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- Idea Generation with Stochastic Methods
- Service Innovation Design
- Education Support
- Idea Creation Support
- Printable Icon
- Desktop for Mobile Agent
- Groupware
- Visual Language
- Windowing System, Multi-font Management System
- ThinkingGarden in ACM MM2012 (at Todaiji Museum, Nara, in 2012)
- ThinkingSketch Project (at 21st Century Museum Of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa in 2006)
- ThinkingSketch Night (at Sendai Mediatheque in 2001)
Yoshiaki Mima is a professor at Future University Hakodate.
Education
PhD in Engineering : Graduate School of Engineering, Chiba University in 2012.
MS : Graduate School of Information Science, University of Tokyo in 1984.
BS : Kyoto University in 1982
Job History
Future University Hakodate:
Professsor in 2013.
Associate professor in 2005.
He joined Future University Hakodate as assistant professor in 2000.
Worked for the Establishment of Future University:
He joined the Hakodate Wide Area Unification to prepare the establishment of Future University Hakodate as a member of planning committee in 1999.
Instractor at Toyo University:
Teached half year course "Special Lecture on Infromation Technology I" in 1998.
IBM Research:
He joined IBM Japan and had been working as a researcher at Tokyo Research Laboratory from 1984. While we worked for IBM, his research interest has been system and application software. He had been also interested in usability of computing system.
Research Interests and Research History
His research interest has been interactive and user friendly computer applications including the field of office document system, collaboration tool, mobile agent system on internet and interactive art.
Publication:
Followings are publications issued in English.
Yoshiaki Mima, Designing User Interface for Algorithmic Design, ALGODE TOKYO 2011, Nov. 2011
Yoshiaki Mima, On Designing "Stochastic Idea Generator", The First International Conference on Design Creativity conference Proceedings, Nov. 2010
Yoshiaki Mima, Kunio Iwata, Misako Nambu, Nam-gyu Kang, Educating Service Innovation Design for Undergraduate Students, 2nd International Service Innovation Design Conference, Oct. 2010
Miki Ito Yokoyama, Kei Ito, Yoshiaki Mima, Sadayoshi Mikami, Making Teaching Visible: Developing a Web-based Course Support System to Facilitate Teaching and Learning Activities, Hawaii International Conference on Education (HICE2006), Jan. 2006
Yoshiaki Mima, Ken-ichi Kimura, Hidekatsu Yanagi, ThinkingSketch - A Proposal for Creation Supporting tool, Hierarchies of Communication pp. 158-175, ZKM, Jul. 2003
Yoshiaki Mima, Kein-ichi Kimura, Hidekatsu Yanagi, ThinkingSketch: A reflection tool for drawing pictures on computer, ADC2001, Oct. 2001
Itiro Siio, Yoshiaki Mima, IconStickers: Converting Computer Icons into Real Paper Icons, Human Computer Interaction '99, Aug. 1999
Yoshiaki Mima, Bali: A Desktop for Mobile Agent, APCHI'98, Jul. 1998
Takashi Sakairi, Itiro Siio, Yoshiaki Mima, Amane Nakajima, Shiro Ando, Yohnosuke Furui, A Remote Multimedia Presentation System Using a Direct Pointing Stick, Proc. IEEE 3rd International Workshop on Robot and Human Communication, Jul. 1994．
Yoshiaki Mima, A Visual Programming Environment for Programming by Example, IEEE Proc. Workshop on Visual Languages, Oct. 1991
Makoto Kobayashi and Yoshiaki Mima, Multi-font Handling for Large Character Set on Workstations, IEEE Office Automation Symposium, Apr. 1987
Art Exhibitions:
After joining Future University Hakodate, he started collaborative work with researchers, who have the back ground of fine arts. Three invited exhibitions have presented.
As a member of ThinkingSketch Unit, he designed and implemented the S/W of the system and the electronic part of H/W. (See also ThinkingSketch site.)
