Academics

2021 Jun	Motozawa, M., Murakami, Y., Pituxcoosuvarn, M., Takasaki, T., & Mori, Y. Conversation analysis for facilitation in children’s intercultural collaboration. In Proceedings of the 20th Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference.
2018 Aug	Pituxcoosuvarn, M., Ishida, T., Yamashita, N., Takasaki, T., Mori, Y. (2018). Machine Translation Usage in a Children’s Workshop. In: Egi, H., Yuizono, T., Baloian, N., Yoshino, T., Ichimura, S., Rodrigues, A. (eds) Collaboration Technologies and Social Computing. CollabTech 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11000. Springer.
Mar	Pituxcoosuvarn, M., Ishida, T., Yamashita, N., Takasaki, T., & Mori, Y. Supporting a children’s workshop with machine translation. In Companion Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces.
Feb	Takasaki, T., Mori, Y., Ishida, T., & Otani, M. Youth mediated communication: knowledge transfer as intercultural communication. Services computing for language resources, 209-223.
2017 Dec	Yumiko Mori, Invited talks: “Global Citizenship Education+ICT=Pangaea”, The 4th Annual Conference of Educational Technologies, Tbilisi, Georgia.
Sep	Yumiko Mori, Invited panel : “Global Citizenship Education utilizing ICT”, Civil society organizations (Challenges and achievements) at Exploring practices on GCED and their impact, “International Conference on GCED: Platform on Pedagogy and Practice”, Seoul, Korea
Mar	Takasaki, T. Intercultural communication environment for youths. Doctoral thesis. Department of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan.
Jan	Nakaguchi, T., Otani, M., Takasaki, T., Ishida, T. Multilingual support system for international symposium. Journal paper, Transactions of Information Processing Society of Japan, 58(1), 197-204.
2016 Dec	Yumiko Mori, Invited talks at “The Language Grid Symposium 2016”, Kyoto University, Japan.
Dec	Nakaguchi, T., Takasaki, T., Otani, M., & Ishida, T. Combining Human Inputters and Language Services to provide Multi-language support system for International Symposiums. The Third International Workshop on Worldwide Language Service Infrastructure (WLSI-3) and The Second Workshop on Open Infrastructures and Analysis Frameworks for Human Language Technologies (WLSI-OIAF4HLT 2016), 28.
Nov	Takasaki, T., Murakami, Y., Mori, Y., Otani, M., Ishida, T. Intercultural communication environment for agriculture support in rural countries via youth. Journal paper, Human Interface Society, Vol.18, No. 4 (2016): 443-450, Japan.
Aug	Ishida, T., Lin, D., Otani, M., Matsubara, S., Murakami, Y., Hishiyama, R., Nakajima Y., Takasaki, T., & Mori, Y. Field-oriented service design: A multiagent approach. In Serviceology for Designing the Future: Selected and Edited Papers of the 2nd International Conference on Serviceology (pp. 451-463). Springer
Jul	Takasaki, T., Hida, S., Otani M., Nakaguchi, T. User interface design of multilingual discussion support system for youths. Journal paper, IEICE Transactions, D 99.10 (2016): 1013-1021, Japan.
Feb	Shohei Hida, Toshiyuki Takasaki, Masayuki Otani, Takao Nakaguchi. Analysis of Communication in Multi-language Workshop for Youths. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 115, no. 468, AI2015-58, pp. 35-40
2015 Oct	Takasaki, T., Murakami, Y., Mori, Y., & Ishida, T. Intercultural communication environment for youth and experts in agriculture support. In 2015 International Conference on Culture and Computing (Culture Computing) (pp. 131-136). IEEE.
2014 Apr	Ninomiya, S., Hoa, T. T. T. N., Mori, Y., Takasaki, T., Ishida, T., Lin, D., … & Ikeda, R. Youth-mediated knowledge transfer and data acquisition service for agricultural decision support: A trial for illiterate farmers in vietnam. In 2014 Annual SRII Global Conference (pp. 251-253). IEEE.
2013 Jul	Toshiyuki Takasaki, “Connecting youths around the world”, Short presentation, Exploratory Software Project Gathering, Information Promotion Agency (IPA), Tokyo, Japan.
Jul	Yumiko Mori, Invited talks at Meiji Gakuin University, Japan.
Jun	Toshiyuki Takasaki. “Youth Mediated Communication in rural area of developing countries: Communication and knowledge transfer”, Invited talk at Waseda University, Japan.
Mar	Kita, K., Takasaki, T., Lin, D., Nakajima, Y., Ishida, T. Analysis and improvement of multilingual knowledge communication. Proceedings of the 75th National Convention of IPSJ, 3ZB-2, Information Processing Society of Japan.
Jan	Yumiko Mori, Toshiyuki Takasaki, Hiroyuki Morikawa, Toru Ishida, Seishi Ninomiya, V. H.i Quan, Tran Ngan Hoa “The 2nd Vietnam-Japan Workshop on Youth Mediated Communication to Promote Rural Development in Vietnam,” Vietnam National University-HCM
2012 Nov	Toshiyuki Takasaki, “Rural Community Development in Developing Countries by Multilingual Knowledge Transfer via Youth”, Invited talk at School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University, Japan
Nov	Yumiko Mori, Invited talk at National Education Center, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Oct	Kaori Kita, Toshiyuki Takasaki, Donghui Lin, Yuu Nakajima, Toru Ishida, “Case Study on Analyzing Multi-Language Knowledge Communication”, International Conference on Culture and Computing (ICCC 2012), China
Sep	Yumiko Mori, Toshiyuki Takasaki, Yasukazu Okano, Tran Than Thi Ngan Hoa, Takaharu Kameoka, Takashi Togami, Kyosuke Yamamoto, Akane Takezaki, Ryoichi Ikeda, Toru Ishida, Donghui Lin, Seishi Ninomiya, “Youth Mediated Communication (YMC) – Agricultural Technology Transfer to Illiterate Farmers Through Their Children,” Asian Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture / World Conference on Computers in Agriculture (AFITA/WCCA 2012), Taiwan
Jun	Togami, T., Ninomiya, S., Yamamoto, K., Mori, Y., Takasaki, T., Okano, Y., … & Kameoka, T. Field and weather monitoring with youths as sensors for agricultural decision support. Agricultural Information Research, 21(3), 65-75.
Jun	Yumiko Mori, Invited talks at National Education Center, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Jun	Yumiko Mori, Toshiyuki Takasaki, “Approaching to create Universal Play Ground to make connection among children all over the world beyond the barrier of verbal, time and place with ICT”, Invited talk at Graduate School Of Human Sciences, Osaka University, Japan
May	Toshiyuki Takasaki, “Social Media ? Promoting prevention of dispute in many culture symbiosis era”, Invited talk at School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University, Japan
May	Ishida, N., Lin, D., Takasaki, T., & Ishida, T. Supporting multilingual discussion for collaborative translation. In 2012 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS) (pp. 234-241). IEEE.
Apl	Yumiko Mori, Invited talks at Meiji Gakuin University, Japan
2011 Oct	Yumiko Mori, “Connecting Communication in cross-cultural spot”, Panel Discussion in sponsorship event, The Second Culture and Computing in 2011, Japan
Oct	Ishida, N., Takasaki, T., Ishimatsu, M., & Ishida, T. (2011, October). Supporting multilingual discussion for Wikipedia translation. In 2011 Second International Conference on Culture and Computing (pp. 129-130). IEEE.
Sep	Yumiko Mori, Toshiyuki Takasaki; Invited Talk at UNESCO headquarter in Paris
Aug	Ari Hautasaari, Toshiyuki Takasaki, Takao Nakaguchi, Jun Koyama, Yohei Murakami, and Toru Ishida “Chapter 15: Multi-Language Discussion Platform for Wikipedia Translation” in Toru Ishida Ed. “The Language Grid: Service-Oriented Collective Intelligence for Language Resource Interoperability”, Springer
Aug	Toshiyuki Takasaki, Yumiko Mori, and Alin W.Yeo “Chapter 10 Intercultural Community Development for Kids around the World” in Toru Ishida Ed. “The Language Grid: Service-Oriented Collective Intelligence for Language Resource Interoperability”, Springer
July	Hautasaari, A., Takasaki, T., Nakaguchi, T., Koyama, J., Murakami, Y., Ishida, T. Multi-Language Discussion Platform for Wikipedia Translation. In: Ishida, T. (eds) The Language Grid. Cognitive Technologies. Springer.
May	Tran Ngan Hoa, Trieu Van Hung, Toru Ishida, Takaharu Kameoka, Yumiko Mori, Seishi Ninomiya, V. H.i Quan, Toshiyuki Takasaki “The 1st Vietnam-Japan Workshop on Youth Mediated Communication to Promote Rural Development in Vietnam”
2010 Feb	Masanobu Ishimatsu, Toshiyuki Takasaki, Atsuki Nagao, Toru Ishida. Development of Multilingual BBS with Contents Pointer. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 109, no. 424, AI2009-34, pp. 25-30
2009 Jul	Yumiko Mori, “Youth Mediated Communication Model : New Challenge to Bring Youths for Better World. Phase I Agriculture”, Asia-Pacific Advanced Network:APAN2009 , e-Culture Session
Feb	Takasaki, T., & Mori, Y. (2009, February). A webcam platform for facilitating intercultural group activities. In Proceedings of the 2009 international workshop on Intercultural collaboration (pp. 129-138)
Feb	Mori, Y., Takasaki, T., & Ishida, T. (2009, February). Patterns in pictogram communication. In Proceedings of the 2009 international workshop on Intercultural collaboration (pp. 277-280)
Feb	Cho, H., Ishida, T., Yamashita, N., Koda, T., & Takasaki, T. (2009, February). Human detection of cultural differences in pictogram interpretations. In Proceedings of the 2009 international workshop on Intercultural collaboration (pp. 165-174).
2008 Jul	Toshiyuki Takasaki, “Empathetic Intercultural Collaboration among Youth by Effective Use of ICT,” 3rd Teleconference Discussion on “Thai-Japanese Culture on Architecture and Environment”, Tele-Conference Discussion
May	Yumiko Mori, “Collaborative tools for intercultural communication program Development through interactions with children,” the future of Children Learning to Play – How kids today are shaping the future of a participatory culture., Club of Amsterdam, Webcam-Conference
Jan	Toshiyuki Takasaki, “Weaving Technologies into Empathetic Intercultural Collaboration among International Children,” Asia-Pacific Advanced Network:APAN2008, e-Culture Session
Jan	S. Sakai, Yumiko Mori, Toshiyuki Takasaki, et al. “Language Grid Association: Action Research on Supporting the Multicultural Society.” In Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Informatics Education and Research for Knowledge-Ciruculating Society (ICKS 2008).
Jan	Yumiko Mori, “Challenging to bond children without using English: ICT supported intercultural communication,” Asia-Pacific Advanced Network:APAN2008, e-Culture Session
2007 Oct	Takasaki, T., & Mori, Y. Design and development of a pictogram communication system for children around the world. In International Workshop on Intercultural Collaboration (pp. 193-206). Springer.
Oct	Mori, Y. Atoms of Bonding: Communication Components Bridging Children Worldwide (Invited Talk). In International Workshop on Intercultural Collaboration (pp. 335-343).Springer
Aug	Toshiyuki Takasaki, “Universal Playground: Empathy-enhanced simultaneous communication platform for children worldwide,” Advisor: Professor David Farber of Carnegie Mellon University, the Exploratory Software Project by Information Technology Promotion Agency
2006 Nov	Toshiyuki Takasaki, Shuichi Nagata, and Naoki Yasukawa, “Symbiotic-Programming Saves Japanese Information Society,” Design Symposium of the Information Society 2006, Panel discussion
Nov	Inaba, R., Takasaki, T., & Mori, Y. How do kids use pictograms. In Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Interactive Posters (CSCWZOO6)
Oct	CHO Heeryon, Rieko Inaba, Toru Ishida, Toshiyuki Takasaki, and Yumiko Mori, “Semantics in emoticon communications,” JAWS2006
Sep	Rieko Inaba, Toshiyuki Takasaki, and Yumiko Mori, “Comparison of language patterns in emoticon communications”, FIT2006, K-044
May	Toshiyuki Takasaki, “International Cultural Practice beyond Language, Time and Place,” Training Workshop of Activists for activating Youth International Cultural Exchange, Workshop (UNESCO Korea MIZY Center)
May	Yumiko Mori, “The Role and Professionalism of the Activists for Youth International Cultural Exchange,” Training Workshop of Activists for activating Youth International Cultural Exchange, Keynote address (UNESCO Korea MIZY Center)
Mar	Rieko Inaba, Toshiyuki Takasaki, and Yumiko Mori, “Usability evaluation of intercultural communications tool “Communicator”, AI2005-48, pp7-12
Mar	Yumiko Mori, “Intercultural Collaboration: Intercultural Communication for Children,” Information Processing Vol.47, No.3, pp276-282
Mar	Toshiyuki Takasaki, “International communication support for children utilizing pictogram,” The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers magazine Vol.89, pp194-198
Jan	Toshiyuki Takasaki, “PictNet: Semantic Infrastructure for Pictogram Communication,” The Third International WordNet Conference (GWC-06), pp.279-284
2005 Nov	Toshiyuki Takasaki, “PANGAEA: The intercultural communication platform for children around the world,” Korea Intelligent Information Systems Society, Keynote address
Sep	Yumiko Mori, “Project Pangaea: Multi-Cultural Communication at grammar / junior-high school,” Multi-Cultural Collaboration Symposium: The Frontier of the Multi-Cultural Communication (session of FIT (Forum on Information Technology) 2005), Keynote address
Sep	Toshiyuki Takasaki, “PicNet: Children’s Multi-Cultural Communication using Pictons,” CMC/HCI analysis methodology at the Social Informatics Fair 2005, pp11-17
Aug	Yumiko Mori, “How to Develop Imaginative Spirit and the Motivation to Learn,” the 53rd Convention of the Aichi Parents and Teachers’ Association, Panel discussion
May	Toshiyuki Takasaki, “Pictogram Communication by Semantic Wrapper Topic Maps.” The Second China-Japan Symposium on Exploratory Software, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Mar	Yumiko Mori, “Project Pangaea: Challenge to create ‘Universal Playground’ for children using internet -Environment to let children around the world feel ‘bonds’ personally,” ICE (Intercultural Collaboration Experiment) 2005 Workshop (Kyoto University)
2004 Dec	Toshiyuki Takasaki, “Construction of the knowledge database of pictgrams as the semantic wrapper,” the Exploratory Software Project by Information Technology Promotion Agency