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Ryuichi Otowa, a first-year doctoral student, received the Specialist Committee Recommendation Award for his demo presentation at the EC Symposium 2025.

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Ryuichi Otowa, a first-year doctoral student (Intelligent Information Science field, supervised by Professor Yasuyuki Sumi), received the Recommend Demo Certification (Special Committee Recommendation Award for Demo/Poster Presentation) at the Information Processing Society of Japan EC Symposium 2025.

This award was given to the project selected by the expert committee as an outstanding demonstration from among the 86 demonstration and poster presentations presented at the EC Symposium 2025, hosted by the Information Processing Society of Japan. The judges highly praised the project for demonstrating that the proposed method, which was thought to be effective for beginners of shogi (Japanese chess), was surprisingly even more effective for experienced and skilled shogi players.

The award-winning research findings are as follows:

Otowa Ryuichi, SUMI Yasuyuki: The effect of visualizing the influence of pieces in shogi on shogi skill.
EC Symposium 2025 (Entertainment Computing 2025) August 25, 2025 From August 27th

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