The research introduction video page for the Interdisciplinary ICT Research Center for Cyber & Real Spaces, headed by Professor Yoshifumi Kitamura, has been released.

Professor Kazunori Terada of Gifu University visited and gave a talk titled “Reading Minds, Moving Minds: Bayesian Theory of Mind and the Science of Behavioral Change Signals.”

Dr. Eddie Chua, Deputy Head of the Plasma Physics and Diagnostics Division at ASTAR (Singapore Agency for Science, Technology and Research), visited us and gave a talk titled: Data, Models, and Materials for Fusion Energy: Computational and AI-Driven Research at the ASTAR FEAT Centre

Mr. Kumpei Ogawa’s Doctoral Dissertation Final Defense (public session) was held.

The title of the dissertation was “Research on VR Redirection Techniques Incorporating Physical Space Constraints.”

The main research groups of the Interdisciplinary ICT Research Center for Cyber & Real Spaces have expanded their research activities by relocating from the main building of the Research Institute of Electrical Communication to the newly completed Global Connect Hub – Atelier Q∞, located directly south of it.

Dr. Woan-Shiuan (Winnie) Chien, an Incoming Assistant Professor at the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering of National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), Taiwan, with whom we are conducting collaborative research, visited us and gave us a talk. The titke of her talk was “Multimodal Interaction Modeling: Bias-Aware Emotion Understanding in Interactive Contexts“.

Prof. Jason Orlosky from Augusta University, School of Computer and Cyber Sciences, with whom we are conducting collaborative research, visited us and gave us a talk. The titel of his talk was “Mixed Reality Interfaces for Industrial Workflows”.

Our joint research project with Asst. Prof. Yang Jianfei (School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) has been accepted for the “Tohoku University-NTU Singapore Joint Research Fund.” This fund was established to promote and encourage joint research between Tohoku University and NTU Singapore. Out of 15 applications, three projects were selected following a joint review by both universities.

• Project Title: Safeguarding Elderly Users in Embodied Task Planning with LLM
• NTU Principal Investigator: Asst. Prof. Yang Jianfei (School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)
• Tohoku University Principal Investigator: Professor Yoshifumi Kitamura (Research Institute of Electrical Communication)

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