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T. Yasuda investigates the cognitive and communicative foundations of human collaboration, with a particular focus on how language, timing, and inference shape joint action between people and between humans and robots. Their work bridges pragmatics, psycholinguistics, and human-robot interaction. A central contribution is the analysis of how referential expressions and utterance timing facilitate coordination in collaborative tasks, as seen in studies on joint attention and skill acquisition during conveyor-belt work. Yasuda has also explored whether humans attribute human-like inferential abilities to robots, using quantitative implicature tasks to test the boundaries of human-robot communication. Notably, their research on the influence of brief intervals—such as a ten-second delay—on pragmatic interpretation offers insights into the temporal dynamics of meaning-making. While their citation counts are modest (ranging from 2 to 4 per paper), the work is foundational in its domain, appearing in venues focused on cognitive science and human-agent interaction. Yasuda’s research is especially valuable for students and researchers interested in designing robots that can time their actions and speech to align with human communicative expectations.