Hironobu Takagi / 高木 啓伸           

Hiro(Hironobu) Takagi is the senior manager of the Accessibility & Healthcare research team at IBM Research – Tokyo. He joined IBM Research in 1999 and received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Tokyo in 2000. He has been investigating Web-accessibility, crowd-sourcing, elderly-care, and real-world accessibility technologies. He is currently leading the indoor navigation project and the collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University for real-world accessibility research. He received best paper awards at ACM ASSETS 2002 and 2009 and won an achievement award from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in 2011. He is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology and ACM.

• AI Suitcase Consortium: https://caamp.jp/
• IoT Health: "最先端のIoTヘルスがもたらす、新たな人と医療との関係", Think Business, 2019年6月 (in Japanese)
• Originator of the ACTF aDesigner.
• Leading NavCog project: Realizing a barrier free society, Februrary 2017. IBM Research blog.
• Collaborating with Cognitive Assistant Lab. at Carnegie Mellon University  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~NavCog/

Twitter: hirotakagi

Googole Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.jp/citations?user=NAAdydEAAAAJ

Awards

• Award from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (2011)
• Best Paper Award, ACM SIGACCESS ASSETS (2009)
• Kiyasu Special Industrial Achievement Award (with four team members), Information Processing Society of Japan (2009)
• Best Paper Award, ACM SIGACCESS ASSETS (2002)

Books

• Asakawa, C. and Takagi, H. Transcoding. A Chapter In Web Accessibility: A Foundation for Research, Simon Harper and Yeliz Yesilada. pp. 231-261, 2008.
• Asakawa, C. and Takagi, H. Text Entry for People with Visual Impairments. In TEXT ENTRY SYSTEMS, Scott MacKenzie, I. and Tanaka-Ishii, K., Ed. Morgan Kaufmann. pp. 305-318, 2006.
• Borodin, Y, Kawanaka, S., Takagi, H., Kobayashi, M., Sato, D., & Asakawa, C. (2010). Social Accessibility. No Code Required: Giving Users Tools to Transform the Web (p. 347). Morgan Kaufmann.
• Takagi, H. (2011a). Technologies for Full-text Digitization. Modern Library. (in Japanese)
• Takagi, H. (2011b). Information accessibility during emergencies. ProVision, (70), 60-65. IBM Japan.　(in Japanese)