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Hiroyasu Miwa
Hiroyasu Miwa

Affiliation

Research Scientist
Health Technology Team,
Digital Human Research Center,
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

TEL: +81-3-3599-8201
FAX: +81-3-5530-2066
E-Mail: h.miwa@aist.go.jp

Biography

2003.4. - 2004.8    Research Associate of the department of mechanical engineering, Waseda University
2004.9 Ph.D. of Engineering
2004.9 - 2005.3 Visiting Research Associate of Consolidated Research Institute for Advanced Science and Medical Care, Waseda University
2005.4 - Research Scientist of Digital Human Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
2005.4 - 2009.3 Visiting Lecturer of Consolidated Research Institute for Advanced Science and Medical Care, Waseda University
2005.4 - Visiting Researcher of Humanoid Robotics Institute, Waseda University
2009.9 - Visiting Lecturer of Tokyo City University
2010.4 - Research Scientist of Center for Service Research, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

Awards

18th Young Investigation Excellence Awards, 2003

Research Topics

  • Research on the stress sensing (2008-)
  • Development of body-sound sensor
  • Modeling between body-sound and mental stress
  • Research on the mental model of human (2005-)
  • Development of a mental health monitor based on physiological signal measurement using wearable sensors.
  • Debelopment of roll-over detction using wearble accelerometers.
  • Proposal of mental health indice based on the frequency of roll-over.
  • Proposal of Autonomic Nervous System Regularity based on the average and deviation of physiological signals.
  • Long-term measurement and analysis of daily physiological signals and proposed indices of healthy people and patients with MDD.
  • Development of the Emotion Expression Humanoid Robot (2000-2005, Waseda Univ.)
  • Development of Emotion Expression Humanoid Robot WE-4RII, which has sensing ability (visual, auditory, olfactory and tactile sense) and expression ability (facial expression, neck, arms, hands and voice)
  • Proposal of 3D mental space consisting of the pleasantness, activation and certainty axes, the Emotion Vector moving in the mental space according to the second order Equations of Emotion.
  • Introduction of the emotion, mood, personality, learning system, need, consciousness and behavior model to the mental model of WE-4RII
  • Research on the interaction between rat and rat robot (1998 - 1999, Waseda Univ.)
  • Development of small rat robots.

Society Activities

  • Society member
  • The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • The Robotics Society of Japan
  • Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering
  • Japanese Society for Physiological Psychology
  • Society of Biomechanisms Japan
  • IEEE
  • Committee member
  • 2009.4 - Editorial board member of Society of Biomechanisms Japan
  • Organizer
  • JSME Robotics and Mechatronics Conference 2007 (ROBOMEC 2007), Session coordinator "Communication Robot"
  • Digital Human Symposium 2008, Program Co-chair
  • JSME Robotics and Mechatronics Conference 2008 (ROBOMEC 2008), Session coordinator "Communication Robot"
  • JSME Robotics and Mechatronics Conference 2009 (ROBOMEC 2009), Session coordinator "Communication Robot"
  • 2009 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO 2009), Local Arrangements Co-Chair
  • JSME Robotics and Mechatronics Conference 2010 (ROBOMEC 2010), Session coordinator "Communication Robot"