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Leila Takayama

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Leila A. Takayama
Takayama in 2012
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Stanford University
AwardsYoung Global Leader
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Santa Cruz
Willow Garage
Google X
Nokia Research
Thesis Throwing Voices: Investigating the Psychological Effects of the Spatial Location of Projected Voices  (2008)
Doctoral advisorClifford Nass

Leila A. Takayama is an associate professor of Human–computer interaction at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has previously held positions at Google X and Willow Garage. She was elected as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader in 2013.

Early life and education

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Takayama studied psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.[1] She moved to the Communication between Humans and Interactive Media laboratory at Stanford University for her graduate studies, where she worked with Clifford Nass.[2] She earned a Master's degree in Communication. During her Master's program, Takayama created general guidelines for the interaction design, which considered how to best integrate physical and computational systems.[3] Her doctoral dissertation "Throwing Voices: Investigating the Psychological Effects of the Spatial Location of Projected Voices" was awarded the Nathan Maccoby dissertation award. She also worked on mobile phone communication and human-robot interaction.[4] She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Golden Key International Honour Society and Psi Chi. During her studies, Takayama worked at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in the User Interface Research group.[5] After earning her PhD, Takayama joined Nokia Research, where she worked on the Innovation Design Experience Animate team.[5]

Research and career

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Takayama speaking at PopTech 2012

Takayama was manager of human–robot interaction at Willow Garage from 2009 to 2013.[5] Here she studied human encounters with robots; and how to teach robots manners.[5] She is interested in how people interact with non-human agents such as tele-operated robots and autonomous robots, and investigates these interactions using surveys, controlled experiments and interviews. Takayama was awarded a $10 million National Science Foundation grant for her Expeditions in Computing.[6] She studied the social aspects of human–robot conflicts, and found that people preferred robots that disagreed when the voice did not come from its body but a separate control box, whereas if the robot was agreeing with them they preferred the voice to originate from their body.[7] She demonstrated that setting low expectations for human–robot interactions resulted in less disappointment and a more positive review of a robot's competence.[8]

Takayama joined Google X in 2013.[9][10] There, she continued to investigate how people see and treat robots.[11] She joined the faculty at University of California, Santa Cruz in 2016.[1] She is a member of the Baskin School of Engineering’s Computational Media department. She investigates which dimensions most impact a user's willingness to provide feedback to a robot.[12] Takyama holds a Hans Fischer fellowship at the Technical University of Munich.[13]

Takayama is on the advisory board for Cobalt Robotics, Companion.AI and Suitable Technologies. In 2018 Takayama delivered a Tedx talk, What's it Like to Be A Robot?, in which she discussed how experimenting with robotics could result in a better understanding of ourselves.[14][15] She has served on the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.[16]

Awards and honours

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Leila Takayama | Jack Baskin School of Engineering". www.soe.ucsc.edu. Retrieved July 21, 2019.
  2. ^ "Leila Takayama | Stanford University - Academia.edu". stanford.academia.edu. Retrieved July 21, 2019.
  3. ^ Klemmer, Scott R.; Hartmann, Björn; Takayama, Leila (2006). "How bodies matter". Proceedings of the 6th conference on Designing Interactive systems. DIS '06. New York, NY, USA: ACM. pp. 140–149. doi:10.1145/1142405.1142429. ISBN 9781595933676. S2CID 14231515.
  4. ^ Takayama, Leila; Ju, Wendy; Nass, Clifford (2008). "Beyond dirty, dangerous and dull". Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Human robot interaction - HRI '08. p. 25. doi:10.1145/1349822.1349827. ISBN 9781605580173. S2CID 11139774.
  5. ^ a b c d "Leila Takayama | Willow Garage". www.willowgarage.com. Retrieved July 21, 2019.
  6. ^ a b "Meet Leila Takayama, one of Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People 2012". Fast Company. Retrieved July 21, 2019.
  7. ^ Takayama, Leila; Groom, Victoria; Nass, Clifford (2009). "I'm sorry, Dave". Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI '09. New York, NY, USA: ACM. pp. 2099–2108. doi:10.1145/1518701.1519021. ISBN 9781605582467. S2CID 15460922.
  8. ^ Takayama, Leila. "Judging a Bot By Its Cover: An Experiment on Expectation Setting for Personal Robots". parasol.tamu.edu. Retrieved July 21, 2019.
  9. ^ Bracker, Rachel (August 17, 2015). "The 26%: Google X Roboticist Speaks Out on Tech's Gender Crisis (Video)". Vox. Retrieved July 21, 2019.
  10. ^ "Leila Takayama". TUX: Toronto User Experience Speaker Series. Retrieved July 21, 2019.
  11. ^ "Spring 2014 GRASP Seminar: Leila Takayama, Google[x], 'Designing for the Seemingly Nonsensical Ways People See, Treat, and Use Robots'". GRASP lab. March 7, 2014. Retrieved September 3, 2024.
  12. ^ jmcgirk. "Leila Takayama wins Google Research Award for robot training". Jack Baskin School of Engineering. Retrieved July 21, 2019.
  13. ^ "Institute for Advanced Study (IAS): Takayama, Leila". www.ias.tum.de. Retrieved July 21, 2019.
  14. ^ Takayama, Leila. "Leila Takayama | Speaker | TED". www.ted.com. Retrieved July 21, 2019.
  15. ^ Takayama, Leila (January 25, 2018), What's it like to be a robot?, retrieved July 21, 2019
  16. ^ "Leila Takayama | Stanford Center on Longevity Design Challenge 2015". Retrieved July 21, 2019.
  17. ^ Isenberg, Sara (March 12, 2019). "Leila Takayama wins Google Research Award for robot training". Santa Cruz Tech Beat. Retrieved July 21, 2019.
  18. ^ "IEEE RAS Early Career Award - IEEE Robotics and Automation Society". www.ieee-ras.org. Retrieved July 21, 2019.
  19. ^ "Leila Takayama". 世界经济论坛. Retrieved July 21, 2019.
  20. ^ "Innovator Under 35: Leila Takayama, 31". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved July 21, 2019.
  21. ^ "PR2 busy making breakfast and dessert at TUM and MIT | Willow Garage". www.willowgarage.com. Retrieved July 21, 2019.
  22. ^ "40 Under 40: Leila Takayama". www.bizjournals.com. December 1, 2011. Retrieved July 21, 2019.
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