About thirty students from the U.S. visited our laboratory as part of the Tohoku University STEM Summer Program 2025. After the lecture by Prof. Kitamura, our students gave a demonstration of their research and enjoyed exchanging ideas with them.
UBISS 2025 was held in Oulu, Finland, and from our laboratory, four members participated in Workshop A, two in Workshop C, and one in Workshop D.
UBISS is a globally recognized summer school in the field of ubiquitous computing. The event aims to provide participants with the opportunity to learn cutting-edge theory and practice through group work under the guidance of leading researchers in the field.
Each participant gained practical knowledge and skills that will be useful for their research, and was greatly inspired through interactions with researchers from around the world.
We visited the MediaFutures: Research Centre for Responsible Media Technology & Innovation at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, Norway, with a group of seven members.
At the 98th Annual Meeting of Japan Society for Occupational Health held at the Sendai International Center, Professor Kitamura gave an invited lecture titled “Virtual Reality Technology Changing the Future of Work and Its Environment” in Main Symposium 1, “Possibilities and Challenges of Industrial Health Expanding through Cutting-edge Technologies.”
Dr. Tham Piumsomboon from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand gave a lecture while visiting our laboratory.
Professor Yoshifumi Kitamura received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award and served as a panelist at the CHI (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems) 2025. The award ceremony was also held.
https://www.riec.tohoku.ac.jp/ja/award-ja/2025022603/
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.
Seven of us visited the Universal Communication Research Institute of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) in Keihanna Science City, Kyoto.
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.
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.
