2022
  • Jie Zeng, Tatsuya Sakato, and Yukiko I. Nakano. Semantic Content Prediction for Generating Interviewing Dialogues to Elicit Users’ Food Preferences. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on When Creative AI Meets Conversational AI, in the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING2022), pp. 45－58, 2022.10.
  • Yukiko I. Nakano, Eri Hirose, Tatsuya Sakato, Shogo Okada, and Jean-Claude Martin. 2022. Detecting Change Talk in Motivational Interviewing using Verbal and Facial Information. In Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 5–14. https://doi.org/10.1145/3536221.3556607 [Best Paper Award Runner-up]
  • Nihei, F., Ishii, R., Nakano, Y., Nishida, K., Masumura, R., Fukayama, A., Nakamura, T. (2022) Dialogue Acts Aided Important Utterance Detection Based on Multiparty and Multimodal Information. Proc. Interspeech 2022, 1086-1090, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2022-324
  • Atsushi Ito, Yukiko I. Nakano, Fumio Nihei, Tatsuya Sakato, Ryo Ishii, Atsushi Fukayama, and Takao Nakamura. 2022. Predicting Persuasiveness of Participants in Multiparty Conversations. In 27th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI ’22 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 85–88. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3490100.3516466
2021
  • Candy Olivia Mawalim, Shogo Okada,Yukiko I. Nakano: Task-Independent Recognition of Communication Skills in Group Interaction Using Time-Series Modeling. ACM Transactions on. Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), Volume 17, Issue 4, Article No.: 122, November 2021.
  • Fumio Nihei and Yukiko I. Nakano. 2021. Web-ECA: A Web-based ECA Platform. Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 835–836. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3462244.3481302
2020
  • Ryosuke Ueno, Yukiko I. Nakano, Jie Zeng, and Fumio Nihei. 2020. Estimating the Intensity of Facial Expressions Accompanying Feedback Responses in Multiparty Video-Mediated Communication. In Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI ’20), 144–152.
  • Ryo Ishii, Chaitanya Ahuja, Yukiko I. Nakano, and Louis-Philippe Morency. 2020. Impact of Personality on Nonverbal Behavior Generation. In Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA ’20), Article 29, 1–8.
  • C. Ahuja, D. W. Lee, Y. I. Nakano, and L.-P. Morency, “Style transfer for co-speech gesture animation: A multi-speaker conditional mixture approach,” ECCV, 2020.
  • Jie Zeng and Yukiko I. Nakano: Exploiting a Large-scale Knowledge Graph for Question Generation in Food Preference Interview Systems, In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces Companion (ACM IUI’20 Companion), March 17–20, 2020, Cagliari, Italy.
  • Fumio Nihei and Yukiko I. Nakano: A Multimodal Meeting Browser that Implements an Important Utterance Detection Model based on Multimodal Information, In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces Companion (ACM IUI’20 Companion), March 17–20, 2020, Cagliari, Italy.
2019
  • Nihei, F.; Nakano, Y.I. Exploring Methods for Predicting Important Utterances Contributing to Meeting Summarization. Multimodal Technologies Interact. 2019, 3(3), 50.
  • Fumio Nihei, Yukiko I. Nakano, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Ryo Ishii: Determining Iconic Gesture Forms based on Entity Image Representation. ICMI 2019: 419-425
  • Candy Olivia Mawalim, Shogo Okada, Yukiko I. Nakano, Masashi Unoki: Multimodal BigFive Personality Trait Analysis Using Communication Skill Indices and Multiple Discussion Types Dataset. HCI (13) 2019: 370-383
  • Shinichi Fukasawa, Hiroko Akatsu, Wakana Taguchi, Fumio Nihei, Yukiko I. Nakano: Presenting Low-Accuracy Information of Emotion Recognition Enhances Human Awareness Performance. HCI (4) 2019: 415-424
2018
  • Wakana Taguchi, Fumio Nihei, Yutaka Takase, Yukiko I. Nakano, Shinichi Fukasawa, and Hiroko Akatsu. 2018. Effects of face and voice deformation on participant emotion in video-mediated communication. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction: Adjunct (ICMI ’18), Article 8, 5 pages, 2018.
  • Fumio Nihei, Yukiko Nakano and Yutaka Takase, Fusing Verbal and Nonverbal Information for Extractive Meeting Summarization, In ICMI2018 Workshops, Workshop on Group Interaction Frontiers in Technology (GIFT 2018), 2018.
  • Jie Zeng, Yukiko I. Nakano, Takeshi Morita, Ichiro Kobayashi, Takahira Yamaguchi, Eliciting User Food Preferences in terms of Taste and Texture in Spoken Dialogue Systems, In ICMI2018 Workshops, The 3rd International Workshop on Multi-sensorial Approaches to Human-Food Interaction (MHFI 2018), 2018.
  • Ken Tomiyama, Fumio Nihei, Yukiko Nakano, Yutaka Takase. Identifying Discourse Boundaries in Group Discussions using a Multimodal Embedding Space. In Joint Proceedings of the ACM IUI 2018 Workshops, Symbiotic Interaction and Harmonious Collaboration for Wisdom Computing (SymCollab), 2018.
2017
  • Ken Tomiyama, Fumio Nihei, Yukiko Nakano, Yutaka Takase. Identifying Discourse Boundaries in Group Discussions using a Multimodal Embedding Space. In Joint Proceedings of the ACM IUI 2018 Workshops, Symbiotic Interaction and Harmonious Collaboration for Wisdom Computing (SymCollab), 2018.
  • Fumio Nihei, Yukiko I. Nakano, and Yutaka Takase. Predicting meeting extracts in group discussions using multimodal convolutional neural networks. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2017). ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 421-425, 2017.
  • Rurika Shimizu，Yutaka Takase，Yukiko I Nakano: Audio Based Group Conversation Support System, ACM UbiComp2017, extend abstract (2017)
2016
  • Yukiko I. Nakano, Takashi Yoshino, Misato Yatsushiro, and Yutaka Takase. Generating Robot Gaze on the Basis of Participation Roles and Dominance Estimation in Multiparty Interaction. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems. – Regular Articles and Special issue on New Directions in Eye Gaze for Interactive Intelligent Systems (Part 1 of 2), Volume 5 Issue 4, Article No. 22, January 2016. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2743028
  • Shogo Okada, Yoshihiko Ohtake, Yukiko I. Nakano, Yuki Hayashi, Hung-Hsuan Huang, Yutaka Takase, and Katsumi Nitta: Estimating Communication Skills using Dialogue Acts and Nonverbal Features in Multiple Discussion Datasets, 18th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI2016), pp. 169-176, 2016.
  • Fumio Nihei, Yukiko I. Nakano, and Yutaka Takase: Meeting Extracts for Discussion Summarization Based on Multimodal Nonverbal Information, 18th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI2016), pp. 185-192, 2016.
  • Vrzakova, H., Bednarik, R., Nakano, Y., Nihei, F.: Speakers’ head and gaze dynamics weakly correlate in group conversation Proceedings of the Ninth Biennial ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications, pp. 77-84, ACM, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2857491.2857522
  • Toshiki Yamanaka，Yutaka Takase, and Yukiko I. Nakano. Assessing the Communication Attitude of the Elderly using Prosodic Information and Head Motions. In Proceedings of the 11th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Extended Abstracts (HRI’16 Extended Abstracts). ACM, New York, NY, USA.
  • Yuki Kadono, Yutaka Takase, and Yukiko I. Nakano. Generating Iconic Gestures based on Graphic Data Analysis and Clustering. In Proceedings of the 11th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Extended Abstracts (HRI’16 Extended Abstracts). ACM, New York, NY, USA.
  • Rintaro Manabe, Yutaka Takase, and Yukiko I. Nakano. User Modeling and Reception Interaction by Service Robots. HRI2016 workshop on the challenge (not) to go wild! Challenges and best practices to study HRI in natural interaction settings. March 7, 2016, New Zealand.
2015
  • Yukiko I. Nakano, Sakiko Nihonyanagi, Yutaka Takase, Yuki Hayashi, and Shogo Okada. Predicting Participation Styles using Co-occurrence Patterns of Nonverbal Behaviors in Collaborative Learning, 17th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI2015), pp. 91-98, 2015.
  • Ryo Ishii, Shiro Ozawa, Akira Kojima, Kazuhiro Otsuka, Yuki Hayashi, Yukiko I. Nakano, “Design and Evaluation of Mirror Interface MIOSS to Overlay Remote 3D Spaces”, The 15th IFIP TC.13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT 2015), pp. 319-326, 2015.
  • Naoko SAITO, Shogo OKADA, Katsumi NITTA, Yukiko I. NAKANO, and Yuki HAYASHI: “Estimating User’s Attitude in Multimodal Conversational System for Elderly People with Dementia”, Turn-Taking and Coordination in Human-Machine Interaction: Papers from the 2015 AAAI Spring Symposium, pp.100-103, Palo Alto, CA, USA. (Mar. 2015)
  • Takashi Yoshino, Yutaka Takase, and Yukiko I. Nakano. 2015. Controlling Robot’s Gaze according to Participation Roles and Dominance in Multiparty Conversations. In Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Extended Abstracts (HRI’15 Extended Abstracts). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 127-128.
  • Kazufumi Tsukada, Yutaka Takase, and Yukiko I. Nakano. 2015. Selecting Popular Topics for Elderly People in Conversation-based Companion Agents. In Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Extended Abstracts (HRI’15 Extended Abstracts). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 93-94. DOI=10.1145/2701973.2702015
  • Reo Suzuki, Yutaka Takase, and Yukiko I. Nakano. Intelligent Shop Window – Producing Dynamic Situated Augmented Reality using a Large See-through Screen- In Proceedings of The Eighth International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions (ACHI 2015). pp. 92-95, 2015.
2014
  • Vrzakova, H., Bednarik, R., Nihei, F., Nakano, Y.: Influential statements and gaze for persuasion modeling In the 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2014., pp. 915-918, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2639189.2670192
  • Nihonyanagi, S. Hayashi, Y. and Nakano, Y. I.. Analyzing Co-occurrence Patterns of Nonverbal Behaviors in Collaborative Learning. In Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Eye Gaze in Intelligent Human Machine Interaction: Eye-Gaze & Multimodality (GazeIn ’14) in ICMI2014. pp. 33-37, 2014.
  • Nihei, F., Nakano, Y. I., Hayashi, Y., Huang, H., and Okada, S. : Predicting Influential Statements in Group Discussions using Speech and Head Motion Information, 16th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI2014), pp. 136-143, 2014.
  • Yoshino, T., Hayashi, Y., and Nakano, Y. I. : Determining Robot Gaze according to Participation Roles in Multiparty Conversations, 2nd international conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2014) .
  • Hayashi, Y., Morita, H., Nakano, Y. I. : Estimating Collaborative Attitudes based on Non-verbal Features in Collaborative Learning Interaction, Proc. of 18th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES2014) .
2013
  • Birgit Endrass, Elisabeth André, Matthias Rehm, Yukiko Nakano, Investigating culture-related aspects of behavior for virtual characters, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, September 2013, Volume 27, Issue 2, pp 277-304, 2013.
  • Yukiko Nakano, Naoya Baba, Hung-Hsuan Huang, Yuki Hayashi:”Implementation and Evaluation of Multimodal Addressee Identification Mechanism for Multiparty Conversation Systems”, Proc. of 15th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI2013), pp.35-42. (Dec. 2013)
  • Misato Yatsushiro, Naoya Ikeda, Yuki Hayashi, Yukiko Nakano:”A Dominance Estimation Mechanism using Eye-gaze and Turn-taking Information”, Proc. of The 6th Workshop on Eye Gaze in Intelligent Human Machine Interaction.(Dec. 2013)
  • Yuki HAYASHI, Yuji OGAWA, and Yukiko I. NAKANO: “Visualization System for Analyzing Collaborative Learning Interaction”, Proc. of 17th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES2013), pp.603-611. (Sep. 2013)
  • Yuki HAYASHI, Yuji OGAWA, and Yukiko I. NAKANO: “An Experimental Environment for Analyzing Collaborative Learning Interaction”, Proc. of 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII2013), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Vol.8018, pp.43-52. (Jul. 2013)
  • Takashi YAMAUCHI, Yuki HAYASHI, and Yukiko I. NAKANO: “Searching Emotional Scenes in TV Programs based on Twitter Emotion Analysis”, Proc. of 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII2013), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Vol.8029, pp.432-441. (Jul. 2013)
2012
  • Ryo Ishii, Yukiko, I. Nakano, Toyoaki Nishida, “Gaze Awareness in Conversational Agents: Estimating User’s Conversational Engagement using Eye-gaze”, The ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent System, Special issue on interaction with smart objects, Special section on eye gaze and conversation archive, Volume 3 Issue 2, July 2013.
  • Yoichi Sakai, Yuuko Nonaka, Kiyoshi Yasuda, Yukiko I. Nakano, Listener agent for elderly people with dementia, Proceedings of the seventh annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI2012), pp.199-200, 2012.
  • Yuta Shibasaki, Takahiro Inaba, Yukiko I. Nakano, Referent identification process in human-robot multimodal communication, Proceedings of the seventh annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI2012), pp.197-198, 2012.
  • Yukiko I. Nakano, Yuki Fukuhara, Estimating Conversational Dominance in Multiparty Interaction, 14th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI2012), pp.77-84, 2012.
  • Naoya Baba, Hung-Hsuan Huang, Yukiko I. Nakano, Addressee identification for human-human-agent multiparty conversations in different proxemics, Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Eye Gaze in Intelligent Human Machine Interaction, Article No.6, 2012.
  • Yuuko Nonaka, Yoichi Sakai, Kiyoshi Yasuda, Yukiko I. Nakano, Towards Assessing the Communication Responsiveness of People with Dementia, IVA 2012, pp.496-498, 2012.
  • Takashi Yamauchi, Yukiko Nakano, A Scene Explorer for TV Programs based on Twitter Emotion Analysis, Proceedings of the 10th Asia Pacific Conference on Computer Human Interaction (APCHI 2012), 2012.
2011
  • Afia Akhter Lipi, Yukiko Nakano, How Culture and Social Relationship Affect Performing and Perceiving of Postures, in IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (GrC 2011) Special Session on Social and Cultural Interaction, 2011.
  • Afia Akhter Lipi, Fumie Nori, Birgit Endrass, Yukiko Nakano, and Elisabeth Andre, How Culture and Social Relationship Affect the Perception of Agent’s Nonverbal Behaviors?, Workshop on Culturally Motivated Virtual Characters, 2011 [PDF].
  • Hung-Hsuan Huang, Naoya Baba, and Yukiko Nakano. Making a Virtual Conversational Agent be Aware of the Addressee of Users’ Utterances in Multi-user Conversation from Nonverbal Information, the 13th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI2011), 2011.
  • Birgit Endrass, Yukiko Nakano, Afia Akhter Lipi, Matthias Rehm, and Elisabeth Andre, Culture-related Topic Selection in Small Talk Conversations across Germany and Japan, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2011), pp.1-13, 2011.
  • Naoya Baba, Hung-Hsuan Huang, and Yukiko I. Nakano. Identifying Utterances Addressed to an Agent in Multiparty Human-agent Conversations, the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA2011), pp.255-261, 2011.Ryota Ooko1, Ryo Ishii2, and Yukiko I. Nakano. Estimating a User’s
  • Conversational Engagement Based on Head Pose Information, the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA2011), pp.262-268, 2011 [PDF].
  • Fumie Nori, Afia Akhter Lipi, Yukiko Nakano, Cultural Difference in Nonverbal Behaviors in Negotiation Conversations: Towards a Model for Culture-adapted Conversational Agents, in 14th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII2011) .
  • Takeo Tsukamoto, Yumi Muroya, Masashi Okamoto & Yukiko Nakano, Collection and Analysis of Multimodal Interaction in Direction Giving Dialogues: Towards an Automatic Gesture Selection Mechanism for Metaverse Avatars, AAMAS2011 Workshop on the uses of Agents for Education, Games and Simulations, 2011.
  • Birgit Endrass, Elisabeth Andre, Yukiko Nakano, Matthias Rehm, Afia Akhter Lipi, Culture-related differences in aspects of behavior for virtual characters across Germany and Japan, in the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS2011), pp.441-448, 2011.
  • Yuki Fukuhara and Yukiko Nakano, Gaze and Conversation Domination in Multiparty Interaction, in 2011 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI2011), Workshop on Eye Gaze in Intelligent Human Machine Interaction, Palo Alto, California, 2011.
  • Ryo Ishii, Yuta Shinohara, Yukiko Nakano, and Toyoaki Nishida, Combining Multiple Types of Eye-gaze Information to Predict User’s Conversational Engagement, in 2011 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI2011), Workshop on Eye Gaze in Intelligent Human Machine Interaction, Palo Alto, California, 2011.
2010
  • Hung-Hsuan Huang, Takuya Furukawa, Hiroki Ohashi, Toyoaki Nishida, Aleksandra Cerekovic, Igor S. Pandzic, Yukiko Nakano, Communicating with multiple users for embodied conversational agents in quiz game context, International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems (IJIIDS), Volume 4, Issue 6, pp.579-598, 2010.
  • Huang, H.H., Takeda, S., Fukuhara, Y., Baba, N., Shibasaki, Y., Nakano, Y., Nishida, T.: An Empirical Study of Multiparty Conversations with a Virtual Agent in Wizard-of-Oz Setting, the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA’10), Philadelpha, USA, September 20-22, 2010.
  • Huang, H.H., Takeda, S., Ono, M., Nakano, Y., Pandzic, I., Nishida, T.: Toward a Proactive Information Providing Agent in Multi-user Collaborative Decision-making Conversation, International Workshop on Interacting with ECAs as Virtual Characters, 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS’10), pp.46-52, Toronto, Canada, May 10, 2010.
  • Huang, H.H., Furukawa, T., Ohashi, H., Cerekovic, A., Pandzic, I., Nakano, Y., Nishida, T.: How Multiple Current Users React to a Quiz Agent Attentive to the Dynamics of Their Participation, 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS’10), pp.1281-1288, Toronto, Canada, May 10-14, 2010 [PDF].
  • Afia Akhter Lipi, Yukiko Nakano, and Matthias Rehm. A Socio-Cultural Model Based on Empirical Data of Cultural and Social Relationship. International Workshop on Agents in Cultural Context, 2010.
  • Nakano, Y.I. and Ishii, R. Estimating User’s Engagement from Eye-gaze Behaviors in Human-Agent Conversations. in 2010 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI2010), pp. 139-148, Hong Kong, 2010.
  • Ishii, R. and Nakano, Y.I. An Empirical Study of Eye-gaze Behaviors: Towards the Estimation of Conversational Engagement in Human-Agent Communication. in 2010 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI2010), Workshop on Eye Gaze in Intelligent Human Machine Interaction, Hong Kong, 2010.