Junichi Osada

Current Position and Work Address:
Senior Designer
NEC Design & Promotion, Ltd.
Design Business Unit, Solution Design Division.
Shinagawa Seaside East Tower, 4-12-8 Higashi-Shinagawa
Shinagawa-ku,Tokyo
JAPAN

Phone: +81-3-5463-3567
Fax: +81-3-5463-3569
email: j-osada@necdp.nec.co.jp

Academic Qualifications:
1995: M. in Aesthetics/history of art, Tama Art University, Japan.
1993: B. in Aesthetics/history of art, Tama Art University, Japan.

Major Contributions:
Development of the contents to the information terminal of Tokyo Sea Life Park (1992,1996).
Contents and Interface design of the information terminal "I-Steer" (1998).
Interface and graphics design of the graphical email software “ENA-Mail” (1999).
Interaction design and art direction of the Personal Robot “PaPeRo. (1997-2008).

Industrial Appointments:
January 2009 - Present Senior Designer, NEC Design & Promotion, Ltd.
October 2002 – December 2008 Senior Designer, NEC Design, Ltd.
April 1995-September 2002 Member, NEC Design, Ltd.

Academic Appointments:
April 2003–March 2004 Visiting Scientist, Department of Information Design, Tama Art University, Japan.

Teaching Experience:
Part Time Lecturer
Tama Art University Faculty of Art and Communication Evening Division Department
of  Communication Design (Apr, 2000 - 　)
Tama Art University Faculty of Art and Design Department of Information Design
(Apr, 2002 - Mar, 2007)

Areas of Interest and Research:
Interaction Design (Man − Machine Interface Design, Usability Design.)
Art Direction of the Communication type Robot (motion, tone of the voice, scripts by text-to-speech synthesis, sound/music effects, and words of voice-recognition, etc.)
Cultural science collaboration research in the area of the Human – Robot Interaction with the sociology, social psychology, clinical psychology and philosophy

Professional Society Memberships and Boards:
Member, Japanese Society for the Science of Design since 1993. 
Member, The Japanese Psychological Association since 2002.

Editorships:
Guest Editor, Interactive Play and Learning for Children, Advances in Human-Computer Interaction, 2007-2008.

Conference Activities:
International Conference Keynote Speech
    New Approach Adopted to the Designing of  Personal robot PaPeRo -Theme Music and Characterization of Robot’s Personality-, IIREX (International Intelligent Robot Exhibition) 2002, Dae-Jon, Korea,2002.
    Scenario Design for Childcare Robot, PaPeRo, IRDF (International Robot Design Forum) 2005, Dae-Jon, Korea, 2005.
 Collaboration Research for 「humorous interaction」-Implement 2 man stand-up(Manzai) show with robot-, ACE (Advance in Computer Entertainment Technology)2007, Salzburg, Austria, 2007.
 Research Collaboration for 「humorous interaction」-Implement 2 man stand-up(Manzai) show with robot-, DIMEA (Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts)2007, Perth, Australia, 2007.
 Collaboration Research for 「humorous interaction」-Implement 2 man stand-up(Manzai) show with robot-, ISMAR(ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality) 2007, Nara, Japan, 2007.