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

Nation-wide Cooperative Research Project Meeting “A Study for Human, Space, and Information Technologies” was held.

Mr. Yoshiki Kudo and Mr. Xin Huang made an oral presentation and demonstrate our work at INTERACTION 2018(a IPSJ symposium).

• 工藤義礎，高嶋和毅，モルテンフィールド，北村喜文: 自動変形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
• Xin Huang，高嶋和毅，北村喜文: デジタル画像群とそのメタ情報の複数次元可視化

We enjoyed a farewell party.

Oral examination of bachelor thesis was held.

The alumni, Naohiro Aida came to our lab.

Participants to the workshop organized in conjunction with Symposium on “Interpersonal Communication of abstract concepts: MA (間) “ visited us.

DA・TE・APPS！2018 was held at the sendai mediatheque. Mr. Ryo Sugawara, Mr. Yoshiki Kudo, Mr. Ryotaro Temma, Mr. Shotaro Ichikawa, Ms. Yuki Onishi, and Mr. Daigo Hayashi joined and won Best Application Award of IT department.

Prof. Kitamura and Prof. Takashima explained our techniques of flexible user interface at the New Technology Presentation Meeting held at Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Tokyo.

Prof. Patrick Finn of University of Calgary, Canada, staying with us as a Visiting Procfessor gave us a talk.

We enjoyed a nabe-party.

The alumni, Nana Shinshi came to our lab.

A Symposium on Empathic Computing System through Interactive Knowledge Emergence based on Massive Data Processing was cooperatively organized with the Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University.

Dr. Koh Sueda of National University of Singapore and Dr. Naoki Tsukahara of the Graduate University for Advanced Studies visited us and gave us a talk.

We enjoyed a year-end-party and welcomed new members.

The lecture and demonstrations for the course, “”Design and Engineering””, in Institute of Engineering Education, Tohoku University were held by Prof. Yoshifuimi Kityamura.

Dr. Takashi Sato of IHI Corporation visited us.

A Symposium on Innovation of Electrical Communication Systems based on Design was cooperatively organized with Kyoto University Design School.

Dr. Yuichi Itoh of Osaka University visited us and gave us a talk．

Mr. Sasaki from NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories visited us and gave us a talk.