KATSUNO Hirofumi
Faculty of Social Studies Department of Media, Journalism and Communications
Professor
Last Updated :2024/05/06

Researcher Profile and Settings

    Research Interests

    • 人工知能
    • ロボット
    • ポストヒューマン
    • affect
    • emotion
    • intimacy
    • Narrative and Story
    • Future
    • ポピュラーカルチャー
    • Media Studies
    • 文化人類学

    Research Areas

    • Humanities & social sciences / Cultural anthropology and folklore
    • Humanities & social sciences / Sociology

    Research Experience

    • Doshisha University, Faculty of Social Studies Department of Media, Journalism and Communication, Professor, 2024/04 - Today
    • Doshisha University, Faculty of Social Studies, Department of Media, Journalism and Communications, 准教授, 2016/04 - 2024/03
    • University of Cambridge, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Visiting Scholar, 2021/04 - 2022/03
    • Free University of Berlin, Dept. of History and Cultural Studies, Associate Researcher, 2017/08 - 2018/09
    • Osaka University of Economics Faculty of Human Sciences Department of Human Sciences Associate Professor, 2014/04 - 2016/03
    • Doshisha University School of Social Studies, Department of Media Studies Assistant Professor, 2010/04 - 2014/03
    • University of Hawaii, 2009/07 - 2009/08

    Education

    • University of Hawaii, Manoa, (Anthropology), 1999/08 - 2010/05
    • University of Hawai`i at Manoa and the East West Center, International Cultural Studies Graduate Certificate Program, 2001/08 - 2003/05
    • University of Arizona, (Anthropology), 1997/08 - 1999/05
    • Dokkyo University, Faculty of Foreign Language, Department of German, 1993/04 - 1997/03

    Degree

    • B.A., Dokkyo University
    • B.A. (Anthropology), University of Arizona
    • M.A. (Anthropology), University of Hawaii, Manoa
    • Ph.D. (Anthropology), University of Hawaii, Manoa

    Association Memberships

    • Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Apr. 2018, 9999
    • 日本メディア学会
    • The American Anthropological Association
    • 日本文化人類学会
    • The Association for Asian Studies
    • カルチュラル・スタディーズ学会

    Committee Memberships

    • 企画委員会委員, 2023/09 - Today, 日本メディア学会, Society
    • Special Interest Group on Law and Ethics of Robotics (member), 2020/04 - Today, The Robotics Society of Japan, Society
    • (理論研究部会・幹事), 2011 - , 日本マス・コミュニケーション学会, Society, 日本マス・コミュニケーション学会

    Awards

    • 第20回日本認知心理学会優秀発表賞 【総合性評価部門】
      Jun. 2023, 日本認知心理学会, ターゲットの低出現頻度効果の年齢差と介入効果の検討

    Published Papers

    • The Japanese Pursuit of Human–Robot Companionship
      Hirofumi Katsuno; Daniel White
      Current History, University of California Press, 122(847) 308 - 313, 01 Nov. 2023, Scientific journal
    • Modelling emotion, perfecting heart: disassembling technologies of affect with an android bodhisattva in Japan
      Daniel White; Hirofumi Katsuno
      Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Wiley, 29(1) 103 - 123, Mar. 2023, Scientific journal
    • Artificial emotional intelligence beyond East and West.
      Daniel White; Hirofumi Katsuno
      Internet Policy Review, 11(1), Feb. 2022, Scientific journal
    • TOWARD AN AFFECTIVE SENSE OF LIFE: Artificial Intelligence, Animacy, and Amusement at a Robot Pet Memorial Service in Japan
      Daniel White; Hirofumi Katsuno
      Cultural Anthropology, 36(2) 225 - 251, May 2021, Scientific journal
    • Cultural Anthropology for Social Emotion Modeling: Principles of Application toward Diversified Social Signal Processing
      Daniel White; Hirofumi Katsuno
      Conference Proceedings, 8th International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2019), Aug. 2019, International conference proceedings
    • Robot Dreams: Play, Escape and Masculine-Romanticism in Japanese Techno-Culture.
      Hirofumi Katsuno
      PAN-JAPAN: The International Journal of Japanese Diaspora, 8(1) 104 - 127, 2013, Scientific journal
    • The robot's heart: Tinkering with humanity and intimacy in robot-building
      Hirofumi Katsuno
      Japanese Studies, 31(1) 93 - 109, May 2011, Scientific journal
    • Materializing dreams : humanity, masculinity, and the nation in contemporary Japanese robot culture
      Hirofumi Katsuno
      Doctoral Dissertation (University of Hawai'i at Manoa), May 2010, Doctoral thesis
    • Face-to-Face: Online Subjectivity in Contemporary Japan
      Hirofumi Katsuno; Christine Yano
      Asian Studies Review, 26 205 - 231, 2002, Scientific journal

    MISC

    • GPAI仕事の未来 2022年調査報告書
      Oct. 2023, Others
    • Social Robot as Companion Species
      Hirofumi Katsuno; Daniel White
      Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, The Robotics Society of Japan, 41(1) 40 - 43, Jan. 2023, Introduction scientific journal
    • HandsOn Robots: Designing Touch in Japan.
      White, Daniel; Hirofumi Katsuno
      Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, December 1 (Cultural Anthropology)., 01 Dec. 2022, Report scientific journal
    • スポーツ観戦における臨場感の創出についての予備的考察②−触覚技術に注目して
      勝野宏史
      大阪経大論集, 72(6), Mar. 2022, Report research institution
    • スポーツ観戦における臨場感の創出についての予備的考察
      勝野宏史
      大阪経大論集, 71(1) 151 - 160, 2020, Report research institution
    • ハワイの『キカイダー』ブーム—ファンダム研究の視点から
      勝野 宏史
      人間科学研究, 大阪経済大学人間科学研究会, (8) 54 - 63, Mar. 2014
    • (Book Review) Screening Enlightenment: Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction of Defeated Japan
      Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 32 669 - 671, 2012
    • (Book Review) Mono to Otoko no Sengoshi
      Social Science Japan Journal, 12 301 - 303, 2009

    Books etc

    • Imagining AI: How the World Sees Intelligent Machines
      Stephen Cave; Kanta Dihal; Tomasz Hollanek; Hirofumi Katsuno; Yang Liu; Apolline Taillandier; Daniel White
      Oxford University Press, May 2023, Contributor, [Ch.2] The Meanings of AI: a Cross-cultural Comparison
    • Imagining AI: How the World Sees Intelligent Machines
      Hirofumi Katsuno; Daniel White; Edited by; Stephen Cave; Kanta Dihal
      Oxford University Press, May 2023, Contributor, [Ch.19] Engineering Robots with Heart in Japan: The Politics of Cultural Difference in Artificial Emotional Intelligence, Scholarly book
    • Consumer Culture Theory in Asia: History and Contemporary Issues
      Hirofumi Katsuno; Daniel White; Edited; by Minowa, Y; Belk, R
      Routledge, Dec. 2021, Contributor, Haptic Creatures: Tactile Affect and Human–Robot Intimacy in Japan, Scholarly book
    • Encyclopedia of Media & Communication Studies
      KATSUNO Hirofumi
      Sekaishisosha, May 2019, Contributor, Media Experiences in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
    • Introducing Japanese Popular Culture
      Hirofumi Katsuno; Edited by; Alisa Freedman; Toby Slade
      Routledge, Jan. 2018, Contributor, The Grotesque Hero: Depictions of Justice in Tokusatsu Superhero Television Programs
    • Escaping Japan: Reflections on Estrangement and Exile in the Twenty-First Century
      Hirofumi Katsuno; Edited by Blai Guarné; Paul Hansen
      Routledge, Nov. 2017, Contributor, Robot dreams: play, escape and masculine-romanticism in Japanese techno-culture
    • Assembling Japan: Modernity, Technology and Global Culture
      Hirofumi Katsuno; Edited by Dolores Martinez; Griseldis Kirsch; Merry White
      Peter Lang, Dec. 2015, Contributor, Branding Humanoid Japan
    • Assembling Japan: Modernity, Technology and Global Culture
      Griseldis Kirsch; Wolfram Manzenreiter; John Horne; Merry White; Hirofumi Katsuno; Dolores Martinez
      Peter Lang, 2015, Contributor, Afterword: Reassembling after 3/11
    • At Home and in the Field: Ethnographic Encounters in Asia and the Pacific Islands
      Hirofumi Katsuno; Edited by Suzanne Finney; Guido Pigliasco; Mary Conran; Forrest Young
      University of Hawaii Press, 2015, Contributor, The Cultural Power of Robot in Japan, Scholarly book
    • Television, Japan, and Globalization
      Hirofumi Katsuno; Edited by; Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto; Eva. Tsai; JungBong Choi
      Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2010, Contributor, Becoming Kikaida: Japanese Television and Generational Identity in Hawai'i, Scholarly book
    • The Multilingual InternetLanguage, Culture, and Communication Online$ The Multilingual Internet: Language, Culture, and Communication Online
      Edited by Brenda Danet; Susan Herring
      Oxford University Press, 2007, Contributor, Kaomoji and Expressivity in a Japanese Housewives' Chartoom, Scholarly book
    • In Godzilla's Footsteps: Japanese Pop Culture Icons on the Global Stage
      Hirofumi Katsuno; Edited by; W. Tsutsui; M. Ito
      Palgrave, 2006, Contributor, Kikaida for Life: Cult Fandom in a Japanese Live-action TV show in Hawai'i, Scholarly book
    • Pikachu's Global Adventure: The Rise and Fall of Pokémon
      Edited by Joseph Tobin
      Duke University Press, 2004, Contributor, Localizing the Pokémon TV series for the American Market, Scholarly book

    Presentations

    • 感情認識技術を介した人と機械との関係性
      勝野宏史
      「新ビジネス」フォーラム(同志社大学)ー飛躍的に進化する人工知能・AIとヒトとの関わり, 08 Mar. 2023, Public discourse,
    • 「熱」Passion-AI時代、モノにうつる作り手の熱はどこにいくのか
      勝野宏史; 平林克己
      「うつす展」特別講演(トヨタ産業技術記念館), 04 Dec. 2022, Others,
    • 「文化」をめぐるロボット工学と人文知との接合の可能性
      勝野宏史
      第40回日本ロボット学会学術講演会, 06 Sep. 2022, Oral presentation
    • To Touch a Headless Cat: The Rise of Haptic Creatures in Japanese Robot Culture.
      Hirofumi Katsuno; Daniel White
      East Asian Seminar Series, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge., Feb. 2022, Public discourse
    • Animating Amusement: The Seriousness of Robot Play in Contemporary Japan.
      Daniel White; Hirofumi Katsuno
      Japan Research Centre Research Programme (SOAS, UK)., Feb. 2022, Public discourse
    • 多元化する時代における人とロボットとの関係性 ー文化人類学の視点からー
      勝野宏史
      第38回日本ロボット学会学術講演会, 09 Oct. 2020, Keynote oral presentation
    • From Social Presence to Social Agent: Tactile and Affective Affordances of Companion Robots in Japan
      KATSUNO Hirofumi
      American Anthropological Association annual meeting (Vancouver Convention Center), 21 Nov. 2019, Oral presentation
    • The Robotic Touch: Tactile Affects and the formation of Intimacy in the Human-Robot Interaction.
      KATSUNO Hirofumi
      Society of East Asian Anthropology annual conference (Waseda University), Aug. 2019, Oral presentation
    • ロボットをめぐるナショナリズムの変容
      カルチュラルタイフーン2018, Jun. 2018, Oral presentation
    • First Encounters in Human Robot Interaction: Exploring Technical Methods for Affective Anthropology
      with Daniel White
      Robots and Artificial Intelligence in Contemporary Japanese Society Symposium, Sophia University (Tokyo, Japan), Jun. 2018, Nominated symposium
    • Time with the Robot: Production of Sociality and Intimacy in Human-Robot Interaction in Contemporary Japan
      Sense of Time Conference, Doshisha University, May 2018, Public symposium
    • Material Dreams : Techno-Utopic Visions in Japan’s 1960s and 1970s Plastic Model Culture
      AAS-In-ASIA (Association for Asian Studies) conference, Doshisha University, Kyoto., Jun. 2016, Oral presentation
    • Between Human and Machine: The Rise of Social Robots and the Formation of Robotic Presence in Contemporary Japan
      The Labor of Animation Conference, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Jun. 2016, Nominated symposium
    • "Residues of Technological Utopia: Formation of Ruinophilia in Post-Industrial Japan"
      Japan Anthropology Workshop, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2015, Oral presentation
    • Chasing Paradise Lost: the Formation of Ruinophilia in Contemporary Japan
      The Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, 2014, Oral presentation, Philadelphia, PA, USA
    • Chasing Paradise Lost: Formation of Ruinophilia in Post-Industrial Japan
      The Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association, 2014, Oral presentation
    • Chasing Paradise Lost: the Boom of Modern Ruins in Contemporary Japan
      The Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association, 2013, Oral presentation, Chicago, IL, USA
    • The Robot's Heart: The Enchantment of Artificial Life in Contemporary Japan
      Culture as Critical Theory Conference, 2012, Oral presentation, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society, Taiwan
    • Between Human and the Machine: Humanoid Robots as a Companion Species in Contemporary Japan
      The Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, 2012, Oral presentation, Toronto, Canada
    • 世界の再魔術化ーメディア論の視点から
      日本マス・コミュニケーション学会・秋期研究大会-理論研究部会ワークショップ-, 2011, Public symposium
    • Materializing Dreams: Masculinity and Technology In Japanese "Robophilia" [Session Organized, "Mind in Matter: the Enchantment of Things in Contemporary Japan"]
      The Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association, 2011, Oral presentation, Montreal, Canada
    • Escaping to the "Future"? : Japan's Techno-Romanticism in Humanoid Robots
      The Annual Conferene of the American Anthropological Association, 2010, Oral presentation, New Orleans, LA, USA
    • Robotic Intimacy: Recuperation of selfhood in contemporary Japan
      The Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, 2009, Oral presentation, Chicago, IL, USA
    • Robotic Humanity: Identity and Materiality in Robot -building in Contemporary Japan
      The Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association, 2009, Oral presentation, Philadelphia, PA, USA
    • Romanticizing Technology: Power and Pleasure in Robot-building in Contemporary Japan [Session Organized, "Technology, Masculinity, and Modernity in Contemporary Japan"]
      The Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association, 2008, Oral presentation, San Francisco, CA, USA
    • Robot Dreams: Formation of Self and Masculine Identity in Japanese Techno-Culture
      Japan Anthropology Workshop, 2007, Oral presentation, University of Oslo, Norway
    • Nationalizing Technology: Production and Consumption of Humanoid Robots in Contemporary Japan
      The Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, 2007, Oral presentation, Boston, MA, USA
    • Materializing Dreams: Technology, Humanity and the Post-modern Tension in Contemporary Japanese Robotics
      The Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association, 2007, Oral presentation, Washington D.C., USA
    • ハワイにおける日本の70年代特撮ヒーロー番組のリバイバル:世代アイデンティティの商品化とその消費
      日本文化人類学会研究大会, 2005, Oral presentation, 北海道大学
    • Marketing a Japanese Live-Action TV Program in Hawai'i
      In Godzilla's Footsteps: Japanese Pop Culture Icons on the Global Stage, 2004, Oral presentation, University of Kansas
    • Kikaida is Our Hero!: Local Nostalgia for a Japanese-Live-Action T.V. Show in Hawai'i
      The Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, 2003, Oral presentation, New York, USA
    • Face-Off: On-Line Embodiment in Contemporary Japan
      Media in Transition 2, 2002, Oral presentation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA
    • Localizing Pokemon: Comparing Japanese and English Versions of the T.V. show
      Nintentionality, or Pikachu's Global Adventure, 2000, Oral presentation, University of Hawaii, Manoa / The East-West Center, Honolulu, HI, USA

    Research Projects

    • 「共棲ロボット」との親密な関係形成におけるELSIに関する越境型文理融合研究
      稲谷龍彦; 浅田稔; 岡田美智男; 上出寛子; 阿部修士; 上田祥行; 勝野宏史
      科学技術振興機構(JST), 科学技術の倫理的・法制度的・社会的課題(ELSI)への包括的実践研究開発プログラム, 2023/10 -2027/03, Coinvestigator
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      勝野 宏史
      Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 2022/04 -2025/03, Principal investigator, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Doshisha University
    • マルチ・スピーシーズ社会における法的責任分配原理
      稲谷龍彦, 浅田稔, 阿部修士, 上田祥行, 勝野宏史
      科学技術振興機構(JST)/社会技術研究開発センター(RISTEX), 人と情報のエコシステム(HITE), 2020/01 -2023/09, Coinvestigator
    • Emotional Machines: The Technological Transformation of Intimacy in Japan
      欧州学術会議, Starting Grant, 2017/08 -2018/09, Coinvestigator, Competitive research funding
    • 高度経済成長期における少年文化の形成―プラモデル製作ブームを中心に
      勝野宏史
      日本学術振興会, 科学研究費助成事業, 2014/04 -2017/03, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding, 基盤研究(C)
    • 日本のロボット文化の形成に関する文化人類学的研究
      2005 -2010, Competitive research funding
    • Living through Characters: fetishism or identity formation in contemporary consumer culture in Japan
      松下幸之助記念財団, 研究助成, 2004 -2005, Principal investigator

    Teaching Experience

    • プロジェクトスタディ
      立命館大学
    • 比較メディア論
      同志社大学
    • メディア学概論
      大阪経済大学
    • ソーシャルメディア論
      大阪経済大学
    • Japanese Culture & Behavior
      University of Hawaii, Manoa
    • 情報行動論
      同志社大学
    • メディア学実習
      同志社大学
    • コミュニケーション論
      同志社大学
    • Japanese Culture & Behavior
      University of Hawaii, Manoa
    • International Communication
      同志社大学