Associate Prof. Kazuki Takashima made an oral presentation and Mr. Daigo Hayashi and Mr.

Taichi Tsuchida demonstrated their work at Interaction 2020(Symposium on Information Processing Society of Japan).

• Oral presentations:
  • 上田将理，伊藤雄一，藤田和之，尾上孝雄: PlanT：植物を用いた積算情報可視化ディスプレイ
  • 鄢一先，高嶋和毅，アンソニー タン，藤田和之，北村喜文: 複数の自走壁型プロップを用いたルームスケールVRの空間インフラの遭遇型触覚提示

• Demonstrations:
  • 林大悟，藤田和之，原航太郎，高嶋和毅，北村喜文: 地図グラフデータ内のトポロジー誤り発見・修正のためのインタラクション手法
  • 中原和洋，藤田和之，土田太一，高嶋和毅，北村喜文: バーチャルな影による奥行き錯覚を用いた付箋紙の移動操作と類似度可視化インタフェース
  • 土田太一，藤田和之，中原和洋，山田茂雄，高嶋和毅，北村喜文: 机上へのプロジェクションによる紙面テキストハイライト手法

DA・TE・APPS！2020 was held at the sendai international center. Mr. Daigo Hayashi, Mr. Aoi Suzuki, and Mr. Taichi Tsuchida joined and won Best Application Award of IT department. Mr. Shotaro Ichikawa and Ms. Hao Zheng also joined Game department.

Dr. Thippaya Chintakovid and Dr. Siranee Nuchitprasitchai of King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok, Thailand and Dr. Benjamin Tag of The University of Melbourne visited us and gave us a talk.

Our Drone project was introduced at ITmedia NEWS.

• ARでドローンを操作　東北大学が「PinpointFly」開発

RIEC International Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction – Welcome CHI 2021, thinking of the future of HCI together – was held.

Date: January 24 (Fri.) ~ 25 (Sat.), 2020

Venue: Research Institute of Electrical Communication 6F Main conference room, Tohoku

University, Sendai, Japan

Programs & Details

Fourth RIEC and ACM SIGCHI Asian Symposium was held.

Date: 13:00~, January 12 (Sun.), 2020

Venue: Research Institute of Electrical Communication 5F M531, Tohoku University, Sendai,

Japan

Programs & Details

A paper was appeared in Transactions 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

Our project was introduced at ITmedia NEWS.

• VRのハンドトラッキング範囲を拡張する「Pursuit Sensing」　東北大学など開発

Prof. Yoshifumi Kitamura gave a Keynote Talk at 6th International Conference on Networking, Systems and Security (NSysS), Dhaka, Bangladesh, on December 19, 2019.

A paper was appeared in Interacting with Computers.

• Takuma Hagiwara, Kazuki Takashima, Morten Fjeld, Yoshifumi Kitamura, CamCutter: Impromptu Vision-Based Cross-Device Application Sharing, Interacting with Computers, iwz035

A paper was appeared in Information Processing Society of Japan.

• 市川 将太郎，高嶋 和毅，石川 美笛，北村 喜文: ブロックとコネクタを活用した探索的なVRコンテンツ操作インタフェースに関する研究, 情報処理学会論文誌Vol.60 No.11, p.1992-2005

Our Drone project was introduced at ITmedia NEWS.

• 飛行中のドローンを別ドローンで客観視　2画面と模型で操縦を簡単に　東北大など研究

Our ShearSheet project was introduced at ITmedia NEWS.

• タッチパネルに透明シートで、ジョイスティック的な操作可能に　東北大と芝浦工大が開発

Mr. Daigo Hayashi and Mr. Pascal Chiu demonstrated their work in XR program, and Mr. Lin feng Chen demonstrated his work in Emerging Technologies program at Siggraph Asia 2019 (ACM SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Asia)

• Tomas Havlik，Daigo Hayashi, Kazuyuki Fujita, Kazuki Takashima, Robert W. Lindeman, Yoshifumi Kitamura.JumpinVR: Enhancing Jump Experience in a Limited Physical Space.
• Pascal Chiu, Isamu Endo, Kazuki Takashima, Kazuyuki Fujita, Yoshifumi Kitamura.FreeMo: Extending Hand Tracking Experiences Through Capture Volume and User Freedom.
• Linfeng Chen, Akiyuki Ebi, Kazuki Takashima, Kazuyuki Fujita, Yoshifumi Kitamura.PinpointFly: An Egocentric Position-pointing Drone Interface using Mobile AR.

Assistant Prof. Kazuyuki Fujita received Best Demo Voted by Committee of Emerging Technologies.

• Yoshitaka Ishihara, Ryo Shirai, Yuichi Itoh, Kazuyuki Fujita, Takao Onoye. StickyTouch: An Adhesion Changeable Surface.

Assistant Prof. Kazuyuki Fujita made an oral presentation demonstrate the work at

ISS 2019 (ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces).

He also received Best Demo Award by demo presentation.

• Mengting Huang, Kazuyuki Fujita, Kazuki Takashima, Taichi Tsuchida, Hiroyuki Manabe, Yoshifumi Kitamura. ShearSheet: Low-Cost Shear Force Input with Elastic Feedback for Augmenting Touch Interaction

A paper was appeared in Information Processing Society of Japan.

• 工藤 義礎，高嶋 和毅，モルテン フィールド，北村 喜文: 自動レイアウト変更可能なタイル型デジタルテーブルを用いたユーザのリーチ拡張に関する検討, 情報処理学会論文誌Vol.60 No.10, p.1845-1858

We held research meeting with Smart Robots Design Laboratory of Department of Robotics.

Mr. Ryotaro Temma made an oral presentation and Ms. Xiyue Wang made a poster presentation at UIST 2019 (32nd ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium)

• Ryotaro Temma, Kazuki Takashima, Kazuyuki Fujita, Koh Sueda, Yoshifumi Kitamura: Third-Person Piloting: Increasing Situational Awareness using a Spatially Coupled Second Drone
• Xiyue Wang, Kaori Ikematsu, Kazuyuki Fujita, Kazuki Takashima, Yoshifumi Kitamura: An Investigation of Electrode Design for Physical Touch Extensions on a Capacitive Touch Surface

Mr. Pascal Chiu made an oral presentation at SUI 2019 (ACM Spatial User Interaction)

• Pascal Chiu, Kazuki Takashima, Kazuyuki Fujita, Yoshifumi Kitamura: Pursuit Sensing: Extending Hand Tracking Space in Mobile VR Applications

We enjoyed Imoni party.

We were planning to hold an open lab on the same day of “Open RIEC 2019” but it was canceled due to a typhoon.