Jun Kato

About me

I am interested in broad area of Human-Computer Interaction, but have been especially focused on interactions between human and the real world through computers, their input modalities, and their development methods. In my future vision, everyone can be a weekend carpenter who makes his/her everyday life easy and comfortable with help of information technology, i.e., end-user programming { of | in } the real world.

My resume is available for download.

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Recent updates

04/16/2013My sole-authored poster about Visionsketch is accepted to present at Student Research Competition of PLDI 2013.
03/05/2013My colleagues are going to present OpenPool at SXSW 2013. I've worked for the project as one of the main programmers. Stay tuned for its open-source distribution!
03/02/2013Collaboration with PL people turned out to be a full paper at PLDI 2013. It's about live programming on TouchDevelop Web App!
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Projects

Research projects since 2009 in reverse chronological order:

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Collaborations

Collaboration projects since 2009 in reverse chronological order:

Side Projects

Projects not meant to be published as research paper in reverse chronological order:

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Publications

BibTex file including publications shown below is available for download.

  1. Jun Kato, "Visionsketch: Gesture-based Language for End-user Computer Vision Programming", In Student Research Competition at PLDI '13: The 34th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (non-archival), Jun. 2013. PDF Website
  2. Sebastian Burckhardt, Manuel Fahndrich, Peli de Halleux, Jun Kato, Sean McDirmid, Michal Moskal, Nikolai Tillmann, "It's Alive! Continuous Feedback in UI Programming (to appear)", In PLDI '13: Proceedings of the 34th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, Jun. 2013. PDF Website
  3. Jun Kato, Daisuke Sakamoto, Takeo Igarashi, "Picode: Inline Photos Representing Posture Data in Source Code", In CHI '13: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp.3097-3100, Apr. 2013. CHI 2013 Best Paper Honorable Mention Award PDF Slides Website DOI
  4. Jun Kato, Sean McDirmid, Xiang Cao, "DejaVu: Integrated Support for Developing Interactive Camera-Based Programs", In UIST '12: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, pp.189-196, Oct. 2012. PDF Slides Website DOI
  5. Jun Kato, Daisuke Sakamoto, Takeo Igarashi, "Phybots: A Toolkit for Making Robotic Things", In DIS '12: Proceedings of the 9th conference on Designing Interactive Systems, pp.248-257, Jun. 2012. PDF Slides Website DOI
  6. Jun Kato, Daisuke Sakamoto, Takeo Igarashi, "Surfboard: Keyboard with Microphone as a Low-cost Interactive Surface", In UIST '10: Adjunct proceedings of the 23nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, pp.387-388, Oct. 2010. PDF Poster Website DOI
  7. Daisuke Sakamoto, Kato Jun, Masahiko Inami, Takeo Igarashi, "A Toolkit for Easy Development of Mobile Robot Applications with Visual Markers and a Ceiling Camera", In UIST '09: 22nd symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, Oct. 2009. PDF Website
  8. Thomas Seifried, Christian Rendl, Florian Perteneder, Jakob Leitner, Michael Haller, Daisuke Sakamoto, Jun Kato, Masahiko Inami, Stacey D. Scott, "CRISTAL, Control of Remotely Interfaced Systems using Touch-based Actions in Living Spaces", In SIGGRAPH '09: ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 Emerging Technologies, pp.1-1, Aug. 2009. Laval Virtual Award (Best of Emerging Technologies) PDF Website DOI
  9. Jun Kato, Daisuke Sakamoto, Masahiko Inami, Takeo Igarashi, "Multi-touch Interface for Controlling Multiple Mobile Robots", In CHI '09 EA: Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp.3443-3448, Apr. 2009. ACM Student Research Competition 1st Place PDF Slides Website DOI

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Contact

User Interface Research Laboratory (Igarashi Laboratory)
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