Publications

FEATURED PUBLICATION

Satoshi Nakagawa, Tomohiro Tanikawa, Ai Nakada, Takayoshi Yoshimura, Hiroyuki Sakai, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Misato Nihei, “Empathetic AI-Mediated Communication for Bridging Diverse Individuals and Society,” Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population, HCI International 2026, pp. 431–448, 2026.

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-30414-8_27

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

Yuxiang Zhou, Xin Kang, Fuji Ren, Huimin Lu, Satoshi Nakagawa, and Xiao Shan, “A Multi-Attention and Depthwise Separable Convolution Network for Medical Image Segmentation,” Neurocomputing, 2024.

Satoshi Nakagawa, Kana Naruse, Ryoga Endo, Hideki Kawai, Masayuki Okamoto, Yasuomi Takeuchi, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi, “Effects of Long-Term Counseling with a Robot That Responds Based on Quality of Life Estimated During Dialogue,” Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, 2023. [in Japanese]

Satoshi Nakagawa, Ryoga Endo, Kana Naruse, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi, “A Quality-of-Life Estimation System During Dialogue with a Counseling Agent for Monitoring Older Adults,” IPSJ Journal, vol. 63, no. 4, pp. 1115–1127, 2022. [in Japanese]

Hiroyuki Saegusa, Satoshi Nakagawa, Kana Naruse, Shinichiro Suganuma, and Haruhiko Shimoyama, “A Qualitative Study of Client Experiences in a Comparison of Empathic Interviews Using Multiple Interview Formats,” Journal of Human Services, vol. 12, pp. 13–27, 2022. [in Japanese]

Satoshi Nakagawa, Shogo Yonekura, Hoshinori Kanazawa, Satoshi Nishikawa, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi, “New Approach to Estimating Mental Health Score Using a Communication Agent,” Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, pp. 239–247, 2021.

Satoshi Nakagawa, Minlie Huang, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi, “Construction and Evaluation of QOL Specialized Dictionary SqolDic Using Vocabulary Meaning and QOL Scale,” Electronics, vol. 10, no. 4, article 417, 2021.

Satoshi Nakagawa, Daiki Enomoto, Shogo Yonekura, Hoshinori Kanazawa, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi, “New Telecare Approach Based on 3D Convolutional Neural Network for Estimating Quality of Life,” Neurocomputing, vol. 397, pp. 464–476, 2020.

PEER-REVIEWED INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PAPERS

Satoshi Nakagawa and Misato Nihei, “Trust, Conformity, and Deliberation in Multi-Robot Interaction,” International Conference on Social Robotics + AI, 2026.

Satoshi Nakagawa and Misato Nihei, “Bridging Divides through Empathetic Robot Dialogue in Remote Interpersonal Conflict,” 34th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, pp. 901–908, 2025.

Zheng Hu, The Li, Ziyun Jiao, Satoshi Nakagawa, Jiawen Deng, Shimin Chi, Tao Zhou, and Fuji Ren, “Bridging the User-Side Knowledge Gap in Knowledge-Aware Recommendations with Large Language Models,” Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, vol. 39, no. 11, pp. 11799–11807, 2025.

Satoshi Nakagawa and Yasuo Kuniyoshi, “Multimodal QOL Estimation During Human–Robot Interaction,” IEEE International Conference on Digital Health, 2024.

Ai Nakada, Takanori Yoshimura, Hiroyuki Sakai, Satoshi Nakagawa, Tomohiro Tanikawa, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi, “Exploring the Chameleon Effect in Metaverse Spaces for Enabling Creative Communication,” IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, 2024.

Linhuang Wang, Xin Kang, Wei Ding, Hai-Tao You, Yunong Wu, Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Satoshi Nakagawa, and Fuji Ren, “Self Decoupling-Reconstruction Network for Facial Expression Recognition,” International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2024.

Satoshi Nakagawa, “Emergence of Grounded Language Representations for Continuous Object Properties through Decentralized Embodied Learning,” Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2024.

Satoshi Nakagawa and Yasuo Kuniyoshi, “Impact of QOL-Based Counseling on Older Adults’ QOL Improvement,” IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 2023.

Zheng Hu, Satoshi Nakagawa, Liang Lou, You Gu, and Fuji Ren, “Celebrity-Aware Graph Contrastive Learning Framework for Social Recommendation,” ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2023.

Satoshi Nakagawa, “Estimation of Mental Health Quality of Life Using Visual Information during Interaction with a Communication Agent,” IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2020.

Satoshi Nakagawa, Daiki Enomoto, Shogo Yonekura, Hoshinori Kanazawa, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi, “A Telecare System that Estimates Quality of Life through Communication,” IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing and Intelligence Systems, 2018.

SELECTED DOMESTIC AND INTERDISCIPLINARY PUBLICATIONS

Satoshi Nakagawa and Misato Nihei, “Decision Support Based on Multiple Perspectives Using Conversational Robots with Distinct Personalities to Resist Conformity Pressure,” Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 2025. [in Japanese]

Satoshi Nakagawa, Tomohiro Tanikawa, Ai Nakada, Takanori Yoshimura, Hiroyuki Sakai, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi, “Mitigating Conflict through Generative AI-Mediated Communication between People with Opposing Positions,” Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 2024. [in Japanese]

Satoshi Nakagawa, Tomohiro Tanikawa, and Misato Nihei, “Promoting Relationship Building through Remote Communication Mediated by an Empathetic Dialogue Robot,” Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan, 2024. [in Japanese]

Satoshi Nakagawa and Yasuo Kuniyoshi, “Enhancing Mental Health Support through AI-Based Counseling on the LINE Chat App,” Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering, 2024.

Satoshi Nakagawa, Kana Naruse, Ryoga Endo, Hideki Kawai, Masayuki Okamoto, Yasuomi Takeuchi, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi, “Development of a Counseling Robot Dialogue System for Building Long-Term Relationships,” LIFE 2023, 2023. [in Japanese]

Satoshi Nakagawa, Kana Naruse, Ryoga Endo, Hideki Kawai, Masayuki Okamoto, Yasuomi Takeuchi, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi, “The Effects of QOL-Based Robot Responses on Quality of Life: Counseling Experiments with Younger and Older Adults,” Annual Conference of the Robotics Society of Japan, 2022. [in Japanese]

AWARDS

2025
Research Encouragement Award, Robotics Society of Japan

2024
Annual Conference Award, Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence

2023
Young Presentation Award, LIFE 2023

2023
Research Encouragement Award, 2nd GCLS Presentation Competition

2020
Best Paper Award, 15th International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering

2020
FIT Paper Award, Forum on Information Technology

2020
Selected as a Top International Paper, Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence

2018
Best Student Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing and Intelligence Systems

SELECTED RESEARCH FUNDING

2026
Sumitomo Forestry–The University of Tokyo Research Grant Program

2025
AI Center Interdisciplinary Research Program, The University of Tokyo

2024–2028
JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
Principal Investigator

2024
Research Grant, The Okawa Foundation for Information and Telecommunications

2022
Research Grant, The Univers Foundation

2021–2023
JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists, DC2

2019
Research Grant, KDDI Foundation

SELECTED INVITED TALKS

“The Impact of Digitalization on Psychological Counseling,” Annual Conference of the Japanese Association of Sociology of Law, 2024.

“Potential Applications of Human–Agent Interaction in Virtual Reality,” Virtual Reality Society of Japan, 2023.

“Generative AI and Older Adults,” The University of Tokyo Industry–Academia Gerontology Project, 2023.