About me
I am a MSc student at Hokkaido University, Japan. My research interests lie in interaction design that creates psychologically safe and comfortable ambient environments for artificial entities such as robots, social agents, and everyday tools. Currently, I am researching design principles for robot appearance interfaces that take into account individuals’ levels of social anxiety.
Publications
Journal Papers
- Maino Shinohara, Daisuke Sakamoto and Tetsuo Ono. ソーシャルロボットにおけるプライバシーに配慮した眼のデザインの探索的研究. Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) Journal, Vol. 66 (2). [URL] (in Japanese)
Conference Proceedings
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Maino Shinohara, Daisuke Sakamoto and Tetsuo Ono. 2024. Exploring the Impact of Social Robot’s Eyes on Privacy. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference Series on Robot Ethics and Standards (ICRES 2024). CLAWAR Association, UK, 208–219.
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Maino Shinohara, Daisuke Sakamoto and Tetsuo Ono. 2023. プライバシーに配慮したロボットの眼の表現に関する調査. IEICE Technical Report, vol. 123, no. 154, CNR2023-2, pp. 7-12, 08/2023. [URL] (in Japanese)
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Maino Shinohara, Daisuke Sakamoto, Tetsuo Ono, and James Everett Young. 2023. Understanding Privacy-friendly Design of Robot Eyes. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI ‘23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 133–141. [URL]
Posters
- Maino Shinohara, Daisuke Sakamoto, and Tetsuo Ono. 2025. Robots as Ambient Observers: Investigating the Effects of Robotic Eye Features on Human Perception. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ‘25). IEEE Press, 1629–1633. [URL]
Articles
- Junya Morita, Yuki Ninomiya, Maino Shinohara. (2024). CogSci Meetup 2024 in Hamamatsu 参加報告. Cognitive Studies: Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society, Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 688-691. [URL] (in Japanese)
Thesis
- Maino Shinohara. Investigating the Effects of Robotic Eye Features on Public Self-Awareness in Observed Individuals．Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University [PDF] (in Japanese)
Awards
- Demonstration Award at Cloud Network Robot (CNR 2023) [URL]
Grants and Scholarship
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Hokkaido University EXEX Doctoral Fellowship（Apr 2025 – Present）[URL]
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Hokudai Tech Garage Program 4（Feb 2023 – Mar 2023）[URL]
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Hokudai Tech Garage Program 3（Aug 2022 – Sep 2022）[URL]
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Hokudai Tech Garage Program 2（Feb 2022 – Mar 2022）[URL]
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Nitori International Scholarship for IT University Students（Oct 2023 – Sep 2024）[URL]
Work Experience
Research Internship
University of Manitoba, Canada
- Oct 2023 – Feb 2024 : Visiting MSc Student (Advised by Prof. James E.Young)
Teaching Assistant
Hokkaido University
- 2023, 2024 : Information Science I
- 2024 : Information and Computer Science Experiment II
Contact
shinomai[at]eis.hokudai.ac.jp