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Professor Chen,Hong

Hong Chen received the Ph.D. degree in Human Sciences from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. He is currently a professor at the Daiichi Institute of Technology, Japan, and a Invited researcher at the Advanced Research Center for Human Sciences, Waseda University. His research focuses on Information Science, Electronic Engineering, and Human-centered intelligent systems. Dr. Chen has been actively engaged in interdisciplinary research, particularly in ubiquitous personal study (UPS), personalized data models, and IoT-based healthcare systems. His work explores intelligent computing environments that integrate user-centered information processing, collaborative information retrieval, and smart device interactions. He has published over 20 academic papers in international journals and conferences, contributing to the fields of ubiquitous computing, data-driven system design, and human-computer interaction. His research was recognized in ACM Computing Reviews as one of the “Best Computer Books of 2012.”

Research Areas

Human-centered intelligent system / Decentered digital environment suitable for individuals

  1. [VPDL] Virtual Personal Digital Library, 1996
  2. [UPS] Ubiquitous Personal Study(UPS): A Framework for Supporting Information Access and Sharing, 2006
  3. [UPOD] Ubiquitous Personal Online Data Storage (UPOD) for a decentralized personal cloud data model to aggregate and share IoT data, 2019
  4. [Ubi-Care] Ubi-Care: a Decentralized Ubiquitous Sensing Healthcare System for the Elderly Living Support, 2019
  5. [Ubi-City]  Using a Ubiquitous Personal Online Datastore for Aggregating and Sharing IoT Data to Smart City, 2022
  6. [Ubi-Home] Smart Home IoT Data Aggregation and Sharing Using UPOD

Keywords: Human-centered intelligent system, Ubiquitous Computing, Decentralized Network, Personal Online Datastore, Meta Data, IoT

Publications

Academic Activity

2025

  • ICEMT 2025 (International Conference on Education and Multimedia), Technical Committee, Osaka, Japan
  • HCI 2025 (Human-Computer Interaction 2025), Board Member, Gothenburg, Sweden
  • IEEE SMC2025  Guest Editor and Co-Chair of the 7rd Workshop on Impact of Internet of Things on Daily Life (IoT-Life 7), Vienna, Austria
  • IEEE CyberSciTech 2025, (IoT-Life 9), International Liaison & Publicity Chair, Hokkaido, Japan

2026

  • Smart-Life 2025 (The 1st International Conference on Internet of Things and Smart Life), Tokyo, Japan

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