We enjoyed farewell and welcome party for Prof. Morten Fjeld and new students.

Kevin Ta, Lienn Quach, and Peter Buk, Interactions laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary visited us and gave us a talk．

Prof. Morten Fjeld of Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, staying with us as a Visiting Procfessor gave us a talk.

A paper was appeared in The Information Processing Society of Japan. And also this paper was selected as Specially Selected Paper.

• 大山貴史，高嶋和毅，浅利勇佑，エフド シャーリン，ソール グリーンバーグ，北村喜文，自立移動・変形する壁型ディスプレイの設計と実装，情報処理学会論文誌，Vol.58，No.5，1049-1060，2017年5月 –> [PDF]

We enjoyed cherry-blossom viewing at Katahira campus.

Dr. Niccolo Albertini of Dreamslab of Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa – Italy) visited us and gave us a talk.

New students of Doctor, Master and Undergraduate joined our lab.

Tokuro Yamaguchi and Shigeru Tachizawa of Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd visited us and gave us a talk.

Commencement Ceremony was held in Tohoku University.

Technical Committee on Human Communication Science (HCS) was held, and Ms. Tsukita, a collaborative researcher, made an oral presentation.

• Effect of Communication Training on Group Discussion — Comparison of with and without Improvisation —
  Yuka Tsukita (Cheers Inc.), Kazuki Takashima (Tohoku Univ.), Hitomi Yokoyama (Tokyo Univ of Agriculture and Technology), Junko Ichino (Kagawa Univ.), Yuichi Ito (Osaka Univ.), Ikuo Daibo (Tokyo Future Univ.), Yoshifumi Kitamura (Tohoku Univ.)

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

Ms. Miteki Ishikawa and Mr. Takuma Hagiwara made an oral presentation and demonstrate our work at INTERACTION 2017(a IPSJ symposium), and the paper presented by Mr. Takuma Hagiwara recieved Best Paper Award.

• 萩原拓真，高嶋和毅，モルテンフィールド，北村喜文: モバイルカメラを用いたデバイス間アドホックアプリケーション共有
• 石川美笛，高嶋和毅，中島康祐，北村喜文: 積み木遊び認識のためのスマートウォッチを活用した積み木型インタフェース

Dr. Taku Komura at University of Edinburgh, UK, gave us a special lecture.

We enjoyed a farewell party.

Oral examination of graduation thesis was held.

M2 students finished their master thesis with the final presentation.

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

A workshop for “Design of History and Context” was held by the Collaborative Graduate Program in Design, Kyoto University.

Prof. Rob Lindeman of University of Canterbury, New Zealand, staying with us as a Visiting Procfessor gave us a talk.

Dr. Weiquan Lu of National University of Singapore gave us a talk.