Mr. Kumpei Ogawa received the Dean of Engineering Award.

A paper was appeared in Japanese Psychological Research.

• Tseng, C., Cheng, M., Matout, H., Fujita, K., Kitamura, Y., Shioiri, S., Ho, I.‐L. and Bachrach, A. (2021), MA and Togetherness (Ittaikan) in the Narratives of Dancers and Spectators: Sharing an Uncertain Space. Jpn Psychol Res.

Mr. Isamu Endo and Mr. Aoi Suzuki demonstrated their work at Interaction 2021 (Symposium on Information Processing Society of Japan) held online, and Mr. Isamu Endo received Interactive Presentation Award (Program Committee Recommendation).

• 遠藤勇，高嶋和毅，井上理哲人，清川清，藤田和之，北村喜文: 周辺とのアドホックなインタラクションを実現する再構成可能なVR HMD
• 鈴木蒼生，藤田和之，高嶋和毅，池松香，北村喜文: TiltChair:座面の前傾により姿勢誘導するオフィスチェア

Oral examination of bachelor thesis was held in hybrid style(seminar room + online), and Mr. Kumpei Ogawa, Mr. Tatsuki Takano and Mr. Yukai Hoshikawa made an oral presentation.

A paper was appeared in Transactions of Information Processing Society of Japan.

• 藤田和之，黄 梦婷，高嶋和毅，土田太一，真鍋宏幸，北村喜文．ShearSheet: 静電容量タッチパネルに装着可能な透明シートを用いた剪断入力インタフェース．情報処理学会論文誌，2021，62巻，2号，pp. 641-653．

A paper is accepted in proceedings of the 2021 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces.

This paper was presented at IEEE VR 2021 in March.

• Yuki Onishi, Kazuki Takashima, Kazuyuki Fujita, Yoshifumi Kitamura. BouncyScreen: Physical Enhancement of Pseudo-Force Feedback, Proc. of the 2021 IEEE Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces

RIEC International Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction 2021 was organized online.

Three papers are accepted in proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI2021).

These papers was presented at CHI 2021 in May.

• Kazuyuki Fujita, Aoi Suzuki, Kazuki Takashima, Kaori Ikematsu, Yoshifumi Kitamura. TiltChair: Manipulative Posture Guidance by Actively Inclining the Seat of an Office Chair, Proc. of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
• Linfeng Chen, Kazuki Takashima, Kazuyuki Fujita, Yoshifumi Kitamura. PinpointFly: An Egocentric Position-control Drone Interface using Mobile AR, Proc. of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
• Xiyue Wang, Kazuki Takashima, Tomoaki Adachi, Yoshifumi Kitamura. Can Playing with Toy Blocks Reflect Behavior Problems in Children?, Proc. of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Mr. Yoshiki Kudo received Best Presentation Award at the 24th Doctoral Student Presentations held online on December 18.

• 工藤義礎さん（北村研究室 博士課程後期2年）、外川龍之介さん（中尾研究室 博士課程後期2年）、周 玉琴さん（徳川研究室 博士課程後期2年）、熊谷 駿さん（須川研究室 博士課程後期2年）が第24回博士後期課程学生発表会ベストプレゼンテーション賞に決定

Prof. Yoshifumi Kitamura gave a talk as a panelist for the topic of “”What are Hybrid Meetings?”” in The Second ICCA Asia Pacific Chapter Summit , Hybrid (Yokohama+online).

Prof. Ryo Suzuki of University of Calgary, Canada visited us and gave us a talk in our seminar room.
Other members participated online.

Yan Yixian made an oral presentation at UIST (ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology) 2020

• Yan Yixian, Kazuki Takashima, Anthony Tang, Takayuki Tanno, Kazuyuki Fujita, and Yoshifumi Kitamura, ZoomWalls: Dynamic Walls that Simulate Haptic Infrastructure for Room-scale VR World

A paper was appeared in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.

• Jiawei Huang, Ryo Sugawara, Kinfung Chu, Taku Komura, and Yoshifumi Kitamura, “”Reconstruction of Dexterous 3D Motion Data from a Flexible Magnetic Sensor with Deep Learning and Structure-Aware Filtering,”” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (2020) [press release]

   

Promotional movie of our laboratory (2020 version) is now available.

Promotional movie of our laboratory (2020 version) is now available.

A paper received an award of VRSJ Outstanding Paper Award, and was commended at The 25th Annual

Conference of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan.

• 林 大悟, 藤田 和之, 高嶋 和毅, Robert W. Lindeman, 北村 喜文: Redirected Jumping：VRにおける跳躍動作時の移動量操作手法, 日本バーチャルリアリティ学会論文誌, 2019, 24巻, 4号, p.341-350

   

A paper was appeared in Transactions of Information Processing Society of Japan. This paper is

recommended paper from Interaction 2019(Symposium on Information Processing Society of Japan).

• 天間 遼太郎，高嶋 和毅，藤田 和之，末田 航, 北村 喜文: 空間連動する2つのカメラ視点を用いたドローン操縦インターフェースの拡張，情報処理学会論文誌, 2020, 61巻, 8号, p.1319-1332

A paper accepted as a Late-Breaking Work in ACM CHI 2020 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems) was published.

• Kazuyuki Fujita, Daigo Hayashi,Kotaro Hara, Kazuki Takashima, Yoshifumi Kitamura. Techniques to Visualize Occluded Graph Elements for 2.5D Map Editing [Video]

Our journal paper has been published in the Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile,

Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT) (will be presented at UbiComp 2020).

• Xiyue Wang, Kazuki Takashima,Tomoaki Adachi, Patrick Finn, Ehud Sharlin, and Yoshifumi Kitamura. 2020. AssessBIocks: Exploring Toy Block Play Features for Assessing Stress in Young Children after Natural Disasters. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 4, 1, Article 30 (March 2020), 29 pages.

Oral examination of bachelor thesis was held and Mr. Takayuki Tanno and Mr. Taichi Tsuchida made an oral presentation.