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Kumiyo Nakakoji is senior research fellow at SRA Key Technology Laboratory, Inc., Japan, and also Full Professor at Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), University of Tokyo, Japan, where she co-directs the Knowledge Interaction Design Laboratory with Yasuhiro Yamamoto.

She received the B.A. degree in computer science from Osaka University, Japan, in 1986, and the M.S. degree in 1990 and the Ph.D. degree in 1993, both in computer science from University of Colorado, Boulder, certified in Institute of Cognitive Science. Her advisor was Gerhard Fischer at the Center for LifeLong Learning and Design.

She has served as chairs, editors, and committee members for a number of research communities, journals, and conferences, in the fields of Human-Computer Interaction, Software Engineering, and Design and Creative Knowledge Work Support, both locally and internationally. She is currently chairing IPSJ SIGHCI, Japan. She was awarded Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award from College of Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, in 2006.

Her research interests include human-computer interaction design and collective creativity, specifically Knowledge Interaction Design, which is a framework for the design and development of computational tools for creative knowledge work. Her latest work addresses cognitive and social factors of software development as knowledge-intensive collective creative tasks.

Ongoing Research Projects:

Human-Centric Media-Interaction Environments for
Knowledge Construction and Resturing

Understanding Social Capital through
Multi-Dimensional Visualizations of Interaction Histories

Interaction Design for
Graceful User Experience in Audio-Visual Consumer Products

Knowledge Creation and Communication Cycle (KtripleC)

Research Projects in the Past:

Dynamic Community: A New Approach to Collaborative Knowledge Construction

Human-Computer Interaction Patterns for Supporting Intellectual Creative Tasks

Collective Creativity: Design, Implementation and Assessment of Cooperative Computational Support for Creative Information Design

CCC & C: The Role of Computers in Support of Culture, Communication and Creativity

Keywords:

specifics

Knowledge Interaction Design
Collective Creativity
Creative Knowledge Work

more general

Human-Computer Interaction: design environments, information delivery and access, computational critics, task-oriented multimedia authoring environments
Knowledge-based systems: critiquing systems, knowledge engineering, intelligent support systems, human-computer collaborative problem solving, coevolution of problem framing and solution construction, knowledge-delivery and knowledge-construction
Cognitive Science: tools for scholarly work, creative multimedia authoring environment, learning environment, learning-on-demand, design principles for comprehensible systems, cross-cultural issues
Knowledge Community: social capital, feelings of obligation and expectation, trust
Software Engineering: open-source software development, domain-oriented software development environment, upstream software engineering, requirements elicitation, requirements engineering

Professional Activities (partial):

CHI 2008, Papers Associate Chair
ICSE 2008 (International Conference on Software Engineering), Program Committee
DCC08 (Design Computing and Cognition), Vice Chair

ACM Group 2007, Program Committee
TABLETOP 2007, Program Committee
FSE 2007 (Foundations of Software Engineering), Program Committee
ICGSE (International Conference on Global Software Engineering) 2007, Program Committee
Creativity and Cognition 2007, Program Committee
CHI 2007, Mentoring Cochair
ICSE 2007, Program Committee
C&T (Communities and Technologies) 2007, Program Committee

CHI 2006, Papers Associate Chair
IVICA 2006 (Interactive Visual Information Collections and Activity), Program Cochair
FSE 2006 (Foundations of Software Engineering), Program Committee

ACM Group 2005, Program Committee
ACM Hypertext 2005, Spatial Hypertext Theme Chair
Community and Technology (C&T 2005), Program Committee
IPSJ Interaction 2005, General Chair
ICSE 2005, Doctoral Symposium CoChair
CHI 2005, Mentoring CoChair
CHI 2005, Papers Associate Chair

ICSE 2004, Program Committee
IUI/CADUI 2004, Program Committee

CHI 2003, Workshop Co-Chair

FSE 2002, Program Committee
CHI 2002, Tutorial Co-Chair

Guest Editor, IJHCS, Special Issue on HCI in Japan
Guest CoEditor, KBS, Special Issue on Early Stages of Design

The Japanese Society for Artificial IntelligenceBoard Member
Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) SIGHCI, Chair
Creativity and Cognition Studios, University of Technology, Sydney, Partner
JST, Special Coordination Funds (SCF) for Promoting Science and Technology Program, Program Officer
Human-Computer Interaction Series, Editorial Board

Recent Events:

Personalized, Task-specific, Ad Hoc Expert Communities for Effective Knowledge Collaboration, Distinguished Speaker Series, ISR (Institute for Software Research), UC Irvine, November 2, 2007.
ACM CHI 2007 Workshop on "Converging on a 'Science of Design' through the Synthesis of Design Methodologies" (organized by Gerhard Fischer, Yunwen Ye, Chris DiGiano, Elisa Giaccardi, Kumiyo Nakakoji) at San Jose, California (April 30, 2007)
Distinguished Alumni Award Ceremony (April 21, 2006) by College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado at Boulder
ACM CHI 2006 Workshop on "'Sketching' Nurturing Creativity: Commonalities in Art, Design, Engineering and Research" (organized by Kumiyo Nakakoji, Atau Tanaka, Daniel Fallman) at Montreal, Canada (April 23, 2006)

Past Events:

IEEE ICSE2004 Panel on "Design:Supporting Reflective Practitioners" at Scottland, UK (May 26, 2004)
ACM CHI2004 Workshop on "Designing for Reflective Practitioners: Sharing and Assessing Progress by Diverse Communities" (organized by Fischer, Nakakoji, Redmiles, Morch) at Vienna, Austria (April 25, 2004)
ACM CHI2003 Workshops at Fort Lauderdale, FL (April 6-7, 2003)
KCCC Sympojium "Toward an Innovative Cycle for Knowledge Creation and Communication" (October 10, 2002)
A Talk by Prof. Harold Cohen "Making Art for a Changing World" (July 4, 2002)
When a Programmer Meets an Interaction Designer: A Case Study on the Interaction-Design Based System Development Project (Slides used at a Lecture at UC Irvine) (Nov, 27, 2001) (PDF, 2.3M)
ACM CHI2001 Workshop on Tools, Conceptual Frameworks, and Empirical Studies for Early Stages of Design (April 1/2, 2001)
Workshop on Collective Creativity: Cognitive Processes, Computational Support, and Creative Artifacts (August 7, 8, 2000)
Workshop on Collective Creativity in Design through Concept Externalization (March 25, 26, 1998)
Workshop on Constructing Shared Understanding: Means and Challenges (July 22, 1998)
eMMa: A Knowledge-Based Environment for Multimedia Authoring

Publications:

Affiliated Research Groups:

Center for Lifelong Learning and Design, University of Colorado, Boulder

Curriculum Vitae:

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Contact Information:

Kumiyo Nakakoji
KID Laboratory
RCAST
University of Tokyo
4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo, 153-8904, Japan

kumiyo  kid.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp

+81-(0)3-5452-5286 (tel/fax)

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