Awards

Domestic awards
International awards
IPSJ Symposium Interaction 2024 Best Paper Award and Interactivity Award ("People's Choice" category)
Mar. 2024
IPSJ SIGMUS Best Presentation Award ("Best Research" category)
Aug. 2023
IEEE VL/HCC '21 Best Short Paper Award for the co-authored Roly-poly short paper
Oct. 2021
ISID '21 Best Poster Award
Mar. 2021
IEEE PacificVis '18 Honorable Mention Poster Award for the co-authored TextTimeline poster
Apr. 2018
SMC '15 Best Paper for the co-authored CrossSong paper
Jul. 2015
IPSJ SIGMUS Best Presentation Award
Aug. 2014
Jul. 2014
Oct. 2013
Apr. 2011 - Mar. 2012
ACM SIGGRAPH '09 Laval Virtual Award (Best of Emerging Technologies)
Aug. 2009

Invited Talks

Japan ACM SIGCHI Chapter International Symposium on HCI, "The HCI researcher as toolsmith," award talk for 2023 Japan ACM SIGCHI Chapter Distinguished Young Researcher Award, YouTube
Feb. 2023
Mozilla MIECO weekly meeting, "A Toolsmith for Programmers, Musicians, and Anime Creators"
Feb. 2023
ISID 2021, "Creativity Support for People with Diverse Technical Background"
Mar. 2021
RIEC International Symposium on HCI, "Programming for X: Programming Experience Research for Convivial Computing"
Jan. 2020
Dagstuhl Seminar 17232 (Computational Interactivity), "The Future of Programming and Data Sciences"
Jun. 2017
Viewpoints Research Institute and Y Combinator Research HARC, "Programming with {Examples | People}"
Apr. 2016
University of Toronto DGP seminar, "Toward Live Programming in the Real World"
Jun. 2014
University of Washington dub seminar, "Integrated Graphical Representations for Programming with Real-world Input and Output", Video
Oct. 2013

Publications

The following publications list is automatically generated from the BibTeX file.

Selected peer-reviewed publications

Lyric App Framework: A Web-based Framework for Developing Interactive Lyric-driven Musical Applications

2023CHI '23ACM CHI '23 Honorable Mention AwardLyric App Framework
Jun Kato, Masataka Goto
Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Songle Sync: A Large-Scale Web-based Platform for Controlling Various Devices in Synchronization with Music

2018MM '18Songle Sync
Jun Kato, Masa Ogata, Takahiro Inoue, Masataka Goto
Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, pp.1697-1705

F3.Js: A Parametric Design Tool for Physical Computing Devices for Both Interaction Designers and End-users

2017DIS '17f3.js
Jun Kato, Masataka Goto
Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, pp.1099-1110

Programming with Examples to Develop Data-Intensive User Interfaces

2016Special Issue on 21st User InterfacesProgramming with Examples
Jun Kato, Takeo Igarashi, Masataka Goto
IEEE Computer 49(7), pp.34-42

TextAlive: Integrated Design Environment for Kinetic Typography

2015CHI '15ACM CHI '15 Honorable Mention AwardTextAlive
Jun Kato, Tomoyasu Nakano, Masataka Goto
Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp.3403-3412

It's Alive! Continuous Feedback in UI Programming

Sebastian Burckhardt, Manuel Fahndrich, Peli de Halleux, Sean McDirmid, Michal Moskal, Nikolai Tillmann, Jun Kato
Proceedings of the 34th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, pp.95-104

Picode: Inline Photos Representing Posture Data in Source Code

2013CHI '13ACM CHI '13 Honorable Mention AwardPicode
Jun Kato, Daisuke Sakamoto, Takeo Igarashi
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp.3097-3100

DejaVu: Integrated Support for Developing Interactive Camera-Based Programs

2012UIST '12DejaVu
Jun Kato, Sean McDirmid, Xiang Cao
Proceedings of the 25th Annual ACM symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, pp.189-196

Journal/conference/workshop publications

All of these publications, except those explicitly marked as the invited articles, underwent a review process; most of these publications are considered either archival or semi-archival.

On the Relationship between HCI Researchers and Creators---Or How I Became a Toolsmith

Jun Kato
XRDS 29(4), pp.26-31

Special Interest Group on Creativity and Cultures in Computing

Jun Kato, Jonas Frich, Zhicong Lu, Jennifer Jacobs, Kumiyo Nakakoji, Celine Latulipe
Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

ODEN: Live Programming for Neural Network Architecture Editing

2022IUI '22
Chunqi Zhao, I-Chao Shen, Tsukasa Fukusato, Jun Kato, Takeo Igarashi
27th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, pp.392-404

Guided Optimization for Image Processing Pipelines

2021VL/HCC '21IEEE VL/HCC '21 Best Short Paper Award
Yuka Ikarashi, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, Tsukasa Fukusato, Jun Kato, Takeo Igarashi
Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing

Lyric Video Analysis Using Text Detection and Tracking

2020DAS '20
Shota Sakaguchi, Jun Kato, Masataka Goto, Seiichi Uchida (Eds. Xiang Bai, Dimosthenis Karatzas, Daniel Lopresti)
Document Analysis Systems, pp.426-440

Rethinking Programming "Environment": Technical and Social Environment Design toward Convivial Computing

2020Convivial Computing Salon '20Programming as Communication
Jun Kato, Keisuke Shimakage
Companion Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on the Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming, pp.95-103

DeployGround: A Framework for Streamlined Programming from API playgrounds to Application Deployment

2018VL/HCC '18DeployGround
Jun Kato, Masataka Goto
Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, pp.259-263

Reactile: Programming Swarm User Interfaces Through Direct Physical Manipulation

2018CHI '18Reactile
Ryo Suzuki, Jun Kato, Mark D. Gross, Tom Yeh
Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp.199:1-199:13

A Singing Instrument for Real-Time Vocal-Part Arrangement of Music and Audio Signals

2017SMC '17
Yuta Ojima, Tomoyasu Nakano, Satoru Fukayama, Jun Kato, Masataka Goto, Katsutoshi Itoyama, Kazuyoshi Yoshii
Proceedings of the 14th Sound and Music Computing Conference, pp.559-563

User-Generated Variables: Streamlined Interaction Design for Feature Requests and Implementations

Jun Kato, Masataka Goto
Companion to the First International Conference on the Art, Science and Engineering of Programming, pp.28:1-28:7

The CrossSong Puzzle: Developing a Logic Puzzle for Musical Thinking

Jordan B.L. Smith, Jun Kato, Satoru Fukayama, Graham Percival, Masataka Goto
Journal of New Music Research, pp.1-16

Live Tuning: Expanding Live Programming Benefits to Non-Programmers

2016LIVE '16Live Tuning
Jun Kato, Masataka Goto
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Live Programming Systems

PlaylistPlayer: An Interface Using Multiple Criteria to Change the Playback Order of a Music Playlist

2016IUI '16
Tomoyasu Nakano, Jun Kato, Masahiro Hamasaki, Masataka Goto
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, pp.186-190

CrossSong Puzzle: Generating and Unscrambling Music Mash-ups with Real-time Interactivity

2015SMC '15SMC '15 Best Paper AwardCrossSong
Jordan Smith, Graham Parcival, Jun Kato, Masataka Goto, Satoru Fukayama
Proceedings of the 12nd Sound and Music Computing Conference, pp.61-67

TextAlive Online: Live Programming of Kinetic Typography Videos with Online Music

2015ICLC '15TextAlive
Jun Kato, Tomoyasu Nakano, Masataka Goto
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Live Coding, pp.199-205

Sharedo: To-do List Interface for Human-agent Task Sharing

2014HAI '14HAI '14 Best Paper NomineeSharedo
Jun Kato, Daisuke Sakamoto, Takeo Igarashi, Masataka Goto
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, pp.345-351

VisionSketch: Integrated Support for Example-centric Programming of Image Processing Applications

2014GI '14VisionSketch
Jun Kato, Takeo Igarashi
Proceedings of the 2014 Graphics Interface Conference, pp.115-122

CapStudio: An Interactive Screencast for Visual Application Development

2014CHI EA '14CapStudio
Koumei Fukahori, Daisuke Sakamoto, Jun Kato, Takeo Igarashi
Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp.1453-1458

OpenPool: Community-based Prototyping of Digitally-augmented Billiard Table

2013IEEE GCCE '13OpenPool
Jun Kato, Takashi Nakashima, Hideki Takeoka, Kazunori Ogasawara, Kazuma Murao, Toshinari Shimokawa, Masaaki Sugimoto
Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Global Conference on Consumer Electronics, pp.175-176

Phybots: A Toolkit for Making Robotic Things

2012DIS '12Phybots
Jun Kato, Daisuke Sakamoto, Takeo Igarashi
Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, pp.248-257

Multi-touch Interface for Controlling Multiple Mobile Robots

2009CHI EA '09ACM CHI '09 Student Research Competition 1st PlaceMulti-touch Interface for Controlling Multiple Mobile Robots
Jun Kato, Daisuke Sakamoto, Masahiko Inami, Takeo Igarashi
Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp.3443-3448

Other publications

The following publications are either invited articles or non-archival demo/poster papers.

Lights, Animation, Interaction! – Synchronizing Music with Computer-controlled Visuals in Live Performances

2023SAS 34TextAlive
Jun Kato
Society for Animation Studies 34th Annual Conference: The Animated Environment

Past, Present, and Future of “Toolsmiths” in Japanese Animation

2022SAS '22Griffith
Jun Kato
Society for Animation Studies 2022 Conference: Animation Unlocked

Griffith: Prototype of A Web-based Tool for Authoring Japanese Anime Storyboards

2022ISID '22ISID '22 Best Poster AwardGriffith
Jun Kato, Kazuya Murata, Kenta Hara, Satoko Okuno, Tetsushi Suzuki, Nao Hirasawa

Past, Present, and Future of Storyboarding in Japanese Animation

2021SAS '21Griffith
Jun Kato, Ryotaro Mihara, Nao Hirasawa
Society for Animation Studies 2021 Conference: Animated Energies

Research on Anime Storyboards for Individual and Collaborative Creativity

2021ISID '21ISID '21 Best Poster AwardGriffith
Jun Kato, Ryotaro Mihara Mihara, Kazuya Murata, Kenta Hara, Nao Hirasawa

Live Programming Environment for Deep Learning with Instant and Editable Neural Network Visualization

2020PLATEAU '19
Chunqi Zhao, Tsukasa Fukusato, Jun Kato, Takeo Igarashi (Eds. Sarah Chasins, Elena L. Glassman, Joshua Sunshine)
10th Workshop on Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools (PLATEAU 2019), pp.7:1-7:5

Placing Music in Space: A Study on Music Appreciation with Spatial Mapping

2018DIS '18 Companion
Shoki Miyagawa, Yuki Koyama, Jun Kato, Masataka Goto, Shigeo Morishima
Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems, pp.39-43

User Interfaces for Live Programming

2017LIVE '17Keynote talk at LIVE '17User Interfaces for Live Programming
Jun Kato

The Future of Programming and Data Sciences

2017
Jun Kato (Eds. Xiaojun Bi, Otmar Hilliges, Takeo Igarashi, Antti Oulasvirta)
Computational Interactivity (Dagstuhl Seminar 17232), pp.56-56

A Robotic Framework for Video Recording and Authoring

2017HRI '17 Companionf3.js
Jun Kato, Masataka Goto
Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, pp.41-41

Form Follows Function(): An IDE to Create Laser-cut Interfaces and Microcontroller Programs from Single Code Base

2015UIST '15 Adjunctf3.js
Jun Kato, Masataka Goto
Adjunct Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, pp.43-44

Integrated Visual Representations for Programming with Real-world Input and Output

2013UIST '15 Adjunct (Doctoral Symposium)
Jun Kato
Adjunct Proceedings of the 26th Annual ACM symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, pp.57-60

Visionsketch: Gesture-based Language for End-user Computer Vision Programming

2013Student Research Competition at PLDI '13ACM PLDI '13 Student Research Competition FinalistVisionSketch
Jun Kato
The 34th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation

Surfboard: Keyboard with Microphone as a Low-cost Interactive Surface

2010UIST '10 AdjunctSurfboard
Jun Kato, Daisuke Sakamoto, Takeo Igarashi
Adjunct Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, pp.387-388

A Toolkit for Easy Development of Mobile Robot Applications with Visual Markers and a Ceiling Camera

2009UIST '09 DemoPhybots
Daisuke Sakamoto, Jun Kato, Masahiko Inami, Takeo Igarashi
The 22nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

CRISTAL, Control of Remotely Interfaced Systems using Touch-based Actions in Living Spaces

2009SIGGRAPH '09 E-TechLaval Virtual Award (SIGGRAPH '09 Best of E-Tech)CRISTAL
Thomas Seifried, Christian Rendl, Florian Perteneder, Jakob Leitner, Michael Haller, Daisuke Sakamoto, Jun Kato, Masahiko Inami, Stacey D. Scott
ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 Emerging Technologies

Dissertation

Integrated Graphical Representations for Development of Programs with Real-world Input and Output

2014
Jun Kato