- Masahide Yuasa, Investigation of the Relationship between Turn-taking Behaviors and Conversational Atmospheres using Virtual Characters, The Transactions of Human Interface Society, 2024 (to appear).
- Masahide Yuasa, Animated Character Tool for Improved Communication with Elderly People with Mild Cognitive Impairment, Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, 2024 (to appear).
- Masahide Yuasa, Do you forgive past mistakes of animated agents? A study of instances of assistance by animated agents, Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 404-412, 2020.
- Masahide Yuasa, Social Skills Training System in Social Settings Using Multiple Animated Characters, In Proc. of SCIS&ISIS2020, pp. 11-14
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- Motoki Sakai, Masaki Shuzo, Masahide Yuasa, Kanae Matsui, Eisaku Maeda, Biological and Behavioral Information-based Method of Predicting Listener Emotions toward Speaker Utterances during Group Discussion, In Proc. of ABC (Activity and Behavior Computing), 26th August, 2020.
- H. Ohmura, T. Shibayama, M. Yuasa, T. Hamano, and R. Nakagawa. Development of a System to Generate Artificial Ambiance based on Entropy, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2018), Vol. 2: HAMT, pp.333-338, Madeira, Portugal, 2018, Jan. DOI: 10.5220/0006730103330338
- Masahide Yuasa, The inference of friendly communicative atmosphere created by geometric shapes, i-Perception, (2017, Nov-Dec; 8(6))
- Masahide Yuasa, Can violation of conversational behavior maintain a sense of unity in informal situations? - A study on perception of conversational behavior using interactive robots/agents -(2018CogSci poster)[ link ]
- Masahide Yuasa, Do you forgive past mistakes of virtual assistant? A study on changing impressions of virtual character when using its assistance multiple times (2017CogSci poster) [ link ]
- ([pdf] = partial translation; Brain Activity During Turn-Taking Using Virtual Characters: An fMRI Study on Humans Interacting with Virtual Characters, IEEJ Transactions on Electronics, Information and Systems, Vol.137 No.5 pp.724–734, 2017.)
- Masahide Yuasa, Conversational Atmosphere Model and Reproduction by Animated Agents, In Proceedings of the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers Conference, Human Communication Group Symposium (Japan), HCG2017. [ pdf ]
- Masahide Yuasa, and Kousuke Nanba, Restaurant-Guide Site Using Atmosphere Expressed by Abstract Characters, IEICE Tech. Rep. (Japan), vol. 117, no. 72, AI2017-6, pp. 25-26, June 2017.
- Masahide Yuasa, and Daiki Morimoto, Do You Follow Angel Agent's Advice? A Pilot Study for Decision Making Support by Multiple Animated Agents, SCIS & ISIS 2016, from August 25 to 28, (2016)
- Masahide YUASA, Hidefumi OHMURA, and Daisuke KATAGAMI, What Creates a Pleasant Mood? Development of an Information Model to Create a Good Mood, HCG2014, 2014 [ pdf ]
- Masahide Yuasa, A Design Method using Cooperative Principle for Conversational Agent, HAI2014, 2014.
- Masahide Yuasa, Can Animated Agents Help us Create Better Conversational Moods? - An Experiment on the Nature of Optimal Conversations -, HCII2014, 8th International Conference, UAHCI 2014, Held as Part of HCI International 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 22-27, 2014, Proceedings, Part IV, pp. 634-640, in "Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Design for All and Accessibility Practice", 2014.
- Yu Kobayashi, Masahide Yuasa, Daisuke Katagami,Development of an interactive digital signage based on F-formation system, iHAI2013, 2013.8
- Masahide Yuasa, Building Table-Talk Agents that Create a Pleasant Atmosphere, HRI 2103 Demonstration Proceedings, 2013 pdf
- Masahide Yuasa, Keiichi Saito and Naoki Mukawa, Brain activity associated with graphic emoticons. The effect of abstract faces in communication over a computer network, Electrical Engineering in Japan, Volume 177, Issue 3, 30 November 2011, Pages: 36-45
- Masahide Yuasa, Keiichi Saito and Naoki Mukawa, Brain activity when reading sentences and emoticons: an fMRI study of verbal and nonverbal communication, Electronics and Communications in Japan, Volume 94, Issue 5, May 2011, Pages: 17-24
- Masahide Yuasa, Keiichi Saito and Naoki Mukawa, Brain activity while reading sentences with kanji characters expressing emotions: an fMRI study on kanji characters expressing "laughter" and "tears", Electronics and Communications in Japan, Volume 94, Issue 5, May 2011, Pages: 1-8
- Masahide Yuasa, Naoki Mukawa. Building of Turn-Taking Avatars that Express Utterance Attitudes - A Social Scientific Approach to Behavioral Design of Conversational Agents-, HCI 2011. pp.101-107, 2011
- Yuasa, Masahide Nishida, Tomohiro Ohyama, Minoru Sera, Tomohiro, Information retrieval system using location and transportation by GPS traces as search criteria, TENCON2011, pp. 221 - 225, 2011
- Masahide Yuasa, Naoki Mukawa, Koji Kimura, Hiroko Tokunaga, Hitoshi Terai, "An Utterance Attitude Model in Human-Agent Communication: From Good Turn-taking to Better Human-Agent Understanding", CHI Extended Abstracts 2010, pp. 3919-3924, (2010)
- Masahide Yuasa, Hiroko Tokunaga and Naoki Mukawa: Autonomous Turn-Taking Agent System based on Behavior Model, HCI International 2009, pp. 368-373, [ springerlink pdf]
- M.Yuasa, N.Mukawa: The Facial Expression Effect of an Animated Agent on the Decisions Taken in the Negotiation Game, CHI Extended Abstracts 2007, pp. 2795-2800, San Jose, California, USA (2007) (portal.acm)
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- Pazilat Rajap, Sanami Nakadai, Masatomo Nishi, Masahide Yuasa, and Naoki Mukawa Impression Design of a Life-like Agent by its Appearance, Facial Expressions, and Gaze Behaviors -Analysis of Agent’s Sidelong Glance-, The 2007 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2007), pp. 2630-2635, Montreal
- M.Yuasa, K.Saito, N.Mukawa: Emoticons Convey Emotions without Cognition of Faces: An fMRI Study, CHI Extended Abstracts 2006, pp. 1565-1570, Montreal, Canada, (2006) (portal.acm) (pdf)
- N.Mukawa, T.Oka, K.Arai, M.Yuasa: What is connected by mutual gaze?: user's behavior in video-mediated communication, CHI Extended Abstracts 2005, pp. 1677-1680, (2005) (portal.acm) (pdf)
- M.Yuasa: A Tool for Using Abstract Faces in Communication over a Computer Network, Proc. of Joint 3rd International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems and 7th International Symposium on advanced Intelligent Systems (SCIS&ISIS 2006), pp. 1573-1577, Japan, (2006)
(Session Best Presentation Award)
- M.Yuasa: Impression Analysis of Animated Agents in Soft Game Theory, Proc. of Joint 3rd International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems and 7th International Symposium on advanced Intelligent Systems (SCIS&ISIS 2006), pp. 1043-1047, Japan, (2006)
- M.Yuasa, M.Ohyama: Support Tool Using Positions of Contents for Voice/Gaze-controlled Browsers, Proc. of Tencon 2005(the IEEE International Region 10 Conference), pp. 636-641, Melbourne , Australia, (2005).
- M.Yuasa: Strategies using Facial Expressions and Gaze Behaviors for Animated Agents, Proc. of The 3rd International Symposium on Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment (AMiRE 2005), pp. 337-343, Fukui, Japan, (2005) (pdf)
- M.Yuasa, S.Miwa, M.Ohyama: Voice-controlled Browser Using Information on the Positions of Words in the Browser Window, Proc. of 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII 2005), Las Vegas, USA, (2005)
- M.Yuasa, Y.Yasumura, K.Nitta, :A Tool for Animated Agents in Network-Based Negotiation, Proc. of 12th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN 2003), pp. 259-264, San Francisco, USA, (2003) (pdf)
- M.Yuasa, Y.Yasumura, K.Nitta, :Negotiation Support Tool Using Emotional Factors, Proc. of IFSA-NAFIPS 2001, pp. 2906-2911, Vancouver, Canada, (2001) (pdf)
- M.Yuasa, Y.Yasumura, K.Nitta, :Giving Advice in Negotiation Using Physiological Information, Proc. of SMC 2000, pp. 248-253, Nashville, USA, (2000) (pdf)
- M.Yuasa, T.Tanaka, Y.Yasumura, K.Nitta: An Online ADR System Using a Tool for Animated Agents, Proc. of SICE Annual Conference, pp. 1940-1945, (2003) (pdf)
- K.Nitta, Y.Yasumura, M.Yuasa, T.Tanaka: An Online Discussion Support System which Promotes Creativity of Legal Minds, Proc. of The IVR World Congress 2003 the Special Workshop 'Artificial Intelligence in Law', pp. 29-32, (2003)
- K.Nitta, Y.Yasumura, M.Yuasa, T.Tanaka: An Online Moot Court System Mediated by an Agent, Proc. of the 9th international conference on Artificial intelligence and law (ICAIL2003), pp. 101-102, (2003)
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