generation Based on Visiting Time from Metaverse-Museum Visiting Logs │ ,pp.310-323
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Papers
1.	2025/04	Now You See Me: Recognizing the Player's Arousal Changes in the Game Through Game Footage Videos and Game Context Features │ Proc. of the 2024 Computers and Games (CG 2024), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, M. Hartisch, CH.Hsueh, and J. Schaeffer (eds.) │ 15550,pp.159-169
2.	2025/03	Angry Birds Level Generation to Achieve Diverse Results Having Controllable Similarity to an Example │ Journal of Information Processing │ 33,pp.210-218
3.	2025/01	BenchING: A Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models in Following Structured Output Format Instruction in Text-Based Narrative Game Tasks │ IEEE Transactions on Games │ ,pp.1-11
4.	2025/01	Ice-kun: A Virtual Pet on a Low Energy Display Controlled by a Large Language Model │ Proc. of the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE 2025) │ ,pp.1-6
5.	2025/01	Personalized Game Difficulty with Large Language Models: a Preliminary Study │ Proc. of the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE 2025) │ ,pp.1-6
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2017/11/03	Calorie Consumption Assessment by using Image-processing-based Method for Exerciser and Motion Gamers
2.	2003/01	Phoenix Puppy: A new concept for the interactive pet simulation game
3.	2002/11	Parallel Implementation of Self-Organizing Map on a Data-Driven Multiprocessor
4.	2002/01	Problem Based Learning Education using Robocup:a Case Study of the Effectiveness of Creative Sheets

Works
1.	2022/06/18	Fighting Game Research Through a Competition Platform (Online)

Winning science prize
1.	2025/01/16	2025 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronic (ICCE 2025) IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine 2024 Best Paper Award (2nd Place) (eXtended meta-uni-omni-Verse (XV): Introduction, Taxonomy, and State-of-the-Art)
2.	2024/11/14	8th International Conference on Information Technology (InCIT2024) InCIT2024 Best Paper Award (Temporal Collage Prompting: A Cost-Effective Simulator-Based Driving Accident Video Recognition With GPT-4o)
3.	2023/12/08	13th International Conference on Advances in Information Technology (IAIT2023) IAIT2023 Best Presentation Award (Minecraft Video Aesthetics Quality Assessment Model)
4.	2023/12/08	13th International Conference on Advances in Information Technology (IAIT2023) IAIT2023 Best Presentation Award (Am I Fighting Well? Fighting Game Commentary Generation With ChatGPT)
5.	2022/06/21	10th Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE) IEEE GCCE 2021 Excellent Demo! Award, Gold Prize (Toward a PCG-Driven 3D Game for Preclinical Detection of Dementia)
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Achievements of joint.Funded research
1.	2000	Question Answering System-II
2.	1999	Question Answering System-I

Acquisition patent
1.		Text Mining Method and Apparatus for Extracting Features of Documents （6882747）
2.		Text Mining Method and Apparatus for Extracting Features of Documents （GB2369211）

Subject
1.	Advanced Topics in Computational Intelligence in Games
2.	PBL 1: Problem Analysis and Modeling
3.	PBL 1: Problem Analysis and Modeling
4.	PBL 1: Problem Analysis and Modeling
5.	PBL 2: Team-based Design
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Teaching achievements

●Other Special Instructions about Teaching Activities

1.	2016/11 ～ 2016/11	高校等の模擬講義： Science Talk at Japan Super Science Fair 2016 (JSSF 2016)

Activity in society
1.	2022/09/24 ～	Organizing workshops as an NVIDIA DLI University Ambassador

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