Kazuhisa Miwa

Management Professor

Biography

Dr. Kazuhisa Miwa received his Ph.D. in Engineering from Nagoya University's Graduate School of Engineering, specializing in Information Engineering. After serving as a professor at the Graduate School of Informatics at Nagoya University, he assumed his current role in 2026.
He has served as President of the Cognitive Science Society of Japan (JCSS), and as a board member of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI). He is also a JCSS Fellow.
He studied under Professor Herbert A. Simon in the Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University.
His research spans the fields of cognitive science and artificial intelligence, focusing on the fundamental study of higher-order human thinking processes—such as discovery, creativity, insight, and collaboration—as well as applied research in areas like learning support and driving assistance systems. His recent interests extend to organizational behavior and employee well-being in corporate contexts.

Research Interests

Cognitive Science、Psychology、Artificial Intelligence

Final Education

Ph.D., Nagoya University

Academic Papers

Kazuhisa Miwa (2025) How the Alternative Explanation Affects Satisfaction with the Target Explanation. Japanese Psychological Research
Kazuhisa Miwa (2025) The relationship between moral foundations and well-being in a Japanese context. Current Psychology
Kazuhisa Miwa (2025) Behavioral consistency between real and simulated driving: a multi-layered experimental study. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Kazuhisa Miwa (2025) Functional differences in gaze based on roles in collision avoidance between wheelchair-type personal mobility vehicles. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour
Kazuhisa Miwa (2025) Communication experiment with moral-based chatbot: toward solution of divisions in democracy. AI and Society
Kazuhisa Miwa (2025) Investigating the relationship between luck beliefs causal attributions and well-being through a card game experiment. Scientific Reports
Kazuhisa Miwa (2025) Small but Certain Happiness in Daily Life: Structure and Relation with Well-Being. Journal of Happiness Studies
Kazuhisa Miwa (2025) Product creativity evaluation with the perspective discovery process : From static to dynamic evaluation. Cognitive Studies: Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society
Kazuhisa Miwa (2024) Human bias in evaluating AI product creativity. Journal of Creativity
Kazuhisa Miwa (2024) Stability of Assessment Using Creativity-related Indices. Japanese Psychological Research
Kazuhisa Miwa (2024) A clinical assessment of three-dimensional-printed liver model navigation for thrice or more repeated hepatectomy based on a conversation analysis. Surgery Today
Kazuhisa Miwa (2024) Index of Braking Behaviour in Two Dimensions within Risk Perception. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour
Kazuhisa Miwa (2024) Self-Benefit and Others’ Benefit in Cooperative Behavior in Shared Space. Human Factors
Kazuhisa Miwa (2024) Symbol-Processing Architecture in Cognitive Modeling. Journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
Kazuhisa Miwa (2024) Use of 3D-printed model of liver by experts and novices. Current Psychology
Kazuhisa Miwa (2023) Usefulness consideration in creativity evaluation: The interaction of evaluators’ novelty-seeking and instruction. Cognitive Studies: Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society
Kazuhisa Miwa (2023) Relationship between the discovery of better alternatives and intentional search under the successful situation: A mouse-tracking study. Cognitive Studies: Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society
Kazuhisa Miwa (2023) Effect of cognitive load and working memory capacity on the efficiency of discovering better alternatives: A survival analysis. Memory & Cognition
Kazuhisa Miwa (2022) Differences in the distribution of attention to trained procedure between finders and non-finders of the alternative better procedure. Frontiers in Psychology
Kazuhisa Miwa (2022) How impressions of other drivers affect one’s behavior when merging lanes. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour

Grants

(2026) Elucidation and Applications of the Gaze Function in Autonomous Mobile Robots. JSPS Primary Researcher
(2024) The Role of the Other-Model in Micro-Negotiations with Humans and Intelligent Machines. JSPS Primary Researcher
(2023) Development of a Method to Foster Problem-Formulation Skills for Cultivating Computational Thinking. JSPS Co-researcher