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Opening Remarks
Welcome to Open House 2025
Futoshi Naya, Vice President, Head of NTT Communication Science Laboratories
Invited Talk
How humans construct knowledge systems: Symbol grounding and abduction
Mutsumi Imai
Professor Emeritus, Keio University
Director, Mutsumi Imai Educational Research Institute
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Research Talk A
From the study of embodied empathy to supporting family wellbeing
- Understanding embodied empathy and connecting distant families via bodily information transfer -
Aiko Murata, Human Information Science Laboratory -
Research Talk B
Techniques for “reading the room” in attentive conversational AI
- Understanding dialogue context through multimodal information and incremental response generation –
Yuya Chiba, Innovative Communication Laboratory -
Research Talk C
AI that learns to listen on its own
- Advancing self-supervised audio representation toward cutting-edge sound understanding with large language models –
Daisuke Niizumi, Media Information Laboratory -
Research Talk D
Discovery of hidden knowledge in data relationships
- Prospects for reliable healthcare through infinite-hypothesis AI models that interpret biological phenomena –
Masahiro Nakano, Media Information Laboratory -
Research Talk E
Children perceive minds in robots
- Learning companion robots for the future of early childhood education –
Yuko Okumura, Innovative Communication Laboratory
