Tuesday, 21 March 2023 Visit by researchers from Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

Last week the HICUP Lab hosted professors from Interactive Media Design Lab, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan: Prof. Hirokazu Kato (director of IMD Lab), Assoc. Prof. Masayuki Kanbara and Assist. Prof. Taishi Sawabe.

During the visit Assoc. Prof. Kanbara and Assist. Prof. Sawabe presented at Monday Computer Science seminar. Kanabra presented a study, which analyzed the “Gentle stroke with speech” behavior with the aim of modeling the “talking and stroking behavior” in a situation in which a person is caring for another person, while Sawabe introduced us to Comfort Intelligence (CI), an intelligence system that considers passengers’ comfort inside moving autonomous vehicles.