Public lecture “CHI 2025 Symposium” was held at Pacifico Yokohama.
We served as a steering committee member.

https://sigchi.jp/symposium/chi2025_symposium/

Professor Ava Fatah gen. Schieck from University College London, UK, visited us and gave a lecture. She also toured our laboratory and engaged in various discussions.

Dr. Donald DEGRAEN (HIT Lab NZ, University of Canterbury, New Zealand) visited us and gave us a talk.

We enjoyed cherry-blossom viewing at Katahira campus.

JST ASPIRE FOR TOP SCIENTISTS (Project: Mental Well-being Intelligence: A Community for Data-driven Mental Well-being Research) Kickoff Symposium was held at RIEC, Tohoku University

https://aspire-mwi.org/aspire-mwi-kickoff-symposium-at-tohoku-university/

JST ASPIRE FOR TOP SCIENTISTS (Project: Mental Well-being Intelligence: A Community for Data-driven Mental Well-being Research)
Kickoff Symposium will be held at The University of Tokyo.

IEEE VR 2025 was held in Saint-Malo, France.

Mr. Kumpei Ogawa made an oral presentation, and Ms. Yuhui Wang made an oral presentation and a demo presentation.

Ms. Yuhui Wang received Honorable Mention Best Research Demo Award.

• Kumpei Ogawa, Kazuyuki Fujita, Kazuki Takashima, Yoshifumi Kitamura. Redirected Drawing: Expanding the Perceived Canvas Size in VR.
• Yuhui Wang, Kazuki Takashima, Masamitsu Ito, Takeshi Kobori, Tomo Asakura, Kazuyuki Fujita, Hong Guang, Yoshifumi Kitamura. VirtuEleDent: A Compact XR Tooth-Cutting Training System Using a Physical EMR-based Dental Handpiece and Teeth Model.
• Yuhui Wang, Kazuki Takashima, Masamitsu Ito, Takeshi Kobori, Tomo Asakura, Kazuyuki Fujita, Hong Guang, Yoshifumi Kitamura. Demonstration of VirtuEleDent: A Compact XR Tooth-Cutting Training System Using a Physical EMR-based Dental Handpiece and Teeth Model.

Prof. Yoshifumi Kitamura received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award.

https://www.riec.tohoku.ac.jp/en/award-en/2025022604/

Professor Yoshifumi Kitamura has been listed on the SIGGRAPH Member Profile.
https://www.siggraph.org/inside-siggraph/member-profiles/profile/?member=yoshifumi-kitamura

Dr. Shio Miyafuji (Institute of Science Tokyo) and Dr. Ayaka Ishii (NTT Communication Science Laboratories) visited our lab and gave us talks.

Dr. Rui Wang (CSIRO, Australia) and students from Taipei Medical University visited our lab.

We enjoyed a farewell party.