Human Data Interaction Lab

What's HDI

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention (Simon, 1971). How can we then provide the right information at the right time, at the right place, in the right way, and to the right people, thereby helping people to address important problems? Our research focuses on Human-Data Interaction (HDI), which is a Data Science concern around the intersection of humans and data. The relationship between HDI and Data Science is much like the one between Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Computer Science.

News

  • Tianyuan Yang, Baofeng REN, Chenghao GU, Feike XU, Boxuan MA,
    Shin’ichi Konomi, Enhancing Course Recommendation with LLM-Generated Concepts: A Unified Framework for Side Information Integration. Big Data and Cognitive Computing (2025).

  • Baofeng Ren, Tianyuan Yang, Boxuan Ma, Shin’ichi Konomi. Leveraging personalized diversity level for recommendations with knowledge graph. J Intell Inf Syst (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10844-025-01013-8

  • Boxuan Ma, Sora Fukui, Yuji Ando, and Shin’ichi Konomi. 2025. Integrating Forgetting Behavior and Linguistic Features in Language Learning Models. ACM Trans. Knowl. Discov. Data Just Accepted (November 2025). https://doi.org/10.1145/3778163

  • Tianyuan Yang, Baofeng Ren, Chenghao Gu, Tianjia He, Boxuan Ma, and Shin’ichi Konomi, Leveraging LLMs for Automated Extraction and Structuring of Educational Concepts and Relationships, Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction, 7(3): 103, 2025. https://doi.org/10.3390/make7030103

Info

  • Information for prospective research students: If you are interested in joining our lab as a research student, please send your resume along with your email address, information about your academic performance, and proficiency in English and/or Japanese. If you pass an initial screening, you will receive a response (usually in one or two weeks) by email regarding an online interview.