An interview article with Project Professor Yukie Nagai has been published on the Neurodiversity Project’s website. It introduces the motivation and scientific and social significance of the ASD Simulator and the Multimodal Emotion Estimation System, both of which our laboratory has been developing. ニューロダイバーシティプロジェクト, “INTERVIEW SERIES #23: 発達障がい者が見ている世界をシミュレータで再現一人ひとりに最適な支援の道を探る,” 2025年12月3日. [HP]
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A book titled “Symbol Emergence Systems” will be published from Springer
A book titled “Symbol Emergence Systems” will be published from Springer in February 2026. Project Professor Yukie Nagai has contributed a chapter featuring “Cognitive Developmental Robotics.” It will be available for open access. Yukie Nagai, “Cognitive Developmental Robotics,” Symbol Emergence Systems: An Interdisciplinary Discussion about Cognition, Language and Society, T. Taniguchi (Eds.), Springer, February 2026. [HP]
Read moreMultimodal Emotion Estimator developed by Dr. Von Ralph Dane Marquez Herbuela received the Best Demo Award at ICMI 2025
The Multimodal Emotion Estimator developed by Dr. Von Ralph Dane Marquez Herbuela received the Best Demo Award at the 27th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, which was held on October 13-17, 2025. It can estimate the emotion in realtime using both behavioral and physiological signals. Von Ralph Dane Marquez Herbuela and Yukie Nagai, “Realtime Multimodal Emotion Estimation using Behavioral and […]
Read moreProject Professor Yukie Nagai will participate in a panel discussion at D&I CONFERENCE 2025
Project Professor Yukie Nagai will participate in D&I CONFERENCE 2025 on December 13, 2025. She will speak in a panel discussion titled “AI and Diversity”. Yukie Nagai, Panel discussion “AI and Diversity,” D&I CONFERENCE 2025, Tokyo, December 13, 2025. [HP]
Read moreA research co-authored by Project Professor Yukie Nagai received the Excellent Research Award at the 12th Support Conference for Adults with Developmental Disabilities
A research presentation co-authored by Project Professor Yukie Nagai received the Excellent Research Award at the 12th Support Conference for Adults with Developmental Disabilities, which was held in Tokyo on October 11–12, 2025. This study, conducted in collaboration with Itsuki Ichikawa and Dr. Makoto Wada from Research Institute of National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities, aims to develop a […]
Read moreProject Professor Yukie Nagai will participate in a panel discussion at the workshop of Microsoft Research Asia – Tokyo
Project Professor Yukie Nagai will participate in a workshop to be held at Microsoft Research Asia – Tokyo on November 3, 2025. She will speak in a panel discussion titled “Future for Robot & Robot for Future”. Yukie Nagai, Panel Discussion “Future for Robot & Robot for Future,” Empowering The World Through Embodied AI Workshop, November 3, 2025. [HP]
Read morePapers authored by Dr. Herbuela and Dr. Zhang have been presented at ICMI 2025
Two papers authored by Dr. Herbuela and Dr. Zhang have been presented at the 27th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction. They propose computational models for emotion estimation using physiological and behavioral signals. Haifeng Zhang, Von Ralph Dane Marquez Herbuela, and Yukie Nagai, “Foundation Feature-Guided Hierarchical Fusion of EEG-Physiological for Emotion Estimation,” in Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Multimodal […]
Read moreWe will exhibit our ASD Sensory Experience Simulator and Multimodal Emotion Estimation System at “みんなの脳世界2025～超多様～”
We will exhibit ASD Sensory Experience Simulator and Multimodal Emotion Estimation System we have developed at “みんなの脳世界2025～超多様～,” which will be held at Tokyo Port City on November 2-3, 2025. Through these exhibits, we aim to help visitors experience firsthand the diversity of human perception and understand how individual sensory differences can be complemented and extended by technologies. We warmly invite […]
Read morePaper authored by Dr. Jiarui Li has been published in PLoS One
A paper authored by Dr. Jiarui Li has been published in PLoS One. It presents that the daily activities of both parents’ and infants’ autonomic nervous system predict the parents’ stress level. Jiarui Li, Michiko Matsunaga, Masako Myowa, and Yukie Nagai, “Mother-child autonomic nervous system interaction as an indication of parental stress: 24-hour cross recurrence plot analysis,” PLoS One 20(9): […]
Read moreAn interview article featuring Project Prof. Yukie Nagai will be published in Information Technology Review
An interview article featuring Project Prof. Yukie Nagai will be published in Information Technology Review (IT批評). The article covers her journey from the initial motivations behind starting research in cognitive developmental robotics to her latest work exploring the diversity of human intelligence.
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