Staff Profile:

Name:

Dr Keiichi Nakata

Job Title:

Reader in Social Informatics

Responsibilities:

Research Coordinator

IRC Postgraduate Research Programme Coordinator

Areas of Interest:

Social informatics, computer-supported cooperative work, human-computer interaction, cognitive systems engineering, information sharing, knowledge management

Research groups / Centres:

Informatics Research Centre

Publications:

Edited Book:

• K. Nakata, H. Yamato (eds), Introduction to Engineered Environments: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Invented Human Environments, University of Tokyo Press (in Japanese), 2006.

Selected Journal Papers/Book Chapters:

• K. Nakata, A Singh (2007) “Collaborative Classification for Group-Oriented Organisation of Search Results”, in D. H. Goh and S. Foo (eds) Social Information Retrieval Systems:: Emerging Technologies and Applications for Searching the Web Effectively, IGI Press, Hershey, PA.
• T.Kanno, K. Nakata, K. Furuta (2006) “A method for conflict detection based on team intention inference”, Interacting with Computers, Vol 18, No. 4, pp.747-769.
• Q. Liu, K. Nakata, K. Furuta (2004) “Making Control Systems Visible”, Cognition, Technology & Work, Vol 6, No. 2, pp.87-106.
• T.Kanno, K. Nakata, K. Furuta (2003) “A method for team intention inference”, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Vol 58, No. 4, pp.393-413.
• Q. Liu, K. Nakata, K. Furuta (2002) “Display Design of Process Systems Based on Functional Modelling”, Cognition, Technology & Work, Vol 4, No. 1, pp.48-63.
• K. Nakata (2001) “Enabling Public Discourse”. In T. Terano, T. Nishida, A. Namatame, S. Tsumoto, Y. Ohsawa, T. Washio (eds) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2253, Springer, pp.59-66.
• K. Nakata (2000) “Social Aspects of Knowledge and Memory”, Problems of Nonlinear Analysis in Engineering Design, Vol.1(11), No.6, pp.88-93.
• Voss, K. Nakata, M. Juhnke (2000) “Concept Indexes: Sharing Knowledge from Documents”, in Internet-Based Organizational Memory and Knowledge Management. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing, pp. 123-146.
• K. Nakata (1999) “Knowledge as a Social Medium”, New Generation Computing, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp.395—405.

For a complete list of publications, please click here.

Qualifications:

• The University of Tokyo, Japan: B.Eng. (1988), M.Eng. (1990), Nuclear Engineering.
• The University of Edinburgh, UK: PhD(1995), Artificial Intelligence.

Affiliations:

• MBCS,
• Member of ACM, IPSJ, JSAI

Selected Past Research Grants and Projects:

• KDDI FTTH Trial (March – September 2002) Fiber-To-The-Home Trial hosted by KDDI Telecom (Japan).
• Kototoi Project (2000—2003) High Performance Information Mobility Project. JST Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST) Program, Japan.
• Conversational Intelligence Project (2000—2001) Engineering Approaches to Conversational Intelligence. JSPS Research of the Future Program (feasibility study), Japan.
• EPISODE Project (2000—2002) Enhancing Public Understanding by Integrated Social Deliberation Environment. JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research Basic Research, Japan.
• AgentLink (1999—2000) European Commission IST Network of Excellence for Agent-Based Computing.
• British Telecom Short Term Research Fellowship (1997)