
A paper published by Jun Suzuki, a first-year doctoral student (Intelligent Information Science field, supervisor: Professor Kaoru Sumi), as the lead author, has been released.June 29, 2026 June 29, 2026 It also received the Excellent Work Award from the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence Research Group.
This paper examines the impact of a Mixed Reality agent that understands the real world on users' feelings of loneliness and social presence. An overview of this research is published in the Japanese Journal of Artificial Intelligence, "Artificial Intelligence," Vol. 41, No. 5.June 2026 September, 2026 It is scheduled to be published in the special issue of (number).
The award-winning papers are as follows:
[Excellent Research Award from the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence] Hayato Suzuki, SUMI Kaoru: Verification of the impact of peer agents that understand the real world on feelings of loneliness and social presence, Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Language Engineering Research Group, SIG-LSE-079-04, Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence