Information for newcomers, FY2025

日本語はこちら Orientation for ubi-lab candidate We will have a laboratory orientation for a student who is a candidate assigned to ubi-lab. All students have to attend. April 3, 3:00 pm @A407(Seminar room of Ubi-lab, Information Science Building 4F) ..... Rental of Personal Workstation (MacBookAir) NAIST provides a personal workstation (MacBookAir) to all students.Please let us know if you wish to join. TBA If other lab's candidates have an interest in ubi-lab: If you are a candidate assigned to other laboratories, but you are interested in ubi-lab, please send email to ubi-staff@is.naist.jp (ubi-lab's staff). We will arrange meeting with you.

A paper is accepted to MTI

The research outcomes co-authored by Professor Yasumoto and Professor Matsuda have been accepted for publication in Multimodal Technologies and Interaction (MTI). Accepted Paper Annalena Aicher, Yuki Matsuda, Keiichi Yasumoto, Wolfgang Minker, Elisabeth André, Stefan Ultes:“Enhancing Reflective and Conversational User Engagement in Argumentative Dialogues with Virtual Agents,”Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, Vol. 8, No. 8:71, pp. 1-44, 2024.[DOI]

Two papers accepted at S&M

Two research papers by Professor Matsui and Sergio De Leon, a second-year doctoral student, have been accepted for publication in Sensors and Materials. Oral Presentation Sergio De Leon, Yuki Matsuda, Keiichi Yasumoto: “Mobile Augmented Reality Interface for Instruction-based Disaster Preparedness Guidelines,” Sensors and Materials, Vol. 36, No. 10, pp. 4585-4606, 2024.[DOI] Tomokazu Matsui, Shigetomo Sakuma, Yuki Mishima, Hirohiko Suwa, Keiichi Yasumoto, Tatsuya Amano, Hirozumi Yamaguchi: “Understanding Privacy Awareness in Immersive Spatial Sharing System,” Sensors and Materials, Vol. 36, No. 10, pp. 4567-4583, 2024.[DOI]

A presentation at HAI’24

We will present the following paper at The 12th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI '24), to be held in Swansea, UK, on Sunday, November 24, 2024. Oral Presentation Annalena Aicher, Yuki Matsuda, Keiichi Yasumoto, Wolfgang Minker, Elisabeth André, Stefan Ultes: “Exploring the Impact of Non-Verbal Virtual Agent Behavior on User Engagement in Argumentative Dialogues,” The 12th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI '24), Swansea, UK, 2024.

A presentation at ICMI’24

We will present the following paper at The 26th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI '24), to be held in Costa Rica on Monday, November 4, 2024. Oral Presentation Carolin Schindler, Daiki Mayumi, Yuki Matsuda, Niklas Rach, Keiichi Yasumoto, Wolfgang Minker: “Exploring the Impact of Non-Verbal Virtual Agent Behavior on User Engagement in Argumentative Dialogues,” The 26th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI '24), Costa Rica, 2024.