Kyushu University [Shin'ichi Konomi (Professor) Faculty of Arts and Science, Division for Theoretical Natural Science]

Engaged in interdisciplinary research and education at Faculty of Arts and Science, School of Interdisciplinary Science and Innovation, and Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering.　

Research

Research Interests

Research on Human-Data Interaction
keyword : Data Science, Interaction, Recommender Systems, Information Visualization, Social implications of Big Data Technologies, Mobile Crowdsourcing, Indoor localization, Activity Recognition, RFID Applications, Social Media, Technologies for Supporting Older Ad
2019.04.
Research and development of learning-support environments
keyword : Support for distributed collaborative learning, developing communities, learning analytics, course recommendation systems, XR applications, Intelligent support for programming education
2017.04.

Current and Past Project

Development of flexible techniques for collecting and updating trust networks, and its applications to information sharing systems in local communities
Proposes novel urban sensing method

Academic Activities

Books

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1.	Norbert Streitz, Shin’ichi Konomi, Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions. Smart Environments, Ecosystems, and Cities. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference, DAPI 2022, Held as Part of HCI International 2022, Virtual Event, June 26 - July 1, 2022, Part I, ISBN: 978-3-031-05462-4, Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg, LNCS 13325, XXV+446 pages., Springer, 2022.07.
2.	Norbert Streitz, Shin’ichi Konomi, Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions. Smart Living, Learning, Well-being and Health, Art and Creativity. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference, DAPI 2022, Held as Part of HCI International 2022, Virtual Event, June 26 - July 1, 2022, Part II, ISBN: 978-3-031-05430-3, Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg, LNCS 13326, XXV+428 pages., Springer, 2022.07.
3.	Norbert Streitz, Shin’ichi Konomi, Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference, DAPI 2021, Held as Part of HCI International 2021, Virtual Event, July 24-29, 2021, ISBN: 978-3-030-77014-3, Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg, LNCS 12782, XIX+385 pages., Springer, 2021.07.
4.	Norbert Streitz, Shin’ichi Konomi, Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference, DAPI 2020, Held as Part of HCI International 2020, Online (Copenhagen, Denmark), July 19-24, 2020, Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg., Springer, 2020.07.
5.	Norbert Streitz, Shin’ichi Konomi, Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference, DAPI 2019, Held as Part of HCI International 2019, Orlando, FL, USA, July 26-31, 2019, ISBN 978-3-030-21934-5, Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg, LNCS 11587, 482 pages., Springer, 2019.07.
6.	Norbert Streitz Shin'ichi Konomi, Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions: Understanding Humans. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference, DAPI 2018, Held as Part of HCI International 2018, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 15-20, 2018, Part I, ISBN 978-3-319-91124-3, Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg, LNCS 10921, 469 pages., Springer, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91125-0, 2018.07.
7.	Norbert Streitz Shin’ichi Konomi, Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions: Technologies and Contexts. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference, DAPI 2018, Held as Part of HCI International 2018, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 15-20, 2018, Part II, 2018, ISBN 978-3-319-91130-4, Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg, LNCS 10922, 381 pages., Springer, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91131-1, 2018.07.
8.	Shin'ichi Konomi, George Roussos, Enriching urban spaces with ambient computing, the internet of things, and smart city design, IGI Global, 10.4018/978-1-5225-0827-4, 2016.10, In recent years, the presence of ubiquitous computing has increasingly integrated into the lives of people in modern society. As these technologies become more pervasive, new opportunities open for making citizens' environments more comfortable, convenient, and efficient. Enriching Urban Spaces with Ambient Computing, the Internet of Things, and Smart City Design is a pivotal reference source for the latest scholarly material on the interaction between people and computing systems in contemporary society, showcasing how ubiquitous computing influences and shapes urban environments. Highlighting the impacts of these emerging technologies from an interdisciplinary perspective, this book is ideally designed for professionals, researchers, academicians, and practitioners interested in the influential state of pervasive computing within urban contexts..

Reports

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1.	Jorge Goncalves Simo Hosio Maja Vukovic Shinichi Konomi, Mobile and situated crowdsourcing, International Journal of Human Computer Studies, 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2016.12.001, 2017.06.
2.	George Roussos, Urs Hengartner, Shin'Ichi Konomi, Kay Römer, Editorial, Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 10.1016/j.pmcj.2015.01.008, 2015.01.
3.	George Roussos, Shinichi Konomi, Editorial Ubiquitous computing in the real world, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 10.1007/s00779-006-0113-4, 2007.10.

Papers

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Shin'ichi Konomi Tomoyo Sasao Simo Hosio Kaoru Sezaki, Using Ambient WiFi Signals to Find Occupied and Vacant Houses in Local Communities, Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, Springer., http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12652-018-0899-8, 10, 2, 779-789, 2018.12, In many countries, the population is either declining or rapidly concentrating in big cities, which causes problems in the form of vacant houses. It is often challenging to keep track of the locations and the conditions of vacant houses, and for example in Japan, costly manual field studies are employed to map the occupancy situation. In this paper, we discuss a technique to infer the locations of occupied and vacant houses based on ambient WiFi signals. Our technique collects Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) data based on opportunistic smartphone sensing, constructs hybrid networks of WiFi access points, and analyzes their geospatial patterns based on statistical shape modeling. In situ experiments in two residential neighborhoods show that the proposed technique can successfully detect occupied houses and substantially outperform a simple triangulation-based method in one of the neighborhoods. We also argue that the proposed technique can significantly reduce the cost of field surveys to find vacant houses as the number of potential houses to be inspected decreases..

Tomoyo Sasao Shinichi Konomi Vassilis Kostakos Keisuke Kuribayashi Jorge Goncalves, Community Reminder
Participatory contextual reminder environments for local communities, International Journal of Human Computer Studies, 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2016.09.001, 102, 41-53, 2017.06, Many projects have looked at how communities can co-design shared online repositories, such as Wikimapia and Wikipedia. However, little work has examined how local communities can give advice and support to their members by creating context-aware reminders that may include advice, tips and small requests. We developed the Community Reminder environment, a smartphone-based platform that supports community members to design and use context-aware reminders. We have conducted a one-month field study of Community Reminder to crowdsource and deliver safety-relevant information in a local community. The results show the benefits of involving community members in reminder design and connecting different perspectives. We also show that the proposed approach can broaden participation in local communities..

Presentations

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1.	Shin'ichi Konomi, Learning Analytics for All: Opportunities and Challenges., The 7th Asian Workshop on Smart Sensor Systems, 2019.03.
2.	Shin'ichi Konomi, Technology-Enhanced Learning　Environments for Older Adults, Gerontechnology Symposium 2018, 2018.09.

Membership in Academic Society

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
IEEE Computer Society
Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)
The Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers (IEICE)
The Database Society of Japan (DBSJ)
GIS Association of Japan

Awards

Best Short Paper Award of the 2017 European Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AmI 2017), 26-28,
April, 2017, Malaga, Spain: Shin’ichi Konomi, Tomoyo Sasao, Simo Hosio, Kaoru Sezaki, Exploring the
Use of Ambient WiFi Signals to Find Vacant Houses.

Educational

Educational Activities

Social

Professional and Outreach Activities

Engaged in research and development of learning-support systems in societies.

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