KES2025 invited session on Design of Nigiwai: Places Embracing Values

10, 11, & 12 Sept, 2025

Ritsumeikan University Osaka Ibaraki Campus (OIC)
Ritsumeikan University
2-150 Iwakura-cho, Ibaraki
Osaka 567-8570 JAPAN

Session Themes: [Design of Nigiwai: Places Embracing Values]
So far, we have been organizing sessions on Chance Discovery, that is research to study how to discover rare or novel events which may potentially cause significant situation but may also cause fatal accidents. We have discussed limitations of conventional methods for machine learning and data mining, and introduced concepts and methods for human-based discovery. In order to deal with events in the real world, we integrated artificial, natural, and social intelligence. In addition, we learned it is important to discuss effective the evaluation, selection, and creation of such events. Furthermore, we discussed the ``curation'' of chance events, which implies to actively present hints of chance to users. All in all, we acquired the research direction toward sensing, presenting, using, and creating values - both positive and negative - in the real world.
This session will discuss problems relevant to how to design Nigiwai, which means the state of a place that accepts diverse people sustainably. This does not mean a sheer ``bustling'' or ``lively'' place where many people or a lot of money gather, but a place where opportunities and risks coexist; that is, an environment where the discovery and creation of values can be expected through the crossover of ideas and mutual stimulation, but if not observed and managed well, individuals may suffer from infectious diseases, crime, and anxiety (this balance between expectations and fears may be a design factor). Thus, we deal with Nigiwai as an environment for the discovery and management of chances.
In this session, we aim to exchange participants' studies, wisdoms, and opinions relevant to this topic and discussing issues and methods for designing, managing, and optimizing Nigiwai places.

Topics to be discussed (will not be restricted to):

Continuing from the previous invited session;

Reference:

Yukio Ohsawa, Sae Kondo, Yi Sun, and Kaira Sekiguchi: Generating a Map of Well-being Regions Using Multiscale Moving Direction Entropy on Mobile Sensors, AAAI Spring Symposium. pp. 389--390 (2024)

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All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, significance, soundness and clarity. At least two referees will review each submission independently.

Publication:

All accepted papers will be published in the KES2024 Proceedings (Procedia Computer Science).
Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in the KES Journal (International Journal of Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Engineering Systems) published by IOS Press, and other journals.

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