May 16, 2022
A presentation by Yuki Furuya (first-year master's student, Graduate School of Media and Governance, at the time of the award) and his colleagues from the laboratory of Professor Kazunori Takashio, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, has received the Excellent Presentation Award from the IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers) Technical Committee on Cloud Network Robotics.
The IEICE Technical Committee on Cloud Network Robotics (hereafter, the CNR Technical Committee) is a community for researchers and practitioners addressing various issues in robotics, cloud services, communication media, and related fields.
The CNR Technical Committee Excellent Presentation Award is presented to individuals who have given outstanding presentations at study groups, workshops, and other events organized or co-organized by the CNR Technical Committee between April 1 of one year and March 31 of the next.
"An Analysis of the Effects of Modality and Interlocutor Relationship on the Common Grounding Process"
Yuki Furuya (First-Year Master's Student, Graduate School of Media and Governance)
Comment from Yuki Furuya
The research that received this award investigated the relationship between the progress of dialogue in video chats, the social relationships between interlocutors, and modalities (information channels such as text, voice, and video). Through corpus data collection experiments and analysis, we revealed that while conversations between friends with the video on and conversations between friends or strangers with the video off may lead to the same final outcome, they follow different processes. I would like to express my gratitude to everyone at our joint research partner, NTT Human Informatics Laboratories, all the experiment participants, the members of the CNR Technical Committee, and the members of Professor Kazunori Takashio's laboratory. Since my second year as an undergraduate student at SFC, I have been researching remote communication and telepresence technologies, and I am also focusing on creating systems that enable realistic conversations with people in remote locations. I hope to apply the results of this research to the development of such systems.
Source: General Affairs Section, Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC) Office