2020.03.10
It was announced by the Information Processing Society of Japan on March 6 that Project Associate Professor Tadashi Okoshi of the Graduate School of Media and Governance has received the 2019 Microsoft Research Japan New Faculty Award.
The Microsoft Research Japan New Faculty Award is presented to young researchers in major fields of informatics who are recognized for their outstanding international contributions to research and development and are expected to continue to make progress and advancements in the future.
Research Theme:
"Research on Information Presentation Timing to Improve User Receptivity"
Project Associate Professor Tadashi Okoshi received the award in recognition of his extremely significant international achievements in both academia and social implementation. He developed the world's first technology based on the original perspective of "receptive information presentation timing" for the wide variety of information delivered to users. This technology uses sensing and machine learning to determine the "best timing to improve information receptivity" in real-time and non-invasively on mobile and wearable devices. It has now been put into practical use and is utilized by over 10 million people.
Comment from Project Associate Professor Tadashi Okoshi
I am greatly honored to receive this award for the research results obtained through my doctoral studies and subsequent joint research projects on this theme, which I have been focusing on since my time as a working professional at a blog/social media company. I would like to express my gratitude to my mentors, collaborators in Japan and abroad, and many others involved, including the Graduate Program for Social ICT Global Creative Leaders (GESL). As a researcher, I am delighted to have been able to build a system in the mobile and ubiquitous computing field, proceed from HCI evaluation experiments to large-scale empirical evaluations in joint research projects, and ultimately to commercialization. It is a great pleasure that the technology I devised has contributed to improving the computing experience for so many people. I will continue to pursue research and development of technologies that contribute to people's well-being in both the cyber and physical realms.
Issued by: General Affairs Section, Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC) Office