Research

I study the conditions under which human potential opens up.

The papers and Creative Copilot test this question in the setting of generative AI and learning.

Research questions

• Trying

  What has to be true before people will start testing an idea that has not taken shape yet, and try again after it fails?

• Evaluation and opportunity

  Why does a single evaluation or failure, or age and background, constrain the range of future opportunities?

• Being stuck, reframed

  What comes into view when being unable to act is read not as a personal trait but as a condition of the surrounding environment?

Papers

• Effects of Vibe Coding on Novice Programmers’ Motivation to Create Applications (in Japanese)

  Proceedings of the Information Education Symposium 2026 (IPSJ), pp. 103–110, 2026, Peer-reviewed

  Co-author

• Educational Effects of Pair Programming with Generative AI for Novice Learners

  New Perspectives in Science Education 15th Ed., pp. 330–337, 2026, Peer-reviewed

  Co-author

• Supporting Generative Art Creation in Online Classes Using the Generative AI Chatbot Creative Copilot for Distance Learning University Students: An Evaluation of a Novel Approach to STEAM Education Practice (in Japanese)

  STEM Education Research Vol. 7, pp. 32–41, 2025, Peer-reviewed

  First author

Patents and committees

• Japanese Patent No. 7714598, "Learning Support System"

  A learning-support system that determines a learner's traits from their responses during individual study and presents trait-based data during subsequent group learning, registered July 2025

  Inventor

• Study Group on Accelerating the Real-World Deployment of AI Technologies for Estimating Perception from Brain Data

  Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, PRISM Program, October 2021 – March 2022

  Committee member

Conference presentations

Newest first. 5 items

• Practice of a learning-by-teaching app development workshop

  JSET Spring 2025 National Conference, March 2025

  Co-author

• MEATS Education: A method for developing self-driven talent through vicarious-experience stories for the era of digital collaboration

  RESEARCH Conference 2024 (poster), May 2024

  Co-author

• MEATS Education: A method for developing self-driven talent through vicarious-experience stories for the era of digital collaboration

  INTERACTION 2024 / IPSJ (interactive presentation), March 2024

  Co-author

• R&D of a community platform to enhance sense of belonging

  Japan STEM Education Society, March 2023

  Co-author

• Survey of learning strategies and executive function in correspondence vs. on-campus art university courses

  Japan STEM Education Society 4th Annual Conference, October 2021

  Presenter

Talks and lectures

Newest first. 13 items

• The power of serendipity: how it works, and how to work with it — skills for the world ahead

  Tokyo Metropolitan Komaba High School, 2025

• Advising on education policy

  Miyoshi Educational Policy Research Institute, 2025

• Advising a lesson-study group on promoting inquiry-based learning

  Miyoshi Inquiry Learning Promotion Committee, 2025

• What will it mean to "work" in the society ahead?

  Ueno Gakuen Junior & Senior High School, 2024

• What is the "inquiry-based learning" needed in future society?

  Miyoshi Board of Education Commissioned Research Report Meeting, 2024

• What is STEAM education for the future

  Kanagawa Prefectural Yokosuka High School, 2023

• Thinking about STEAM education going forward

  Tokinoki Gakuen High School, 2023

• Prototyping and user research in service design

  Career Gateway 2023 Summer Fes., 2023

• Experience service design hands-on

  Tokyo University of Technology, School of Media, 2023

• Potential of generative AI in high school education

  Nagasaki Nanzan High School, 2023

• Prototyping in service design: app development with no-code tools

  Career Gateway 2022, 2022

• Creative technology education: practice and outlook

  Creative Technology Forum 2021, 2021

• New possibilities of ICT support in early childhood education

  30th Japan Society of Early Childhood Education, self-organized symposium, 2020

Teaching

Newest first. 10 items

• Creative Technology Studio

  Art University, 2021–present

• Information Design II

  Art University (distance learning), 2020–present

• Information Expression Studio II

  Art University, 2020–present

• Information Systems II

  Art University (distance learning), 2020–present

• Information Expression Studio I

  Art University, 2019–present

• Design Fundamentals II

  Art University (distance learning), 2020–2025

• Information Systems I

  Art University (distance learning), 2020–2025

• Information Expression Research

  Art University Graduate School, 2019–2023

• Network Practicum A

  Public University, 2019–2020

• Advanced AI Project (special lectures)

  Private University (guest lecturer), 2016–2018

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