馬場 惇 / Jun Baba

株式会社サイバーエージェント AI Lab の Research Group Manager / Research Scientist.大阪大学 招聘研究員. 現在、AI Lab 対話エージェントグループの主任研究員としてヒューマンコンピュータインタラクション,機械学習の研究に従事. 2014年に京都大学情報学研究科を修了後,サイバーエージェントに入社. 2014年に広告部門初の研究組織を立ち上げ,2017年までDSP事業のロジック開発責任者を務めた.

Jun Baba is a research group manager / research scientist at CyberAgent AI Lab, and a visiting researcher at Osaka University since 2017. I was a data scientist at CyberAgent, Inc. in Tokyo, Japan from 2014 to 2017. I received his ME degree in informatics from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan in 2014. My research interests include human-computer interaction in service encounter and machine learning.

研究業績 / Publications

論文誌 / Journal
  • Article Joichiro Amada, Yuki Okafuji, Kohei Matsumura, Jun Baba, Junya Nakanishi: Investigating the Crowd-drawing Effect, on Passersby, of Pseudo-Crowds Using Multiple Robots. Advanced Robotics, 2022. [Taylor&Francis]
  • Article Takuya Iwamoto, Jun Baba, Junya Nakanishi, Katsuya Hyodo, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, and Hiroshi Ishiguro: Playful Recommendation: Sales Promotion that Robots Stimulate Pleasant Feelings instead of Product Explanation. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2022. [IEEE]
  • Article Yuki Okafuji, Yasunori Ozaki, Jun Baba, Junya Nakanishi, Kohei Ogawa, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, and Hiroshi Ishiguro: Behavioral assessment of a humanoid robot when attracting pedestrians in a mall. International Journal of Social Robotics, 2022. [Springer]
  • Article Zhaojie Luo, Shoufeng Lin, Rui Liu, Jun Baba, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Ishiguro Hiroshi: Decoupling Speaker-Independent Emotions for Voice Conversion Via Source-Filter Networks. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 2021. [IEEE]
  • Article Jun Baba, Sichao Song, Junya Nakanishi, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Ishiguro: Local vs. Avatar Robot: Performance and Perceived Workload of Service Encounters in Public Space. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2021. [Frontiers]
  • Article 植田智之, 中西惇也, 伴碧, 倉本到, 馬場惇, 吉川雄一郎, 石黒浩: いじめ場面を想定したキャッチボール課題における傍観行動の選択肢の導入効果. ヒューマンインタフェース学会論文誌, 2021. [JSTAGE]
  • Article Yuki Okafuji, Jun Baba, Junya Nakanishi, Itaru Kuramoto, Kohei Ogawa, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Ishiguro(2020): Can a humanoid robot continue to draw attention in an office environment?, Taylor & Francis, Advanced Robotics, vol. 34, no. 14, pp. 931-946, June, 2020.
  • Article Junya Nakanishi, Itaru Kuramoto, Jun Baba, Kohei Ogawa, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Ishiguro(2020): Continuous Hospitality with Social Robots at a Hotel. SN Applied Sciences, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 1-13, 2020.
国際会議 / International Conference
  • Paper Shuyun Tang, Luo Zhaojie, Jun Baba, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Ishiguro: Fusion With Hierarchical Graphs for Multimodal Emotion Recognition. 14th Annual Conference on Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA ASC 2022), 2022. [Arxiv]
  • Paper Jun Baba, Sichao Song, Junya Nakanishi, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Ishiguro: Instructive Interaction for Redirection of Customer Attention from Robot to Service. 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication(RO-MAN 2022), pp. 598-602, 2022. [IEEE]
  • Paper Sichao Song, Jun Baba, Junya Nakanishi, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Ishiguro: Service Robots in a Bakery Shop: A Field Study. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems(IROS 2022), 2022. [Arxiv]
  • Paper Junya Nakanishi, Jun Baba, and Hiroshi Ishiguro: Robot-mediated Child–Elderly Interaction: A Pilot Study for Greeting Tasks in Nursery Schools. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction(HRI 2022), pp.63-70, 2022. [ACM]
  • Paper Sichao Song, Jun Baba, Junya Nakanishi, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, and Hiroshi Ishiguro: Costume vs. Autonomous vs. Telepresence: How Social Presence Forms of Tele-operated Robots Influence Customer Behavior. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction(HRI 2022), pp.521-529, 2022. [ACM]
  • Poster Takuya Iwamoto, Jun Baba, Junya Nakanishi, Kotaro Nishi, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, and Hiroshi Ishiguro: Pick-me-up Strategy for a Self-recommendation Agent: A Pilot Field Experiment in a Convenience Store. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI2022), March, 2022. [ACM]
  • Poster Yuki Tamaru, Yasunori Ozaki, Yuki Okafuji, Junya Nakanishi, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, and Jun Baba: 3D Head-Position Prediction in First-Person View by Considering Head Pose for Human-Robot EyeContact. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction(HRI 2022), March, 2022. [ACM]
  • Poster Tomomi Takahashi, Sichao Song, Jun Baba, Junya Nakanishi, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, and Hiroshi Ishiguro: Can an Empathetic Teleoperated Robot Be a Working Mate that Supports Operator’s Mentality?. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction(HRI 2022), March, 2022. [ACM]
  • Paper Takuya Iwamoto, Jun Baba, Kotaro Nishi, Taishi Unokuchi, Daisuke Endo, Junya Nakanishi, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, and Hiroshi Ishiguro: The Effectiveness of Self-Recommending Agents in Advancing Purchase Behavior Steps in Retail Marketing. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 209–217. (Outstanding Paper Award) [ACM]
  • Paper Tomoyuki Ueda, Junya Nakanishi, Itaru Kuramoto, Jun Baba, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, and Hiroshi Ishiguro: Cyberbullying Mitigation by a Proxy Persuasion of a Chat Member Hijacked by a Chatbot. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 202–208. [ACM]
  • Preprint Zhaojie Luo, Shoufeng Lin, Rui Liu, Jun Baba, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Ishiguro: Decoupling Speaker-Independent Emotions for Voice Conversion Via Source-Filter Networks. arXiv:2110.01164, 2021 [Arxiv]
  • Preprint Yuki Okafuji, Yasunori Ozaki, Jun Baba, Junya Nakanishi, Kohei Ogawa, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Ishiguro: Behavioral assessment of a humanoid robot when attracting pedestrians in a mall. arXiv:2109.02771, 2021 [Arxiv]
  • Preprint Yuki Tamaru, Yasunori Ozaki, Yuki Okafuji, Jun Baba, Junya Nakanishi, Yuichiro Yoshikawa: 3D Head-Position Prediction in First-Person View by Considering Head Pose for Human-Robot Eye Contact arXiv:2103.06417, 2021 [Arxiv]
  • Paper Joichiro Amada, Yuki Okafuji, Takahiro Wada, Jun Baba, Junya Nakanishi and Yuichiro Yoshikawa: Behavioral Changes in Passersby by Expanding Embodiment of a Calling Robot. 2021 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2021, pp. 1313-1318. [IEEE]
  • Paper Junya Nakanishi, Tomohisa Hazama, Jun Baba, Sichao Song, Yuichiro Yoshikawa and Hiroshi Ishiguro: Exploring Possibilities of Social Robot’s Interactive Services in the Case of a Hotel Room. 2021 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2021, pp. 925-930.[IEEE]
  • Paper Ryosuke Takada, Kenya Hoshimure, Takuya Iwamoto and Jun Baba: POP Cart: Product Recommendation System by an Agent on a Shopping Cart. 2021 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2021, pp. 59-66. [IEEE]
  • Paper Yuki Okafuji, Jun Baba, Junya Nakanishi, Joichiro Amada, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Ishiguro: Persuasion Strategies for Social Robot to Keep Humans Accepting Daily Different Recommendations. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Virtual Conference, September 2021. [Movie]
  • Poster Sichao Song, Jun Baba, Junya Nakanishi, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, and Hiroshi Ishiguro(2021): Teleoperated Robot Sells Toothbrush in a Shopping Mall: A Field Study. Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 221, 1–6. [ACM]
  • Paper Junya Nakanishi, Jun Baba, Itaru Kuramoto, Kohei Ogawa, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Ishiguro(2020): Smart Speaker vs. Social Robot in a Case of Hotel Room. Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’20). Las Vegas, USA, October, 2020.
  • Poster Sichao Song, Jun Baba, Junya Nakanishi, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, and Hiroshi Ishiguro: Mind The Voice!: Effect of Robot Voice Pitch, Robot Voice Gender, and User Gender on User Perception of Teleoperated Robots. In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–8.
  • Paper  Jun Baba, Song Sichao, Junya Nakanishi, Itaru Kuramoto, Kohei Ogawa, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, and Hiroshi Ishiguro: Teleoperated Robot Acting Autonomous for Better Customer Satisfaction. In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–8. (Acceptance rate < 30%)
  • Poster Yuki Okafuji, Yasunori Ozaki, Jun Baba, Asano Kitahara, Junya Nakanishi, Kohei Ogawa, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Ishiguro: Please Listen to Me: How to Make Passersby Stop by a Humanoid Robot in a Shopping Mall. HRI (Companion) 2020: 381-383
  • Poster Junya Nakanishi, Jun Baba, Itaru Kuramoto: How to Enhance Social Robots' Heartwarming Interaction in Service Encounters. HAI 2019: 297-299
  • Demo  Yuki Okafuji, Jun Baba, Junya Nakanishi: Face-to-Face Contact Method for Humanoid Robots Using Face Position Prediction. HRI 2019: 666
  • Paper  Junya Nakanishi, Itaru Kuramoto, Jun Baba, Kohei Ogawa, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Ishiguro: Soliloquising Social Robot in a Hotel Room. OZCHI 2019: 21-29
  • Paper  Junya Nakanishi, Itaru Kuramoto, Jun Baba, Kohei Ogawa, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Ishiguro: Can a Humanoid Robot Engage in Heartwarming Interaction Service at a Hotel? HAI 2018: 45-53
  • Paper  Itaru Kuramoto, Jun Baba, Kohei Ogawa, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Takayuki Kawabata, Hiroshi Ishiguro: Conversational Agents to Suppress Customer Anger in Text-based Customer-support Conversations. HAI 2018: 114-121
  • Paper  Takanori Maehara, Atsuhiro Narita, Jun Baba, Takayuki Kawabata: Optimal Bidding Strategy for Brand Advertising. IJCAI 2018: 424-432
国内会議 / Domastic Conference
  • Paper 川島遼介,留目沙也,奥岡耕平,岩本拓也,馬場惇,遠藤大介,宮田章裕,大澤正彦: 推薦エージェントの身体が販促に与える影響のフィールド調査, クラウドネットワークロボット研究会.
  • Paper 福嶋稜,鈴木啓介,川島遼介,八木拓真,馬場惇,岩本拓也,遠藤大介,宮田章裕,大澤正彦: 推薦対象に変身する擬態エージェントの提案, クラウドネットワークロボット研究会.
  • Paper 挾間智久,中西惇也,馬場惇,吉川雄一郎,石黒浩: 複数の目標の話題に誘導する対話のための話題戦略並列実行アーキテクチャ, 第27回ロボティクスシンポジア. (ロボティクスシンポジア賞 優秀賞)
  • Poster 天田穣一朗,岡藤勇希,松村耕平,馬場惇,中西惇也: 複数ロボットを用いた疑似的な人だかりによる通行人への集客効果の検証, HAIシンポジウム2022. (IMPRESSIVE SHORT-PAPER AWARD)
  • Poster 坂口太一,岡藤勇希,松村耕平,馬場惇,中西惇也: ロボットとインタラクションを行う通行人のエンゲージメントモデリング, HAIシンポジウム2022.
  • Poster 牧田昌大,岡藤勇希,松村耕平,馬場惇,中西惇也: 公共空間において恥ずかしさがロボットの利用に与える影響の調査, HAIシンポジウム2022. (IMPRESSIVE SHORT-PAPER AWARD)
  • Poster 原拓也, 馬場惇, 岩本拓也: 商品主体推薦:客が選んだ商品による他商品の推薦システム, 人工知能学会全国大会論文集 第 35 回全国大会 (2021).
  • Poster 福嶋稜, 八木拓真, 馬場惇, 岩本拓也, 遠藤大介, 大澤正彦: 購買行動において認知的不協和を顕在化し解消を促進する窓エージェントの提案と検討, HAIシンポジウム2021.
  • Poster 川島遼介, 曾野太一, 岩本拓也, 馬場惇, 遠藤大介, 大澤正彦: 身体のない音エージェントによる広告効果の検討, HAIシンポジウム2021.
  • Poster 片山晋, 馬場惇, 中西惇也, 吉川雄一郎: 対話エージェントの相槌における態度表出に関する有効性の検証, HAIシンポジウム2021.
  • Paper 天田穣一朗, 岡藤勇希, 和田隆広, 馬場惇, 中西惇也, 吉川雄一郎: 呼びかけロボットの身体性拡張による通行人の行動促進, HAIシンポジウム2021.
  • Poster Sichao Song, Jun Baba, Junya Nakanishi, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Ishiguro(2019): Investigating the Effects of Robot Voice Pitch,Robot Voice Gender,and User Gender on User Perception of Teleoperated Robots, HAIシンポジウム2019,2020/3/6.
  • Poster 馬場 惇,坂田 雄亮(2019): Webからの商品特有の体験談抽出手法と商品推薦会話生成システム, HAIシンポジウム2019,2020/3/6.
  • Paper  植田智之,中西惇也,倉本到,馬場惇,吉川雄一郎,小川浩平,石黒浩(2019): いじめ仲裁を促進する発話者を装うチャットボット, 研究報告ヒューマンコンピュータインタラクション(HCI),Vol. 2019-HCI-184,No.16,pp.1-8,2019/7/22,北海道大学.
  • Poster 岡藤勇希,馬場惇,中西惇也,倉本到(2019): ヒューマノイドロボットのための顔位置予測を用いた人の顔追従制御, HAIシンポジウム2018,2019/3/8, 専修大学.
  • Paper  前田 健太郎,中西 惇也,馬場 惇,倉本 到,小川 浩平,吉川 雄一郎,石黒 浩(2018): 意思決定時の自己決定感向上のためのエージェント間対話による推薦情報の周辺提示, 研究報告ヒューマンコンピュータインタラクション(HCI),情報処理学会,Vol. 2019-HCI-181, No.11, pp.1-8. 2019/1/21, 石垣市.
  • Paper  前田 健太郎,中西 惇也,馬場 惇,倉本 到,小川 浩平,吉川 雄一郎,石黒 浩(2018): 意思決定時の自己決定感を維持向上させるためのエージェント間対話の周辺提示による情報推薦, ロボティクス・メカトロニクス講演会2018,日本機械学会 ロボティクス・メカトロニクス部門,2A1-C14. 2018/6/5, 北九州市.
  • Paper  倉本 到,馬場 惇,小川 浩平,吉川 雄一郎,川端 貴幸,石黒 浩(2018): テキストチャットによるクレーム対応における話者の怒り感情を抑制する対話エージェント, 研究報告ヒューマンコンピュータインタラクション(HCI),情報処理学会,Vol. 2018-HCI-176, No. 6, pp.1-8. 2018/1/22, 沖縄大学.
  • Paper  原淳史, 馬場惇, 岩崎祐貴, 田中駿(2017): Entity Linking を用いたユーザのサイト回遊におけるデモグラフィック推定の検討, 人工知能学会全国大会論文集 第 31 回全国大会 (2017).
  • Paper  馬場惇, 岩崎祐貴, 杉尾樹, 北出庫介, 福嶋剛(2015): 検索連動型広告におけるテキスト自動生成とその評価指標の検討, 人工知能学会全国大会論文集 第 29 回全国大会 (2015).
  • Paper  馬場惇, 山本章博(2013): Text Localization in Scene Images by Using Character Energy and Maximally Stable Extremal Regions, 人工知能学会全国大会論文集 第 27 回全国大会 (2013).

書籍・メディア掲載 / Books・Media

受賞 / Awards

  • Co-author 第27回ロボティクスシンポジア ロボティクスシンポジア賞優秀賞, Third Author
  • Co-author Outstanding Paper Award (9th annual International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction), Second Author
  • Co-author Best Poster Award (7th annual International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction), Second Author
  • Co-author March 2019, Most Impressive Poster Award in HAI Symposium 2018, Second Author
    HAIシンポジウム2018 最優秀ポスター賞(共著)

特許 / Patents

  • 取得済 チャットシステム、サーバ、チャット方法、端末装置およびコンピュータプログラム.特許6563466,2017/11/30 出願,2019/8/2 登録.
  • 取得済 情報送信システム、情報送信装置、情報送信方法及びコンピュータプログラム.特願2018-105581,2018/05/31 出願.登録.
  • 取得済 制御システム、制御装置、制御方法及びコンピュータプログラム.特願2020-030607,2020/02/26 出願.登録
  • 取得済 推定システム、推定装置、推定方法及びコンピュータプログラム.特願2020-147859,2020/09/02 出願.登録