Conversational Informatics: An Engineering Approach

Toyoaki Nishida is Professor, Department of Intelligence Science and Technology, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University. His research centers on artificial intelligence and human computer interaction.?He leads several projects, including a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science project on intelligent media technology for supporting natural communication between people, and The Research Institute of Science and Technology for Society project on conversational knowledge process for risk communication.?He is editorial board member of publications including New Generation Computing, Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Knowledge and Information Systems, Web Intelligence and Agent Systems, and Springer Series on Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing.?He is a founder of a series of international workshops on social intelligence design, originating in JSAI-Synsophy International Workshop on Social Intelligence Design (SID2001), May 2001.