I have been a professor in the Department of Nursing at the Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Kochi University since 2019. I served as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Nursing, Kochi Prefectural University from April 2009 to July 2013, and as a lecturer in nursing at the Department of Health Biosciences, Tokushima University Graduate School from August 2013 to July 2019.

I am one of the editors of "NURSING ROBOTS: Robotic Technology and Human Caring for the Elderly", published in 2017. This book introduces past research on human-to-human and human-to-robot relationships, including artificial superintelligence in robots, to help adopt appropriate technologies to meet the demands of future healthcare efforts. Interdisciplinary collaborative research is a future vision that can be realized in terms of the Japanese idea of caregiving in an aging society. Under the guidance of Professor Tanioka, I became passionate about nursing research focusing on the study of caregiving for elderly people with dementia, interactions/transactions between elderly people and care robots, and empathic understanding in nursing. In particular, I have published a model for the intermediary role of nurses in transactive relationships with healthcare robots (MIRTH).

Furthermore, in 2025, I obtained a PhD in Nursing from St. Paul University (SPUP) with the title " Development and Validation of an In-service Education Program for Psychiatric Nurse Managers and Staff Nurses Based on the Theory of Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing." My first PhD was Engineering from Graduate School of Advanced Technology and Science, Institute of Technology and Science, Information Science and Systems Engineering in 2008. Professor Tanioka has been extremely helpful to me since I was an undergraduate student at Kawasaki University of Medical Welfare. 

 

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