| Oct 29, 2026 | 🎤 Keynote Delivered: Delivered the keynote “Human-Centered AI for Societal Impact: Designing Persuasive and Affective Interactive Systems” at IEEE TEMSMET 2026 in Hyderabad, India, on October 29, 2026. |
| Oct 24, 2026 | Conference Presentation: Daichi Nakano presented our Full Paper, “The Impact of Nonverbal Information Visualization on Dialogue and Perceived Understanding in the Metaverse,” co-authored with Kaoru Sumi, at the 2026 IEEE International Symposium on Emerging Metaverse (ISEMV 2026), held October 22–24, 2026, in Cyprus and online. |
| Oct 14, 2026 | IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor (2026–2028): Selected as a Distinguished Visitor through a highly competitive process in recognition of contributions to IEEE, the computing profession, and the technical community. |
| Oct 04, 2026 | Conference Paper Accepted: Shuo Mao and Kaoru Sumi, “Emotion-Adaptive Music Generation in Games: Comparing Dynamic and Real-Time AI-Generated Music,” accepted at the 15th EAI International Conference: ArtsIT, Interactivity & Game Creation (EAI ArtsIT 2026). |
| Sep 30, 2026 | Journal Paper Accepted: Ahmed Salem and Kaoru Sumi, “Effects of Robot Personality and Facial Appearance on Embarrassment in HRI,” accepted by Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) on September 30, 2026. |
| Sep 16, 2026 | Journal Publication: Pakpoom Chaimook and Kaoru Sumi, “DXSP: Gesture-Only Temporal Localization of Decisive Moments in Dyadic Persuasion,” Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 9, published September 16, 2026. |
| Aug 01, 2026 | 🎤 Invited Speaker: TED-HRI Workshop, IEEE RO-MAN 2026, Kitakyushu, Japan, August 2026. |
| Jun 02, 2026 | 📘 New Book Release: Affective Learning and Serious Games, CRC Press / Taylor & Francis, June 2, 2026. |
| Mar 13, 2026 | 📕 Volume Editor: Persuasive Technology: PERSUASIVE 2026 Proceedings, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 16476. |
| Mar 11, 2026 | 🏛️ General Chair: Persuasive 2026, Hakodate, Japan, March 2026. |
| Jan 15, 2026 | 📝 Guest Editor: Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Research Topic, Next-Generation Persuasive Technologies for Human–AI Interaction and Behavior Change. |
| Oct 15, 2025 | 🎬 Guest Editor: JoVE Methods Collection, Interactive Technologies for Behavior Change and Emotional Engagement. |