Center of KANSEI Innovation Open Symposium Hiroshima 2016 to be held in January 2017

“Nurturing Mental Wealth – Center of KANSEI Innovation Open Symposium” was held on November 30, 2016 at UDX Theater in Akihabara, Tokyo. We sincerely thank all participants for joining the symposium.

We have decided to hold an open symposium in Hiroshima in January 31, 2017 as well.

As presented in the symposium in Tokyo, we will report our efforts and outcome of the R&D activities for “Phase 1” period, which are the first 3 years of the COI Program (2013 – 2015), and the current status of the social implementation. Some new contents are prepared for Hiroshima, so please join us in Hiroshima.

“Nurturing Mental Wealth – Center of KANSEI Innovation Open Symposium in Hiroshima 2016”

Date and Time:   January 31 Tuesday, 2017 13:00 – 17:00

Venue:                 Satellite Campus Hiroshima

Program:

13:00    Opening Address

              Keiko Aoyama  Vice Executive,

              Office of Industry-Academia-Government and Community Collaboration, Hiroshima University

              Addresses by Guests

              Atsuhito Uemaru  Director, Innovation Promotion Team, Hiroshima Prefecture

              Akira Yokota,     Visionary Leader, Vision 2, COI Stream

13:15 – “Activities and outcome for Phase 1 at the Center of KANSEI Innovation

              Takahide Nozawa, Project Leader, Center of KANSEI Innovation

                                            Technical Supervisor(?) Technical Research Center, Mazda Motor Corporation

              Shigeto Yamawaki, Research Leader, Center of KANSEI Innovation

                                            Professor, Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Hiroshima University

14:30 – Poster Session

15:15 – “Development for Social Implementation at the Center of KANSEI Innovation”

              Kazuo Sakamoto  Social Implementation Team Leader, Center of KANSEI Innovation

                                            Specially Appointed Professor, Hiroshima University

              Nanae Michida    Assistant Manager, Mazda Motor Corporation

15:50  –  Special Lecture

              “Probabilistic user modeling and co-creation of value based on KANSEI information in the age of IoT, Big data and AI

              Yoichi Motomura, Prime Senior Researcher, Artificial Intelligence Research Center

16:50 – Closing address

              Wataru Takada   Executive and Vice President, Hiroshima University