A paper is accepted in proceedings of the 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2021). This paper was presented at UIST 2021 in October.

• 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

PinpointFly developed in our laboratory was implemented as a technical exhibition “”Remote Drone Control”” at “”SEIMITSU Lab. 2021“” in University of Tokyo’s May Festival.

• 精密Lab. 2021 ドローン遠隔操縦

ACM CHI 2021 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems) was held online (originally in Yokohama).

Prof. Yoshifumi Kitamura served as the General Chair, Assistant Prof. Kaori Ikematsu served as the Assistant to General Chairs, and Ms. Xiyue Wang joined as the SV Local Support Chair and involved in the organization of the conference.

Assistant Prof. Kazuyuki Fujita, Mr. Isamu Endo, Mr. Linfeng Chen, Ms. Xiyue Wang and Ms. Yuki Onishi made oral presentations.

• • Papers:

    • Kazuyuki Fujita, Aoi Suzuki, Kazuki Takashima, Kaori Ikematsu, and Yoshifumi Kitamura. TiltChair: Manipulative Posture Guidance by Actively Inclining the Seat of an Office Chair.

    • Linfeng Chen, Kazuki Takashima, Kazuyuki Fujita, and Yoshifumi Kitamura. PinpointFly: An Egocentric Position-control Drone Interface using Mobile AR.

    • Xiyue Wang, Kazuki Takashima, Tomoaki Adachi, and Yoshifumi Kitamura. Can Playing with Toy Blocks Reflect Behavior Problems in Children?

       

• Late-Breaking Works:

  • Isamu Endo, Kazuki Takashima, Maakito Inoue, Kazuyuki Fujita, Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, and Yoshifumi Kitamura. A Reconfigurable Mobile Head-Mounted Display Supporting Real World Interactions.

  • Yuki Onishi, Kazuki Takashima, Kazuyuki Fujita, and Yoshifumi Kitamura. Self-actuated Stretchable Partitions for Dynamically Creating Secure Workplaces.

In our lab, we hold meetings in a hybrid style, which is a combination of on-site seminar room sessions and online sessions, and this was featured in an NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) program.

An article contributed by Prof. Yoshifumi Kitamura was appeared in Journal of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan.

• 北村喜文: CHI 2021のGeneral Chairを引き受けることになった経緯，日本バーチャルリアリティ学会誌，26巻, 1号, pp. 10-14, 2021.

Ms. Yuki Onishi made an oral presentation at IEEE VR 2021.

• Yuki Onishi, Kazuki Takashima, Kazuyuki Fujita, Yoshifumi Kitamura, BouncyScreen: Physical Enhancement of Pseudo-Force Feedback

Commencement ceremony was held in hybrid style.

We had a farewell party online.

“”10th Anniversary of ICD Lab! Meetup of alumni and current students!”” was held online.

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.