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Professional Activities

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Meetups

I have founded and regularly held seminars and meetups for researchers and creators.

Anime SIG

Organized by experts from industry and academia, this SIG invited participants to the emerging area of anime research with the aim to open up a new alley for human-computer interaction (HCI) research through collective discussion on potential directions and community fostering of anime-interested researchers.

2025
AIST Creative HCI Seminar

This seminar series is organized by AIST and invited rising stars in the Human-Computer Interaction field and cover diverse topics which are directly/indirectly connected to creativity support research.

2023-2024
SIGPX

This is a Japanese domestic study group for those interested in programming environments and their programming experience, founded in January 2016.

2016-2025
Indescribable Tea Party

This is an annual gathering event for those who { create media content, do research on creativity support tools, love such content and want to support its creators }.

2012-2020

Academic services

Organizing committee

I have served as organizing committee members for academic conferences and workshops.

Human-Computer Interaction

ACM CHI '25
Sponsorship Chair
SIGCCC
Organizer
ACM CHI '21
Student Research Competition Chair
Asian CHI Symposium: Emerging HCI Research Collection
Organizing Committee
ACM IUI '18
Student Consortium Committee
Asian CHI Symposium: Emerging HCI Research Collection
Organizing Committee
ACM UIST '16
Student Volunteer Chair
Symposium on Emerging Japanese HCI Research Collection
Organizing Committee
Symposium on Emerging Japanese HCI Research Collection
Organizing Committee
ACM UIST '13
Publicity Co-chair

Computer Graphics, Human-Robot Interaction, etc.

ACM SIGGRAPH Asia '21
Real-Time Live! Chair
IEEE/ACM HRI '17
Demo & Video Co-chair
ACM ISS '16
Publicity Co-chair

Programming Experience

LIVE '23
Co-chair
LIVE '22
Co-chair
IEEE VL/HCC '20
Showpieces Co-chair

Program committee

I have served as program committee members for academic conferences and journals.

Human-Computer Interaction

ACM CHI '26
Associate Chair (Blending Interaction: Engineering Interactive Systems & Tools)
ACM UIST '25
Program Committee
ACM CHI '23
Associate Chair (Blending Interaction: Engineering Interactive Systems & Tools)
ACM CHI '21
Associate Chair (Engineering Interactive Systems & Technologies)
ACM CHI '20
Associate Chair (Engineering Interactive Systems & Technologies)
ACM UIST '19
Program Committee
ACM IUI '19
Program Committee
ACM UIST '18
Program Committee
ACM IUI '18
Program Committee
ACM UIST '17
Program Committee
ACM CHI '17
Associate Chair (Engineering Interactive Systems & Technologies)
ACM UIST '14
Program Committee

Computer Graphics, Human-Robot Interaction, etc.

ACM SIGGRAPH Asia '18
Real-Time Live! Program Committee
HAI '14
Program Committee

Programming Experience

SPLASH '25 Onward! Papers
Program Committee
SPLASH '24 Onward! Papers
Program Committee
LIVE '24
Program Committee
LIVE '20
Program Committee
IEEE VL/HCC '20
Program Committee
PX/19
Program Committee
LIVE '18
Program Committee
PX/18
Program Committee
‹Programming› '18
Program Committee
PX/17.2
Program Committee
LIVE '17
Program Committee
PX/17
Program Committee
PX/16
Program Committee
LIVE '16
Program Committee

Reviewer

I have served as regular reviewers for academic conferences and journals.

CHI
2010, 2015-2025
UIST
2014-2025
DIS
2017
IUI
2018-2019
TOCHI
2018
SIGGRAPH
2015
SIGGRAPH Asia
2024
HRI
2016-2017, 2022
THRI
2018
RO-MAN
2015
HAI
2014
ISMAR
2021
VL/HCC
2020
GCCE
2013-2014
MM
2012
ACE
2010-2011
FIT
2011

Miscellaneous

Research and development advisor for a new 3DCG look development tool
2023-2024, Forest Tale (Arch Inc., Graphinica, Inc., Salamander Inc.)
User interface design consultant for an animation TV series
2011, Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet
Organizer of a joint seminar on "Reading All CHI Papers in One Day"
2011, 2015-2024, Japan ACM SIGCHI Chapter (2024)
Graphic & Interaction Design
Please refer to the design portfolio.
Invited talks
Please refer to the dedicated section in Publications.
Lectures
Please refer to the dedicated section in Publications.

Visited places

ACM CHI
2009 (Boston, USA), 2013 (Paris, France), 2015 (Seoul, Korea), 2016 (San Jose, USA), 2023 (Hamburg, Germany), 2024 (Honolulu, USA), 2025 (Yokohama, Japan)
ACM UIST
2009 (Victoria, Canada), 2010 (New York, USA), 2012 (Boston, USA), 2013 (St. Andrews, UK), 2015 (Charlotte, USA), 2016 (Tokyo, Japan)
ACM DIS
2012 (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK), 2017 (Edinburgh, UK)
ACM SPLASH
2022 (Auckland, New Zealand), 2023 (Cascais, Portugal)
Other attended conferences
SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 (Yokohama, Japan), ACM PLDI 2013 (Seattle, USA), IEEE GCCE 2013 (Tokyo, Japan), Graphics Interface (GI) 2014 (Montreal, Canada), HAI 2014 (Tsukuba, Japan), ICLC 2015 (Leeds, UK), ECOOP 2016 (Rome, Italy), IEEE/ACM HRI 2017 (Vienna, Austria), <Programming> 2017 (Brussels, Belgium), Dagstuhl Seminar #17232 (2017) (Dagstuhl, Germany), Dagstuhl Seminar #22231 (2022) (Dagstuhl, Germany), IEEE VL/HCC 2018 (Lisbon, Portugal), ACM Multimedia 2018 (Seoul, Korea)