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Hironobu Takagi is affiliated with IBM in the United States and has contributed extensively to research across several interconnected fields. Their work primarily spans Engineering, Neuroscience, and Computer Science, with focused subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Social Psychology, Building and Construction, and Human-Computer Interaction.

The research conducted by Takagi emphasizes topics such as tactile and sensory interactions, smart parking systems, human-automation interaction and safety, video surveillance and tracking methods, older adults driving studies, evacuation and crowd dynamics, and social robot interaction and human-robot interaction.

Takagi's recent publications demonstrate a strong orientation toward assistive technologies and human interaction with automated systems. The following papers highlight key contributions:

  • Guiding Blind Pedestrians in Public Spaces by Understanding Walking Behavior of Nearby Pedestrians, 2020, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
  • Corridor-Walker: Mobile Indoor Walking Assistance for Blind People to Avoid Obstacles and Recognize Intersections, 2022, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • How Users, Facility Managers, and Bystanders Perceive and Accept a Navigation Robot for Visually Impaired People in Public Buildings, 2022, 2022 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)
  • Using Speech Data From Interactions With a Voice Assistant to Predict the Risk of Future Accidents for Older Drivers: Prospective Cohort Study, 2021, Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • ChitChatGuide: Conversational Interaction Using Large Language Models for Assisting People with Visual Impairments to Explore a Shopping Mall, 2024, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Among Takagi's frequent coauthors are Seita Kayukawa, Chieko Asakawa, Shigeo Morishima, Masaki Kuribayashi, and Daisuke Sato. Together, their collaboration has produced multiple publications within venues prominent in human-computer interaction and assistive technology domains.

Takagi's research has been published in venues such as:

  • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
  • 2022 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)
  • Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Best Publications

  • Optimal Transmission Ranges for Randomly Distributed Packet Radio Terminals

    H. Takagi;L. Kleinrock

  • NavCog: a navigational cognitive assistant for the blind

    Dragan Ahmetovic;Cole Gleason;Chengxiong Ruan;Kris Kitani

  • Throughput Analysis for Persistent CSMA Systems

    H. Takagi;L. Kleinrock

  • System and method for information access

    Hironobu Takagi;Chieko Asakawa

  • NavCog3: An Evaluation of a Smartphone-Based Blind Indoor Navigation Assistant with Semantic Features in a Large-Scale Environment

    Daisuke Sato;Uran Oh;Kakuya Naito;Hironobu Takagi

  • Accessibility designer: visualizing usability for the blind

    Hironobu Takagi;Chieko Asakawa;Kentarou Fukuda;Junji Maeda

  • Annotation-based transcoding for nonvisual web access

    Chieko Asakawa;Hironobu Takagi

  • Analysis of navigability of Web applications for improving blind usability

    Hironobu Takagi;Shin Saito;Kentarou Fukuda;Chieko Asakawa

  • Social accessibility: achieving accessibility through collaborative metadata authoring

    Hironobu Takagi;Shinya Kawanaka;Masatomo Kobayashi;Takashi Itoh

  • XPath evaluation method, XML document processing system and program using the same

    Hiroaki Nakamura;Hironobu Takagi;Madoka Yuriyama

  • Site-wide annotation: reconstructing existing pages to be accessible

    Hironobu Takagi;Chieko Asakawa;Kentarou Fukuda;Junji Maeda

  • Smartphone-based Indoor Localization for Blind Navigation across Building Complexes

    Masayuki Murata;Dragan Ahmetovic;Daisuke Sato;Hironobu Takagi

  • System and media for simplifying web contents, and method thereof

    Hironobu Takagi;Chieko Asakawa

  • Transcoding proxy for nonvisual web access

    Hironobu Takagi;Chieko Asakawa

  • Maximum listening speeds for the blind

    Chieko Asakawa;Hironobu Takagi;Shuichi Ino;Tohru Ifukube

  • Making multimedia content accessible for screen reader users

    Hisashi Miyashita;Daisuke Sato;Hironobu Takagi;Chieko Asakawa

  • Characteristics of Elderly User Behavior on Mobile Multi-touch Devices

    Susumu Harada;Daisuke Sato;Hironobu Takagi;Chieko Asakawa

  • NavCog3 in the Wild: Large-scale Blind Indoor Navigation Assistant with Semantic Features

    Daisuke Sato;Uran Oh;João Guerreiro;Dragan Ahmetovic

  • Output Processes in Contention Packet Broadcasting Systems

    H. Takagi;L. Kleinrock

  • Achieving Practical and Accurate Indoor Navigation for People with Visual Impairments

    Dragan Ahmetovic;Masayuki Murata;Cole Gleason;Erin Brady

  • Aibrowser for multimedia: introducing multimedia content accessibility for visually impaired users

    Hisashi Miyashita;Daisuke Sato;Hironobu Takagi;Chieko Asakawa

Frequent Co-Authors

Chieko Asakawa
Chieko Asakawa Carnegie Mellon University
Kris M. Kitani
Kris M. Kitani Carnegie Mellon University
Leonard Kleinrock
Leonard Kleinrock University of California, Los Angeles
Masayuki Murata
Masayuki Murata Osaka University
Michitaka Hirose
Michitaka Hirose University of Tokyo
Jeffrey P. Bigham
Jeffrey P. Bigham Carnegie Mellon University

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