Oral examination of bachelor thesis was held in hybrid style(seminar room + online), and Mr. Ryo Ooka, Mr. Ryotaro Matsui, Ms. Tomohiro Mozumi and Mr. Satoki Kimura made an oral presentation.

INTERACTION2023 was held, and Yudai Tanaka and Yuki Tachibana, M1 students, gave demo presentations.

M1 student Yuki Tachibana won the Interactive Presentation Award (public vote).

A paper is accepted in proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM CHI 2023). This paper will be presented at ACM CHI 2023 in April.

• Maakito Inoue, Kazuki Takashima, Kazuyuki Fujita, Yoshihumi Kitamura. BirdViewAR: Surroundings-aware Remote Drone Piloting Using an Augmented Third-person Perspective, Proc of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

We enjoyed a farewell party.

We hosted two dance workshops below.

• Playback Theater in Education
• Contact Improvisation – Body Philosophy Dance Workshop

Prof. Yoshifumi Kitamura will give an invited talk “空間共有コミュニケーションを実現する技術動向　～豊かなコミュニケーションの実現～” within the special session at the 2023 IEICE General Conference．

Prof. Yoshifumi Kitamura will give a talk at the Industry-academia collaboration seminar “The 152nd Terakoya Sendai.”

International Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction 2023 was held at the Research Institute of Electrical Communication (RIEC) as a hybrid symposium.

The RIEC Annual Meeting on Cooperative Research Projects was held. Many people related to our laboratory participated in the meeting and gave talks and poster presentations.

Prof. Yoshifumi Kitamura gave a Keynote talk at “International Tourism and Convention Forum 2023 in Sendai.”

Prof. Kazuyuki Fujita was granted the title of “Tohoku University Prominent Research Fellow,” which is given to young researchers who challenge original research that opens up new frontiers.

Prof. James E.Young (University of Manitoba, Canada) and Dr. Monica Perusquía-Hernández (NAIST) gave us talks.

The following commentary article was published in Journal of Information Processing (JIP).

• Ken Fujiwara, Miao Cheng, Chia-huei Tseng, Yoshifumi Kitamura. AI Understands Human Emotions and Gets Close to People: Reading Emotions from Bodily Movements: The Development of the Motion Unit AI. Journal of Information Processing, Vol.64, No.2, pp.e25-e31 (2023-01)

The following commentary article was published in the January 2023 issue of SENSAIT.

• Yoshifumi Kitamura, Ken Fujiwara, Taku Komura. Emotion Estimation from Human Body Movements and Generation of Emotionally Rich Movements of Characters – Toward the Realization of Humanity-rich Telecommunication.