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　　　Naomi Yamashita

　　　　　　　山下直美

Research Projects

Biography

    1976.09    Born in Waterloo Canada.
    1999.03    B.Eng. in Informatics from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
    2001.03    M.Eng. in Applied mathematics and physics from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
    2001.04    Join NTT Communication Science Lab.
    2003.02    Give birth to "Shogo"（2002.10-2003.12: Leave of Absence）
    2006.09    Ph.D in Informatics from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
    2006.10    Give birth to "Taisei"（2006.09-2007.03: Leave of Absence）

Work Experience

2000.07 Visiting Researcher at University of California Irvine (UCI), Professor Suda's Lab.

Publications (in English)

International Conferences

Naomi Yamashita, Rieko Inaba, Hideaki Kuzuoka, Toru Ishida "Difficulties in Establishing Common Ground in Multiparty Groups using Machine Translation," Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'09), pp. 679-688, 2009.

Heeryon Cho, Toru Ishida, Naomi Yamashita, Tomoko Koda, Toshiyuki Takasaki "Human Detection of Cultural Differences in Pictogram Interpretations," ACM International Workshop on Intercultural Collaboration (IWIC'09), 2009 (to appear).

Keiji Hirata, Yasunori Harada, Toshihiro Takada, Shigemi Aoyagi, Yoshinari Shirai, Naomi Yamashita, Katsuhiko Kaji, Junji Yamato, and Kenji Nakazawa "t-Room: Next Generation Video Communication System," Proceedings of World Telecommunications Congress at IEEE Globecom (WTC'08), 2008.

Naomi Yamashita, Keiji Hirata, Shigemi Aoyagi, Hideaki Kuzuoka, Yasunori Harada "Impact of Seating Positions on Group Video Communication," Proceedings of ACM Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW'08), pp. 177-186, 2008.

Keiji Hirata, Katsuhiko Kaji, Yasunori Harada, Naomi Yamashita, Shigemi Aoyagi "t-Room: Remote Collaboration Apparatus Enhancing Spatio-Temporal Experiences," Adjunct Electronic Proceedings of Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW'08), poster paper, 2008.

Keiji Hirata, Yasunori Harada, Toshihiro Takada, Naomi Yamashita, Shigemi Aoyagi, Yoshinari Shirai, Katsuhiko Kaji, Junji Yamato, and Kenji Nakazawa "Video Communication System Supporting Spatial Cues of Mobile Users," Proceedings of IPSJ Conference on Collaboration Technologies (CollabTech'08), pp. 122-127, 2008.

Naomi Yamashita, Keiji Hirata, Toshihiro Takada, Yasunori Harada "How Coherent Environments Support Remote Gestures," Proceedings of ACM Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI'08), short paper, pp. 297-300, 2008.

Heeryon Cho, Naomi Yamashita and Toru Ishida "Towards Culturally-Situated Agent Which Can Detect Cultural Differences," Proceedings of the 10th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents (PRIMA'07), (to be published in LNCS), 2007.

Heeryon Cho, Toru Ishida, Naomi Yamashita, Rieko Inaba, Yumiko Mori and Tomoko Koda "Culturally-Situated Pictogram Retrieval," The First International Workshop on Intercultural Collaboration (IWIC'07), In T. Ishida, S.R. Fussell, P.T.J.M. Vossen (eds.): Intercultural Collaboration I. Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences, Springer-Verlag, 2007.

Naomi Yamashita, Toru Ishida, "Effects of Machine Translation on Collaborative Work," Proceedings of ACM Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW'06), pp. 515-524, 2006.

Naomi Yamashita, Toru Ishida, "Automatic Prediction of Misconceptions in Multilingual Computer-Mediated Communication," Proceedings of ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interface (IUI'06), pp. 62-69, 2006.

Naomi Yamashita, Toru Ishida, "Analyzing Misconceptions in Multilingual Computer-Mediated Communication," Proceedings of ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP'05), poster paper, pp. 352-353, 2005.

Saeko Nomura, Toru Ishida, Mika Yasuoka, Naomi Yamashita, Kaname Funakoshi,
"Open Source Software Development with Your Mother Language: Intercultural Collaboration Experiment 2002,"
10th International Conference on Human - Computer Interaction (HCII2003), June 2003, Crete, Greece.

Naomi Yamashita, Toru Ishida, "Event Analysis: A Method which Characterizes an Event through Community Pattern Changes," International Sunbelt Social Network Conference XXII, 2002.

Journal papers (in English)

Naomi Yamashita, Keiji Hirata, Toshihiro Takada, Yasunori Harada, Yoshinari Shirai, Shigemi Aoyagi, "Effects of Room-sized Sharing on Remote Collaboration on Physical Tasks,"IPSJ Journal, vol.48, No. 4, 2007.

contact: naomiy at acm.org

Last updated April 2009 (c)