The award ceremony for the Encouragement Awards at the 4th National Research Presentation Conference of the Japan E-Commerce Association was held at the Metaverse venue.

On Tuesday, March 28, 2023, an award ceremony for the Encouragement Award was held at the Metaverse venue for students who presented their research at the online research presentations and Metaverse poster sessions at the 4th (2022) Japan Society of E-Commerce National Research Presentation Conference. A total of 15 students were awarded this year. The winners were presented with a certificate of commendation by Shoji Nishimura, Chairman of the Japan Society of E-Commerce (general incorporated association) and Professor at the Faculty of Human Sciences, Waseda University.

The award ceremony

Certificate of commendation (Tokyo Metropolitan Chofu Minami High School: awarded to Yuina Sakuma)

A look at the Metaverse poster session held in November 2022

Encouragement Award winners (in no particular order)

• Tokyo Metropolitan Chofu Minami High School: Yuina Sakuma, "Regularities in the locations where orb-weaving spiders weave their webs" (for application to research into avatar behavior data analysis in the metaverse)

• Tokai University: Yuzuki Takagi "Comparison of parallel sales patterns in brick-and-mortar stores and EC stores"

• Tokai University: Takumi Nakagame "Efficiency Evaluation Model for Delivery Personnel"

• Waseda University: Ayako Yamagiwa "Image ranking learning method using DNN"

• Waseda University: Kodai Ishikura "A Study on Product Relationship Analysis Model Using Shapley Value Based on Supermarket POS Data"

• Waseda University: Yuki Tsuboi "A study on machine learning models to estimate the effectiveness of multiple EC marketing initiatives"

• Waseda University: Kotaro Yamashita "Product review analysis model based on feature extraction from BERT"

• Waseda University: Taiga Yoshikawa "Proposal of a business policy optimization method considering input-dependent error variance"

• Waseda University: Mizuki Takeuchi "Research on user attribute prediction models based on semi-supervised learning"

• Waseda University: Yuka Nakamura "A study on online learning based on Bayesian optimization to suppress the deterioration of the objective function value"

• Waseda University: Koki Yamada "A study on the analysis of changes in user issues to improve the service of a child-rearing Q&A app"

• Waseda University: Akiko Yoneda "A Study on Improving the Surprise of Recommendation Systems Using Collaborative Metric Learning"

• Waseda University: Ryota Matsunae "Contextual Bandit Algorithm Using Topic Distribution"

• Waseda University: Tomotaka Amano "Proposal of a method for acquiring recommended items considering the recommendation area in the embedding space"

• Waseda University: Kirin Tsuchiya "Item Feature Analysis Considering User Interest Continuity Using HSMM Clustering"

Congratulations to all the award winners!