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Yoshinari Shirai

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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. Xiaoyan Li, Naomi Yamashita, Wen Duan, Yoshinari Shirai, Susan Fussell, gImproving Non-Native Speakersf Participation with an Automatic Agent in Multilingual Groupsh GROUP 2023. Proceedings of the ACM: Human Computer Interaction (PACM HCI), 2023.
  2. Wen Duan, Naomi Yamashita, Yoshinari Shirai, Susan Fussell, gBridging Fluency Disparity between Native and Nonnative Speakers in Multilingual Multiparty Collaboration Using A Clarification Agenth CSCW 2021. Proceedings of the ACM: Human Computer Interaction (PACM HCI), 2021.
  3. Yoshinari Shirai, Yasue Kishino, Shin Mizutani, Yutaka Yanagisawa, Takayuki Suyama, Takuma Otsuka, Tadao Kitagawa, Futoshi Naya: Incremental Environmental Monitoring for Revealing the Ecology of Endangered Fish, IEICE Transactions on Communications, Vol. E101-B, No. 10, pp. 2070-2082, 2018.
  4. Kishino, Y. Yanagisawa, Y. Shirai, S. Mizutani, T. Suyama and F. Naya: Agile Environmental Monitoring Exploits Rapid Prototyping and In Situ Adaptation, in IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 61--71, 2017.
  5. Kumiyo Nakakoji, Yasuhiro Yamamoto, Nobuto Matsubara, Yoshinari Shirai, Toward Unweaving Streams of Thought for Reflection in Early Stages of Software Design, IEEE Software, Special Issue on Studying Professional Software Design, Vol.29, No.1, pp.34-38, 2012.
  6. Gabriel Pablo Nava, Yoshinari Shirai, Kaji Katsuhiko, Masafumi Matsuda, Keiji Hirata and Shigemi Aoyagi: Sound image localization on flat display panels, Advances in sound localization, InTech, pp. 343--362, 2011.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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 Conference

  1. Yasue Kishino, Yoshinari Shirai, Koh Takeuchi, Shin Mizutani, Takayuki Suyama, Futoshi Naya, Naonori Ueda: District Characteristics Analysis with Regional Garbage Amount Estimation Using Vehicle- Mounted Motion Sensors, 2022 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2),pp. 1-7, 2022.
  2. Yasue Kishino, Yoshinari Shirai, Yutaka Yanagisawa, Kazuya Ohara, Shin Mizutani, Takayuki Suyama: Identifying Human Contact Points on Environmental Surfaces using Heat Traces to Support Disinfect Activities, SenSys2020 COVID-19 Pandemic Response, 2020.
  3. Yoshinari Shirai, Yasue Kishino, Yutaka Yanagisawa, Shin Mizutani and Takayuki Suyama: Building Human Computation Space on the WWW: Labeling Web Contents through Web Browsers, The seventh AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing(HCOMP2019), 2019. [pdf]
  4. Yoshinari Shirai, Yasue Kishino, Takayuki Suyama, Shin Mizutani: PASNIC: a thermal based privacy-aware sensor node for image capturing, UbiComp/ISWC'19 Adjunct, pp.202-205, 2019. [link]
  5. Yasue Kishino, Yoshinari Shirai, Koh Takeuchi, Takayuki Suyama, Futoshi Naya, Naonori Ueda: Regional Garbage Amount Estimation and Analysis using Car-Mounted Motion Sensors, Ubicomp2018, 2018.
  6. Takayuki Suyama, Yasue Kishino, Yoshinari Shirai, Shin Mizutani, Hiroshi Sawada: Interpolation of Missing Data in Sensor Networks using Nonnegative Matrix Factorization, Ubicomp2018, 2018.
  7. Yasue Kishino, Koh Takeuchi, Yoshinari Shirai, Futoshi Naya, Naonori Ueda, Datafying city: Detecting and accumulating spatio-temporal events by vehicle-mounted sensors, 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data(Big Data), pp. 4098-4014, 2017.
  8. Yasue Kishino, Yoshinari Shirai, Koh Takeuchi, Futoshi Naya, Naonori Ueda, Yin Chen, Takuro Yonezawa, Jin Nakazawa: Detecting Garbage Collection Duration Using Motion Sensors Mounted on a Garbage Truck Toward Smart Waste Management, The Third International Conference on Smart Portable, Wearable, Implantable and Disability-oriented Devices and Systems(SPWID2017), 2017.
  9. Koh Takeuchi, Takuro Yonezawa, Tomotaka Ito, Yasue Kishino, Yoshinari Shirai, Jin Nakazawa, Futoshi Naya, Naonori Ueda, Towards Understanding Latent Relationships Among Uncollectible Garbage and City Demographics, The Third International Conference on Smart Portable, Wearable, Implantable and Disability-oriented Devices and Systems(SPWID2017), 2017.
  10. Yoshinari Shirai, Yasue Kishino, Futoshi Naya, Yutaka Yanagisawa: Toward On-Demand Urban Air Quality Monitoring using Public Vehicles, 2nd International Workshop on Smart Cities: People, Technology and Data(IWSC'16), pp. 1-6, 2016.
  11. Kazuya Ohara, Takuya Maekawa, Yasue Kishino, Yoshinari Shirai, Futoshi Naya: Preliminary Investigation of Low-cost Device-free Passive Indoor Positioning using Model Transfer, Asian Conference on Information Systems(ACIS 2015), 2015.
  12. Futoshi Naya, Yoshinari Shirai, Yasue Kishino, Yutaka Yanagisawa: Spatio-temporal Analysis of Atmospheric Sensor Data in Urban Area using Car-mounted Mobile Sensor Nodes, The 47th ISCIE International Symposium on Stochastic Systems Theory and Its Applications (SSS'15), 2015.
  13. Kazuya Ohara, Takuya Maekawa, Yasue Kishino, Yoshinari Shirai, Futoshi Naya: Transferring Positioning Model for Device-free Passive Indoor Localization, Ubicomp2015, 2015.
  14. Yasue Kishino, Yutaka yanagisawa, Yoshinari Shirai, Futoshi Naya, Tadao Kitagawa: A Habitat-monitoring System for an Endangered Fish using a Sensor Network, Ubicomp2015, 2015.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. Yoshinari Shirai, Yasuhiro Yamamoto, Kumiyo Nakakoji: Time-Based Authoring Tools for Informal Information Management, Symposium on Interactive Visual Information Collections and Activity (IVICA2009), 2009.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. Yoshinari Shirai, Yasuhiro Yamamoto, Kumiyo Nakakoji: A History-Centric Approach for Enhancing Web Browsing Experiences, CHI2006 Work in Progress, 2006.
  21. 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.
  22. Yoshinari Shirai, Kumiyo Nakakoji, Yasuhiro Yamamoto: Rethinking Social-Level Seams in Ubiquitous Computing Environments, Ubicomp2005 Workshop, 2005.
  23. Mitsunori Matsushita, Yoshinari Shirai: Supporting Exploration and Reflection in Exploratory Data Analysis, 4th International Workshop on Chance Discovery, pp. 3-8, 2005.
  24. Kazuaki Yamada, Yoshiyuki Nishinaka, Yoshinari Shirai, Kumiyo Nakakoji: Clustering Interaction Histories in Support of Collaboration, HCI International 2005, 2005.
  25. 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.
  26. 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.
  27. Yoshinari Shirai, Tatsuo Owada, Koji Kamei, Kazuhiro Kuwabara: Optical Stain: Amplifying vestiges of a real environment by light projection, HCI International2003, 2003.
  28. Ohguro, T., Kuwabara, K., Owada, T., Shirai, Y.: FaintPop: In Touch with the Social Relationships, JSAI-Synsophy Int.WS on Social Intelligence Design, 2001.
  29. Nagao, K., Hosoya, S., Shirai, Y., Kevin, S.: Semantic Transcoding: Making the World Wide Web More Understandable and Usable with External Annotations, Proceedings of COLING2000 Workshop on Semantic Annotation and Intelligent Content, pp.70-78, 2000.

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