Heeryon Cho

• Ph.D. in Informatics, Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan). March 2009. (Advisor: Toru Ishida)
• Master of Informatics, Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan). March 2005.
• Bachelor of Arts, Department of Mass Communication, College of Social Science, Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea). February 1995.

Journals

• Heeryon Cho, Toru Ishida, Satoshi Oyama, Rieko Inaba, and Toshiyuki Takasaki, "Assisting Pictogram Selection with Categorized Semantics," Special Section on Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support System, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol.E91-D, No.11, pp. 2638-2646, November 2008. (PDF, 686KB)
• Heeryon Cho, Toru Ishida, Naomi Yamashita, Rieko Inaba, Toshiyuki Takasaki, and Tomoko Koda, "Human Judgment of Cultural Differences in Pictogram Interpretations," Journal of Human Interface Society, Vol.10, No.4, pp. 427-434, November 2008. (in Japanese) (PDF, 3.19MB)

International Conference

• Heeryon Cho, Toru Ishida, Toshiyuki Takasaki, and Satoshi Oyama, "Assisting Pictogram Selection with Semantic Interpretation," Proceedings of the 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC-08), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5021, Springer, pp. 65-79, June 1-5, 2008, Tenerife, Spain. (PDF, 568KB)
• Heeryon Cho, Naomi Yamashita, and Toru Ishida, "Towards Culturally-Situated Agent Which Can Detect Cultural Differences," Proceedings of the 10th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents (PRIMA-07), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 5044, Springer, pp. 458-463, November 21-23, 2007, Bangkok, Thailand. (short paper) (PDF, 452KB)
• Heeryon Cho, Toru Ishida, Rieko Inaba, Toshiyuki Takasaki, and Yumiko Mori, "Pictogram Retrieval Based on Collective Semantics," Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII-07), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4552, Springer, pp. 31-39, July 22-27, 2007, Beijing, China. (PDF, 630KB)
• Heeryon Cho and Toru Ishida, "Designing Metadata with Existing Application Ontologies," Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/IPSJ International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT-06), pp. 277-283, January 23-27, 2006, Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A. (PDF, 299KB)

International Workshop

• Heeryon Cho, Toru Ishida, Naomi Yamashita, Tomoko Koda, and Toshiyuki Takasaki, "Human Detection of Cultural Differences in Pictogram Interpretations," Proceedings of 2009 ACM International Workshop on Intercultural Collaboration (IWIC-09), ACM Press, February 20-21, 2009, Stanford, CA, U.S.A.
• Heeryon Cho, Toru Ishida, Naomi Yamashita, Rieko Inaba, Yumiko Mori, and Tomoko Koda, "Culturally-Situated Pictogram Retrieval," Proceedings of 2007 International Workshop on Intercultural Collaboration (IWIC-07), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4568, Springer, pp. 221-235, January 25-26, 2007, Kyoto, Japan. (PDF, 248KB)

Domestic Workshop (Japan)

• Satoshi Morimoto, Satoshi Sakai, Masaki Gotou, Heeryon Cho, and Toru Ishida, "Language Grid Playground: A Reference Site for Developing Multilingual Applications," Proceedings of IEICE SIG on Intercultural Collaboration, pp. 1-6, February 27, 2009, Tokyo, Japan. (in Japanese)
• Koichiro Mihara, Satoshi Sakai, Heeryon Cho, and Toru Ishida, "Development of a Chat Tool for Multilingual Communication," Proceedings of IEICE SIG on Intercultural Collaboration, pp. 1-6, February 27, 2009, Tokyo, Japan. (in Japanese)
• Shogo Kamiya, Tomoko Koda, Toshiyuki Takasaki, and Heeryon Cho, "Development of Pictogram Conversion Tool for Cross-culture Collaboration," Proceedings of Human-Agent Interaction Symposium 2007 (HAI-07), December 5-6, 2007, Yokohama, Japan. (in Japanese) (PDF, 897KB)
• Heeryon Cho, Toru Ishida, Rieko Inaba, Toshiyuki Takasaki, and Yumiko Mori, "Semantic Relevance Measure Using Pictogram Interpretation Words," Proceedings of the 2007 IEICE National Convention, March 20-23, 2007, Nagoya, Japan. (in Japanese) (PDF, 126KB)
• Heeryon Cho, Rieko Inaba, Toru Ishida, Toshiyuki Takasaki, and Yumiko Mori, "Semantics in Pictogram Communication," Joint Agent Workshops and Symposium (JAWS-06), October 25-27, 2006, Suzuka, Japan. (in Japanese) (PDF, 243KB)

• Researcher, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Global COE Program. October 2008 - March 2009.
• Research Assistant, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Global COE Program. April 2008 - September 2008.
• Writer and Editor, Silicon Valley News (an online news startup now defunct). July 2000 - April 2001.
• Writer and Editor, The Chosun Ilbo (Korean National Newspaper). January 1995 - June 1999.

• Information Processing Society of Japan
• Human Interface Society of Japan

• Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho) Scholarship, April 2002 - March 2008.
• Graduate Student Fund, Initiatives for Attractive Education in Graduate Schools, November 2005 - March 2006.