Researcher

Group Web Site

https://www.icd.riec.tohoku.ac.jp/en/

Research Activities

As the Internet of Things (IoT) expands, everything around us is coming online, and joining integrated networks. Even everyday items like furniture are going digital. We view all artifacts, physical and digital, as content. Honoring the unique perspectives of people, systems, and the environments they inhabit, we study the interactions between types of content, with the ultimate goal of formulating cohesive, holistic, and intuitive approaches that promote efficiency, ease of use, and effective communication, we focus on content design to enhance living.

Interactive Content Design(Prof. Kitamura)

Research topics

• Interactive Content Visualization with Emerging Algorithms
  We study new visualization techniques based on emergent computation to flexibly display a large amount of data and create novel applications with academic and industrial collaborators.
• 3D Motion Sensing and Interaction
  We develop novel magnetic motion tracking systems using multiple identifiable, tiny, lightweight, wireless and occlusion-free markers, enabling dexterous interaction and tracking in unexplored areas.
• Telecommunication utilizing Nonverbal Information
  We are working to realize a rich communication environment in which all participants can communicate equally by appropriately transmitting (with augmentation or atten uation as necessary) the “nonverbal information” that plays an important role in ordinary interpersonal communication.

This team explores novel motion tracking systems that significantly expand design opportunities of various interactive spatial content and new interactive content design technologies that effectively and flexibly manage higher-dimensional content, and technology to effectively convey and use nonverbal information, which plays an important role in daily interpersonal communication, in telecommunication systems.

Human-Workspace Interaction(Assoc. Prof. Fujita)

Research topics

• Intelligent and Interactive Workspaces
  To support various human activities, we design, build, and evaluate interactive technologies and user interfaces that integrates computers into the space and its components surrounding the activities, and by adaptively changing the configuration and layout of the space.
• Multimodal Interaction in Virtual Reality
  To provide a highly realistic experience of walking, body movements, and various other human activities in a virtual space, despite the limitations of the physical space, we investigate and develop locomotion technologies that exploit characteristics of human perception, as well as haptic technologies that are used adaptively while walking.
• Spatial/Surface Interaction Techniques
  We explore optimal content manipulation techniques considering human body characteristics and natural behavior.

This team attempts to understand the relationship between human and spatial elements surrounding of them and develop spatial user interfaces that support human’s activities.. The team particularly works on adaptive and flexible spatial user interfaces that exploit the characteristics of human spatial perception and physicality.

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