Tsutomu Fujinami Associate Professor
School of Knowledge Science（Department of Knowledge Science・Knowledge Media）

■Degrees

B.A.from Waseda University (1986), Ph.D.from University of Edinburgh (1996)

■Professional Career

Systems Development Laboratory, HITACHI (1986-1992), Institute for Computational Linguistics, University of Stuttgart (1995-1998)

■Specialties

We are interested in the skills which are only acquired through long period of training. We investigate how skills are different from other normal behaviours with respect to both movement and perception.

■Research Keywords

Skill Science, Skill acquisition, Dementia Care

■Research Interests

Skill Science
We study how experts are different from novices by investigating human movements observed in kneeding in ceramic art, dancing on samba, ball handling in football, and so on. We expect our result will be applicable to robotics and skill learning systems.

Skill Acquisition
We investigate how humans learn skills. We collaborate with people in our area to trace as many people as possible, who are trained to learn dancing on samba. We hope our findings will contribute to designing skill learning systems.

Demantia Care
Japan is rapidly aging and we expect two percent of the population to be suffering from Dementia in 20 years. Under this plessure of aging society, we study how well we can care people with dementia in natural setting and what technological solutions will be availabe.

■Publications

◇Published Papers

A Study of Long Term Tendencies in Residents' Activities of Daily Living at a Group Home for People with Dementia Using RFID Slippers，Tsutomu Fujinami, Motoki Miura, Ryozo Takatsuka, and Taro Sugihara，Lecture Notes in Computer Science，6719，pp. 303-307，2011
The role of body movement in learning to play the shaker to a samba rhythm: An exploratory study，Kohei Matsumura, Tomoyuki Yamamoto, Tsutomu Fujinami，Research Studies in Music Education，33，1，pp. 255 - 270
The effect of tactile interaction between the finger and an object while expressing samba rhythm，Kohei Matsumura and Tsutomu Fujinami，11th Internatinal Conference on Music Perception and Cognition，pp. 705-709

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◇Lectures and Presentations

Information and communication technologies for dependent living of the elderly，Tsutomu Fujinami，The 4th Japan-China Joint Symposium on Information Systems
The Effects of Camera System on Caregivers' Behaviors to Persons with Dementia，Sugihara, T., Nakagawa, K., Liu, X. and Fujinami, T.，The HCI International 2009 Conference Proceedings, San Diego, CA, (to appear), July 2009.
Evaluation of a Prototype of the Mimamori-care System for Persons with Dementia，Taro Sugihara, Kenichi Nakagawa, Tsutomu Fujinami and Ryozo Takatsuka，12th International Conference on Knowledge-Based & Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems