Organizers

Miwa Fukino

Panasonic Corporation, Japan

Her research interests are human machine interface, music information science, and neural processing for music and emotion in the brain. She has developed authoring system for multimedia contents, and has created first-ever titles for brand-new hardware which entered into the market in the world (DVD-Video, DVD-Audio, Multimedia game machine, etc.). She is in the research and development department of Panasonic Corporation.

Sri Kurniwan

University of California Santa Cruz, USA

http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~srikur/

Her primary research interest can be described as HCI for people with special needs. Specifically, her research focuses in three main areas:

• Developing a series of theories to predict how older persons and people with disabilities interact with computers and their applications (including the Internet)-and developing artifacts to validate those theories/models.
• Developing theory-driven systems that alleviate functional limitations experienced by young children, older persons, people with disabilities, and people in extraordinary circumstance (e.g., people whose first language is not English needing to access English websites).
• Evaluating existing or designed artifacts with people with special needs (in a controlled experiment or in context) to observe usability problems, and user behaviour and attitude, for the purpose of gaining a truer and deeper understanding of the problems experienced by these people.

Takeshi Sunaga

Tama Art University and CREST, JST, Japan

http://www.media.jst.go.jp/english/scholar/c18/11sunaga.html

He has developed the Information Deign course in Tama Art University and has researched information design widely. He is leading the media exprimo project.

Satoshi Kurihara

Osaka University and CREST, JST, Japan

http://www.ai.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp/~kurihara

His research interest is multi-agent, complex network, and sensor-networks. He is a senior member of editorial board of The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI), and associate professor of architecture for intelligence lab in the division of intelligent systems science, the institute of scientific and industrial research (ISIR), Osaka university.

Takuichi Nishimura

AIST and CREST, JST, Japan

http://staff.aist.go.jp/takuichi.nishimura/

His basic research interest is pattern recognition, networked sensing, and music information science. Furthermore he is interested in real world based systems such as CoBIT -A Compact Battery-Less Information Terminal for Real World Interaction (PERVASIVE 2004, Springer LNCS 3001, pp.124-139) or Topology estimation (A Method for Estimating Position and Orientation with a Topological Approach using Multiple Infrared Tags, In Proc of International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS2007), pp.187-195). He is also a sub-leader of media exprimo project.