About me
- 1st-year Ph.D. student at User Interface Research Group (Igarashi Laboratory), Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo.
- JSPS Research Fellow (DC1)
- JST ERATO Igarashi Design Interface Project Research Assistant
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 the real world.
My resume is available for download.
Recent updates
| 5/5/2012 | Back in Japan... In June, I will start an internship at Research in Software Engineering (RiSE) Group of Microsoft Research Redmond. |
| 3/23/2012 | My paper about Phybots is accepted for DIS 2012. I will present the paper in the session "Absolutely Fab" on 6/13. |
| 3/19/2012 | Renewed the website. |
| 1/9/2012 | Started an internship at HCI Group of Microsoft Research Asia. |
Projects
Research projects since 2009 in reverse chronological order:
Labels with icon show the development term of each project.
Sharedo (to appear)
'11-12 Robot
Phybots (to appear)
'09-12 Toolkit Robot
Surfboard
'10 NUI
Pressing
'09 IDE NUI
Multi-touch Multi-robot
'08-09 Robot NUI
Collaborations
Collaboration projects since 2009 in reverse chronological order:
IntelliViewer
'10 IDE NUI
CRISTAL
'09 Robot NUI
Publications
BibTex file including publications shown below is available for download.
- Jun Kato, Daisuke Sakamoto, Takeo Igarashi, "Phybots: A Toolkit for Making Robotic Things (to appear)", DIS '12: Proceedings of the 9th conference on Designing Interactive Systems, June. 2012.
- Jun Kato, Daisuke Sakamoto, Takeo Igarashi, "Surfboard: keyboard with microphone as a low-cost interactive surface", UIST '10: Adjunct proceedings of the 23nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, pp.387-388, Oct. 2010. PDF ACM Project
- Jun Kato, Daisuke Sakamoto, Masahiko Inami, Takeo Igarashi, "A Toolkit for Easy Development of Mobile Robot Applications with Visual Markers and a Ceiling Camera", UIST '09: 22nd Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, Oct. 2009. PDF Project
- 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", SIGGRAPH '09: ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 Emerging Technologies, pp.1-1, Aug. 2009. Laval Virtual Award (Best of Emerging Technologies) PDF ACM Project
- Jun Kato, Daisuke Sakamoto, Masahiko Inami, Takeo Igarashi, "Multi-touch interface for controlling multiple mobile robots", CHI '09: Proceedings of the 27th international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, pp.3443-3448, Apr. 2009. ACM Student Research Competition 1st Place PDF ACM Project
Awards and Fundings
- Apr. 2011 - Mar. 2012, Microsoft Research 7th Collaborative Research (CORE7) Program
- Apr. 2011 - Mar. 2014, JSPS Research Fellowships for Young Scientists (DC1)
- Nov. 2011, 4th Rakuten Research & Development Symposium Best Research & Development Award
- 2010, ACM Student Research Competition Grand Finals Finalist
- Aug. 2009, ACM SIGGRAPH'09 Laval Virtual Award (Best of Emerging Technologies)
- Apr. 2009, ACM CHI'09 Student Research Competition 1st Place
- Dec. 2008 - Aug. 2009, IPA Exploratory IT Human Resources Project (MITOH)
Fun
Photo albums
I love taking photos :)
Contact
Science bldg. 7, Room 302, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Tokyo.
P: +81 3-5841-4091
F: +81 3-5841-4105