Takanori Komatsu, Ph.D.

Takanori Komatsu, Ph.D. / 小松孝徳

is a cognitive scientist, a professor at FMS, Meiji University, and just a cyclist.
- 認知科学者，明治大学総合数理学部先端メディアサイエンス学科教授，自転車乗り
was born in Chiba, Japan 1974.
uses twitter, facebook, strava and LinkedIn.
is a research specialist to observe and analyze cognitive and psychological aspects of users who are interacting with various kinds of artifacts (e.g., computers, smart devices, robots or AIs).
published more than 100 articles at prestige international conferences (e.g., CogSci, CHI and so on) and around 50 international and Japanese journal papers.
has several lectures about cognitive science and relationship between humans and technologies in both Japanese and English.
welcomes exciting research and educational collaborations related not only to his research interests but also to various aspects of cognitive science and psychology of users who are interacting with artifacts.
「認知科学」をベースとした各種心理学的調査やそのデータ分析に関する，共同研究・技術相談・コンサルティングのご依頼はこちらのページからどうぞ！

米国で最も長く継続的に発行されている一般科学雑誌Scientific Americanオンライン版に，「いかに人間がロボットを拒絶しているかという研究に関する記事広告『Friend or Fridge? What Humans Really Want from Robots』が掲載されました。
The online edition of Scientific American, the longest continually published general science journal in the United States, has published an article ad titled "Friend or Fridge? What Humans Really Want from Robots," which discusses research on how humans are rejecting robots.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/custom-media/friend-or-fridge-what-humans-really-want-from-robots/

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1997: Bachelor of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering II, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan
2003: Ph.D. in Cognitive Science / 博士 (学術), Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan

1997-1999: Guest Researcher, TU Wien and Profactor GmbH, Austria
2001-2003: Junior Research Associate, RIKEN brain science institute, Japan
2003-2007: Research Associate, School of Systems Information Science, Future University-Hakodate, Japan
2007-2011: Assistant Professor, Young Researcher Empowerment Project, Shinshu University, Japan
2012-2013: Associate Professor, Faculty of Textile Science and Technology, Shinshu University, Japan
2013-2018: Associate Professor, Department of Frontier Media Science (FMS), School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences, Meiji University, Japan
2018-present: Full Professor, Department of Frontier Media Science (FMS), School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences, Meiji University, Japan

His current research interests are
- - proposing auditory displays and artificial subtle expressions (ASEs) for various usage in user interfaces.
  - applying moral psychology on Human-Robot Interaction.
  - users' time perception especially they are waiting for computer's reactions or responses.
The other Human-Computer Interaction, Human-Agent Interaction, and Cognitive Science Studies are also his research target.
See Research Gate and Google Citation Index
You will see me at CogSci, HAI or CHI conferences.