Prof. Yoshifumi Kitamura received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award.

https://www.riec.tohoku.ac.jp/en/award-en/2025022604/

Professor Yoshifumi Kitamura has been listed on the SIGGRAPH Member Profile.
https://www.siggraph.org/inside-siggraph/member-profiles/profile/?member=yoshifumi-kitamura

Dr. Shio Miyafuji (Institute of Science Tokyo) and Dr. Ayaka Ishii (NTT Communication Science Laboratories) visited our lab and gave us talks.

Dr. Rui Wang (CSIRO, Australia) and students from Taipei Medical University visited our lab.

We enjoyed a farewell party.

Prof. Yoshifumi Kitamura received the Lifetime Community Contribution Award at the 4th Japan ACM SIGCHI Chapter Awards in 2024.
This award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the advancement of science and technology related to the interaction between humans and information technology. In addition to making significant contributions to the development of the field through his own research and community activities, he has also promoted activities that connect the global and Japanese research communities, and has worked to enhance Japan’s presence in the international research community.

https://sigchi.jp/award/2024/result.en.html#YoshifumiKitamura

Mr. Gu Lin from RIKEN visited us and gave a lecture. In addition, he had the opportunity to experience our research.

We held End-of-Year Meeting/Party.

Prof. Makoto Okabe of Shizuoka University visited us and gave us a talk.

Our paper has been published in Springer, Behavior Research Methods.
How Do Asians Express Emotions Through Body Movement?
Cheng, Miao, Chia-huei Tseng, Ken Fujiwara, Shoi Higashiyama, Abby Weng, and Yoshifumi Kitamura. Toward an Asian-based bodily movement database for emotional communication, Journal: Behavior Research Methods, 57(1), 1-16

• Tohoku University Press Release

The following researchers visited our laboratory and gave symposium-style talks. We also gave demonstrations of our research and discussed various topics.

• Rob LINDEMAN Professor, HIT Lab NZ, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
• Susanne SCHMIDT Lecturer, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
• Donald DEGRAEN Senior Lecturer, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
• Samara MORRISON Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
• Benjamin WATSON Associate Professor, North Carolina State University, USA
• Benjamin TAG Senior Lecturer, University of New South Wales, Australia

Selected for JST “ASPIRE for TOP,” Adopting Sustainable Partnerships for Innovative Research Ecosystem.
Title: Mental Well-being Intelligence: A Data-driven Research Community on Human Psychological Health

We participated in the 58th Joint Relay Race of ECEI and RIEC.

Prof. Yuki Igarashi of Ochanomizu University came and gave us a talk.

We enjoyed a Farewell Party for Jacob and Dinner Party for Dr.Froehlich.

Prof. Bernd Froehlich of Bauhaus-Universitaet Weimar, Germany, staying in our lab, gave us a talk.

People from the NTT Research visited our laboratory.

The Tohoku University Collaboration Forum on Electrical and Information Technology was held at the Research Institute of Electrical Communication (RIEC), where Professor Yoshifumi Kitamura gave a lecture titled “The Future of Connecting Empathy: Tohoku University’s RIEC Working with You to Create a Rich Telecommunications Environment.
Research demonstrations and discussions were also held for the visitors.

Our paper has been published in ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems.

• Kazuyuki Fujita, Keito Uwaseki, Hongyu Bu, Kazuki Takashima, and Yoshifumi Kitamura. 2024. ConfusionLens: Focus+Context Visualization Interface for Performance Analysis of Multiclass Image Classifiers. ACM Trans. Interact. Intell. Syst. (October 2024).

The ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) 2024, one of the top conferences in our field, was held in Pittsburgh, USA, and Tetsushi Ikeda gave an oral presentation on the paper that was accepted for the conference.

• Tetsushi Ikeda, Kazuyuki Fujita, Kumpei Ogawa, Kazuki Takashima, Yoshifumi Kitamura, LoopBot: Representing Continuous Haptics of Grounded Objects in Room-scale VR, UIST ’24: Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 60, 1-10, October 2024.