Ongoing Projects

Current research projects, including KAKENHI grants, commissioned research, and industry-academia collaborations.

Human–AI Symbiosis and Co-Creation: Self Mirroring Twins for Active Social Co-Creation

A JST CREST project building an AI foundation that supports behavior change and active social co-creation through symbiosis with "Self Mirroring Twins."

AI Cobots for Next-Generation Shipyards

Developing robot learning and skill acquisition algorithms to realize AI cobots that work side by side with humans on shipyard floors.

Comforting Social Touch — Individual Differences and Cognitive-Scientific Understanding

Elucidating, through cognitive science, the mechanisms and individual differences of social touch that creates a sense of comfort between humans, and between humans and robots.

Elucidating Infant Learning Principles Based on Predictive Coding

Clarifying "how babies learn" through computational models grounded in predictive coding theory and robot experiments.

Fundamental R&D on Adaptive CA Control Technology (Moonshot)

Within Moonshot Goal 1, which aims for "a society in which everyone can perform active roles freely with avatars," this project develops the foundational technologies for adaptive …

Qualia Structurology — Bridging Subjective Conscious Experience and Objectivity

A transdisciplinary project that scientifically elucidates the structure of subjective conscious experience (qualia) by relating it to information structures.

Embodied Knowledge of Music — Enhancing Musical Emotion through Biofeedback

An international joint research project that aims to measure and enhance the emotional experience of music through biofeedback based on physiological signals.

Plantar Science Opened up by Insole Sensors and Plantar Big Data

Developing insole sensors that continuously measure individual plantar information and using this plantar big data to open up a new "plantar science."

Completed Projects

Projects in which I have participated as Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator.

R&D of Explainable Autonomous Interaction AI and Its Application to Child-Rearing and Developmental Support

A research project that endows autonomous interaction AIs with explainability and applies them to child-rearing and developmental support.

Constructive Understanding of Emotional Development with Probabilistic Models (JSPS DC2)

A JSPS Research Fellow (DC2) project that constructively models infant emotional development using probabilistic generative models and clarifies how caregivers' perceptual biases …