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[Name]

XU (last name/family name),  Yong (first name)

[Hometown]

Suzhou city, Jiangsu Province, mainland China(People's Republic of China)

[Education]

Sep,1989-Jul,1993 Suzhou Vocational University ,China, College Student

Sep,1998-Jul,2001 Graduate School of Electrical Science and Technology,
USTC(University of Science and Technology of China) ,China, Master's Course Student

Apr,2003-Mar,2004 The University of Tokyo , Japan, Research Student

Apr,2004-Now Kyoto University , Japan,Ph.D Candidate

[Career]

Nov,1993-Aug,1998 Suzhou YiDi computer company ,China, Computer Engineer

Jul,2001-Mar,2003 ZTE(Zhongxing Telecomunication Equipement Ltd. Company) , China, Technical Support Engineer

May-Aug,2009, RECCSI, La Trobe University , Australia, Honorary Visiting Research Assistant

[Publications] 

First Author

Journals

1. Yong XU,Yoshiyasu OGASAWARA,Takashi TAJIMA,Makoto HATAKEYAMA, Masashi OKAMOTO, Yukiko I. NAKANO,and Toyoaki NISHIDA, “A Two-layered Approach to Communicative Artifacts”, Journal of AI&Society,Vol. 22, No. 2 ,Page 185-196, DOI: 10.1007/s00146-007-0131-4 , Nov, 2007.[Link]

2. Yong XU, Kazuhiro UEDA, Takanori KOMATSU, Takeshi OKADOME, Takashi HATTORI, Yasuyuki SUMI and Toyoaki NISHIDA,  “WOZ Experiments for Understanding Mutual Adaptation”,Journal of AI&Society, Vol. 23, No. 2, Page 201-212 , DOI: 10.1007/s00146-007-0134-1, March 2009.[Link]

Refereed Conferences and Workshops

3. Yong XU, Yoshimasa OHMOTO,Kazuhiro UEDA, Takanori KOMATSU,Takeshi OKADOME, Koji KAMEI, Shogo OKADA, Yasuyuki SUMI, and Toyoaki NISHIDA,
"Establishing Adaptation Loop in Interaction between Human User and Adaptive Agent", IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Intelligent Systems (ICIS 2009),  accepted as a regular paper,November 20-22, Shanghai, China, 2009.

4. Yong XU, Yoshimasa OHMOTO,Kazuhiro UEDA, Takanori KOMATSU,Takeshi OKADOME, Koji KAMEI, Shogo OKADA, Yasuyuki SUMI, and Toyoaki NISHIDA,
"Actively Adaptive Agent for Human-Agent Collaborative Task", 5th International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT 2009),  Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, LNCS 5820, 19-30, October 22-24, Beijing, China, 2009..

5. Yong XU , Yoshimasa OHMOTO,Shogo OKADA,and Toyoaki NISHIDA,
"Role of Stop Instruction in a Human-Robot Interactive Directional Guidance Task",Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Nertworks and Information Processing(ISSNIP-2008),  Symposium on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2008),Sydney Australia,December 15-18,2008..

6. Yong XU , Yoshimasa OHMOTO,Kazuhiro UEDA,Takanori KOMATSU, Takeshi OKADOME, Koji KAMEI, Shogo OKADA, Yasuyuki SUMI and Toyoaki NISHIDA, "Two-Layered Communicative Protocol Model in a Cooperative Directional Guidance Task", SID2008 (Social Intelligence Design 2008) Workshop, School of Architecture Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico, December.2008.

7.Yong XU, Matthieu GUILLEMOT and Toyoaki NISHIDA, "An experiment study of gesture-based human-robot interface",IEEE/ICME International Conference on Complex Medical Engineering-CME2007, Beijing, China, CD-ROM pp 458-464, May 22-27, 2007.(The Young Investigator Fellowship Award)

8.Yong XU, Shinpei TAKEDA and Toyoaki NISHIDA, "A WOZ Environment for Studying Mutual Adaptive Behaviors in Gesture-based Human-robot Interaction",  AAAI07, Human Implications of Human-Robot Interaction workshop,  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Technical Report WS-07-07, pp 40-46, July 22, 2007.

9.Yong Xu , Kazuhiro Ueda, Takanori Komatsu, Takeshi Okadome,Yasuyuki Sumi and Toyoaki Nishida, Can gesture establish an independent communication channel?, International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems 2007 (ICCAS2007), Seoul, Korea, pp727-732, Oct. 17-20, 2007.

10.Yong XU, Kazuhiro UEDA, Takanori KOMATSU, Takeshi OKADOME, Takashi HATTORI, Yasuyuki SUMI and Toyoaki NISHIDA, “WOZ Experiments for Understanding Mutual Adaptation”,Proceedings of the 5th international workshop of social intelligence design (SID2006),pp 199-212, Osaka,Japan,  March 24-26, 2006.

11. Yong XU,Yoshiyasu OGASAWARA,Takashi TAJIMA,Makoto HATAKEYAMA, Masashi OKAMOTO, Yukiko I. NAKANO,and Toyoaki NISHIDA, “A Two-layered Approach to Communicative Artifacts”, SID2005 (Social Intelligence Design 2005) Workshop, Stanford University, CA, USA, March, 2005.

12.Yong XU,Takashi TAJIMA,Makoto HATAKEYAMA,Yasuyuki SUMI,and Toyoaki NISHIDA, “A Two-layered Approach to Make Human-Robot Interaction Social and Robust”,AISB2005 Symposia, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, England,April,2005.  

Domestic Conferences

13. Yong XU,Yoshimasa OHMOTO, Shogo OKADA, Kazuhiro UEDA, Takanori KOMATSU, Takeshi OKDADOME, Koji KAMEI, Yasuyuki SUMI and Toyoaki NISHIDA, Formation Conditions of Mutual Adaptation Phenomenon in HAI (in Japanese), Human-Agent Interaction Symposium, HAI-2009,accepted as a regular paper, Japan, Tokyo, Dec. 2009

14.Yong XU, Kazuhiro UEDA, Takanori KOMATSU, Takeshi OKDADOME, Koji KAMEI, Yoshimasa OHMOTO, Yasuyuki SUMI and Toyoaki NISHIDA, An exploration on establishing primordial communication protocol using gesture,The 22nd Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence(JSAI2008), June. 2008(in Japanese).

15. Yong XU: Conveying Intention by Using Nonverbal Communication Approaches, the fifth Symposium of Creative Scientific Research on ``Intelligent Media Technology for Supporting Natural Communication between People'', Japan, Tokyo, Jan, 2005.

16. Yong XU: Conveying directional instruction by gesture, Workshop on Conversational Informatics, Japan, Hakodade, Feb, 2005.

Co-authored

17.Toyoaki NISHIDA, Kazunori TERADA, Takashi TAJIMA, Makoto HATAKEYAMA, Yoshiyasu OGASAWARA, Yong XU, Yasser F. O. MOHAMMAD, Kateryna TARASENKO, Taku OHYA, and Tatsuya HIRAMATSU, "Towards Robots as an Embodied Knowledge Medium" IEICE Trans. On Inf. Sys., vol E89-D, No 6,  pp: 1768-1780,June 2006.

18.Yasser F. O. MOHAMMAD,Toyoaki NISHIDA,Yong XU,Kenichi MATSUMURA,"The H3R Explanation Corpus. Human-Human and Base Human-Robot Interaction Dataset",Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Nertworks and Information Processing(ISSNIP-2008),  Symposium on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2008),Sydney Australia,December 15-18,2008.

19. Takanori KOMATSU,Yoshimasa OHMOTO, Kazuhiro UEDA, Takeshi OIADOME, Koji KAMEI,Yong XU, Yasuyuki SUMI, and Toyoaki NISHIDA, "Definition of Mutual Adaptation Processes Based on Akaike�fs Information Criterion", The 7th International Workshop on Social Intelligence Design( SID2008), Puerto Rico,December, 2008.

20.Taku OHYA, Tatsuya. HIRAMATSU, Yong XU and Toyoaki. NISHIDA, Robot as a Knowledge Media - Convey Knowledge Efficiently through Display on Robot's Arm, SID2006 Workshop, Osaka, March 2006.

21.Yoshiyasu OGASAWARA, Masashi OKAMOTO, Yukiko I. NAKANO, Yong XU, and Toyoaki NISHIDA, “How to Make Robot a Robust and Interactive Communicator”, Proceeding of 9th International Conference, Knowledge-based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES 2005), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Vol. 3683 Part III, pp. 289-295, Sep,2005.

22.Takashi.TAJIMA,Yong XU,and Toyoaki.NISHIDA, “Entrainment Based Human-Agent Communication of Tacit Intention”, 1st International Workshop on "Intelligent Media Technology for Communicative Intelligence"(IMTfCI2004), Poland, September, 2004.

23.Takashi.TAJIMA,Yong XU,and Toyoaki.NISHIDA ,”Entrianment Based Human-Agent Interaction”, Proc. of IEEE Conf. on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics(RAM2004), Singapore,P.1042-1047, Dec. 2004

[Researches]

Topic:

Construction and Implementation of Mutually Adaptive Model for Developing Collaborative Agent in a Human-Agent Interactive Task

Contents:

My research focuses on building and realizing mutual adaptation model in a human-agent collaborative task, and consists of following three aspects:

1. In order to provide hints and basises to develop adaptive agent, it is useful to observe people's adaptive behaviors in a human-human communication situation. In the first experiment, human partners used controlled channels to communicate with partners to accomplish a collaborative task. Synchronized sensor data (includes floor pressure sensor, motion sensor, effect sound and multiple video data) from multiple channels are recorded in an experimental encironment. In the human-human communication experiment, people's adaptive behaviors were recorded.

2. A two-layered cognitive model is proposed to interpret the results of the human-human communication experiment. Based on this model, mutually adaptive agent can be developed. A WOZ(Wizard of OZ) experimental environment was built for studying and comparing results of human-human and human-agent experiments. As necessary user interface for WOZ operator,a gesture-based human-agent-interface and a GUI based interface were implemented.

3.In the last part, in order for finishing a collaborative operation, a waiter agent task in a virtual restaurant environment was developed. Basing on the definition of the mutual adaptation phenomenon, and proposed inducing conditions, human-adapvie agent experiments were conducted just after the WOZ experiment. Mutual adaptation phenomena that were observed in the experiment partly proved the sufficient conditions and sufficient conditions.

Keywords:

Mutual Adaptation,Human-Robot Interaction

[Memberships]

The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence

[Award]

2007.5.24 IEEE ICME2007 The Young Investigator Fellowship Award(Honorary Credential)

[Information]

Address: Engineering Bld. 10, 2F Room 241,

Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501 Japan

Phone: +81-75-753-5391,+81-75-753-5371

Fax: +81-75-753-4961

Email: xuyong(at)ii.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp