Associate Professor Rob Teather from Carleton University, Canada, will stay at our laboratory from January 5 to March 4, 2024, under the JSPS Invitation Fellowship Program for Research in Japan (Short-term). During his stay, we plan to conduct collaborative research More …

Xiaodan Hu (D3)’s paper has been accepted to Elsevier Display. Xiaodan Hu, Yan Zhang, Hideaki Uchiyama, Naoya Isoyama, Nobuchika Sakata, and Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, “Smart dimming sunglasses for photophobia using spatial light modulator,” Displays, Vol. 81, Jan., 2024. (abstract) We present More …

A co-authored paper with Osaka University, Augusta University, and Virginia Tech, has been published in IEEE TVCG (Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics). This is primarily a research achievement by Guanghan Zhao of Takemura Laboratory, Osaka University. Guanghan Zhao, Jason More …

We organized the workshop themed Cyber-Physical Technologies for Affective Wellbeing (CPTAW) on October 27th and 28th, 2023 in Nara, Japan. The workshop provided an opportunity for young researchers to exchange their research progress and brainstorm about possible research directions to More …

We had three presentations at the top conference on AR/MR/VR, ISMAR 2023 which was held from October 16 to 20, 2023 in Sydney, Australia. Our alumnus, Dr. Nakano, gave an oral presentation of a full paper. Mr. Ohashi gave a More …

A co-authored paper with the University of Tsukuba and Tokyo Institute of Technology has been published in IEEE ToH (Transactions on Haptics). This is primarily a research achievement by の Jiayi Xu at the LE laboratory (Prof. Kuroda), University of Tsukuba. More …

Prof. Perusquia’s following paper was presented at ACM ICMI 2023 (2023 25th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction), held from 9-13 October in Paris, France. Deffrennes, A., Vincent, L., Pivette, M., El Haddad, K., Bailey, J.D., Perusquía-Hernández, M., Alarcão, S.M., Dutoit, T. More …

The graduation ceremony was held, and three master’s students, Liu Huakun, Wei Xin, and Xia Wei completed their studies. All of them will proceed to the doctoral course. Congratulations to all of you! We wish you further success in the More …

Mr. Ota (M2), Mr. Otsubo (M1), Ms. Kimura (M1), and Mr. Maeda (M1) have presented their studies at the 28th Annual Conference of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan which was held from September 12th to 14th, 2023.　Mr. Ota also More …

Prof. Perusquía and Ms. Matsuda (D1) gave the following oral presentations at ACII 2023 (the annual Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing) which was held from September 10th to 13th, 2023, in Cambridge, USA. Prof. Perusquía More …

Our alumnus, Ms. Sasaki has presented the following work at RO-MAN 2023 which was held from August 28th to 31st, 2023. In this research, we propose a haptic device that can present a wide range of softness-hardness by using a More …

Mr. Liu (M2)’s paper has been published on IEEE TIM (Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement). In this study, we present a deep data-driven inertial measurement unit (IMU) online calibration (DUET) method that can compensate for the run-time errors of the More …

Our alumnus, Ms. Matsuo has presented the following work at APMAR 2023 (the 15th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Mixed and Augmented Reality) which was held from August 18th to 19th, 2023. In this research, we propose a method to operate a More …

We exhibited a demo at ACM SIGGRAPH 2023 which was held from August 6th to 10th, 2023, in Los Angeles, USA. This year is the 50th anniversary of SIGGRAPH and some of the best interactive works shown at SIGGRAPH over More …

Mr. Schirm (D3)’s paper has been published on MDPI Sensors Journal. This research is an endeavor to utilize content-independent eye metrics, such as pupil size and blinks, for identifying mental load in VR users. https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/15/6667 (The paper PDF is open More …

We had a trimonthly birthday party. Those who have a birthday between April and June (and early July) were celebrated.

Mr. Arisumi (M2) and Mr. Xia (M2) gave following oral presentations at a workshop of the Technical Group on Media Experience and Virtual Environment (MVE), the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), which was held on May 31st More …

Prof. Perusquia’s following paper was presented at ACM CHI 2023 (ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2023), held from 23-28 April in Hamburg, Germany. Reynolds-Cuellar, P., Wong-Villacres, M., Badillo-Urquiola, K., Barrera Machuca, M.D., Cibrian, F.L., Ciolfi Felice, M., Fuentes, More …

We held a welcome party for newcomers. 12 new M1 students were tentatively assigned to NAIST. Dr. Anatole Lécuyer from INRIA Rennes, France, with whom we are collaborating, visited NAIST, gave an invited lecture, experienced demonstrations, and participated in the More …

Yutaro Hirao has joined our laboratory as Assistant Professor as of April 1st, 2023.

We gave five presentations at IEEE VR 2023 conference, which was held both in-person in Shanghai and online from March 25 to March 29. IEEE VR is the top conference in the field of virtual reality and only the top More …

The graduation ceremony　was held, and two doctoral students and 14 master’s students completed their studies. They are leaving for national and oversea universities, major electronics manufacturers, major automobile manufacturers, a fintech, and so on. Congratulations to all of you! We More …