Nami Ogawa

Research Scientist at CyberAgent AI Lab | PhD @UTokyo_News_en | VR & HCI | Avatar, Experimental Psychology, Human-AI Interaction, Creativity

[Nami Ogawa @nami_ogawa]

I'm so honored to share that I received the 2022 IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Best Dissertation Award! I couldn't be more pleased to hear that the significance of what I had been working on for my Ph.D. was recognized by the wonderful members of the committee.
#IEEEVR2022 @IEEEVR

[Nami Ogawa @nami_ogawa]

9月には、日本心理学会の公募シンポジウム「声が伝える『私らしさ』と『その人らしさ』を考える 実験心理学・認知神経科学・ヒューマンコンピュータインタラクション・工学における探求」に招待いただきました。多様な専門の方々と議論でき、声研究の奥深さと面白さを改めて実感する貴重な機会でした🙏

[Nami Ogawa @nami_ogawa]

Also very late to post this, but in September I was invited to a symposium on voice at the Japanese Psychological Association to talk about voice ownership via our CHI 2024 paper (https://t.co/yJcr3zZRcr). Grateful for the rich discussions and the invitation! @sussusu_wenah

[Nami Ogawa @nami_ogawa]

I'm very late to post about our #CSCW2025 paper now that the conference is over, but it feels timely: automated paper evaluation is becoming increasingly realistic! Collaboration between humans and evaluative AI in creative work will likely spread far beyond online advertising.

[Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg]

Releasing a new "Agentic Reviewer" for research papers. I started coding this as a weekend project, and @jyx_su made it much better.

I was inspired by a student who had a paper rejected 6 times over 3 years. Their feedback loop -- waiting ~6 months for feedback each time -- was painfully slow. We wanted to see if an agentic workflow can help researchers iterate faster.

When we trained the system on ICLR 2025 reviews and measured Spearman correlation (higher is better) on the test set:
- Correlation between two human reviewers: 0.41
- Correlation between AI and a human reviewer: 0.42

This suggests agentic reviewing is approaching human-level performance.

The agent grounds its feedback by searching arXiv, so it works best in fields like AI where research is freely published there. It’s an experimental tool, but I hope it helps you with your research.

Check it out here: https://t.co/n7ctnDilJJ

[CyberAgent AI事業本部広報 @cyberagent_ai]

AI Labの小川奈美・岡藤勇希・馬場惇らによる論文が、ヒューマン・コンピュータ・インタラクション分野の主要国際会議「CSCW 2025」にて採択されました。
本論文では、広告デザイン現場におけるデザイナーと意思決定AIの協働について調査しています。
https://t.co/IheXAO6L0W

[Nami Ogawa @nami_ogawa]

📄 Paper: "Understanding Collaboration between Professional Designers and Decision-making AI: A Case Study in the Workplace" (CSCW '25)
ACM DL: https://t.co/ARnYkNa4US
Preprint: https://t.co/wG1WuS6lWJ
#CSCW2025 #CSCW #HCI #HumanAICollaboration #Creativity [5/5]

[Nami Ogawa @nami_ogawa]

🧐 What if your paper had to be scored by AI and you couldn't submit until it beat a baseline?

That's everyday life for professional ad designers in our study. In our #CSCW2025 paper, we examined a workplace where designers must incorporate AI scores into their workflow. [1/5]

[Nami Ogawa @nami_ogawa]

In interviews with designers and managers, we examined designers' trust and reliance on AI, the benefits and challenges it brings to everyday design work, including tensions between score and aesthetics, efficiency and fine-tuning overhead, and how they cope with them. [4/5]

[Nami Ogawa @nami_ogawa]

It’s my first step into research on human-AI creative collaboration, as well as my first qualitative study. Lately I’m exploring human creativity in the LLM era, interested in understanding it and designing how to augment creativity. More projects in progress; happy to connect!

[Nami Ogawa @nami_ogawa]

I’m at #CSCW2025 in Bergen 🇳🇴!
My first CSCW, and I’m presenting my first qualitative study, “Understanding Collaboration between Professional Designers and Decision-making AI: A Case Study in the Workplace.”
Talk 🗣️ Wed 9:00 AM, Room Troldtog
Paper 📄👇
https://t.co/ARnYkNa4US

[Nami Ogawa @nami_ogawa]

I’m at #CSCW2025 in Bergen 🇳🇴!
My first CSCW, and I’m presenting my first qualitative study, “Understanding Collaboration between Professional Designers and Decision-making AI: A Case Study in the Workplace.”
Talk 🗣️ Wed 9:00 AM, Room Troldtog
Paper 📄👇
https://t.co/ARnYkNa4US

[Nami Ogawa @nami_ogawa]

@KarnatakNimisha Hi, this is a fascinating study! I'm interested in a similar topic (the challenges of incorporating GAI into creative workflows in advertising design & interface development), so I'd love to discuss it with you! Would you be available for a chat if you are at the venue tomorrow?

[Nami Ogawa @nami_ogawa]

「AIと人間のインタラクションの理解・設計・評価」というテーマで博士インターンを募集しています！
研究例：
・生成AIとデザイナーの共創インターフェースの提案と評価
・信頼・信用されるAIの要因解明とインターフェース設計
・AIの発展・導入が人間社会に与えてきた/与えうる影響に関する理解

[Yuki Okafuji @yuki_okafuji]

今年もAI Labの博士インターン募集始まりました！私のチームでも様々なテーマで応募しています！
- AIと人間のインタラクションの理解・設計・評価
- 新しい広告表現・メディアの提案
- インタラクション空間の設計
- 実世界インタラクションデータを用いた認識・学習
https://t.co/FO0bUJSHuc

[Nami Ogawa @nami_ogawa]

@ZeniYuki0922 りそうで、期待もしてます🙌

（そしてCHI '20の研究の実験でめちゃくちゃお世話になった銭本さんですよね…！その節は本当にありがとうございました🙏東中研に移られたんだな〜といい意味で驚いてました。ご活躍応援しております！）

[Nami Ogawa @nami_ogawa]

@ZeniYuki0922 ありがとうございます！参考になってよかったです😊
対話システム領域、側から見ていてもかなりHCIっぽい問題意識や課題設定がありそうなのに評価体系がNLPのそれというところが（本質的でない部分で）難しそうだなと思ってます。逆に言えば将来的にはどんどん接近していってHCIとNLPのいい融合例とな

[Nami Ogawa @nami_ogawa]

トーク聞きに来てくださった方ありがとうございました🙌 また、たくさんの興味深い質問やコメントをいただきありがとうございました！ Q&Aの時間内では説明がしきれなかったニュアンスや文脈・文献も含めてDory上に回答をコメントさせていただいたので、ぜひ興味がある方はチェックしてみてください😊

[NLPコロキウム @nlp_colloquium]

🚀次回のNLPコロキウムのお知らせ
講演者：小川奈美 @nami_ogawa (@cyberagent_ai)
日時：7/31 (水) 12:00- JST

接客ロボットを遠隔操作する「中の人」に、自身の声をロボットっぽくリアルタイム変換したフィードバックをすると「なりきって」接客できるようになるお話です🤖https://t.co/nXGik7bjd6

[Nami Ogawa @nami_ogawa]

In the context of social robot teleoperation, we studied the effect of real-time altered auditory feedback (AAF), a method to transform the acoustic traits of one’s speech and feed it back to the speaker, to transform the operator’s self-representation toward becoming the robot🤖

[Nami Ogawa @nami_ogawa]

Excited to be presenting our paper “Investigating Effect of Altered Auditory Feedback on Self-Representation, Subjective Operator Experience, and Task Performance in Teleoperation of a Social Robot” at #CHI2024

Video Preview:
https://t.co/lMvV3gSumu

[Nami Ogawa @nami_ogawa]

Presentation Video:
https://t.co/ISAMLn8Rsz

[Nami Ogawa @nami_ogawa]

Excited to be presenting our paper “Investigating Effect of Altered Auditory Feedback on Self-Representation, Subjective Operator Experience, and Task Performance in Teleoperation of a Social Robot” at #CHI2024

Video Preview:
https://t.co/lMvV3gSumu

[Nami Ogawa @nami_ogawa]

Paper:
https://t.co/bVgdmNNpPj