Dr. Masako Hayashi (Institute for Excellence in Higher Education, Tohoku University) visied our laboratory.

We demonstrated our reserch to Dr. Hayashi.

Commencement ceremony was held in hybrid style.

We had a farewell party online.

Ms. Yuki Onishi appeared on the TV program “小島よしおのまちぶらサイエンス” on TOHOKU BROADCASTING CO LTD．

• tbc東北放送 Web Magazine Skip: 東京エレクトロン宮城 presents 小島よしおのまちぶらサイエンス.

Oral examination of bachelor thesis was held in hybrid style(seminar room + online), and Mr. Ryota Gomi, Mr. Yudai Tanaka and Ms. Yuki Tachibana made an oral presentation.

IEEE VR 2022 was held online.
Mr. Kumpei Ogawa and Mr. Yukai Hoshikawa made oral presentations.
Mr. Yukai Hoshikawa also received Honorable Mention Best Conference Paper Award.

• Kumpei Ogawa, Kazuyuki Fujita, Kazuki Takashima, Yoshifumi Kitamura. PseudoJumpOn: Jumping onto Steps in Virtual Reality.
• Yukai Hoshikawa, Kazuyuki Fujita, Kazuki Takashima, Morten Fjeld, Yoshifumi Kitamura. RedirectedDoors: Redirection While Opening Doors in Virtual Reality.

We held an online research exchange meeting with Dr. Benjamin Tag (University of Melbourne, Australia) and his students.

RIEC International Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction was held online.

Prof. Yoshifumi Kitamura gave the Opening Keynote at the 3rd Yokohama Global MICE Forum, which was a hybrid forum held at Pacifico Yokohama.

• Global Community with International Conferences – Experience of Organizing ACM CHI 2021 Online

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.

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