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Kanayo OGURA Assistant Professor Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, School of Knowledge Science 1-1, Asahidai, Nomi, Ishikawa, 923-1292, Japan phone: +81-761-51-1742 email: k-ogura at jaist.ac.jp

She was born in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan. She received a bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts (director: Prof. Katsuaki Suzuki (Kumamoto Univ.) and Assosiate Prof. Hiroyuki Futo) from Tohoku-Gakuin University and a Master's degree (director: Prof. Masato Ishizaki (Univ. of Tokyo)) and a Ph.D. degree (director: Prof. Kazushi Nishimoto) in Knowledge Science from Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. She takes part in Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, School of Knowledge Science as an assistant professor from 2006. Her research interests include text-based Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and proposing novel communication media. She is a member of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI), the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), and Japan Cognitive Science Society (JCSS) and the Japan Society of Social Psychology (JSSP).

Research Topics

1)Next-generation tools of communication

-Proposing and Facilitating a Novel Communication Style: Multithreaded Conversations

[Publications]

Kanayo Ogura, Kazushi Nishimoto and Kozo Sugiyama: How People Communicate in a Multithreaded Manner Using Text and Voice: A Pilot Study, 21st International Symposium Human Factors in Telecommunications "User Experience of ICTs", pp.425-432, Prentice Hall, 2008.

Kanayo Ogura, Kazushi Nishimoto and Kozo Sugiyama: The Exploration of Possibility of Multithreaded Conversations Using a Voice Communication System, J. Jacko (Ed.): Human-Computer Interaction, Part III, HCII 2007, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Vol. 4552, pp.186-195, 2007.

Kanayo Ogura, Kazushi Nishimoto and Kozo Sugiyama，ChaTEL: A Novel Voice Communication Systems based on Analysing Text-Based Chat Conversations for Multiple Topic Threads，Proceedings of the Second IASTED International Conference HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION，pp49-54, 2007.

Kanayo Ogura and Kazushi Nishimoto: ChaTEL: A Voice Communication System for Facilitating Multithreaded Conversations, ACM International conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI2006), pp.1163-1168, 2006.

Kanay Ogura and Kazushi Nishimoto: ChaTEL: A Voice Communication System That Facilitates Multi-threaded Communication, Transactions of Information Processing Society of Japan, Vol.47, No.1, pp.98-111, 2006.

-Proposing a Novel Text-Based Chat System that has Multiple Streams of Time

[Publications]

Kanayo Ogura, Yoko Matsumoto, Yoshiyuki Yamauchi, Kazushi Nishimoto: A Text-based Chat System That Allows Speakers to Select Aging Speed of Each Utterance Based on Their Subjective Value Judgement, Transactions of Information Processing Society of Japan, Vol.52, No.4, pp.1608-1620, 2011.

Kanayo Ogura, Yoko Matsumoto, Yoshiyuki Yamauchi and Kazushi Nishimoto: Kairos Chat: A Novel Text-Based Chat System that has Multiple Streams of Time, ACM International conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI2010), pp. 3721-3726, 2010.

2)Features of text-based computer-mediated communications

[Publications]

Kanayo Ogura and Kazushi Nishimoto:Is a Face-to-Face Conversation Model Applicable to Chat Conversations?,Proc.the 18th PRICAI2004 Workshop on "Language Sense on Computer", pp.26-31,2004.

Kanayo Ogura,Takeshi Masuda and Masato Ishizaki: Building a New Internet Chat System for Sharing Timing Information, Proc. the 4th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue,pp.92-104, 2003.

3)The Algorism of extracting topic threads of text-based conversations

[Publications]

Kanayo Ogura, Masato Ishizaki and Kazushi Nishimoto: A Method of Extracting Topic Threads Towards Facilitating Knowledge Creation in Chat Conversations，8th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES2004)，330-336，2004

4)The Development of a Support Group using Virtual Space for Cancer Patients

[Publications]

Kanayo Ogura, Takashi Kusumi and Asako Miura: Analysis of Community Development using Chat Logs:  A Virtual Support Group of Cancer Patients, Second International Symposium on Universal Communication (ISUC2008), pp.451-454, 2008.

Takashi Kusumi, Kanayo Ogura and Asako Miura: The Development of a Positive Community using Virtual Space for Cancer Patients, Second International Symposium on Universal Communication (ISUC2008), pp.490-493，2008.

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