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Overview

Kentaro Toyama is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research intersects primarily with Social Sciences and Computer Science, including significant contributions in the subfields of Human-Computer Interaction, Sociology and Political Science, Information Systems, Communication, and Mechanical Engineering.

The scientist's work focuses on a range of topics including:

  • Social Media and Politics
  • Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
  • Design Education and Practice
  • Digital Economy and Work Transformation
  • Sharing Economy and Platforms
  • ICT in Developing Communities
  • Media, Religion, Digital Communication

Toyama has published frequently in venues such as Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, interactions, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts, Journal of Development Economics, and Journal of Mechanical Design.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Toyama include:

  • "Integrating Religion, Faith, and Spirituality in HCI" (2022) in CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts
  • "Incorporating Contextual Factors Into Engineering Design Processes: An Analysis of Novice Practice" (2022) in Journal of Mechanical Design
  • "Improving smallholder agriculture via video-based group extension" (2024) in Journal of Development Economics
  • "The burdens and the benefits: Socio-economic impacts of mobile phone ownership in Tanzania" (2021) in World Development Perspectives
  • "Gig Platforms as Faux Infrastructure: A Case Study of Women Beauty Workers in India" (2022) in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Frequent collaborators include Grace Burleson, Kathleen H. Sienko, Tushi Baul, Dean Karlan, and Kathryn Vasilaky, reflecting ongoing partnerships in interdisciplinary research.

Best Publications

  • Region filling and object removal by exemplar-based image inpainting

    A. Criminisi;P. Perez;K. Toyama

  • Wallflower: principles and practice of background maintenance

    K. Toyama;J. Krumm;B. Brumitt;B. Meyers

  • Digital photography with flash and no-flash image pairs

    Georg Petschnigg;Richard Szeliski;Maneesh Agrawala;Michael Cohen

  • Object removal by exemplar-based inpainting

    A. Criminisi;P. Perez;K. Toyama

  • Geographic location tags on digital images

    Kentaro Toyama;Ron Logan;Asta Roseway

  • Image exchange with image annotation

    Kentaro Toyama;David Vronay;Padmanabhan Anandan

  • System and method for exchanging images

    Kentaro Toyama;David Vronay;Padmanabhan Anandan

  • Digital Green: Participatory video for agricultural extension

    R. Gandhi;R. Veeraraghavan;K. Toyama;V. Ramprasad

  • Critical Race Theory for HCI

    Ihudiya Finda Ogbonnaya-Ogburu;Angela D.R. Smith;Alexandra To;Kentaro Toyama

  • Text-Free User Interfaces for Illiterate and Semi-Literate Users

    Indrani Medhi;Aman Sagar;Kentaro Toyama

  • Probabilistic tracking in a metric space

    K. Toyama;A. Blake

  • Project lachesis: Parsing and modeling location histories

    Ramaswamy Hariharan;Kentaro Toyama

  • Designing mobile interfaces for novice and low-literacy users

    Indrani Medhi;Somani Patnaik;Emma Brunskill;S.N. Nagasena Gautama

  • Technology as amplifier in international development

    Kentaro Toyama

  • Intermediated technology use in developing communities

    Nithya Sambasivan;Ed Cutrell;Kentaro Toyama;Bonnie Nardi

  • Gaze awareness for video-conferencing: a software approach

    J. Gemmell;K. Toyama;C.L. Zitnick;T. Kang

  • X Vision

    Gregory D. Hager;Kentaro Toyama

  • A comparison of mobile money-transfer UIs for non-literate and semi-literate users

    Indrani Medhi;S.N. Nagasena Gautama;Kentaro Toyama

  • Mobile phones and paper documents: evaluating a new approach for capturing microfinance data in rural India

    Tapan S. Parikh;Paul Javid;K Sasikumar;Kaushik Ghosh

  • Information and Communication Technologies for Development: The Bottom of the Pyramid Model in Practice

    Renee Kuriyan;Isha Ray;Kentaro Toyama

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven M. Drucker
Steven M. Drucker Microsoft (United States)
Gregory D. Hager
Gregory D. Hager Johns Hopkins University
Edward Cutrell
Edward Cutrell Microsoft (United States)
Maneesh Agrawala
Maneesh Agrawala Stanford University
Sumit Basu
Sumit Basu Microsoft (United States)
Andrew D. Wilson
Andrew D. Wilson Microsoft (United States)
Ravin Balakrishnan
Ravin Balakrishnan University of Toronto
Andrew Blake
Andrew Blake University of Cambridge
Lakshminarayanan Subramanian
Lakshminarayanan Subramanian New York University
Eric Horvitz
Eric Horvitz Microsoft (United States)

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