Committees

Standing Steering Committee

• Hisato Kobayashi (Chair), Hosei Univ.
• Carlo Avizzano, Scuola Superiore S.Anna
• Massimo Bergamasco, Scuola Superiore S.Anna
• Pierre Blazevic, University of Versailles
• Martin Buss, Technische Universität München
• Kerstin Dautenhahn, University of Hertfordshire
• Toshio Fukuda, Nagoya Univ.
• Fumio Hara, Tokyo Univ. of Science
• Hiroshi Harashima, Univ. of Tokyo
• Seiji Hata, Kagawa Univ.
• Kohji Kamejima, Osaka Institute of Technology
• Kazuhiko Kawamura, Vanderbilt Univ.
• Dong-Soo Kwon, KAIST
• Erwin Prassler, Bonn-Rhein-Sieg Univ.
• Shuzhi Sam Ge,
• H.F. Machiel van der Loos, VA Palo Alto Health Care System
• Tomio Watanabe, Okayama Prefectural Univ.

Organizing Committee

General Chair:

• Takanori Shibata (AIST)

Program Committee Chair:

• Hideki Hashimoto (Univ. of Tokyo)

Regional Program Co-chairs:

• Young J. Cho
• Henrik I. Christensen
• Eugenio Guglielmelli

Finance Chair:

• Yasushi Nakauchi (Univ. of Tsukuba)

Local Arrangement Chair:

• Toru Oshima (Toyama Prefectural University)

Local Arrangement Co-chair:

• Kenichi Koyanagi (Toyama Prefectural University)

Publication Chair:

• Noriaki Ando (AIST)

Publication Co-Chair:

• Kazuyuki Morioka (Meiji University)

Publicity Co-Chairs:

• Norihiro Hagita (ATR)
• Abderrahmane Kheddar (JRL CNRS)
• Joo-Ho Lee (Ritsumeikan Univ.)
• Yoky Matsuoka (University of Washington)

Exhibition Chair:

• Yasuharu Kunii (Chuo Univ.)

Video Session Chair:

• Tetsuo Kotoku (AIST)

Video Session Co-Chair:

• Tomotaka Takahashi (ROBO-GARAGE)
• Natsuki Yamanobe (AIST)

Tutorial/Workshop Co-Chairs:

• Nak-Young Chong (JAIST)
• Mihoko Otake (Univ. of Tokyo)

Special Session Co-Chairs:

• Michita Imai (Keio University)
• Hiroshi Kobayashi (Tokyo University of Science)
• Masaya Takasaki (Saitama Univ.)

Secretariat:

• Kazuyoshi Wada (Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.)