Publications of Yohei Kurata

2019

• Tatsunori Hara, Ho Quang Bach,Yohei Kurata (2019)Inflastructuralization and Social Implementation of Tour planning service: publication of technologiesfor tourism destinatoins and API its application Study.to appear in 16th Conference of Society for Tourism Informatic,Yonago,Jun.2019 (in Japanese)
• Tatsunori Hara,Ho Quang Bach,Ryo Miyamoto,Takashi Aoike,Jun Ota,Yohei Kurata(2019):Evaluation and Development Of a Method for Supporting Tour Planning considering City strolling.19th Research Conf. of STI, pp.16-19, Tokyo，Jun.2019 (in Japanese)Awarded.

2018

• Yuki,Okano,Yohei Kurata，Taketo Naoi(2018Effects of Tourist Experiences on Destination Attachment.Journal of Japan Institute of Tourism Research(TheTourism Studies) Vol.30(1), pp.5-18,Sep.2018
• Tatsunori　Hara,Yasutaka, Yohei Kurata, Jun Ota(2018)A method for anlyzing the tourism characteristics of regions making use of computationaltechiniques of Recommending tour plans.Tourism and Informatics,14, pp.59-70,July,2018．(in Japanese).
• in Yukio Sadahiro, Ikuho Yamada,Norimitsu Ishii(eds.)（2018）Intoroduction to Spatial AnalysisChapter 4.3 Behaviour Analysis of Tourists and Spatial AnalysisAsakura Shoten　Aug,2018(in Japanese).
Takashi Aoike, Ho Ho Quang Bach, Jun Ota, Tatsunori Hara(2018)Development of an interactive computer-aided tour planning method providing crowdness information．15th Research Conf. of STI, Sapporo, Feb 2018 (in Japanese)，pp.31-32，2018, Izuka,Japan．

2017

• Kazuki Fujii, Hidetsugu Nanba, Toshiyuki Takezawa, Aya Ishino, Manabu Okumura, and Yohei Kurata (2017) Automatic Identification of Attributes of Travel Blog Entries for Travellers' Behaviour Analysis. Tourism and Information, 13, 83-96 (in Japanese).
• Shohei Suzuki and Yohei Kurata (2017) An Analysis of Characteristics of Tourism Destination using User Profile of Twitter. Tourism and Information, 13, 39-52 (in Japanese).
• Tatsunori Hara, Yohei Kurata, and Ho Quang Bach (2017) Infrastucture Development of Tourism Planning Service and its Social Development. To appear in 14th Conference of Society for Tourism Informatics, Shizuoka, 29-30, July 2017 (in Japanese).
• Yohei Kurata and Shohei Suzuki (2017) Tourism Consumption Behavior of​Foreign Visitors to Japan Accompanying a Volunteer Guide in Tokyo Area. To appear in 14th Conference of Society for Tourism Informatics, Shizuoka, 5-6, July 2017 (in Japanese). Research Award  
• Shohei Suzuki and Yohei Kurata(2017) An Analysis of People's Reactions to Tourist Information on Facebook: Focusing on Viewers' Emotion. To appear in 14th Conference of Society for Tourism Informatics, Shizuoka, 41-42, July 2017 (in Japanese).  
• Shohei Suzuki, Yuki Yubune, Ryo Miyasaka, and Yohei Kurata (2017) What Roles Do Night-time Photos Play in Hotel Booking Sites?. 15th Research Conf. of STI, Sapporo, May 2017 (in Japanese).  
• Tatsunori Hara, Yasutaka Shinagawa, Yohei Kurata, and Jun Ota (2017) Awareness and Configuration Support of Regional Tourism Using Recommendation Technologies of Tour Plans.15th Research Conf. of STI, Sapporo, May 2017 (in Japanese). Research Award
• Shohei Suzuki, Shoichi Morimoto, and Yohei Kurata (2017) A Study on Internal Marketing Activities to Improve the Value of Destination. International Journal of Tourism Science, 10(3), 31-38.
• Yohei Kurata, Fu Sanada, Shohei Suzuki, and Hiroshi Ishikawa (2017) A Trial of Map Creation for Special Interest Travelers Making Use of Flickr and Google Cloud Vision API. DEIM2017, Takayama, Japan, PDF, March 2017 (in Japanese).  
• Shohei Suzuki, Yohei Kurata, and Hiroshi Ishikawa, Detection of Official Accounts in Twitter using its User Profile Data and Analysis of Follower Organization Patterns. DEIM2017, Takayama, Japan, PDF, March 2017 (in Japanese).  
• Yohei Kurata and Tatsunori Hara (2017) CT-Planner's Support of Destinations in Tokai Area and its Improvement. 3rd Meeting of Society for Tourism Informatics - Tokai, Hamamatsu, Japan, 19-22, Feb. 2017 (in Japanese).
 
• Shohei Suzuki, Yuki Yubune, Ryo Miyasaka, and Yohei Kurata (2017) What Kind of Photos are Used in Online Accomodation Booking Sites?: An Analysis for Accommodation in Tokai Area. 3rd Meeting of Society for Tourism Informatics - Tokai, Hamamatsu, Japan, 15-18, Feb. 2017 (in Japanese).  
• Kaho Toyoshima and Yohei Kurata (2017) A Proposal of Broadcasting Flow and Contents for Digital Sinages to Support Tourists and Foreigners in Disaster. 3rd Meeting of Society for Tourism Informatics - Tokai, Hamamatsu, Japan, 11-14, Feb. 2017 (in Japanese).  
• Shohei Suzuki and Yohei Kurata (2017) An Analysis of Tweets by Local Mascot Characters for Regional Promotions, called Yuru-charas, and Their Followers in Japan. ENTER2017, Rome, Jan. 2017.  

2016

• Tatsunori Hara, Kazuhiro Aoyama, Yohei Kurata, and Naoto Yabe (2016)Service Design in Tourism: Encouraging a Cooperative Relationship Between Professional Design and Non-professional Design. Stephen K. Kwan, James C. Spohrer, Yuriko Sawatani (Eds.) Global Perspectives on Service Science: Japan, 119-135.
• Yohei Kurata (2016)Daredemo-Guide!: A Web-based Tool Which Enables Publication of Student-Designed Sightseeing Courses as a Style of Virtual Tours. 31th JITR Annual Conference, Nagareyama, Japan, CD-ROM (in Japanese).  
• Yasutaka Shinagawa・Yohei Kurata, Jun Ota, and Tatsunori Hara (2016) Development of Information Infrastructure for Supporting Citizen-oriented Tourism Development Using Computational Techniques of Tour Plan Recommendation. 14th Research Conf. of STI, 24-27, Izuka, Fukuoka, Nov. 2016 (in Japanese) Student Research Award
• Chiho Katabe, Yasutaka Shinagawa, Yohei Kurata, Jun Ota, and Tatsunori Hara (2016) Proposal of a Method for Generating Various Tour Plans Which Promote Users' Decisions. 14th Research Conf. of STI, 24-27, Izuka, Fukuoka, Nov. 2016 (in Japanese).
• Shohei Suzuki, Takuya Koike, and Yohei Kurata (2016) Human Movement and Their Findings Appearing in Pokémon GO Tweets. 14th Research Conf. of STI, 40-43, Izuka, Fukuoka, Nov. 2016 (in Japanese). Student Research Award  
• Yohei Kurata (2016)Current Situation of "Local Smartphone Applications" for Tourists. Artificial Intelligence, 31(6), 839-843, Nov. 2016 (in Japanese).
• Yohei Kurata (2016)Detection of "Emerging Popular Spots" Using Flickr's Massive Photo Data. 25th Conference of the Geographic Information Systems Association, CD-ROM, Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 2015 (in Japanese).  
• Takuya Koike, Shohei Suzuki, and Yohei Kurata (2016) A Thought about the Influence of Pokémon GO on Tourism: Using Twitter's Geo-tagged Tweets. 2010 Fall Research Conference of the Association of Japanese Geographers, Sendai, Sep.-Oct. 2016 (in Japanese)  
• Kazuki Fujii, Hidetsugu Nanba, Toshiyuki Takezawa, Aya Ishino, Manabu Okumura, and Yohei Kurata (2016) Travellers’ Behaviour Analysis Based on Automatically Identified Attributes from Travel Blog Entries. Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Tourism (AI4Tourism), PRICAI2016, Phuket, Thailand, Aug. 2016.
• Junya Kawase, Fumiko Ito, Yohei Kurata (2016)Predicting When and Where Tourists Have Viewed Exhibitions from GPS Logs by Using Spatio-temporal Data as Explanatory Variable: A Lesson from Surveys at Tama Zoological Park. Theory and Appications of GIS, 24(1) 1-12 (in Japanese).
• Masaki Endo, Takuya Konda, Keisuke Saeki, Masaharu Hirota, Yohei Kurata, and Ohno, S. (2016) A Study of Classification and Extraction of Tourism Keyword Using Morpheme N-gram and RIDF for Tourism Information Retrieval in Visit Region. Tourism and Information, 12, 31-46 (in Japanese).
• Takumu Ikeda, Yosuke Endo, and Yohei Kurata (2016) Development of a Web Service for the Co-creation of Music-Enhanced Slide Shows on Loca lAreas. Tourism and Information, 12, 31-46 (in Japanese).
• Yohei Kurata (2016)An Attempt of Automated Extraction of Major Sightseeing Path Network from Massive Photo Data with the Aid of Delaunay Triangulation. 13th Conference of Society for Tourism Informatics, 61-74, Wakayama, Japan (in Japanese).  
• Ryo Miyasaka and Yohei Kurata (2016)How Can 'Hideaway' Accomodation Facilities Attract More People?. 13th Conference of Society for Tourism Informatics, 57-58, Wakayama, Japan (in Japanese).
• Shohei Suzuki and Yohei Kurata (2016)A Discussion on Tourist Information that Tourism Promoters Should Provide: Based on the Analysis of Data of Six-type Reactions on Facebook Articles. 13th Conference of Society for Tourism Informatics, 53-54, Wakayama, Japan (in Japanese).  
• Yuta Iwaki and Yohei Kurata (2016) An Analysis of Tourism Brochure View Using Eyemark Recoder. 13th Research Conf. of STI, 1-4, Sendai, April 2016 (in Japanese).  
• Yasutaka Shinagawa, Yohei Kurata, Jun Ota, and Tatsunori Hara (2016) Understanding the Characteristics of Destination Guide Using the Technique of Itinerary Recommendation. 13th Research Conf. of STI, 21-24, Sendai, April 2016 (in Japanese).  
• Yohei Kurata (2016) Collecting tour plans from potential visitors: A web-based interactive tour-planner and a strategic use of its log data. Egger, R., Gula, I., Walcher, D., (Eds.) Open Tourism, Open Innovation, Crowdsourcing and Collaborative Consumption Challenging the Tourism Industry. Springer, 291-297, March 2016.
• Yohei Kurata, Hisatoshi Ai, Fu Sanada, Takaaki Ezaki, and Takumu Ikeda (2016) Social Promotion of a Web-based Tool Which Enables Everybody to View and Publish Virtual Tours. 78th Annual Convention of IPSJ, Yokohama, DVD-ROM, March 2016 (in Japanese).  
• Yohei Kurata, Hisatoshi Ai, Fu Sanada, and Takumu Ikeda (2016) Development of a Web-based Tool that Empowers Ordinary People to Create and Publish Virtual Tours. International Journal of Tourism Science, 9, 103-108, Feb 2016 (in Japanese).  
• Hisatoshi Ai, Taketo Naoi, Yohei Kurata, and Kosuke Tanaka (2016) Auto-detection of Strolling Behavior Using GPS Trajectory: Accuracy Enhancement Considering Individual Difference of Walking Speed. International Journal of Tourism Science, 9, Feb 2016 (in Japanese).
• Takumu Ikeda, Yohei Kurata,and Hiroshi Isikawa(2016) A Study on the Growth of Co-Creation in Tourism. DEIM2016, Fukuoka, Japan, PDF, March 2016 (in Japanese).
• Shohei Suzuki, Takumu Ikeda, Yohei Kurata, and Hiroshi Isikawa(2016) Categorization of Tourism Destinations Based on Folowers' Profiles n Twitter. DEIM2016, Fukuoka, Japan, PDF, Feb. 2016 (in Japanese).  
• Takaaki Ezaki, Yohei Kurata, and Hisatoshi Ai (2016) A Study on the Publication and Utilization of Open Data about Tourism Resources. DEIM2016, Fukuoka, Japan, PDF, Feb. 2016 (in Japanese).
• Yohei Kurata, Ayami Mariyama, and Hiroshi Isikawa (2016) Comparison of Photo-Taking Behaviors in Tourist Spaces between Different Tourist Categoris Using Flickr Photos: A Case of Asakusa. DEIM2016, Fukuoka, Japan, PDF, Mar. 2016 (in Japanese).  Shohei Suzuki and Yohei Kurata (2016) Content Analysis of Twitter Tweets Aiming at Tourism Promotion: Focusing on Municipality-Level Tourism Associations in Tokai Area. 2nd Meeting of Society for Tourism Informatics - Tokai, 18-21, Feb 2016 (in Japanese).  

2015

• Yukari Nukui and Yohei Kurata (2015) Discussion about Tourists' Information Posting and its Utlization. 12th Research Conf. of STI, Shizuoka, Dec. 2015 (in Japanese).
• Naoki Saito, Yasutaka Shinagawa, Yohei Kurata, Jun Ota, and Tatsunori Hara (2015) A method for evaluating tour plan similarities for the detailed tour plannning in an interactive tour planner. 12th Research Conf. of STI, Shizuoka, Dec. 2015 (in Japanese).
• Yohei Kurata, Ayami Mariyama, and Hisatoshi Ai (2015) An Attempt to Extract the Characteristics of Tourist Attractions from Online Geo-tagged Photographs with the Aid of Facial Recognition Techniques. 24th Conference of the Geographic Information Systems Association, CD-ROM, Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 2015 (in Japanese)  
Hisatoshi Ai, Taketo Naoi, Yohei Kurata, and Kosuke Tanaka (2015) An Analysis of Walking Speed for Discerning Strolling Behavior from GPS Log. 24th Conference of the Geographic Information Systems Association, CD-ROM, Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 2015 (in Japanese).
• Atushi Otani, Yohei Kurata, and Hisatoshi Ai. (2015) Effect of Smartphone Use for Map Viewing on Walking -In Comparison with Paper Map Use-. 24th Conference of the Geographic Information Systems Association, CD-ROM, Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 2015 (in Japanese).
• Yohei Kurata, Yasutaka Shinagawa, Tatsunori Hara (2015) CT-Planner5: a Computer-Aided Tour Planning Service Which Profits Both Tourists and Destinations.Workshop on Tourism Recommender Systems, RecSys15, Wien, Sep. 2015, USB-memory.  
• Takumu Ikeda and Yohei Kurata (2015) An Analysis of Co-creation of Tourism-Related Contents on a Video-sharing Site. 11th Research Conf. of STI, Otaru, Aug. 2015　(in Japanese).
• Takaaki Ezaki, Yohei Kurata, and Hisatoshi Ai (2015) Current Situation of Development and Utilization of Open Data about Local Resources. 11th Research Conf. of STI, Otaru, Aug. 2015 (in Japanese).
• Shohei Suzuki and Yohei Kurata (2015) A Survey and Analysis of Social Media Use by Tourism Associations. 11th Research Conf. of STI, Otaru, Aug. 2015 (in Japanese).  
• Hisatoshi Ai, Taketo Naoi, Yohei Kurata, and Kosuke Tanaka (2015) Automated Detection of Strolling Walk from GPS Data Considering Personal Difference of Walking Speed. Research Conf. of STI, Otaru, Aug. 2015 (in Japanese).
• Yasutaka Shinagawa, Yohei Kurata, Taiki Ogata, Tatsunori Hara, and Jun Ota (2015) Detection of Seasonal Tourism Resources based on Travel Photos Posted by Tourists and Discussion of its Role in Tourism Services. 12th Conference of Society for Tourism Informatics, Kanazawa, 58-59 (in Japanese). Student Research Award
• Yohei Kurata, Misaki Aoki, and Hisatoshi Ai (2015) An Overview of Tourism-related Local Smartphone Applications in Japan. 12th Conference of Society for Tourism Informatics, Kanazawa, 68-69 (in Japanese).  
• Masaharu Hirota, Masaki Endo, Yohei Kurata and Hiroshi Isikawa(2015) An Analysis before and after the Opening of Hokuriku Shinkansen using Flickr. 12th Conference of Society for Tourism Informatics, Kanazawa, 78-79 (in Japanese).
• Keisuke Saeki, Masaki Endo, Masaharu Hirota, Yohei Kurata, and Hiroshi Isikawa(2015)Language-Specific Analysis of Domestic Places Visited by Foreign Tourists using Crawled Twitter Data. Tourism and Informatics, 11, 45-56 (in Japanese).
• Satoshi Shimada, Yuki Nakamura, Taiki Ogata, Jun Ota, Yohei Kurata, and Tatsunori Hara(2015)An Interactive Tool for Trip Planning Considering Replanning during Sightseeing. Tourism and Informatics, 11, 99-110 (in Japanese).
• Takumu Ikeda and Yohei Kurata(2015) An Analysis of Co-creation of Contents under Tourism-related Categories in a Video-sharing Service: in Comparison with Other Categories Showing Active Co-creation. Tourism and Informatics, 11, 111-122 (in Japanese).
• Yohei Kurata (2015) Gamification and Tourism. Introduction to Tourism Informatics, Kindai-Kagaku-Sha, 119-134 (in Japanese).
• Yohei Kurata, Hisatoshi Ai, Fu Sanada, and Takumu Ikeda (2015) Improving Temporal Reliability of User-Posted Travel Photo Data of a Photo-Sharing Site. 77th Annual Convention of IPSJ, Kyoto (in Japanese).  
• Fu Sanada, Yohei Kurata, and Hisatoshi Ai (2015) Creation of Thematic Potential-of-Interest Maps based on User-Posted Photo Data of a Photo-Sharing Site. 77th Annual Convention of IPSJ, Kyoto (in Japanese).
• Takumu Ikeda and Yohei Kurata (2015) An Analysis on Co-creation of Tourism-related Contents Using User-created Tags in a Video-sharing Site. 77th Annual Convention of IPSJ, Kyoto (in Japanese).
• Hisatoshi Ai, Taketo Naoi, Kosuke Tanaka, and Yohei Kurata (2015) Understanding of GPS Log's Characteristics toward Automated Distinction of Strolling Activities. 77th Annual Convention of IPSJ, Kyoto (in Japanese).
• Yohei Kurata, Hisatoshi Ai, Hiroshi Isikawa, Fu Sanada, and Takumu Ikeda (2015) Correction and Screening of Flickr Photos for the Creation of Time-specific Potential-of-Interest Maps. DEIM2015, Ko-riyama, PDF (in Japanese).  
• Yohei Kurata (2015) Information Studies as a Foundation of Nature-based Tourism. Intelligible Tourism Studies II: Nature-based Tourism Studies, Asakura Shoten (in Japanese).
• Yohei Kurata, Hisatoshi Ai, and Fu Sanada (2015) Creation of Innovative Tourist Maps Using the User-Posted Data of a Photo-Sharing Site. International Journal of Tourism Science, 8 (in Japanese).  

2014

• Yohei Kurata, Hisatoshi Ai, Fu Sanada, and Takumu Ikeda (2014) Educational Use of a Town Guide Tool Based on Google Street View. 23rd Conference of the Geographic Information Systems Association, CD-ROM, Kasugai, Japan, Nov. 2014.  
• Yosuke Endo, Yohei Kurata, and Taketo Naoi (2014) Exhibition Areas: Case Study Research of Japanese Firms. Kozak, M. and Woodside, A.(eds) Advances in Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research vol.9 - Tourists' Behaviors and Evaluations, 41-48, Emerald.  
• Yohei Kurata, Hisatoshi Ai, Fu Sanada, and Takumu Ikeda (2014) Development of a Town/Route Guide Tool based on Google Streetview. Research Conf. of STI, 32-35, Kaga, Japan, Aug. 2014 (in Japanese).  
• Takaaki Ezaki and Yohei Kurata (2014) Proposal of an Application System based on Tourists' Contribution. 11th Conference of Society for Tourism Informatics, 26-27, Kashiwa, Japan, Jun. 2014 (in Japanese).
• Yosuke Endo and Yohei Kurata (2014) Industrial Tourism Seeing from the Visitor Numbers of Consumer Goods Manufacturers' Communication Facilities: A Case Study of Communication Facilities in Tokyo. 11th Conference of Society for Tourism Informatics, 34-35, Kashiwa, Japan, Jun. 2014 (in Japanese).
• Yohei Kurata and Tatsunori Hara (2014) Toward the Evolution of a Platform based on Computer-aided Tour Planning Tool CT-Planner. 11th Conference of Society for Tourism Informatics, 38-39, Kashiwa, Japan, Jun. 2014 (in Japanese).  
• Satoshi Shimada, Taiki Ogata, Jun Ota, Tatsunori Hara, and Yohei Kurata (2014) Assistance of Pre-Trip Tour Planning for Future Re-Plannning while Sightseeing. 11th Conference of Society for Tourism Informatics, 40-41, Kashiwa, Japan, Jun. 2014 (in Japanese).
• Yuki Aono and Yohei Kurata (2014) Possibilities of Tourism on Rainy Days: Learning from the Episodes by Young People. 11th Conference of Society for Tourism Informatics, 50-51, Kashiwa, Japan, Jun. 2014 (in Japanese).  
A GPS-based Survey on Viewing Activities of Visitors to Ueno Zoological Park. 11th Conference of Society for Tourism Informatics, 52-53, Kashiwa, Japan, Jun. 2014 (in Japanese).
• , Taiki Ogata, Jun Ota, Tatsunori Hara, and Yohei Kurata (2014) A Support for Design of Use in Consideration of Use Phase. 13th International Design Conference, 995-1004, Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 2014.
• Yohei Kurata and Tatsunori Hara(2014). Web-based Interactive Tour Planning Support Service and its Future. 2nd Conference of Society for erviceology, 191-194, Hakodate, April 2014 (in Japanese).  
• Yosuke Endo and Yohei Kurata(2014) Flagship Facilities of Toyota: The Sustainability of Collaborations with Tourism Industry. CAUTHE 2014 (Council for Australasian University Tourism and Hospitality Education Conference 2014), 200-212, Brisbane, Australia, Feb. 2014.
Predicting from GPS and Accelerometer Data When and Where Tourists Have Viewed Exhibitions. ENTER 2014 (Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2014), 115-127, Dublin, Ireland, Jan. 2014.
• Yohei Kurata and Tatsunori Hara(2014) CT-Planner4: Toward a More User-Friendly Interactive Day-Tour Planner. ENTER 2014 (Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2014), 73-86, Dublin, Ireland, Jan. 2014.  

2013

• Yohei Kurata (2013) Toward Automatic Extraction of the Networks of Major Tourist Routes from a Large Volume of Online Photo Data. Research Conf. of STI, Kyoto, Sep. 2013, 49-52 (in Japanese).  
• Yuki Nakamura, ,Taiki Ogata, Jun Ota,Tatsunori Hara, and Yohei Kurata (2013) Toward a System for Supporting Adaptive Sightseeing. Research Conf. of STI, Kyoto, Sep. 2013, 45-48 (in Japanese).
• Yohei Kurata(2013) Toward More Reliable Potential-of-Interest Maps: Development of Rules for Automated Selection of Shared Photos for a Data Source. 22nd Conference of the Geographic Information Systems Association, Hiroshima, Japan, Oct. 2013, CD-ROM (in Japanese).  
• Yosuke Endo and Yohei Kurata (2013) Communication Platforms in Producing Facilities: A Comparison between German and Japanese Car Manufacturers. 5th Advances in Tourism Marketing. Vilamoura, Portugal, Oct. 2013, 298-303.
• Yohei Kurata (2013) Tour-Assisting Games and Their Future. Research Conf. of STI, Kumamoto, 41-48 (in Japanese).
 
• Yohei Kurata (2013) Day Tour Plans Only For You: Development of An Interactive Tour Planner. Systems, Control, and Information, ISCIE, 57(8) 348-353 (in Japanese).
• Yabe Naoto and Yohei Kurata (2013) An Analysis of the Behavior of Inbound Tourists in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area from the Data of IC Transit Cards. GIS Theory and Application,21(1), 35-46 (in Japanese).  
• Yohei Kurata, Tatsunori Hara, Keita Murayama, and Satoshi Shimada (2013) A User Test of A Tour Planning Support Tool CT-Planner4 Monitored by International Students. 10th Conference of Society for Tourism Informatics, Kitami, June 2013, 56-57 (in Japanese).  
• Fu Sanada and Yohei Kurata (2013) An Analysis of "Personification of Prefectures": What We Can Learn from Regional Characters Created by Anonymous People. 10th Conference of Society for Tourism Informatics, Kitami, June 2013, 18-19 (in Japanese). Student Research Award  
Considering Methods for Surmising Tourist Behaviors Using Acceleration Sensors. 10th Conference of Society for Tourism Informatics, Kitami, June 2013, 12-13 (in Japanese).  
• Yosuke Endo, Yohei Kurata, and Taketo Naoi (2013) Exhibition Areas: The Cases of Japanese Companies. CPTHL2013, Istanbul, June 2013.
• Junya Kawase and Yohei Kurata (2013) Improving a GPS-Assisted Survey Method of Tourist Behaviors Considering Time Series. 1st Domestic Conference of Society for Serviceology, Kyoto, April 2013 (in Japanese).

2012

• Yohei Kurata(2012) Automated Filtering of Photos Uploaded to Online Photo-Sharing Sites for Making Potential-of-Interest Maps. Research Conf. of STI, Kumadori, Osaka, Japan, Dec. 2012 (in Japanese). Research Award  
• Taketo Naoi, Yohei Kurata, Arima Takayuki, and Katsuhiro Shimoi (2012) Effects of Revisits on Customer Satisfaction in Island Destinations: The Case of Niijima-mura. 27th JITR Annual Conference, 21-24, Yamato, Miyagi, Japan, Dec. 2012 (in Japanese).
• Tetsuo Shimizu, Yuki Okano, Yohei Kurata, and Taketo Naoi(2012) Effects of Boredom on Revisit Intention. TTRA APac Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Dec. 2012.
• Yuki Okano, Tetsuo Shimizu, and Yohei Kurata(2012) An Analysis of Revisit Intention, Focusing on Alternation of Companions: A Case Study on the Visitors to Hokkaido. TTRA APac Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Dec. 2012.  
• Yosuke Endo and Yohei Kurata(2012) Industrial Tourism for Corporate Branding in Japan. TTRA APac Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Nov. 2012.  
• Takumu Ikeda and Yohei Kurata(2012) Tourism and Collaboratively-Created Contents on the Web. TTRA APac Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Nov. 2012.  
• Susumu Kawahara, Shinya Numata, Yu Okamura, Toshio Kikuchi, Tetsuo Shimizu, Taketo Naoi, Yohei Kurata, Takayuki Arima, IKenta Ikazaki Yoshiaki Hompo Hideki Azuma, and Takashi Kosaki(2012) The Project-Based Learning Program in the Department of Nature- and Culture-Based Tourism, Faculty of Urban Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Metroploitan University. The International Symposium on Sustanable Urabn Environment, Hachioji, Nov. 2012.
• Shuhei Kato, Takaaki Ezaki, Shuhei Ito, Momoko Kajiyama, Yuko Kawashima, Kobayashi, Takane Miyazu, Maiko Yokote, Ayako Kitajima, Izumi Zama, Yu Okamura, Yohei Kurata, Toshio Kikuchi（2012） The Current Situation of the Toden-Arakawa Line Area. The International Symposium on Sustanable Urabn Environment, Hachioji, Nov. 2012.
• Yohei Kurata (2012) Geocaching: A Game Embedded in the Real World and Its Tourism Elements. IPSJ 53(11), 1153-1158 (in Japanese).
• Tatsunori Hara, Naoto Yabe, Shimada Satoshi, Yohei Kurata, Keita Murayama, Kazuya Oizumi, and Satoshi Shimada (2012) Can Service Enginerring Contribute To Tourism-based Country？ A Behavioral Survey of Inbound Tourists Using GPS Loggers and How to Make Use of It. IPSJ Digital Practice 3(4) 262-271 (in Japanese).
• Yohei Kurata (2012) Incease of Target Areas and Introduction of a Hot-Start Mechanism of CT-Planner, a Web-based Tour Planner. 21st Conference of the Geographic Information Systems Association, Hiroshima, Japan, Oct. 2012 (in Japanese).  
Improving a Method for Presuming Tourists' Activities from GPS Logs. 21st Conference of the Geographic Information Systems Association, Hiroshima, Japan, Oct. 2012 (in Japanese).  Awarded
• Ota Morishige and Yohei Kurata (2012) Transition Patterns of the Temporal Relationship between Objects. 21th Conference of the Geographic Information Systems Association, Hiroshima, Japan, Oct. 2012 (in Japanese).
• Yohei Kurata (2012) Who Hunt Treasures and Why?: An Analysis of Geocachers and Their Motivations. Research Conf. of STI, Tokyo, Aug. 2012, 31-36 (in Japanese).
• Yosuke Endo and Yohei Kurata (2012) Characteristics of Factory Tours Managed by Automobile Companies and Their Factors . Research Conf. of STI, Tokyo, Aug. 2012, 6-10 (in Japanese).
• Mariko Kubomura, Yabe Naoto, and Yohei Kurata (2012) Women's Motivation and Anxiety for Traveling Alone. Research Conf. of STI, Tokyo, Aug. 2012, 11-18 (in Japanese).  
• Tatsunori Hara, Satoshi Shimada, Yabe Naoto, Yohei Kurata, and Yoshiaki Hompo(2012) Value Co-Creation in Tourism: Incorporating Non-Expert's Design into Expert's Design Activities. 1st International Conference on Human Side of Service Engineering, San Francisco, USA, July 2012.
• Yohei Kurata (2012) Geocaching: Tour Values Discovered and Extended by Anonymous People through a Game. Tourism and Informatics 8, 7-14 (in Japanese).  
• Yohei Kurata (2012) Exploration of Foreigners' Viewpoints on Tourist Attractions Using TripAdvisor Data. 9th Conference of Society for Tourism Informatics, Morioka, May 2012, 28-29 (in Japanese).  
• Yohei Kurata (2012) CT-Planer 3: An Interactive Support Tool for Tour Planning on the Web. International Journal of Tourism Science 5, 159-165 (in Japanese).  
• Yohei Kurata (2012) Interactive Assistance of Tour Planning on the Web. 74th Annual Convention of IPSJ, Nagoya, March 2012, DVD-ROM (in Japanese).  
• Yohei Kurata (2012) Potential-of-Interest Maps for Mobile Tourist Information Services. ENTER 2012 (Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2012), 239-248, Helsingborg, Sweden, Jan 2012.  
When and Where Tourists are Viewing Exhibitions: Toward Sophistication of GPS-Assisted Tourist Activity Surveys. ENTER 2012 (Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2012), 415-425, Helsingborg, Sweden, Jan 2012.  

2011

• Yohei Kurata and Takumu Ikeda (2011) Spread of Geocaching, a Treasure Hunting Game That Connects the Web and the Real World, and its Applicability to Regional Development. Research Conf. of STI, 23-30, Tokyo, December 2011 (in Japanese).  
• Raimu Nakao and Yohei Kurata (2011) Lifestyles of Round-the-World Travelers after their Return. Research Conf. of STI, 53-58, Tokyo, December 2011 (in Japanese).  
• Yosuke Endo and Yohei Kurata (2011) A study on Plant Tour Business for Brand Management: A Case Study of Nikka Whisky Plant. Research Conf. of STI, 77-80, Tokyo, December 2011 (in Japanese).
• Yohei Kurata (2011) Potential-of-Interest Maps: Visualizing Where Tourists Get Interested. ISSUE 2011 (Intenrational Symposium on Sustainable Urban Environment 2011), 61-62, Poster, Hachioji, Japan, November 2011.
• Yabe Naoto, Yohei Kurata, and Yoshiaki Hompo (2011) Clustering Behaviors of Inbounrd Tourist: An Analysis of Individual Data of "Consumption Trend Survey for Foreigners Visiting Japan". ISSUE 2011 (Intenrational Symposium on Sustainable Urban Environment 2011), 63-64, Poster, Hachioji, Japan, November 2011.
• Yohei Kurata (2011) Simple Tourist Information Service for Smartphones by Visualizing Sightsseing Potential. 20th Conference of the Geographic Information Systems Association, CD-ROM, Kagoshima, Japan, October 2011 (in Japanese).  
Sophitication of Tourism Behavior Surveys using GPS loggers by Considering Tourists' Walking Speed. 20th Conference of the Geographic Information Systems Association, CD-ROM, Kagoshima, Japan, October 2011 (in Japanese).  
• Ota Morishige, and Yohei Kurata (2011) Feature State Transition and Temporal Relationships between Features. 20th Conference of the Geographic Information Systems Association, CD-ROM, Kagoshima, Japan, October 2011 (in Japanese).
• Yohei Kurata (2011) Enriching Tourists' Experiences by GIS-Based Interactive Tour Planner and Potential-of-Interest Map. Seoul-Tokyo Joint Seminar 2011, Seoul, South Korea, September 2011.
• Takumu Ikeda and Yohei Kurata (2011) Addition of Attractions to Destinations by Tourists. 8th Conference of Society for Tourism Informatics, Sapporo, Japan, June 2010, 14-15 (in Japanese).
GPS-Based Behavioral Survey and Its Problems: Lessons from a Survey at Tama Zoo. 8th Conference of Society for Tourism Informatics, Sapporo, Japan, June 2010, 16-17 (in Japanese).
• Yosuke Endo and Yohei Kurata (2011) Meaning of Industrial Tourism in the Viewpoint of Corporate Strategies: A Case Study of Toyota Kaikan Museum. 8th Conference of Society for Tourism Informatics, Sapporo, Japan, June 2010, 30-31 (in Japanese).
• Yabe Naoto, Yohei Kurata, and Yoshiaki Hompo (2011) Categorization of Inbound Tourists using Individual Data of the National Survey of Consumption by Tourists visiting Japan. 8th Conference of Society for Tourism Informatics, Sapporo, Japan, June 2010, 50-51 (in Japanese).
• Tatsunori Hara, Satoshi Shimada, Tsuyoshi Koga, Kazuhirp Aoyama, Yabe Naoto, Yohei Kurata, Yoshiaki Hompo, Taketomi Asano, and Makoto Kato (2011). Toward Plannning Support of Tour Services for Inbound Tourists: Decomposition and Recomposition of Tour Information from the Viewpoints of Tourists and Tour Agents. Tourism and Informatics 7: 29-46 (in Japanese).
• Tatsunori Hara, Tsuyoshi Koga, Kazuhiro Aoyama, Yabe Naoto, Yohei Kurata, Yoshiaki Hompo, Taketomi Asano, and Makoto Kato(2011) Research Plan on Sophisticating Tour Services for Foreign Travelers - As a Good Subject toward Development of Research Foundation on Service Science. International Journal of Tourism Science 4, 113-121 (in Japanese).
• Yohei Kurata (2011) CT-Planner2: More Flexible and Interactive Assistance for Day Tour Planning. Law, R., Fuchs, M., and Ricci, F. (eds.) ENTER 2011, Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2011, 25-37, Innsbruck, Austria, Jan, 2011.  

2010

• Yohei Kurata (2010) An Overview of the Research on Topological Relations and Future Issues in GIScience. Theory and Applications of GIS, 18(2), 41-51.  
• Hui Shi and Yohei Kurata (2010) Modeling Ontological Concepts of Locations with a Heterogeneous Cardinal Direction Model. International Journal of Software and Informatics, 4(3), 239-256.  
• Yohei Kurata, Yabe, Naoto, Komaki Nobuhiko, Arima Takayuki, and Koun Sugimoto. (2010) What, When, and How Much Do They See, and What Are They Interested In?: Toward More Detailed Survey on Inbound Tourists' Behaviors. Research Conf. of STI, 43-48, Hakodate, Japan, December 2010 (in Japanese).  
• Yohei Kurata (2010) Computer-Aided Interactive Tour Planning: Toward Decision Support of Inbound Tourists. ISSUE2010, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hachioji, December 2010.
• Yohei Kurata and Arima Takayuki (2010) Implementation and Evaluation of a Computer-Aided Interactive Tour Planning System. 25th JITR Annual Conference, 173-176, Chigasaki, Japan, December 2010 (in Japanese).  
• Yohei Kurata (2010) 9⁺-Intersection Calculi for the Topological Relations between Heterogeneous Objects. ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010, 390-393, San Jose, CA, USA, November 2010.    
• Yohei Kurata, Koun Sugimoto, and Yabe Naoto (2010) Onsite Tourist Guide without Detailed Information: Extraction and Application of Point-of-Interest Data. 19th Conference of the Geographic Information Systems Association, CD-ROM, Kyoto, Japan, October 2010 (in Japanese).  
• Ota Morishige and Yohei Kurata (2010) A Comprehensive System Describing Temporal Relationships among Geographic Objects. 19th Conference of the Geographic Information Systems Association, CD-ROM, Kyoto, Japan, October 2010 (in Japanese).  
• Arima Takayuki and Yohei Kurata (2010) Deriving Mesh Data of Impotrance Degree in Nature Preserved Area using AHP. 19th Conference of the Geographic Information Systems Association, CD-ROM, Kyoto, Japan, October 2010 (in Japanese).  
• Yohei Kurata (2010) Applicability of GIS for the Support of Tourist Activities. Symposium on Research Trends around GIS, 2010 Fall Research Conference of the Association of Japanese Geographers, Nagoya, Japan, October 2010 (in Japanese).  
• Hui Shi and Yohei Kurata (2010) Modeling Ontological Concepts of Locations with a Heterogeneous Cardinal Direction. Bi, Y. and Williams, M. (eds.) KSEM 2010, Belfast, UK, September 2010, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 6291, 4-15.  
• Yohei Kurata (2010) Interactive Assistance for Tour Planning. Spatial Cognition 2010, Mt.Hood, OR, USA, August 2010, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 6222, 289-302.  
• Yohei Kurata and Hui Shi Spatial Relations for Positioning Objects in a Cabinet. Ross, R., Hois, J., and Kelleher, J. (eds.) Computational Models of Spatial Language Interpretation, in conjunction with Spatial Cognition 2010, Mt.Hood, OR, USA, August 2010, CEUR-WS-620, 53-56.    
• Yohei Kurata (2010) Assistance for City Tour Planning Using an Interactive System. 7th Conference of Society for Tourism Informatics, Kawagoe, Japan, June 2010 (in Japanese).

2009

• Yohei Kurata (2009) From Three-Dimensional Topological Relations to Contact Relations. Neutens, T. and De Maeyer, P. (eds.) 3DGeoInfo, Gent, Belgium, November 2009, Developments in 3D Geo-Information Sciences (Proceedings of 3DGeoInfo Conference), Lecture Notes in Geocomputation and Cartography, 123-142.  
• Yohei Kurata (2009) Toward an Interactive Tour Planning System. 18th Conference of the Geographic Information Systems Association, Niigata, Japan, October 2009, Papers and Proceedings of the Geographic Information Systems Association 18 (CD-ROM) (in Japanese).  
• Yohei Kurata and Max J. Egenhofer (2009) Interpretation of Behaviours from a Viewpoint of Topology. A book chapter in Gottfried, B. and Aghajan, H. (eds.) Behaviour Monitoring and Interpretation - BMI, Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, vol. 3, 75-97, IOS Press, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.  
• Yohei Kurata (2009) Semi-Automated Derivation of Conceptual Neighborhood Graphs of Topological Relations. Hornsby, K., Claramunt, C., Denis, M., and Ligozat, G. (eds.) COSIT 2009, Aber Wrac'h, France, September 2009, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5756, 124-140.  
• Yohei Kurata and Hui Shi (2009) Toward Heterogeneous Cardinal Direction Calculus. Mertsching, B., Hund, M., and Aziz, Z. (eds.) KI 2009, Paderborn, Germany, September 2009, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 5803, 450-457. Best Paper Award  
• Yohei Kurata (2009) Description of Movement from a Topological Viewpoint. Hois, J. and Yohei Kurata (eds.) ICSC 2009 Symposium on "Spatial Models Meet Spatial Language", Rome, Italy, September 2009, Cognitive Processing 10(2) Speccial Issue ICSC 2009, pp.S135.  
• Yohei Kurata (2009) 9-Intersection Calculi for Spatial Reasoning on the Topological Relations between Multi-Domain Objects. in Guesgen, H. and Bhatt, M. (eds.) IJCAI Workshop on Spatial and Temporal Reasoning, Pasadena, USA, June 2009.  
• Yohei Kurata (2009) Challenges in User-Adaptive Tour Planning Systems. Tomko, M. and Richter, K. (eds.) AGILE 2009 Workshop on Adaptation in Spatial Communication, Hannover, Germany, June 2009, SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition report series, 19-26.  
• Yohei Kurata (2009) Three-Valued 9-Intersection for Deriving Possible Topological Relations from Incomplete Observations. Sester, M., Paelke, V., and Bernard, L. (eds.) AGILE 2009, Hannover, Germany, June 2009, Advances in GIScience (Proceedings of the 12th AGILE Conference), Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography, 289-308.  

2008

• Yohei Kurata and Max J. Egenhofer (2008) The Arrow-Semantics Interpreter. Spatial Cognition and Computations, 8(4) 306-332.  
• Yohei Kurata (2008) The 9⁺-Intersection: A Universal Framework for Modeling Topological Relations. Cova, T., Miller, H., Beard, K., Frank, A., and Goodchild, M. (eds.) GIScience 2008, Park City, UT, USA, September 2008, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5266, 181-198. Best Full Paper Award  
• Roland Billen and Yohei Kurata (2008) Refining Topological Relations between Regions Considering Their Shapes. Cova, T., Miller, H., Beard, K., Frank, A., and Goodchild, M. (eds.) GIScience 2008, Park City, UT, USA, September 2008, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5266, 20-37.  
• Hui Shi and Yohei Kurata (2008) Reasoning on the Patterns of Spatial Arrangments between a Path and a Region-Like Landmarks. in GIScience 2008, Park City, UT, USA, September 2008, Electronic Poster Proceedings.    
• Yohei Kurata and Hui Shi (2008) RfDL: Models for Capturing Directional and Topological Characteristics of Path-Landmark Arrangements. van de Weghe, N., Roland Billen, Kuijpers, B., and Bogaert, P. (eds.) International Workshop on Moving Object, in conjunction with GIScience 2008, Park City, UT, USA, September 2008.  
• Yohei Kurata and Hui Shi (2008) Interpreting Motion Expressions in Route Instructions Using Two Projection-Based Spatial Models. Dengel, A., Berns, K., Breuel, T., Bomarius, F., and Roth-Berghofer, T. (eds.) KI 2008, Kaiserslautern, Germany, September 2008, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5243, 258-266.    
• Hui Shi and Yohei Kurata (2008) Modeling Ontological Concepts of Motions with Two Projection-Based Spatial Models. Gottfried, B. and Aghajan, H. (eds.) 2nd International Workshop on Behavioral Monitoring and Interpretation (BMI'08), in conjunction with KI 2008, Kaiserslautern, Germany, September 2008, 42-56.  
• Yohei Kurata (2008) A Strategy fro Drawing a Conceptual Neighborhood Diagrams Schematically. Stapleton, G., Howse, J., and Lee, J. (eds.) Diagrams 2008, Herrsching, Germany, September 2008, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 5223, 288-390.    
• Yohei Kurata and Hui Shi (2008) Projection-Based Models for Capturing Human Concepts of Motion. Spatial Cognition 2008, Freiburg, Germany, September 2008, Poster Proceedings 105-108.    

2007

• Yohei Kurata and Max J. Egenhofer (2007) The 9⁺-Intersection for Topological Relations between a Directed Line Segment and a Region. Gottfried, B. (ed.) 1st Workshop on Behaviour Monitoring and Interpretation (BMI'07), in conjunction with KI-2007, Osnabrück, Germany, September 2007, Universitaet Bremen TZI Technical Report 42, 62-76.  
• Mizuki Kawabata, Oh Iwata, Ryosuke Esaki, Yohei Kurata, Atsushi Nara, Yuki Hamada, Yutaro Yamazaki (2007) Investigation of Geographic Information Science Education Systems at 14 Universities in North America. Theory and Applications of GIS, 14(2), 179-186. (in Japanese).
• Yohei Kurata (2007) Arrow Symbols: Theory for Interpretation. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering, University of Maine.    

2006

• Mizuki Kawabata, Oh Iwata, Ryosuke Esaki, Yohei Kurata, Atsushi Nara, Yuki Hamada, Yutaro Yamazaki (2006) Investigating Geographic Information Science Education Systems at Universities in North America. 15th Conference of the Geographic Information Systems Association, Papers and Proceedings of the Geographic Information Systems Association, Tokyo, Japan, October 2006, 15, No.70. 1-4 (in Japanese)  
• Yohei Kurata and Max J. Egenhofer (2006) The Head-Body-Tail Intersections for Spatial Relations between Directed Line Segments. Raubal, M., Miller, H., Frank, A., and Goodchild, M. (eds.) GIScience 2006, Münster, Germany, September 2006, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4197, 269-286.  
• Yohei Kurata and Max J. Egenhofer (2006) Ontology-Based Interpretation of Arrow Symbols for Visual Communications. Andrienko, G., Andrienko, N., Jankowski, P., and MacEachren, A. (eds.) Workshop on Visualization, Analytics, and Spatial Decision Support, in conjunction with GIScience 2006, Münster, Germany, September 2006, CD-ROM.  
• Yohei Kurata and Max J. Egenhofer (2006) Topological Relations of Arrow Symbols in Complex Diagrams. Barker-Plummer, D., Cox, R., and Swoboda, N. (eds.) Diagrams 2006, Stanford, CA, USA, June 2006, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 4045, 112-126.  
• Mizuki Kawabata, Oh Iwata, Ryosuke Esaki, Yohei Kurata, Atsushi Nara, Yuki Hamada, Yutaro Yamazaki (2006) Geographic Information Science Education Systems at 14 Universities in North America. CSIS Discussion Paper #70, Center for Spatial Information Science, University of Tokyo, Japan (in Japanese).  

2005

• Yohei Kurata and Max J. Egenhofer (2005) Structure and Semantics of Arrow Diagrams. Cohn, A. and Mark, D. (eds.) COSIT 2005, Ellicottville, NY, USA, September 2005, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3693, 232-250.  
• Yohei Kurata and Max J. Egenhofer (2005) Semantics of Simple Arrow Diagrams.. Barkowsky, T., Freksa, T., Hegarty, M., and Lowe, R. (eds.) AAAI Spring Symposium on Reasoning with Mental and External Diagrams, Stanford, CA, USA, March 2005, 101-104.    

2002 

• Yohei Kurata and Atsuyuki Okabe (2002) An Algorithm for Identifying Features in a Simplified Route Map. Theory and Applications of GIS, 10(1), 9-17 (in Japanese).  
• Yohei Kurata (2002) Methods for Modeling and Automatic Matching of Rough Maps. Master's Thesis, Department of Urban Engineering, University of Tokyo (in Japanese).  

2001

• Yohei Kurata and Atsuyuki Okabe (2001) Analysis and Modeling of Hand-Drawn Route Maps: Toward an Automatic Identification Method of Outline Maps. 10th Conference of the Geographic Information Systems Association, Papers and Proceedings of the Geographic Information Systems Association, Tokyo, Japan, October 2001, 10, 177-180 (in Japanese).  

2000

• Yohei Kurata and Atsuyuki Okabe (2000) Development of a Preference-Based Tour Planning System. 9th Conference of the Geographic Information Systems Association, Papers and Proceedings of the Geographic Information Systems Association, Tokyo, Japan, October 2000, 9, 199-202 (in Japanese).  
• Yohei Kurata (2000) Development of a Preference-Based Tour Planning System. Bachelor's Thesis, Department of Urban Engineering, University of Tokyo (in Japanese).