| Career Summary |
1994: Bachelor of Engineering, Department of Urban Engineering, University of Tokyo
1996: Master of Engineering, Department of Urban Engineering, University of Tokyo
2002: Ph.D. in Geography (with an emphasis in Cognitive Science), Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara
2002-2006: Postdoctoral Research Scientist and Associate Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
2006-present: Associate Professor, Center for Spatial Information Science, University of Tokyo
2006-present: Associate Professor, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, University of Tokyo
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| Educational Activities |
Spatial Information Science, Macro-Analytic Information Science (in the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies)
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| Research Activities |
Spatial cognition and environmental psychology
Spatial representations and geovisualizations
Spatial thinking in geospatial science and society
Ubiquitous spatial information infrastructures
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Literature
1) Ishikawa, T. & Kiyomoto, M. (in press). Turn to the left or to the west: Verbal navigational directions in relative and absolute frames of reference. In T. Cova (Ed.), Geographic information science. Berlin: Springer (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).
2) Ishikawa, T., Fujiwara, H., Imai, O., & Okabe, A. (2008). Wayfinding with a GPS-based mobile navigation system: A comparison with maps and direct experience. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 28, 74-82.
3) Ishikawa, T., & Montello, D. R. (2006). Spatial knowledge acquisition from direct experience in the environment: Individual differences in the development of metric knowledge and the integration of separately learned places. Cognitive Psychology, 52, 93-129.
4) Hegarty, M., Montello, D. R., Richardson, A. E., Ishikawa, T., & Lovelace, K. (2006). Spatial abilities at different scales: Individual differences in aptitude-test performance and spatial-layout learning. Intelligence, 34, 151-176.
5) Kastens, K. A., & Ishikawa, T. (2006). Spatial thinking in the geosciences and cognitive sciences: A cross-disciplinary look at the intersection of the two fields. In C. A. Manduca & D. W. Mogk (Eds.), Earth and mind: How geologists think and learn about the Earth (pp. 53-76). Boulder, CO: Geological Society of America (Special Paper 413).
6) Ishikawa, T., Barnston, A. G., Kastens, K. A., Louchouarn, P., & Ropelewski, C. F. (2005). Climate forecast maps as a communication and decision-support tool: An empirical test with prospective policy makers. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 32, 3-16.
7) Ishikawa, T., & Kastens, K. A. (2005). Why some students have trouble with maps and other spatial representations. Journal of Geoscience Education, 53, 184-197.
8) Ishikawa, T., Okabe, A., Sadahiro, Y., & Kakumoto, S. (1998). An experimental analysis of the perception of the area of an open space using 3-D stereo dynamic graphics. Environment and Behavior, 30, 216-234.
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| Future Plan |
From a broader, societal perspective, spatial information has been recognized as playing an important role in the development of information infrastructures. Notably ubiquitous networking envisions environments in which people have access to necessary information wherever they are, whenever they need it ("anyone, anywhere, anytime"). An important question that arises then is when and where one should provide information, in what format, and for what kind of user or task. I thus study human spatial behavior in the era of advanced information and communication technologies, particularly toward a spatially integrated ubiquitous computing society.
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| Messages to Students |
I welcome people who have interest in any aspects of the interaction between space, humans, and information, and want to examine empirically "why." In terms of academic background, knowledge about any one of the three would be an asset: space (e.g., geography, planning, architecture, or civil engineering), humans (e.g., psychology, linguistics, or philosophy), or information (e.g., computer science or informatics).
I hope that people with various backgrounds join the lab and set out on a scientific mental-spatial journey with me.
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