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Yoshinari Shirai

Biography

  • 1998 Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Information from Keio University.
  • 2000 Master of Media and Governance from the Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University.
  • 2000-(current) NTT Communication Science Laboratories, NTT Corporation.
  • 2010 Ph.D. in Engineering from The University of Tokyo.

Projects

Publications(in English)

Journal Papers, Book Chapters

  1. Gabriel Pablo Nava, Yoshinari Shirai, Kaji Katsuhiko, Masafumi Matsuda, Keiji Hirata and Shigemi Aoyagi: Sound image localization on flat display panels, Advances in sound licalization, INTECH, 2011.
  2. Keiji Hirata, Yasunori Harada, Toshihiro Takada, Naomi Yamashita, Shigemi Aoyagi, Yoshinari Shirai, Katsuhiko Kaji, Junji Yamato, Kenji Nakazawa: Basic Design of Video Communication System Enabling Users to Move Around in Shared Space, IEICE Transaction on Electronics, Vol.E92-C No.11 pp.1387-1395, 2009.
  3. Yoshinari Shirai, Kumiyo Nakakoji, Yasuhiro Yamamoto: Interacting with Interaction Histories in a History-Enriched Environment, in Ubiquitous Computing: Design, Implementation and Usability, Y-L. Theng and H. Duh(Eds.), pp. 72-86, IGI Global, 2008.
  4. Naomi Yamashita, Keiji Hirata, Toshihiro Takada, Yasunori Harada, Yoshinari Shirai, and Shigemi Aoyagi: Effects of Room-sized Sharing on Remote Collaboration on Physical Tasks, IPSJ Digital Courier, Vol.3, pp.788-799, 2007.
  5. Keiji Hirata, Yasunori Harada, Toshihiro Takada, Shigemi Aoyagi, Yoshinari Shirai, Naomi Yamashita, and Junji Yamato: The t-Room: Toward the Future Phone, NTT Technical Review, Vol.4, No.12, pp.26-33, 2006.
  6. Kakehi, Y., Iida, M., Naemura, T., Shirai, Y., Matsushita, M. and Ohguro, T.: Lumisight Table: An Interactive View-Dependent Display-Table for Mutiple Users, IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 48-53, 2005.
  7. Nagao, K., Shirai, Y., Kevin, S.: Semantic Annotation and Transcoding: Making Web Content More Accessible, IEEE Multimedia, Vol.8, No.2, pp.69-81, 2001.

International Conferences

  1. Naomi Yamashita, Hideaki Kuzuoka, Keiji Hirata, Shigemi Aoyagi, Yoshinari Shirai: Supporting Fluid Tabletop Collaboration across Distances, In Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '11), pp. 2827--2836, 2011.
  2. Gabriel Pablo Nava, Keiji Hirata, Yoshinari Shirai: A new loudspeaker design for the enhancement of sound image localization on flat display panels, the 159th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America(ASA), J. Acoust. Soc. Am, 127(3), p. 1942, March, 2010.
  3. Yoshinari Shirai, Yasuhiro Yamamoto, Kumiyo Nakakoji: Time-Based Authoring Tools for Informal Information Management, Symposium on Interactive Visual Information Collections and Activity (IVICA2009), 2009.
  4. Keiji Hirata, Yasunori Harada, Toshihiro Takada, Naomi Yamashita, Shigemi Aoyagi, Yoshinari Shirai, Katsuhiko Kaji, Junji Yamato, Kenji Nakazawa: Video Communication System Supporting Spatial Cues of Mobile Users, CollabTech2008, 2008.
  5. Keiji Hirata, Yasunori Harada, Toshihiro Takada, Shigemi Aoyagi, Yoshinari Shirai, Naomi Yamashita, Katsuhiko Kaji, Junji Yamato, Kenji Nakazawa: t-Room: Next Generation Video Communication System, World Telecommunications Congress(WTC2008), 2008.
  6. Yoshinari Shirai, Yasuhiro Yamamoto, Kumiyo Nakakoji: A History-Centric Approach for Enhancing Web Browsing Experiences, CHI2006 Work in Progress, 2006.
  7. Yoshinari Shirai, Kumiyo Nakakoji, Yasuhiro Yamamoto, Elisa Giaccardi: A framework for presentation and use of everyday interaction histories, 1st Korea-Japan Joint Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing and Networking Systems(ubiCNS2005), pp. 257-261, 2005.
  8. Yoshinari Shirai, Kumiyo Nakakoji, Yasuhiro Yamamoto: Rethinking Social-Level Seams in Ubiquitous Computing Environments, Ubicomp2005 Workshop, 2005.
  9. Mitsunori Matsushita, Yoshinari Shirai: Supporting Exploration and Reflection in Exploratory Data Analysis, 4th International Workshop on Chance Discovery, pp. 3-8, 2005.
  10. Kazuaki Yamada, Yoshiyuki Nishinaka, Yoshinari Shirai, Kumiyo Nakakoji: Clustering Interaction Histories in Support of Collaboration, HCI International 2005, 2005.
  11. Mitsunori Matsushita, Makoto Iida, Takeshi Ohguro, Yoshinari Shirai, Yasuaki Kakehi, Takeshi Naemura: Lumisight Table: A face-to-face collaboration support system that optimizes direction of projected information to each stakeholder, CSCW2004, pp. 274--283, 2004.
  12. Yasuaki Kakehi, Makoto Iida, Takeshi Naemura, Yoshinari Shirai, Mitsunori Matsushita, and Takeshi Ohguro: Lumisight Table: Interactive View-Dependent Display-Table Surrounded by Multiple Users, ACM SIGGRAPH2004 Emerging Technologies, 2004.
  13. Yoshinari Shirai, Tatsuo Owada, Koji Kamei, Kazuhiro Kuwabara: Optical Stain: Amplifying vestiges of a real environment by light projection, HCI International2003, 2003.
  14. Ohguro, T., Kuwabara, K., Owada, T., Shirai, Y.: FaintPop: In Touch with the Social Relationships, JSAI-Synsophy Int.WS on Social Intelligence Design, 2001.
  15. Nagao, K., Hosoya, S., Shirai, Y., Kevin, S.: Semantic Transcoding: Making the WWW More Understandable and Usable with External Annotations, COLING2000, 2000.

Media Information Laboratory
NTT Communication Science Laboratories
2-4 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun
Kyoto 619-0237 JAPAN

E-mail: way[at]fw.ipsj.or.jp