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Mondheera PITUXCOOSUVARN  Ph.D.

Assistant Professor 

Murakami Laboratory, College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan  University 

Mondheera received her Master's and Doctoral degree from the Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University(Kyoto, JAPAN). She is now an assistant professor of the College of Information Science and Engineering. She is interested in the areas of human-computer interaction, computer-supported collaborative work, and collaborative learning. In addition, her interest also includes design thinking and design method. Her current project focuses on creating an intelligent agent to facilitate intercultural and multilingual workshops.

CONTACT

Email : mondheera {at} fc.ritsumei.ac.jp

Website : www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~mond-p/

Address : Ritsumeikan University (Biwako-Kusatsu Campus)1-1-1 Noji-higashi, Kusatsu 525-8577, Shiga, Japan

EDUCATION 

2020

Ph.D. in Informatics (Collaborative Program in Design), Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University (Kyoto, JAPAN)

Thesis: Improving Mutual Understanding in MT-Mediated Communication

2016

Master of Informatics, Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University (Kyoto, JAPAN)

Thesis: Supporting Interculrual Collaboration with Cultural Asymmetry

2003

Bachelor of Science, Individual-Based Program(IBP) Majored in Science and Technology(Computer Engineering), College of Multidisciplinary Science, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi

Thesis: Automated Music Composition Using Memetic Algorithm (Research conducted and thesis written at Osaka University as a part of FrontierLab@OsakaU 1-year exchange program)

Research

Research Interest

Human-Computer Interaction(HCI), Computer Supported Collaborative Work(CSCW), Computer Supported Collaborative Learning and Children Workshop

Publication

Journal

Pituxcoosuvarn, Mondheera, and Toru Ishida. "Multilingual communication via best-balanced machine translation." New Generation Computing 36, no. 4 (2018): 349-364.

Conference Proceeding

Pituxcoosuvarn, Mondheera, Donghui Lin, and Toru Ishida. "A Method for Automated Detection of Cultural Difference Based on Image Similarity." In International Conference on Collaboration and Technology, pp. 129-143. Springer, Cham, 2019.

Pituxcoosuvarn, Mondheera, Toru Ishida, Naomi Yamashita, Toshiyuki Takasaki, and Yumiko Mori. "Machine translation usage in a children’s workshop." In International Conference on Collaboration Technologies, pp. 59-73. Springer, Cham, 2018.

Pituxcoosuvarn, Mondheera, Toru Ishida, Naomi Yamashita, Toshiyuki Takasaki, and Yumiko Mori. "Supporting a Children's Workshop with Machine Translation." In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces Companion, pp. 1-2. 2018.(Short paper)

Pituxcoosuvarn, Mondheera, and Toru Ishida. "Enhancing participation balance in intercultural collaboration." In International Conference on Collaboration Technologies, pp. 116-129. Springer, Cham, 2017.