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Professional Activities

Hi! I am open for collaborations. Please see Collaborations for more details.

Meetups

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

AIST Creative HCI Seminar

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

2023
SIGPX

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

2016-2023
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

Program committee

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

Human-Computer Interaction

ACM CHI 2023
Associate Chair (Blending Interaction: Engineering Interactive Systems & Tools)
ACM CHI 2021
Student Research Competition Chair
Associate Chair (Engineering Interactive Systems and Technologies)
ACM CHI 2020
Associate Chair (Engineering Interactive Systems and Technologies)
ACM UIST 2019
Program Committee
ACM UIST 2018
Program Committee
ACM IUI 2018, 2019
Program Committee
ACM UIST 2017
Program Committee
ACM CHI 2017
Associate Chair (Engineering Interactive Systems and Technologies)
ACM UIST 2014
Program Committee
ACM CHI Symposium on Emerging Japanese HCI Research Collection
Program Committee (2015, 2016)
Asian CHI Symposium: Emerging HCI Research Collection
Program Committee (2017, 2018)

Programming Experience

LIVE workshop
Steering Committee
ACM SPLASH 2022 LIVE workshop
Co-chair
IEEE VL/HCC 2020
Program Committee & Showpieces Chair
<Programming> 2020
Program Committee
<Programming> 2019 main conference and its co-located PX/19 workshop
Program Committee
ACM SPLASH 2018 LIVE workshop
Program Committee
<Programming> 2018 main conference and its co-located PX/18 workshop
Program Committee
ACM SPLASH 2017 PX/17.2 and LIVE workshops
Program Committee
<Programming> 2017 PX/17.1 workshop
Program Committee
ECOOP 2016 PX and LIVE workshops
Program Committee

Computer Graphics, Human-Robot Interaction, etc.

SIGGRAPH Asia 2021 Real-Time Live!
Program Chair
IEEE/ACM HRI 2017
Demo & Video Co-chair
HAI 2014
Program Committee
SIGGRAPH Asia 2018 Real-Time Live!
Program Committee

Organizing committee

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

Human-Computer Interaction

ACM IUI 2018
Student Consortium Committee
ACM UIST 2016
Student Volunteer Chair
ACM UIST 2013
Publicity Co-chair

HCI regional committees

Japan ACM SIGCHI Chapter
Board Member (2016-2023)
ACM CHI Symposium on Emerging Japanese HCI Research Collection
Organizing Committee (2015, 2016)
Asian CHI Symposium: Emerging HCI Research Collection
Organizing Committee (2017, 2018)

Human-Robot Interaction etc.

ACM ISS 2016
Publicity Co-chair

Reviewer

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

CHI
2010, 2015-2023
UIST
2014-2023
DIS
2017
IUI
2018-2019
TOCHI
2018
SIGGRAPH
2015
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

User interface design consultant for an animation TV series
2011 "Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet"
Guest lecture in the "Advanced Information Science Exercise" course
2020/01/22, 2021/01/20, 2022/01/19, 2023/01/18 "Introduction to Programming Experience Research" (Shibaura Institute of Technology)
Guest critique in the "Open Design Strategy" course
2020/01/20 (Keio University)
Organizer of a joint seminar on "Reading All CHI Papers in One Day"
2011, 2015-2023
Guest lecture in the "Special Lectures in Information Engineering" course
2018/05/25 "User Interfaces for Programming & The Future of Creativity Support" (Keio University)
Teaching assistant of the "Media Informatics" course
Winter 2008, Summer 2016 (The University of Tokyo)
Guest lecture in the "Content and Entertainment" course
2015/12/09 "* as a Code -- Render any content with code" (Meiji University)
Graphic & Interaction Design
Please refer to the design portfolio.

Visited places

ACM CHI
2009 (Boston, MA), 2013 (Paris, France), 2015 (Seoul, Korea), 2016 (San Jose, CA)
ACM UIST
2009 (Victoria, Canada), 2010 (New York, NY), 2012 (Boston, MA), 2013 (St. Andrews, UK), 2015 (Charlotte, NC), 2016 (Tokyo, Japan)
ACM DIS
2012 (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK), 2017 (Edinburgh, UK)
Other conferences
SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 (Yokohama, Japan), ACM PLDI 2013 (Seattle, WA), IEEE GCCE 2013 (Tokyo, Japan), GI 2014 (Montreal, QC, 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 and 22231 (Dagstuhl, Germany), IEEE VL/HCC 2018 (Lisbon, Portugal), ACM Multimedia 2018 (Seoul, Korea), SPLASH 2022 (Auckland, New Zealand)