Shigeki Amitani
Academic Work Experience
April 2006 - Present University of Technology, Sydney NSW, Australia
Senior Research Assistant
Creativity & Cognition Studios (CCS, directed by Professor Ernest Edmonds), University of
Technology, Sydney (UTS), supported by the Australian CRC Interaction Design (ACID).
Research Focus: Creativity Support, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science,
Knowledge Management Process, Art and Technology, Generative Systems
April 2004 – March 2006 University of Technology, Sydney NSW, Australia
Postdoctoral Fellow
At Creativity & Cognition Studios, funded by the Research Fellowship Division of Japan Society
for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), following on from my PhD study at University of Tokyo.
Research Focus: Creativity Support, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science,
Knowledge Management Process, Art and Technology
Academic Qualifications
April 2001 – March 2004 University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan
PhD
Department of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies
Focus: Creativity Support, Human-Computer Interaction, and Knowledge Management
Thesis: A Method and a System for Supporting the Process of Knowledge Creation
Supervisor: Professor Koichi HORI, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology
(RCAST), University of Tokyo, Japan
A method for investigating impressions of visitors to commercial exhibitions (e.g. Tokyo Motor
Show, World PC Expo, etc.) and a system for analyzing obtained information for next exhibition
design were developed.
April 1998 – March 2001 University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan
M.S. in Information Engineering
Department of Information Engineering
Focus: Creativity Support, Human-Computer Interaction, and Musical Composition
Thesis: Supporting Musical Composition by Externalizing the Composer's Mental Space
Supervisor: Professor Koichi HORI, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology
(RCAST), University of Tokyo, Japan
July 1998 – June 1999 Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim, Norway
Visiting Scholar
Faculty of Tele-communication
Focus: Musical Perception, Musical Composition
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Shigeki Amitani
April 1994 – March 1998 University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan
B.S. in Industrial Mechanical Engineering
Department of Industrial Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Human-Computer Interaction, and Rehabilitation Engineering
Supervisor: Professor Masato TANAKA, University of Tokyo, Japan
Research Skills
Knowledge in developing and evaluating creativity support tools, including human-computer
interaction, artificial intelligence, knowledge management, art and technology, cognitive science,
computer science
Knowledge in interaction design, its implementation and evaluation
Natural Language Processing techniques
Survey methods of cognitive science and ethnography, especially protocol analysis
Java, Perl programming languages for standalone / server-side applications
ActionScript, MXML for Flash applications
Max/MSP Visual programming language
Web application frameworks such as Django, Ruby on Rails
Languages:
Native Japanese
Fluent in English
Knowledge in Norwegian and German
Peer-Reviewed Publications
[Journal] Shigeki Amitani, Ernest Edmonds: “Designing a System for Supporting the
Process of Making a Video Sequence”, Transdisciplinary Digital Art: Sound, Vision and
the New Screen, Communication in Computer and Communication Science (CCIS),
Springer, 2008. (to appear)
[Int’l Conf] Shigeki Amitani, Ernest Edmonds: “Generative Website: Visualising Possible
Stories”, VSMM’07, 23-26 September 2007, Brisbane, Australia, 2007.
[Int’l Conf] Shigeki Amitani, Ernest Edmonds: “A Context Visualiser: the Generative
Website Project”, SIGGRAPH 2007 Sketches & Posters Program, 8-13 August, San Diego,
CA, USA, 2007.
[Int’l Conf] Shigeki Amitani, Ernest Edmonds: “A Method for Visualising Possible Contexts”,
11th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering
Systems (KES2007), Invited Session of Chance Discovery, 12 - 14 September, Vietri sul Mare,
Italy, 2007.
[Int’l Conf] Shigeki Amitani, Ernest Edmonds: “Designing a System for Supporting the Process
of Making a Video Sequence”, Digital Art Weeks Festival'07, 9-14 July, Zurich, Switzerland,
2007.
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of Making a Video Sequence”, Digital Art Weeks Festival'07, 9-14 July, Zurich, Switzerland,
2007.
[Int’l Conf] Shigeki Amitani, Ernest Edmonds: “A Dynamic Concept Base: A Component for
Generative Systems”, Digital Art Weeks Festival'07, 9-14 July, Zurich, Switzerland, 2007.
[Japanese Conf] Shigeki Amitani, Ernest Edmonds: “Algorithms for Scenario Generation
Systems”, The 21st Annual Conference of The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
(JSAI2007), 20-22 June 2007, Miyazaki, Japan, 2007.
[Journal] Linda Candy, Shigeki Amitani, Zafer Bilda: “Practice-Led Strategies for Interactive Art
Research”, CoDesign: International Journal of Co Creation in Design and the Arts, Interactive Art
Collaboration (Special Edition), Vol.2 No. 4 December, pp 209-223, 2006.
[Journal] Zafer Bilda, Brigid Costello, Shigeki Amitani: “Collaborative analysis framework for
evaluating interactive art experience”, Journal of CoDesign vol. 2, #4, December 2006, Taylor
and Francis, pp 225-238, 2006.
[Int’l Conf] Mike Leggett, Shigeki Amitani: “Hypermedia for Portable Video Players (PVP)”,
International Conference on Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization, Sydney, Australia,
25 - 28 July 2006.
[Int’l Conf] Lizzie Muller, Brigid Costello, Shigeki Amitani: “Understanding Situated
Experiences of Interactive Art System”, Interactive Entertainment Conference, 23-25 November
2005, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, 2005.
[Int’l Conf] Shigeki Amitani, Ernest Edmonds: “Knowledge Nebula Crystallizer for Time-based
Information”, Creativity & Cognition 5, London, 12-16 April, 2005.
[Int’l Conf] Andrew Johnston, Shigeki Amitani, Ernest Edmonds: “Amplifying Reflective
Thinking for Musical Performance”, Creativity & Cognition 5, London, 12-16 April, 2005.
[Int’l Conf] Shigeki Amitani, Koichi Hori: “A Method and a System for Supporting the Process
of Chance Discovery - the process of knowledge creation in terms of Chance Discovery”,
Proceedings of First European Workshop on Chance Discovery at the European Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, Valencia, Spain, August, 22-27, pp.62--71, 2004.
[PhD Dissertation] Shigeki Amitani: “A Method and a System for Supporting the Process
of Knowledge Creation”, PhD dissertation, University of Tokyo, 2004.
[Int’l Conf] Shigeki Amitani, Mikihiko Mori, Hirohito Shibata, Hiroko Shoji, Koichi Hori:
“Knowledge Nebula Crystallizer for Knowledge Liquidization & Crystallization - From a
Theory to a Methodology of Knowledge Management”, Expertise in Design, University of
Technology, Sydney, 17 – 19 November 2003.
[Int’l Conf] Shigeki Amitani, Mikihiko Mori, Koichi Hori: “An Approach to the Supporting
System for Event Planning - Toward a Knowledge Reconstruction Engine -”, ICONIP'02-
SEAL'02-FSKD'02 Abstracts, pp.208, 2002.
[Int’l Conf] Shigeki Amitani, Mikihiko Mori, Koichi Hori: “An Approach to a Knowledge
Reconstruction Engine for Supporting Event Planning”, Proc. of Fall Symposium on Chance
Discovery of AAAI 2002, pp.61-69, 2002.
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[Int’l Conf] Shigeki Amitani, Koichi Hori: “Supporting Musical Composition by
Externalizing the Composer's Mental Space”, Proc. of Creativity & Cognition 4, pp.165-
172, at Loughborough Univ., 13-16 Oct 2002.
[Int’l Conf] Shigeki Amitani, Mikihiko Mori, Koichi Hori: “An Approach to a Knowledge
Reconstruction Engine for Supporting Event Planning”, Proc. of KES2002, Part 2, pp. 1281--
1285, E. Damiani et al. (Eds.), IOS Press, 2002.
(More Japanese peer-reviewed papers. All papers available at:
http://shigekifactory.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2&Itemid=1)
Collaborative Art Projects
Shaping Form by Ernest Edmonds, exhibited at Conny Dietzschold Gallery, 2 Dank Street
Galleries, Sydney, Australia, 15 September - 31 October 2007.
(http://www.artnet.com/Galleries/Artists_detail.asp?G=&gid=310&which=&aid=424077646&ViewArtistBy=on
line&rta=http://www.artnet.com)
Mandane-Trace by Ian Gwilt , exhibited at the Beta_space , Sydney, Australia, August -
September, 2007. (http://www.betaspace.net.au/content/view/43/)
Shaping Form by Ernest Edmonds, exhibited at Speculative Data and the Creative Imaginary
Shared Innovative Visions between Art and Technology, National Academy of Sciences Gallery,
Washington D.C., United States, June 3 - August 24, 2007.
(http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/CC2007/artexhitbition.shtml)
GEO Landscape by Chris Bowman, exhibited at the Beta_space in the Powerhouse Museum,
Sydney, Australia, 27 April – 16 June 2007. (http://www.betaspace.net.au/content/view/39/)
Other Academic Activities
Conference Chairs
The Webmaster of Engage IAAE 2006 conference, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia,
26-28 November, 2006. (http://www.creativityandcognition.com/engage06/)
The Local Organisation Chair of Intelligent User Interfaces 2006, University of Technology,
Sydney, Australia, 29 January – 1 February, 2006.
Panel Discussion
“Doing things in public: research collaborations between cultural and research organisation”, a
panel discussion at Speculation and Innovation Conference 2005 - Applying Practice-Led
Research in the Creative Industries - Wednesday, 30 March, 2005.
Invited Speech / Seminars
“Designing Creativity Support Tools”, HAIL seminar series at ICT Centre of CSIRO, Tuesday
10th April 2007. (video: http://www.ict.csiro.au/HAIL/Abstracts/2007/ShigekiAmitani.htm)
“Creativity Support Research at Creativity & Cognition Studios”, at Dentsu Inc. (The largest
Japanese advertising company, http://www.dentsu.com/), 8 August 2006.
“Designing Creativity Support Tool”, presentation at Human Understanding Machines group
meeting at National Information and Communication Technology Australia, 29 July, 2004.
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“A Methodology for Supporting Creative Activities”, at the Faculty seminar, Faculty of IT,
University of Sydney, Australia, 29 April 2006.
“Designing Creativity Support Tool”, at the Faculty seminar, Faculty of IT, University of Sydney,
Australia, 30 June 2004.
Recent Research Paper Reviews
A PhD dissertation review (before submission, March 2008)
Design Studies (Journal, English, October 2007)
Information Processing Society of Japan (Journal, English, May 2007)
Knowledge-Based Systems (Journal, March 2007)
The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineering (Journal, March 2007)
5 papers for Creativity & Cognition 2007 (International Conference, 13-15 June 2007,
Washington D.C., US)
Research Papers and Grants Submitted / In Preparation
[Grant] “Generative Media Montage”, Australian Research Council Grant, Discovery Project
Scheme for 2009 (in review)
[Int’l Conf.] Shigeki Amitani and Ernest Edmonds: “A Generative Website Project”,
SIGGRAPH Asia 2008. (in preparation)
[Journal] Shigeki Amitani and Ernest Edmonds: “Our Content“: A Generative Art Website
Project”, the Special Issue on Creativity and Interaction Design, Design Studies. (in review)
Grants Received
Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research Abroad funded by Japan Society for the Promotion
Science (JSPS) for two-year research in Creativity and Cognition Studios at UTS (from 1st April
2004 to 31st March 2006)
(JSPS: Fellowships: http://www.jsps.go.jp/english/e-fellow/fellow.html)
Tateishi Science and Technology Foundation for the PhD research
(Tateishi Science and Technology Foundation: http://www.tateisi-f.org/)
Referees
Professor Ernest Edmonds
Director of the Creativity & Cognition Studios, Faculty of IT, University of Technology, Sydney,
AUSTRALIA
Postal Address: Creativity & Cognition Studios, Faculty of IT, University of Technology,
Sydney, PO Box 123 Broadway, NSW 2007, AUSTRALIA
Email: [email protected]
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Shigeki Amitani
Tel: +61 (0)2 9514 4640
Fax: +61 (0)2 9012 0067
Professor Koichi Hori
Director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Research Center for Advanced Science and
Technology, University of Tokyo, Japan
Postal address: AI Laboratory, Bldg 4 room 513, Research Center for Advanced Science and
Technology, University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8904, JAPAN
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +81 (0)3 5452 5289
Fax: +81 (0)3 5452 5312
Dr. Linda Candy
A senior researcher in the Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition at the University of
Sydney
Postal address: The Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition, University of Sydney,
NSW 2006, AUSTRALIA
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +61 (0)400 488 764
