SID2006

SID 2006: Social Intelligence Design 2006
(March 24-26, 2006 @ Osaka)

Finished with huge success! Thank you very much for your participation!!

SID 2006 is the fifth International Workshop Series on Social Intelligence Design focused on the impact and significance of information technology in our lives, work, home, and on the move. In this workshop we consider Social Intelligence (SI) as the ability for people to relate to, understand and interact effectively with others. The central question is how SI is mediated through the use of emerging technologies.

We focus on three key factors in SID2006:

+Development, operation, and evaluation of support systems or tools for SID
+Observation and modeling of psychological and behavioral processes of e-community
+Social intelligence design by pilot program and computer-aided simulation.

We would like to emphasize the role of SID2006 as a junction between engineering researchers and social scientists and for both productive research activities and significant social contributions under a common goal for exploring SID in our real world. If engineering researchers and social scientists know needs and seeds of their research each other, there would emerge a new idea, which leads to novel "social intelligence" as unique research findings. So far at least engineering researchers have tended to look at only system or product design, whereas social scientists have tended to only look at mental or behavioral modeling for individual or interpersonal behavior mostly in lab experiment. Based on robust achievement of our these previous studies, now is the time to apply them to our real world and explore a new research development by measuring and analyzing actual social phenomenon.

CONFERENCE VENUE:

Osaka University Nakanoshima Center (Lecture Room 3 on the 7th floor)
4-3-53 Nakanoshima Kita Osaka, 530-0005, JAPAN
Access Map

Nakanoshima, which is located in the center of Osaka city, is a green island in a beautiful water surroundings. It is called "the Heart of Osaka." Indeed, the Osaka city is now making this area a center for international cultural and business. [Web] http://www.osaka-saisei.jp/eng/town/nakanoshima-1.html

REGISTRATION:

Registration Fee until February 25, 2006 - $ 280 (30,000 yen for Japanese)
Registration Fee after February 25, 2006 - $ 320 (35,000 yen for Japanese)

Chair:

Asako Miura (Kobe Gakuin University, Japan)

Co-Chairs:

Toyoaki Nishida (Kyoto University, Japan)
Anton Nijholt (University of Twente, the Netherlands)
Naohiro Matsumura (Osaka University, Japan)

Committee members:

Shintaro Azechi (Asahi University, Japan)
Alain Cardon (Paris VI University, France)
Laurent Denoue (FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc., USA)
Tom Erickson (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Nobuhiko Fujihara (Naruto University of Education, Japan)
Karamjit Gill (University of Brighton, UK)
Joseph Goguen (University of California at San Dieco, USA)
Kyoko Ito (Osaka University, Japan)
Gloria Mark (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Hiroaki Morio (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Keiichi Nakata (International University in Germany)
Ikki Ohmukai (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Yukio Ohsawa (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Claudio Pinhanez (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Jeremy Pitt (Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, UK)
Warren Sack (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
Hiroko Shoji (Chuo University, Japan)
David Silver (University of Washington, USA)
Oliviero Stock (ITC-irst, Centro per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Italy)
Yasuyuki Sumi (Kyoto University, Japan)
Hideaki Takeda (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
John C. Thomas (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA)
Bill Tomlinson (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Koji Yamashita (The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)
Julita Vassileva (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)

Advisory Committee

Renate Fruchter (Stanford University, USA)
Duska Rosenberg (University of London, United Kingdom)
Osamu Katai (Kyoto University, Japan)

Invited Speakers:

Dr. Tom Erickson (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
'Social' Systems: Designing Digital Systems that Support Social Intelligence

Dr. Tom Erickson is an interaction designer and researcher in the Social Computing Group at IBM's Watson Labs in New York to which he telecommutes from his home in Minneapolis. He has been at IBM since June '97; before that he spent nine years in Apple's research group, and before that five years in a now-defunct startup called Software Products International. His research focuses on designing systems that enable groups of people to interact coherently and productively over networks.

Dr. Tomio Kinoshita (International Institute for Advanced Studies, Japan)
From IQ to Social Intelligence

Dr. Tomio Kinoshita is one of the most famous psychologists in Japan. He is now a fellow of International Institute for Advanced Studies and a professor emeritus of Kyoto University. He is a former president of Koshien University, a former president of the Japanese Society of Social Psychology, and a former president of the Society for Risk Analysis: Japan-Section. His main research fields are social psychology and risk science.

Dr. Hisao Nojima (Seijo University, Japan)
Cognitive Science at Home: From everyday things to our social world

Dr. Hisao Nojima was born in Urawa, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. He graduated from the University of Tokyo with an MA in Social Psychology in 1981 and a PhD in Information Science in 2003. From 1983 to 2005, he worked at NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone) Basic Research Laboratories as a senior researcher. He is currently a professor in the Faculty of Social Innovation, Seijo University. His major interests include the cognitive and social aspects of expertise and personal memories.

Presenters and Presentation Titles:

Long Presentations(1st author and title):

Yoshika Aoki
Students' Consciousness for Effectiveness of Learning Experiences in Information Education

Shintaro Azechi
Communication among Distance Areas with Alternative Media "POC" (2) : Cultural Representations Varying through the Practices

Nobuhiko Fujihara
Mutual Understanding among Distance Communities with Alternative Medium "POC" and Learning of Literacies by Participating University Students

Kaichiro Furutani
Effects of Internet use on Self-efficacy - A study of the mediation of cognition of network changing possibility -

Elena S. Mikhaylova
A time to gather stones together: integrative modelling of social intelligence

Yasser F. O. Mohammad
Interactive Perception for Amplification of Intended Behavior in Complex Noisy Environments

Jun Moriyama
Relationships between Students' Self-Efficacy and their Abilities for Information Utilizing - In case of junior high school students -

Akira Notsu
Visualization of Balancing Systems Based on Naive Psychological Approaches

Taku Ohya
Towards Robot as an Embodied Knowledge Medium -Having a robot talk to humans using nonverbal communication means

Rutger Rienks
Pro-active Meeting Assistants: Attention Please!

Kana Suzuki
An exploratory study for analyzing interactional processes of group discussion: the case of a focus group interview

Yong Xu
WOZ Experiments for Understanding Mutual Adaptation

Short Presentations(1st author and title):

Atsuo Hazeyama
Toward Constructing Social Intelligence in Software Engineering Project Course

Takashi Hattori
A Constructive Ontology and its Application to Everyday-life Support in Socio-ubiquitous Environments

Akinori Kageyama
ToDo List Reusing in Ad-hoc Group Activities

Takayoshi Kawai
Building local community by actively using ICT- e-community SHIMADA -

Hiroaki Morio
How anonymous are you online? Cultural influence on motivation and goals with online social interaction

Ruediger Oehlmann
Social Intelligence in Open Meeting Scenarios: The Early Stage of Group Formation

Yoshimasa Ohmoto
The real-time system of measuring gaze direction and facial features, and use of the system for discriminating lies

Matthew J. Pelowski
THE PARABLE OF ELIZA: A MODEL OF AESTHETIC RESPONSE TO FAILED SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS

Adam Serag
Development of Architectural Education by Evolutionary Computation

Masanori Shimamoto
Influence for Feeling of Agency by Mutual Coordination of Interaction Pattern

Hiroko Shoji
A System That Facilitates Creative Decision-making in Career Design

Kateryna Tarasenko
Dynamic Bayesian Networks for modelling of alignment and mutual adaptation with Communicative Robots by diverse nonverbal information

AI & Society special issue on

Social Intelligence Design: A junction between engineering and social science

Guest Editor: Asako Miura and Naohiro Matsumura

will be published on AI & Society. This special issue includes 11 selected and peer-reviewed papers from SID2006.

List of papers in special issue

Asako Miura and Naohiro Matsumura
Editorial

Thomas Erickson
'Social' systems: Designing digital systems that support social intelligence

Yassor F. O. Mohammad and Toyoaki Nishida
Interactive perception for amplification of intended behavior in complex noisy environments

Yoshihisa Ohmoto, Kazuhiro Ueda, and Takehiko Ohno
Real-time system for measuring gaze direction and facial features: Towards automatic discrimination of lies using diverse nonverbal information

Yong Xu, Kazuhiro Ueda, Takanori Komatsu, Takeshi Okadome, Takashi Hattori, Yasuyuki Sumi, and Toyoaki Nishida
WOZ experiments for understanding mutual adaptation

Rutger Rienks, Anton Nijholt, and Paulo Barthelmess
Pro-active meeting assistants: Attention please!

Kana Suzuki, Ikuyo Morimoto, Etsuo Mizukami, Hiroko Otsuka, and Hitoshi Isahara
An exploratory study for analyzing interactional processes of group discussion: The case of a focus group interview

Kaichiro Furutani, Tetsuro Kobayashi, and Mitsuhiro Ura
Effects of Internet use on self-efficacy: Perceived Network-changing possibility as a mediator

Hiroko Shoji, Kazunori Fujimoto, and Koishi Hori
PLASIU: A system that facilitates creative decision-making in job-hunting

Akira Notsu, Hidetomo Ichihashi, Katsuhiro Honda, and Osamu Katai
Visualization of balancing systems based on naïve psychological approaches

Hiroaki Morio and Christopher Buchholz
How anonymous are you online?: Examining online social behaviors from a cross-cultural perspective

Jun Moriyama, Yasushi Kato, Yoshika Aoki, Akihito Kito, Maryam Behnoodi, Youichi Miyagawa, and Masashi Matsuura
Self-efficacy and learning experience of information education

If you would like to know about SID in detail, please visit another website: http://www.ii.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/sid/

Background

This is the fifth workshop on the subject of social intelligence design. The papers accepted for this workshop will be collected and published on the SID2006 Web site. Selected papers will be considered for publication in a special Journal issue.

The first workshop SID2001, held in Matsue, Japan in 2001, in conjunction with the annual JSAI Conference. SID2001 established a forum for key themes in this area, such as, how new technologies mediate human communication and collaboration across geographical and cultural divides. The workshop papers can be viewed on the website. Selected papers from the first SID workshop of the Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence were published in Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence LNAI 2253: "New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence", edited by Terano, Nishida, Namatame, Tsumoto, Ohsawa, and Washio, Springer Verlag, December 2001. [Web] http://www.ii.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/sid/sid2001/

The second workshop was held at the Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom in 2003. Selected papers were published in a special issue of the AI & Society Journal 2004, edited by Renate Fruchter, Duska Rosenberg, and Toyoaki Nishida. [Web] http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Management/News-and-Events/conferences/SID2003

The third workshop was organized under the auspices of the Centre of Telematics and Information Technology (CTIT) of the University of Twente and Human Media Interaction group of the CTIT. Selected papers are being published in a special issue of the AI & Society Journal 2005. [Web] http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/Conferences/sid04/sid04.html

The fourth workshop was held at Stanford University, CA, USA. [Web] http://pbl.stanford.edu/News/SID2005.html