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Miwako Doi

Miwako Doi is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Miwako Doi rather than just read about it. In short: Miwako Doi (Japanese: 土井美和子) is a Japanese electrical engineer known for her work on user interfaces, robotics, and document processing. She is executive director of the Nara Institute of Science and Technology, executive vice president for data at Tohoku University, auditor of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, outside director of the Nomura Research Institute, professor in reside…

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Reference excerpt

Miwako Doi (Japanese: 土井美和子) is a Japanese electrical engineer known for her work on user interfaces, robotics, and document processing. She is executive director of the Nara Institute of Science and Technology, executive vice president for data at Tohoku University, auditor of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, outside director of the Nomura Research Institute, professor in residence at Osaka University, visiting professor at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, and a member of the Japan Transport Safety Board.

Education and career Doi was a student at the University of Tokyo, where she earned a bachelor's degree in 1977, a master's degree in 1979, and a Ph.D. in 2002. She began working for Toshiba in 1979, and was chief researcher there from 1999 to 2005, senior fellow from 2005 to 2008, and chief fellow from 2008 to 2014. She has been executive director at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology since 2016. As well as her present positions, she has served as vice president of the Information Processing Society of Japan and of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan, and as president of the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers.

Contributions At Toshiba, Doi led the company in recognizing the importance of usability of office equipment by people without technical training, in developing human interfaces for Toshiba's products that would make them usable, and in disseminating their work to similar products from other companies. In particular, her work there involved the creation of document processing and presentation systems that automatically recognized the structure of documents and adjusted the structure as documents were edited, and of software for assisting in the translation of documents by displaying side-by-side views of a document and its translation as both are updated.

Recognition Doi was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2011 "for contributions to the human interface of document processing". In 2018 she was named an honorary fellow of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers.

References

External links Miwako Doi publications indexed by Google Scholar

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Miwako Doi

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Miwako Doi claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Miwako Doi before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Miwako Doi ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Miwako Doi

In research: Miwako Doi appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Miwako Doi in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Miwako Doi is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Fellows of the IEEE, Japanese electrical engineers, Japanese women engineers, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Miwako Doi outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Miwako Doi in 20 minutes

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Frequently asked questions

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Why does Miwako Doi matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Miwako Doi?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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