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Minako Terachi, Assistant Professor
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The Visual Media Lab (Minako Terachi) studies the relationship between society and visual media, beginning with television. Through fieldwork, the lab has clarified how television was received in regional areas in the 1950s, when it emerged as a new visual medium. Currently, the lab also takes into account visual media such as smartphones, tablets, large screens, and projection, and explores the future of media and of how people acquire information. It examines from multiple angles the technologies and legal systems that support content and viewing.
Ryusei Matsunaga, Project Assistant Professor
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The lab of History of Publishing Culture (Ryusei Matsunaga) studies how people in early modern and modern Japan obtained and read books. Few historical sources directly show how people read. However, by examining the publication and circulation of books, signs of how they were received sometimes emerge. Alongside the publication, circulation, and reception of books, the lab also studies book-rental culture.
Norihiko Uda, Professor
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Prof. Uda's lab studies how knowledge is transmitted and shared. Using the perspective of information resource management, the lab examines how records preserved in libraries, archives, and museums relate to knowledge. The lab's goal is to create smart libraries, a new form of library. It also works on digital humanities and on book recommendation and reading analysis.
Nobutaka Suzuki, Professor
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Prof. Suzuki's lab conducts algorithm research on structured documents such as XML and HTML. XML and HTML are widely used as de facto standard formats on the Web, but schema languages (such as DTD and W3C XML Schema) and query languages (such as XPath) involve many complex problems that cannot be solved within practical time. The lab develops methods for solving such problems efficiently.
Yohei Seki, Professor
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The Communication Understanding Lab studies the process of human language understanding, as well as the understanding of communicative intent that connects people and communities. The lab also works on "norm-mediating alignment," which mediates multilayered norms spanning individuals, organizations, groups, and cultures. Its research rests on information access, which supports access to social information, and on natural language processing, which aligns large language models with the norms of people and society. The lab welcomes motivated non-degree research students and undergraduates, and invites them to start by coming to an open lab or a lab visit.
Masakatsu Nagai, Professor
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The Museum Informatics Lab (Professor Masakatsu Nagai) studies the digitization of cultural heritage, such as textual and material resources, and the use of the digitized information. The main subject of study is the civilizations of the ancient Near East. From a linguistic perspective, the lab also studies the ancient Egyptian language (Hieroglyphic, Hieratic, Demotic, and Coptic).
Tetsuo Sakaguchi, Associate Professor
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The Sakaguchi Lab studies anti-spam techniques, technologies for using the next-generation Internet, and systems that support the accumulation and sharing of information. There are more and more ways to publish and obtain information on the Internet, but the lab is motivated by the concern that these means are not yet being fully used. For this reason, the lab aims to develop technologies that let people store and share information with ease. In the graduate school's faculty introduction, the listed research themes are development support for Linked Data, foundational technologies and applications of crowdsourcing, and the technical infrastructure for sharing and transmitting information.
Masao Takaku, Associate Professor
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The Takaku Lab studies information systems that connect the information users seek with documents, and the behavior of people searching for information. The lab also works on structuring knowledge information and building data models, using Semantic Web and knowledge graph technologies. In recent years, it has also studied information systems for metadata based on Linked Open Data, and how scholarly information is circulated. The lab belongs to the College of Knowledge and Library Sciences and, at the graduate level, the Degree Programs in Informatics.
Takeshi Yanagiura, Associate Professor
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The Economics of Education Lab (Takeshi Yanagiura) studies important issues in education policy, in Japan and abroad, within the framework of the economics of education. The lab is interested in research that uses causal inference methods and machine learning to contribute to evidence-based discussion of education policy. Its main focus is higher education, and in recent years its interest has widened to primary and secondary education as well. The listed research themes also include student risk prediction, fair algorithms, and Institutional Research.
Shuhei Yamamoto, Associate Professor
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Yamamoto Lab studies data on human behavior and decision-making observed on the web and in the real world. Drawing on insights from behavioral economics and other fields, the lab uncovers the mechanisms behind behavior, models them with machine learning, and develops technologies and methodologies that change behavior for the better. A distinguishing feature of the lab is that it handles the whole sequence from uncovering the mechanisms of behavior to modeling, behavior change, and support. The lab accepts students through the College of Knowledge and Library Sciences at the undergraduate level and the Degree Programs in Informatics at the graduate level.
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