2026 Michita Imai: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	32	12962	12579	211	202	279	6124

Overview

Michita Imai is a researcher affiliated with Keio University in Japan, specializing primarily in the fields of Computer Science and Psychology. Their scholarly work spans several key subfields, focusing notably on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Social Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction, and Information Systems.

The scientist's research covers multiple main topics, including:

Topic Modeling
Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
Social Robot Interaction and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
Speech and Dialogue Systems
AI in Service Interactions
Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts

Michita Imai has contributed to a variety of publication venues with a notable frequency in:

IEEE Access
arXiv (Cornell University)
Frontiers in Psychology
International Journal of Social Robotics
Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence

The researcher's recent papers include:

"d3rlpy: An Offline Deep Reinforcement Learning Library" (2021), published in arXiv (Cornell University)
"Mask and Cloze: Automatic Open Cloze Question Generation Using a Masked Language Model" (2023), published in IEEE Access
"Effects of appearance and gender on pre-touch proxemics in virtual reality" (2023), published in Frontiers in Psychology
"LatteGAN: Visually Guided Language Attention for Multi-Turn Text-Conditioned Image Manipulation" (2021), published in IEEE Access
"Unified Questioner Transformer for Descriptive Question Generation in Goal-Oriented Visual Dialogue" (2021), published in the 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)

Frequent collaborators with Michita Imai include:

Yosuke Fukuchi
Shoya Matsumori
Kohei Okuoka
Mitsuhiko Kimoto
Masahiko Osawa

Best Publications

Physical relation and expression: joint attention for human-robot interaction

M. Imai;T. Ono;H. Ishiguro

515
Citations
How to Approach Humans?-Strategies for Social Robots to Initiate Interaction-

Satoru Satake;Takayuki Kanda;Dylan F. Glas;Michita Imai

423
Citations
How to approach humans?: strategies for social robots to initiate interaction

Satoru Satake;Takayuki Kanda;Dylan F. Glas;Michita Imai

407
Citations
Robovie: an interactive humanoid robot

Hiroshi Ishiguro;Tetsuo Ono;Michita Imai;Takeshi Maeda

368
Citations
Development and evaluation of an interactive humanoid robot "Robovie"

T. Kanda;H. Ishiguro;T. Ono;M. Imai

355
Citations
Development and evaluation of interactive humanoid robots

T. Kanda;H. Ishiguro;M. Imai;T. Ono

344
Citations
Physical relation and expression: joint attention for human-robot interaction

M. Imai;T. Ono;H. Ishiguro

238
Citations
A hand-pose estimation for vision-based human interfaces

E. Ueda;Y. Matsumoto;M. Imai;T. Ogasawara

189
Citations
How quickly should communication robots respond

Toshiyuki Shiwa;Takayuki Kanda;Michita Imai;Hiroshi Ishiguro

145
Citations
Reading a robot's mind: a model of utterance understanding based on the theory of mind mechanism

Tetsuo Ono;Michita Imai;Ryohei Nakatsu

133
Citations
iRing: intelligent ring using infrared reflection

Masa Ogata;Yuta Sugiura;Hirotaka Osawa;Michita Imai

124
Citations
A humanoid robot that pretends to listen to route guidance from a human

Takayuki Kanda;Masayuki Kamasima;Michita Imai;Tetsuo Ono

121
Citations
Body movement analysis of human-robot interaction

Takayuki Kanda;Hiroshi Ishiguro;Michita Imai;Tetsuo Ono

119
Citations
Providing route directions: design of robot's utterance, gesture, and timing

Yusuke Okuno;Takayuki Kanda;Michita Imai;Hiroshi Ishiguro

117
Citations
SenSkin: adapting skin as a soft interface

Masa Ogata;Yuta Sugiura;Yasutoshi Makino;Masahiko Inami

116
Citations
A constructive approach for developing interactive humanoid robots

T. Kanda;H. Ishiguro;M. Imai;T. Ono

105
Citations
Designing Laser Gesture Interface for Robot Control

Kentaro Ishii;Shengdong Zhao;Masahiko Inami;Takeo Igarashi

104
Citations
TEROOS: a wearable avatar to enhance joint activities

Tadakazu Kashiwabara;Hirotaka Osawa;Kazuhiko Shinozawa;Michita Imai

104
Citations
A Model of Embodied Communications with Gestures between Human and Robots

Tetsuo Ono;Michita Imai;Hiroshi Ishiguro

99
Citations
Humanlike conversation with gestures and verbal cues based on a three-layer attention-drawing model

Osamu Sugiyama;Takayuki Kanda;Michita Imai;Hiroshi Ishiguro

91
Citations
Robot mediated round table: Analysis of the effect of robot's gaze

M. Imai;T. Kanda;T. Ono;H. Ishiguro

84
Citations
SkinWatch: skin gesture interaction for smart watch

Masa Ogata;Michita Imai

79
Citations
Toward a cooperative programming framework for context-aware applications

Bin Guo;Daqing Zhang;Michita Imai

77
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Takayuki Kanda Kyoto University

Hiroshi Ishiguro Osaka University

Norihiro Hagita Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International

Kazuhiro Nakadai Tokyo Institute of Technology

Masahiko Inami University of Tokyo

Daqing Zhang Peking University

Bin Guo Northwestern Polytechnical University

Andrea L. Thomaz The University of Texas at Austin

Jodi Forlizzi Carnegie Mellon University

Tony Belpaeme Ghent University

External Links

Personal website of Michita Imai

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