Hirotaka Osawa
Professor at National Institute of Informatics
Kawasaki, Japan
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Top SchoolHirotaka Osawa is a professor and researcher with 14 years’ experience specializing in human-agent and human-robot interaction, focused on how anthropomorphic appearance and behavior improve user–machine communication. Based in Kawasaki, Japan, he holds a PhD in Engineering from Keio University and has held roles from postdoc at MIT AgeLab to research positions at the National Institute of Informatics and JST’s PRESTO program. His work blends interface design, robotics, and information science to create more intuitive household and everyday appliance interactions by leveraging innate human responses. As a faculty member at Keio and a visiting associate professor at the University of Tsukuba, he bridges basic research with practical design implications for real-world systems. Notably, his research emphasizes universal user experiences—seeking simple, human-centric solutions to complex device interfaces rather than purely technical optimizations.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Engineering, Ph.D., Engineering at Keio University
Github Skills (12)
code-generation7
api7
rest6
goa5
openapi5
golang5
swagger5
api-documentation5
documentation-generator4
code-generator4
microservices3
go3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
hiroosak/gendoc
May 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:1 release, 30 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year
documentation-generatorapiopenapiapi-documentation
hiroosak/jquery.tinyTile
Jan 2012 - Feb 2012
Contributions:7 commits in 3 days
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