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

We enjoyed Imoni party.

We held open lab on the same day of “Open RIEC 2018”.

Mr. Ryo Sugawara and Mr. Syotaro Ichikawa made an oral presentation and demonstrate their work and Mr. Isamu Endo made an oral presentation at The 23rd Annual Conference of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan.

Associate Prof. Kazuki Takashima served as the program chairman of The 23rd Annual Conference of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan. M1 and B4 students participated in a Preliminary contest of International collegiate Virtual Reality Contest（IVRC） and made it to the finals.

We demonstrated our work at the Open Campus of the Department of Electrical, Information and Physics Engineering, School of Engineering, Tohoku University.

The members of Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association (JEITA) visited us.

B4 students read and presented paper respectively as a part of the curriculum-based training.

22 students from University of Washington, University of Califolnia, University of Novosibirsk visited us as a part of the Science Summer Program.

Xiyue Wang presented her work at Youngsters Ensemble Workshop in Tohoku University and won the best poster award.

Mr. Kimura and Mr. Miyamoto of Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. visited us and gave us a talk.

We enjoyed a farewell party for Prof. Anthony Tang of University of Calgary, Canada, stayed with us as a Visiting Professor.

Prof. Yoshifumi Kitamura is featued by TTG mice

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We presented one of our achievements of international collaboration at demo-poster session in NIME (New Interfaces for Musical Expression) 2018 which was held at Blacksburg, VA, USA.

• CubeHarmonic: A New Interface from a Magnetic 3D Motion Tracking System to Music Performance Mannone M, Kitamura E, Huang J, Sugawara R, Kitamura Y

Ms. Xiyue Wang presented her work at Asian CHI symposium: Emerging HCI Research Collectionin ACM CHI 2018 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems)held in Montreal, Canada, and won the Best Poster/Demo Award. She also presented her work at the Late-breaking Work there.

Prof. Anthony Tang of University of Calgary, Canada, staying with us as a Visiting Professor gave us a talk.

248 freshmen at Department of Electrical, Information and Physics Engineering, Tohoku University, visited us.

We enjoyed cherry-blossom viewing at Katahira campus.

New students of Master and Undergraduate joined our lab.

Commencement Ceremony was held in Tohoku University.

Technical Committee on Human Communication Science (HCS) was held.