Takuya Iwamoto is a  Human Computer Interaction (HCI) researcher at CyberAgent AI Lab and visiting researcher at Ishiguro Lab, Osaka University (since 2019 Feb). His primary interest is in developing system that supports face to face communication. In his career, Iwamoto has researched Dating service for supporting users, A novel business model and Optimization of matching algorithm.

◆ Main keywords

Trustworthy agent,  Augmentation of face to face communication,  Augmented EnvironmentRational expression of affection

◆Education & Work Experience

Education

• - 2015-Current Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology- PhD in  Knowledge Science
• - 2011-2013 Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology-Master in Knowledge  Science

Work Experience

• - 2017-Current  Cyberagent,inc AI Lab, Research Scientist
• - 2015-2017   mixi,inc , Research Scientist
• - 2014-2015   Rakuten,inc, Assistant Researcher
• - 2013-2014   Richmedia,inc, Project Director

◆Awards

• - CHI2018 Asian CHI Best Demo/Poster Award
• - Yahoo! Hackday “Short List”
• - The Fashion Hack Tokyo “TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION AWARD”
• - Human Comuting Interaction 150 “Students Award"
• - NHK Digital Studium　”Best Prize”
• - 17th Internatonal Virtual Reality Competition “Best Prize”
• - 16th Internatonal Virtual Reality Competition “Kagamigahara mayor awards”
• - Rakuten Technology Conference,Lightning talk “2nd prize”
• - LavalVirtual2009 “3rd Prize”
• - LavalVirtual2010 Awards “Medicine and Health”
• - Entertaiment Computing2008　”KansaiTV awards”
• - JASSO Students of the Year 2011

◆Comitee

• - CCSE 　Orginaiser
• - HCI 研究会
• - WISS
• - IPSJ-ONE
• - NICOGRAPH

◆Papers

• Takuya Iwamoto, Kazutaka Kurihara, Esora Maya and Kazushi Nishimoto AH ’17 Proceedings of the 8th Augmented Human International Conference Article No. 37
• Takuya Iwamoto and Kazushi Nishimoto: A Medium for Short-Distance Lovers That Exploits an Obstructive Function to Draw Them Back to Face-To-Face Communications, The 13th IFAC/IFIP/IFORS/IEA Symposium on Analysis, Design, and Evaluation of Human-Machine Systems, Aug. 30 – Sep. 2, 2016, (Invited Talk)
• Takuya Iwamoto, Soh Masuko , “Lovable Couch: Dispelling Distrustful Feelings for Couples by Displaying Excitation Based on Heartbeat Changes”, Augmented Human 2015.
• Takuya Iwamoto, Shinji Ogura, Yusuke Sasayama, Keita Mura, Yoshitaka Toda, Takayuki Kosaka. -Blowgun system activated by mouth odor- “La flèche de l’odeur” , Laval Virtual International Conference,pp371-374,2009.
• Takuya Iwamoto, Yusuke Sasayama,Mitsuo Motoki,Takayuki Kosaka. “Back to the Mouth” , SIGGRAPH 2009 Emerging Technologies , 2009/8/3 – 8/7.
• Takayuki Kosaka, Yusuke Sasayama, Takuya Iwamoto, Junichi Akita. “Mommy Tummy” Development of a pregnancy experience system. Proceeding of Virtual Reality International Conference(VRIC2010). pp287-290.2010/04/07-09.
• Takayuki Kosaka,Takuya Iwamoto,Robert Songer,Junichi Akita.”Mommy Tummy: A Pregnancy Experience System Simulating Fetal Movement”,SIGGRAPH 2011 Emerging Technologies , 2011/8/9 – 8/11.
• 小坂崇之,岩本拓也,服部元史. 飲食物摂取による口臭変化を入力としたゲームシステムの開発. 日本バーチャルリアリティ学会論文誌，Vol.19, No.1, pp.5-16, 2014.
• Takayuki Kosaka,Takuya Iwamoto:Serious dietary education system for changing food preferences “food practice shooter”,VRIC ’13 Proceedings of the Virtual Reality International Conference: Laval Virtual Article No. 23(2013).