SIGGRAPH Asia 2021 was held at Tokyo International Forum and online.
Pascal Chiu served as the SV Subchair (SVSC), and Maakito Inoue and Akito Iizuka joined as Student Volunteers and involved in the conference.

ACM VRST 2021 (The Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology) was held at Osaka University Hall and online.
Associate Prof. Kazuki Takashima served as the Program Chair, and Assistant Prof. Kazuyuki Fujita served as the Communication Chair and Poster/Demo Chair. Ms. Yuki Onishi served as the Student Volunteer Chair, and 9 students joined as the Student Volunteers involved in the organization of the conference.
Mr. Pascal Chiu made oral presentation and Tatsuki Takano made demo presentation. Mr. Keito Uwaseki received Best Student Volunteer Award.

Prof. Yoshifumi Kitamura served as the VRST steering committee chair.

• Paper:
  • Pascal Chiu, Jiawei Huang, and Yoshifumi Kitamura. Enabling Robot-assisted Motion Capture with Human Scale Tracking Optimization
• Demo:
  • Tatsuki Takano, Kazuki Takashima, Kazuyuki Fujita, Hong Guang, Kaori Ikematsu, and Yoshifumi Kitamura. A Compact and Low-cost VR Tooth Drill Training System using Mobile HMD and Stylus Smartphone

We had an online laboratory mutual visit with University of Calgary Interaction Lab.

Mr. Yoshiki Kudo made an oral presentation at ISS 2021 (ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces Conference). He also received Best Paper Award.

• Yoshiki Kudo, Anthony Tang, Kazuyuki Fujita, Isamu Endo, Kazuki Takashima, Yoshifumi Kitamura. Towards Balancing VR Immersion and Bystander Awareness.

ACM UIST 2021 (The Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology) was held online.

Associate Prof. Kazuki Takashima made an oral presentation.

• Isamu Endo, Kazuki Takashima, Maakito Inoue, Kazuyuki Fujita, Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, and Yoshifumi Kitamura. ModularHMD: A Reconfigurable Mobile Head-Mounted Display Enabling Ad-hoc Peripheral Interactions with the Real World, Proc. of the 2021 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

Open RIEC was held. Our online demo is available at open experiment.

In addition, our online demo was broadcast on YouTube Live at Katahira Festival held on the same day.

Prof. Yoshifumi Kitamura gave a talk entitled “”Interactive Technologies in the New Normal Era”” at the Technical Seminar (On-demand Lecture) in the Industry-University-Government Forum on Electrical Information 2021, Tohoku University (You can watch the video here).

Online lab tour for 3rd year undergraduates was held.

We also held a small group face-to-face lab tour for students who had made a reservation in advance.

An article contributed by Assistant Prof. Kaori Ikematsu was appeared in Journal of the Information Processing Society of Japan.

• 池松 香: ACM CHI 2021 会議報告（1）, 情報処理, Vol. 62, No. 10, pp. 572-573, 2021.

Promotional movie of our laboratory (2021 version) is now available.

Our project was introduced at ITmedia NEWS.

• 勝手に動き回って伸縮するパーティション登場　ソーシャルディスタンスとプライバシー確保　東北大学が開発

A paper is accepted in proceedings of the 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2021). This paper was presented at UIST 2021 in October.

• Isamu Endo, Kazuki Takashima, Maakito Inoue, Kazuyuki Fujita, Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, and Yoshifumi Kitamura. ModularHMD: A Reconfigurable Mobile Head-Mounted Display Enabling Ad-hoc Peripheral Interactions with the Real World, Proc. of the 2021 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

PinpointFly developed in our laboratory was implemented as a technical exhibition “”Remote Drone Control”” at “”SEIMITSU Lab. 2021“” in University of Tokyo’s May Festival.

• 精密Lab. 2021 ドローン遠隔操縦

ACM CHI 2021 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems) was held online (originally in Yokohama).

Prof. Yoshifumi Kitamura served as the General Chair, Assistant Prof. Kaori Ikematsu served as the Assistant to General Chairs, and Ms. Xiyue Wang joined as the SV Local Support Chair and involved in the organization of the conference.

Assistant Prof. Kazuyuki Fujita, Mr. Isamu Endo, Mr. Linfeng Chen, Ms. Xiyue Wang and Ms. Yuki Onishi made oral presentations.

• • Papers:

    • Kazuyuki Fujita, Aoi Suzuki, Kazuki Takashima, Kaori Ikematsu, and Yoshifumi Kitamura. TiltChair: Manipulative Posture Guidance by Actively Inclining the Seat of an Office Chair.

    • Linfeng Chen, Kazuki Takashima, Kazuyuki Fujita, and Yoshifumi Kitamura. PinpointFly: An Egocentric Position-control Drone Interface using Mobile AR.

    • Xiyue Wang, Kazuki Takashima, Tomoaki Adachi, and Yoshifumi Kitamura. Can Playing with Toy Blocks Reflect Behavior Problems in Children?

       

• Late-Breaking Works:

  • Isamu Endo, Kazuki Takashima, Maakito Inoue, Kazuyuki Fujita, Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, and Yoshifumi Kitamura. A Reconfigurable Mobile Head-Mounted Display Supporting Real World Interactions.

  • Yuki Onishi, Kazuki Takashima, Kazuyuki Fujita, and Yoshifumi Kitamura. Self-actuated Stretchable Partitions for Dynamically Creating Secure Workplaces.

In our lab, we hold meetings in a hybrid style, which is a combination of on-site seminar room sessions and online sessions, and this was featured in an NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) program.

An article contributed by Prof. Yoshifumi Kitamura was appeared in Journal of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan.

• 北村喜文: CHI 2021のGeneral Chairを引き受けることになった経緯，日本バーチャルリアリティ学会誌，26巻, 1号, pp. 10-14, 2021.

Ms. Yuki Onishi made an oral presentation at IEEE VR 2021.

• Yuki Onishi, Kazuki Takashima, Kazuyuki Fujita, Yoshifumi Kitamura, BouncyScreen: Physical Enhancement of Pseudo-Force Feedback

Commencement ceremony was held in hybrid style.

We had a farewell party online.

“”10th Anniversary of ICD Lab! Meetup of alumni and current students!”” was held online.