Faculty Introduction

SAKAIDA, Rui

Associate Professor
Research Fields
Cognitive Science in the Field, Ethnomethodology, Interaction Analysis, Communication Design
Academic Background
Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Subjects in Charge (Undergraduate)
Information Design 1, Information Design Practice 1, User Centered Design, User Centered Design Practice, Cognitive Science, Modern Design, Communication Theory, Systems Information Science Practice, Graduate Study
Subjects in Charge (Graduate School)
Field Research Methods for Design Work
Degree
Ph.D.

Message for Students

Try to find a seed of research in your everyday life.

Research Contents

My research deals with the multimodal organization of face-to-face interaction, drawing on ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. I am interested in embodiment, sensoriality, and mobility of social interaction in various settings such as collaborative cooking, dental examinations, guided tours in a science museum, Orientation and Mobility training for the visually impaired, and preparation for a traditional festival.

Attractive Factors of My Research

By observing social interaction in our everyday lives in a fine-grained way, we can notice how flexibly our body deals with the situation. The findings will tell us the way we can design what makes our life better.

Major Books and Papers

  • Due, B. L., Sakaida, R., Nisisawa, H. Y., & Minami, Y. (2023). From embodied scanning to tactile inspections: When visually impaired persons exhibit object understanding. In Due, B. L. (Ed.), The Practical Accomplishment of Everyday Activities Without Sight (Directions in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis). Routledge.
  • Bono, M., Sakaida, R., Ochiai, K., & Fukushima, S. (2023). Intersubjective understanding in finger braille interpreter-mediated interaction: Two case studies of other-initiated repair. Lingua, 291.
  • Sakaida, R., & Bono, M. (2021). Finger braille interpreters’ work of communicating multimodality to the deafblind. Japanese Journal of Qualitative Psychology, 20, S118–S124. (in Japanese)
  • Sakaida, R., Bono, M., & Makino, R. (2020). Organizing ‘walking to the next’ during interaction: Science communicators’ embodied practices of guiding visitors to successive exhibits. Japanese Journal of Qualitative Psychology, 19, 7‒25. (in Japanese)
  • Sakaida, R., & Suwa, M. (2016). To be recipient or object: The conflict and mutual coordination of participation status in dental interaction. Japanese Journal of Language in Society, 19 (1), 70‒86. (in Japanese)
  • Sakaida, R., & Suwa, M. (2015). Interaction through observing each other’s body in table cooking: The organization of “implicit collaboration”. Cognitive Studies, 22 (1), 110‒125. (in Japanese)
  • Sakaida, R., Kato, F., & Suwa, M. (2014). How do we talk in table cooking?: Overlaps and silence appearing in embodied interaction. In Nakano, Y., Satoh, K., & Bekki, D. (Eds.), New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: JSAI-isAI 2013 Workshops, LENLS, JURISIN, MiMI, AAA, and DDS, Kanagawa, Japan, October 27-28, 2013, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 8417, 249‒266, Springer International Publishing.