Takuya Maeda

Takuya Maeda is a PhD student at the Faculty of Information and Media Studies. His research focuses on the ethical and design implications of conversational AI systems, investigating how human-like features of LLM-based chatbots affect users’ information retrieval behaviors and their perception of AI-assistant tools.

Takuya has a Master of Science in information science and engineering from the Nara Institute of Science and Technology. There, he worked on research in natural language processing, social computing, and health informatics as a part of the Social Computing lab.