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Curriculum Vitae of Yohei Kurata |
Education
9.2002-5.2007 Department of Spatial Information Science and Engingeering, University of Maine
Degree: Ph.D. in Spatial Information Science and Engineering, 5/20074/1998-8/2002 Department of Urban Engineering, University of Tokyo
Thesis: Arrow Symbols: Theory for Interpretation
Advisor: Max J. Egenhofer
Committee members: Michael F. Worboys, Kate Beard-Tisdale, Kathleen Stewart Hornsby, and Werner Kuhn (Universität Münster)
4-8.2002 Doctoral course
4.2000-3.2002 Master course
Degree: Shushi-Kogaku (Master of Engineering), 3/2002
Thesis: Methods for Modeling and Automatic Matching of Rough Maps
Advisor: Atsuyuki Okabe, Yasushi Asami, and Yukio Sadahiro
4.1998-3.2000 Bachelor course
Degree: Gakushi-Kogaku (Bachelor of Engineering), 3/2000
Thesis: Development of a Preference-Based Tour Planning System
Advisor: Yukio Sadahiro and Keiichi Okunuki (University of Nagoya)
Employment
| 3.2010- | Associate Professor, Division of Nature- and Culture-based Tourism, Faculty of Urban Environmental Sciences / Department of Tourism Science, Graduate School of Urban Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University |
| 6.2007-2.2010 | Research Associate (wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter) in FB3 Informatik / SFB/TR8 Spatial Cognition, Universität Bremen |
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1.2009- 2.2010 Strategic Project "Spatial Calculi for Heterogeneous Objects" 6.2007-12.2008 Project I3-[SharC] | |
| 1.2005-5.2007 | Graduate Research Assistant in Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering / National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA), University of Maine, Supervised by Max J. Egenhofer |
| 9.2004-12.2004 | Japanese Language Instructor in Critical Language Program, Department of Modern Languages and Classics, University of Maine |
| 7.2000-8.2000 | Project Assistant in an IT venture company |
| 9.1996-8.1997 | Part-time teacher in a cram school |
Other Services
| 2017 | Committee Member, ENTER 2017 |
| 2016 | Lecturer, GIS Day Tokyo 2016 |
| 2016 | Committee Member, AI4Tourism 2016 |
| 2016 | Committee Member, ENTER 2016 |
| 2016 | Part-time Lecturer, Chuo University (Spatial Information Modeling) |
| 2015 | Lecturer, GIS Day Tokyo 2015 |
| 2015 | Committee Member, Tourism Recommender Systems 2015 |
| 2015 | Committee Member, ENTER 2015 |
| 2015 | Part-time Lecturer, Chuo University (Spatial Information Modeling) |
| 2015 | Committee Member, A committee for inbound tourist survey utilizing ICT, Japan Tourism Agency |
| 2014- | Board member, Society for Tourism Informatics |
| 2014 | Lecturer, GIS Day Tokyo 2014 |
| 2014 | Committee Member, ENTER 2015 |
| 2013 | Lecturer, GIS Day Tokyo 2013 |
| 2013 | Committee Member, ENTER 2014 |
| 2012 | Lecturer, GIS Day Tokyo 2012 |
| 2012 | Chair, 5th Research Conference of STI |
| 2012 | Committee Member, ENTER 2013 |
| 2011 | Lecturer, GIS Day Tokyo 2011 |
| 2011 | Committee Member, ENTER 2012 |
| 2011 | Secretariat/b>, Top Seminar of Tourism Management, Tokyo Metropolitan University |
| 2011 | Secretariat, 2011 University and School Dean Meeting for Tourism Education |
| 2010 | Lecturer, GIS Day Tokyo 2010 |
| 2010 | Committee Member, Spatial Cognition 2010 |
| 2009 | Committee Member, GEOProcessing 2010 |
| 10.2009 | Session Chair & Judge, 18th Conference of Geographic Information Systems Association, Japan |
| 9.2009 | Symposium Co-organizer, Symposium on "Spatial Models Meet Spatial Language", ICSC 2009 |
| 2009 | Committee Member, Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2009 |
| 2008 | Committee Member, GEOWS 2009 |
| 2008 | Committee Member, Spatial Cognition 2008 |
| 2002 | Teaching Assistant, Advanced Urban Analysis (716-21), Department of Urban Engineering, University of Tokyo, Japan, Supervised by Yukio Sadahiro |
| 2000 | Translation Proofreader, Brandon Plewe(1997) GIS ONLINE: Information retrieval, Mapping, and the Internet. translated into Japanese by A. Okabe, S. Shinoaki, M. Nasu |
In addition, I have been working as anonymous reviewers in five GIS journals and one information science journal |
Presentations
See this list for my articles and presentations at conferences
| 11.2016 | The aim of DaredemoGuide!. Meeting of Industry-School-Government in Hokuriku for Utilization of Geo-Spatial Information |
| 11.2016 | City tour planning through interactive communication. Meeting of Tourism Section, IT Consortium Kyoto |
| 10.2016 | Our attempt to create new tourist maps from the huge user-posted data on Internet. Open University PRI Series, Tokyo Metropolitan University |
| 12.2015 | Small ideas, which implant excitement into our daily space. Proposed Session "Travel and Place" on HCG Symposium 2015 |
| 8.2015 | Learning from tourists online, and contributing to them online. 2015 Summer Collaboration Research Colloquium, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| 7.2015 | A web tool which enables ordinary people to create a virtual tour easily and present it online. 7th TMU Policy Proposal Meeting |
| 3.2015 | Information Service for Tourists, and Our Approach. First Town Meeting, Omotenashi App Town |
| 2.2015 | Possibility of ICT Applications in Tourism Industry. HCJ2015 Trend Seminar |
| 1.2015 | CT-Planner Which Supports Intuitive Tour Planning on Maps: from Tourist Support to Local Support. 12th Hokkaido Surveying Technology Seminar |
| 11.2014 | Tourist Behavior and GIS. CSIS Symposium on Human Behavior and GIS |
| 8.2014 | We want to know the behavior of inbound tourists!. Urban Data Challenge 2014 Ideathon |
| 7.2014 | An Internet Service for Supporting City Tour Planning. 6th TMU Policy Proposal Meeting |
| 6.2014 | Introduction of Computer-Aided City Tour Planner CT-Planner5.0. 13th GeoMedia Summit |
| 3.2014 | Potential of Shizuoka Prefecture from a Viewpoint of Tourism Informatics. University of Shizuoka |
| 1.2013 | Information Technologies Which Enrich Tourism. Studies of Current Tourism, TMU Open Univerisity |
| 10. 2012 | Treasure Hunting over the World!　New Tourism Induced by Geocaching. Enjoy Tourism and Study Tourism 2, Meguro City College |
| 6.2012 | Information Technologies Which Enrich International Tourism. Studies of Current Tourism, TMU Open University |
| 2.2012 | Mobile Tourist Information Tools seeing from a Tourist's Viewpoint. 2nd Colloqium of Hokkaido Branch of Japan Operations Reaserach Association |
| 1.2012 | Extending Tourism Experiences with Smartphones. 2nd Open Symposium of CSISi, University of Tokyo |
| 11.2010 | Potential Applicability of GIS for Tourist Support. Research Meeting on Tourism Informatics in Kaga City |
| 5.2010 | >Tourism and GIS: What We Are Doing in Tokyo Metropolitan University. 6th ESRI Japan GIS Community Forum, Tokyo, June 2010. |
| 11.2009 | A guest lecture in Prof. Okabe's Seminar, School of Cultural and Creative Studies, Aoyama Gakuin University |
| 1.2009 | Toward Spatial Reasoning of the Arrangements of Multi-Domain Objects. in SFB/TR8 Colloquium, Universitaet Bremen, Germany |
| 10.2008 | The 9+-Intersection: A Universal Framework for Modeling Topological Relations. Class of Engineering Databases, Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering, University of Maine, USA |
| 4.2008 | I3-SharC: Interpreting Human Route Directions by Various Modalities. SFB/TR-8 Workshop, Oberkirch, Germany |
| 11.2007 | DLine-related Topological Relations. Geoinformatics Department, University of liege, Belgium |
| 7.2007 | Topological Relations between a Directed line Segment and a Region/ line / Directed line Segment. in SFB/TR8 Colloquium, Universitaet Bremen, Germany |
| 4.2007 | Ontology: A New Perspective for Computational Interpretations of Arrow Symbols. 9th AGS Graduate Research Exposition, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA. 
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| 4.2006 | Automated Interpretation of Arrow Symbols: Toward More Flexible Sketching Interfaces. in Human-Computer Interaction, Information System Engineering Program, University of Maine, USA |
| 4.2006 | Directed line Segments: How are They Connected? 8th AGS Graduate Research Exposition, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA, April 2006.
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| 5.2005 | Arrows for the Communication of Spatio-Temporal Knowldge: Semantics and Interpretations. 13th Atlantic Institute Student Research Conference, Quebec City, QC, Canada.
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| 4.2005 | Structure and Semantics of Arrows in Diagrams. 7th AGS Graduate Research Exposition, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA.
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| 6.2004 | Automated Interpretation of Diagrammatic Arrows for Sketch Interface. 12th Atlantic Institute Student Research Conference, Fredericton, NB, Canada. |
| 4.2004 | Automatic Interpretation of Diagrammatic Arrows. 6th AGS Graduate Research Exposition, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA.
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| 11.2001 | A guest lecture in Urban Analysis, Department of Urban Engineering, University of Tokyo, Japan |
| 10.2001 | A guest lecture in Urban Analysis, Department of Urban Engineering, University of Tokyo, Japan |
| 10.2000 | A guest lecture in Urban Analysis, Department of Urban Engineering, University of Tokyo, Japan |
AWARDS AND HONORS
| 7.2017 | Research Award, 14th Annual Conference of STI |
| 11.2015 | Best Award, Geo-Activity Festa, in G-Kukan Expo 2015 |
| 11.2014 | Best Award, Geo-Activity Festa, in G-Kukan Expo 2014 |
| 8.2012 | Research Award, 6th Research Conference of STI |
| 9.2009 | Best Paper Award, KI-2009 |
| 9.2008 | Best Full Paper Award, GIScience 2008  |
| 11.2006 | College of Engineering Graduate Research Assistant Award  |
| 9.2006 | Student Travel Scholarship, GIScience 2006 |
| 6.2006 | Summer Research Award, University of Maine, USA (-8.2006) |
| 6.2006 | Student Travel Scholarship, Diagrams 2006 |
| 5.2005 | First Grade in Effective Visual Use and Clearness, 13th Atlantic Institute Student Research Conference |
| 4.2005 | Third Grade in Civil and Spatial Information Engineering Posters, 7th University of Maine Graduate Research Exposition |
| 3.2005 | Student Travel Scholarship,AAAI Spring Symposium on Reasoning with Mental and External Diagrams |
| 1.2005 | Graduate Research Assistant, University of Maine, USA (-2007.5) |
| 9.2002 | International Tuition Scholarship, University of Maine, USA (-2004.12) |
| 4.2000 | Category I Scholarship, Nihon Ikuei-kai (Japanese Scholarship Foundation) (-2005.3) |
| 1992 | Honorable mention, Obun-sha Programming Contest for Junior High School Students |
Licenses and Certificates
- Certified General Travel Service Supervisor, Japan (2009)
- Certified Real Estate Agent Supervisor, Japan (1998)
- Certified Domestic Travel Sevice Supervisor, Japan (1997)
- 1st-Class Certificate of Cartographic Knowledge, Japan (2009)
- 2nd-Class Certificate of International Tourism Geography Knowledge, Japan(2009)
- A-Class Certificate of Domestic Tourism Geography Knowledge, Japan (1999)
Membership
- Geographc Information Systems Association, Japan (2000-02, 2009-)
- Japan Institute of Tourism Research (2010-)
- Society for Tourism Informatics, Japan (2010-, 2012- Board Member)
- Information Processing Society of Japan (2011-)
- IFITT (International Federation of IT and Travel&Tourism (2011-)
- Society for Serviceology (2013-)