Prof. Yoshifumi Kitamura gave a talk at the FTD (Future, Technology, Design) session of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Japan Society for Software Science and Technology．

Kiyoshi Oka presented our work of joint research with National University of Singapore at Human Interface Symposium．

Dr. Taku Komura at University of Edinburgh, UK, stayed with us．

Mr. Philippe Delforge of Flexible Robotic Solutions visited us and gave us a talk.

Prof. Kitamura is disignated as Conference Ambassador by Japan National Tourism Organization（JNTO).

Kasim Ozacar finished his final exam (defence) for dissertation.

We showed our demonstration in the Open Campus of Tohoku University. 5743 highschool students visited us during the two-days event.

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

Mr. Baba and Mr. Nakagawa of DeNA visited us.

We enjoyed a welcome and farewell party.

Assistant Professor Kazuki Takashima presented our paper of joint research with University of Calgary at DIS 2016: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems and received the Honourable Mention Award.

• K. Takashima, T. Oyama, Y. Asari, E. Sharlin, S. Greenberg, Y. Kitamura: Study and Design of a Shape-Shifting Wall Display

We visited the National University of Singapore to conduct our joint research project supported by JSPS.

Dr. Weiquan Lu of National University of Singapore and Prof. Katsumi Sato of Graduate School of Educational Informatics of Tohoku University gave us talks.

We enjoyed a Cherry Blossom Viewing Party in Katahira Campus.

New graduate and undergraduate students have joined to our lab.

Our paper presented in SIGGRAPH Asia 2015 and appeared in ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) has been selected and listed on the top page of the ACM SIGGRAPH.

• J. Huang, T. Mori, K. Takashima, S. Hashi, Y. Kitamura: IM6D: Magnetic Tracking System with 6-DOF Passive Markers for Dexterous 3D Interaction and Motion

An article was appeared in IEEE CG & A.

• Hincapi_-Ramos, J.D., _zacar, K., Irani, P.P. and Kitamura, Y: GyroWand: An Approach to IMU-Based Raycasting for Augmented Reality. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 36(2), pp.90-96, Mar-Apr. 2016. [PDF]

Commencement Ceremony was held in Tohoku University

Oral examination of graduation thesis was held.

We enjoyed a farewell party.