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Kumiyo Nakakoji is the Director at Key Technology Laboratory, Software Research Associates, Inc., Japan. She was Full Professor at Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), University of Tokyo, Japan, where she co-directed the Knowledge Interaction Design Laboratory with Yasuhiro Yamamoto. She received the B.A. degree in computer science from Osaka University, Japan, in 1986, and the M.S. degree in 1990 and the Ph.D. degree in 1993, both in computer science from University of Colorado, Boulder, certified in Institute of Cognitive Science. Her advisor was Gerhard Fischer at the Center for LifeLong Learning and Design. She has served as chairs, editors, and committee members for a number of research communities, journals, and conferences, in the fields of Human-Computer Interaction, Software Engineering, and Design and Creative Knowledge Work Support, both locally and internationally. She was Chair of IPSJ SIGHCI, Japan. She was awarded CHI2002 Recognition Service Award from ACM SIGCHI in 2002, Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award from College of Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, in 2006, and JSAI Distinguished Service Award from the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence in 2010. Her research interests include human-computer interaction design and collective creativity, specifically Knowledge Interaction Design, which is a framework for the design and development of computational tools for creative knowledge work. Her latest work addresses cognitive and social factors of software development as knowledge-intensive collective creative tasks. Key Technology Laboratory,  Software Research Associate (SRA) Inc., Japan

Publications: List of Publication

Keywords: Knowledge Interaction Design Collective Creativity Creative Knowledge Work The-World-of-Making and The-World-of-Using in Software Design Expertise Communication (E-Comm) and Coordination Communication (C-Comm) in Software Development

Professional Activities (partial): ICSE2011, Keynote Speaker ("Interactivity, Continuity, Sketching & Experience") SQiP (Software Quality Symposium) 2011, Keynote Speaker ("The World of Making and the Working of Using in Software Systems" in Japanese) CHI 2008, Papers Associate Chair ICSE 2008 (International Conference on Software Engineering), Program Committee DCC08 (Design Computing and Cognition), Vice Chair ACM Group 2007, Program Committee TABLETOP 2007, Program Committee FSE 2007 (Foundations of Software Engineering), Program Committee ICGSE (International Conference on Global Software Engineering) 2007, Program Committee Creativity and Cognition 2007, Program Committee CHI 2007, Mentoring Cochair ICSE 2007, Program Committee C&T (Communities and Technologies) 2007, Program Committee CHI 2006, Papers Associate Chair IVICA 2006 (Interactive Visual Information Collections and Activity), Program Cochair FSE 2006 (Foundations of Software Engineering), Program Committee ACM Group 2005, Program Committee ACM Hypertext 2005, Spatial Hypertext Theme Chair Community and Technology (C&T 2005), Program Committee IPSJ Interaction 2005, General Chair ICSE 2005, Doctoral Symposium CoChair CHI 2005, Mentoring CoChair CHI 2005, Papers Associate Chair ICSE 2004, Program Committee IUI/CADUI 2004, Program Committee CHI 2003, Workshop Co-Chair FSE 2002, Program Committee CHI 2002, Tutorial Co-Chair Guest Editor, IJHCS, Special Issue on HCI in Japan Guest CoEditor, KBS, Special Issue on Early Stages of Design The Japanese Society for Artificial IntelligenceBoard Member Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) SIGHCI, Chair Creativity and Cognition Studios, University of Technology, Sydney, Partner JST, Special Coordination Funds (SCF) for Promoting Science and Technology Program, Program Officer Human-Computer Interaction Series, Editorial Board

Past Events: Personalized, Task-specific, Ad Hoc Expert Communities for Effective Knowledge Collaboration, Distinguished Speaker Series, ISR (Institute for Software Research), UC Irvine, November 2, 2007. ACM CHI 2007 Workshop on "Converging on a 'Science of Design' through the Synthesis of Design Methodologies" (organized by Gerhard Fischer, Yunwen Ye, Chris DiGiano, Elisa Giaccardi, Kumiyo Nakakoji) at San Jose, California (April 30, 2007) Distinguished Alumni Award Ceremony (April 21, 2006) by College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado at Boulder ACM CHI 2006 Workshop on "'Sketching' Nurturing Creativity: Commonalities in Art, Design, Engineering and Research" (organized by Kumiyo Nakakoji, Atau Tanaka, Daniel Fallman) at Montreal, Canada (April 23, 2006) IEEE ICSE2004 Panel on "Design:Supporting Reflective Practitioners" at Scottland, UK (May 26, 2004) ACM CHI2004 Workshop on "Designing for Reflective Practitioners: Sharing and Assessing Progress by Diverse Communities" (organized by Fischer, Nakakoji, Redmiles, Morch) at Vienna, Austria (April 25, 2004) ACM CHI2003 Workshops at Fort Lauderdale, FL (April 6-7, 2003) KCCC Sympojium "Toward an Innovative Cycle for Knowledge Creation and Communication" (October 10, 2002) A Talk by Prof. Harold Cohen "Making Art for a Changing World" (July 4, 2002) When a Programmer Meets an Interaction Designer: A Case Study on the Interaction-Design Based System Development Project (Slides used at a Lecture at UC Irvine) (Nov, 27, 2001) (PDF, 2.3M) ACM CHI2001 Workshop on Tools, Conceptual Frameworks, and Empirical Studies for Early Stages of Design (April 1/2, 2001) Workshop on Collective Creativity: Cognitive Processes, Computational Support, and Creative Artifacts (August 7, 8, 2000) Workshop on Collective Creativity in Design through Concept Externalization (March 25, 26, 1998) Workshop on Constructing Shared Understanding: Means and Challenges (July 22, 1998) eMMa: A Knowledge-Based Environment for Multimedia Authoring