Timeline

This page shows updates to the website as well as publication records in their chronological order.

2024

Updates

No updates found in this year.

2023

Updates

12/13/2023
Concluded the "AIST Creative HCI Seminar series" with the sixth edition, focusing on "HCI research in the wild", inviting Jennifer Jacobs and Koya Narumi.
10/23/2023
Served as Co-chair of LIVE 2023 and had a great time — thanks to everyone who was involved in the workshop.
9/28/2023
Added a summary of the Japanese tutorial course titled "Introduction to Live Programming: Try It, Make It, Know It" held as part of The 40th JSSST Annual Conference to the page "User Interfaces for Live Programming".
8/20/2023
My resume has been outdated for a while, and I finally managed to update it.
6/23/2023
The Summer 2023 issue of ACM XRDS (Crossroads) is dedicated to "Exploring the Horizon of Computation for Creativity", to which I contributed an article. It discusses the role of computer scientists in helping creative and cultural activities "in the wild." For more details, please refer to my blog article.
6/20/2023
Presented Lights, Animation, Interaction! – Synchronizing Music with Computer-controlled Visuals in Live Performances in the "Sound and Motion" session of SAS34. In this talk, I discussed how the "animating lights" contribute to the stage performances from my experience helping creators author lyric videos projected on the stages.
5/8/2023
Was featured in People of ACM while attending ACM CHI 2023 — such excellent timing!
4/16/2023
Will organize Special Interest Group on Creativity and Cultures in Computing from 16:35 Mon, Apr 24 and present Lyric App Framework: A Web-based Framework for Developing Interactive Lyric-driven Musical Applications (Honorable Mention Award) in the "Creative Applications" session from 9:00 Thu, Apr 27 at ACM CHI 2023.
3/31/2023
Started a seminar series titled "AIST Creative HCI Seminar" and held its first edition on 3/7/2023. It focused on "creativity support" and invited Jonas Frich and Zhicong Lu. The second edition will be held online on 4/14/2023 with focus on "AI for HCI" and invite Amy Pavel and Xingyu Bruce Liu. We are calling for participation!
2/4/2023
LIVE 2022 in Auckland (NZ) was a big success, thank you! One paper and one SIG proposal were conditionally accepted to ACM CHI 2023, while one paper was accepted to SAS Conference 2023. I'm resuming (physical) travels this year, looking forward to seeing you somewhere.

Awards

Invited Talks

Feb. 2023
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"

Publications

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

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

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

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

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

2022

Updates

9/30/2022
Is serving as a Co-chair of LIVE 2022 (co-located with SPLASH 2022) and an Associate Chair of the EIST subcommittee at ACM CHI 2023.
7/1/2022
Participated in the Dagstuhl Seminar #22231 on "Theories of Programming" with amazing fellow researchers and had great discussions last month -- will need more time to digest what I got.
6/30/2022
Presented Past, Present, and Future of "Toolsmiths" in Japanese Animation in the "Machine Learning and AI in animation" session of SAS 2022. This is a follow-up work to the SIGGRAPH Asia 2021 panel session and last year's presentation at SAS 2021.
3/15/2022
Gave a poster presentation titled Griffith: Prototype of A Web-based Tool for Authoring Japanese Anime Storyboards at ISID 2022 and received one of the Best Poster Awards.
2/16/2022
Participated in the art exhibition titled Design Alternative Realities and discussed "Democratization of the Process and Outcome of Computer Science Research."

Awards

Publications

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

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

2021

Updates

12/7/2021
Will lead the featured session titled R&D for Anime Production: State-of-the-Art and Future Prospects and also serve as the Real-Time Live! Chair at ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2021.
9/4/2021
Participated in the German anime and manga convention Connichi and presented in the panel session "How Academics Contribute to Anime's Future" -- glad to be in Germany (virtually), my country of birth!
6/17/2021
Presented Past, Present, and Future of Storyboarding in Japanese Animation in the Anime session of SAS 2021. This is the first full-length oral presentation as Arch Research!
5/19/2021
Served as an Associate Chair for the EIST subcommittee and the Student Research Competition Co-chair at ACM CHI 2021. Congratulations to the winners (see the bottom of the Awards page)!
3/16/2021
Gave an invited talk titled "Creativity Support for People with Diverse Technical Background" and presented a poster on the ongoing project for Japanese animation storyboards from Arch Research at ISID 2021, which got one of the Best Poster Awards!

Awards

Oct. 2021
IEEE VL/HCC '21 Best Short Paper Award for the co-authored Roly-poly short paper
Mar. 2021
ISID '21 Best Poster Award

Invited Talks

Mar. 2021
ISID 2021, "Creativity Support for People with Diverse Technical Background"

Publications

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

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

2020

Updates

9/20/2020
Released TextAlive App API, a JavaScript library for building "lyric apps" (cf. lyric videos) that show lyrics synchronized with the music playback. Songle Sync (ACM Multimedia 2018) was used to celebrate Hatsune Miku's birthday with over 10,000 participants. Thank you for your birthday messages!
5/31/2020
Appeared in the Microsoft Research article celebrating the 20th year of MSRA Fellowship, titled "A Story That Has Lasted Twenty Years, A Fellowship That Has Changed a Group of People".
5/9/2020
Presented Rethinking Programming "Environment" in Convivial Computing Salon 2020, as part of my Programming as Communication project. The recording and slides of my talk are already available.
4/1/2020
My affiliation, AIST, and OTON GLASS, Inc., a Japanese company utilizing personal fabrication technologies to create customized smart glasses, have started a collaborative research project. Please refer to "Programming as Communication" for more details.
1/16/2020
There have been many committee roles these days. I will provide an invited talk on "Programming for X" at RIEC International Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction which will be held as part of the preparation for CHI 2021!

Invited Talks

Jan. 2020
RIEC International Symposium on HCI, "Programming for X: Programming Experience Research for Convivial Computing"

Publications

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

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

2019

Updates

12/5/2019
It's been a while ... Songle Sync (ACM Multimedia 2018) and TextAlive (ACM CHI 2015) were both used at Hatsune Miku "Magical Mirai" 2019. Thank you for your birthday messages presented with Songle Sync and hope you enjoyed the live performance and disc jockey performance using TextAlive!
3/2/2019
Attended the Shonan meeting on exploratory and live programming and organized the Sixth Workshop of SIGPX at a venue of The University of Tokyo. The slides at SIGPX are available.

2018

Updates

10/25/2018
Presented Songle Sync in the "Experience" session at ACM Multimedia 2018. Slides are available for download in the project page.
10/7/2018
Presented DeployGround in the "APIs and Use of Programming Languages" session at IEEE VL/HCC 2018. Slides are available for download in the project page.
7/9/2018
Started a new part-time technical advisor position at Arch Inc., a Japanese animation production company. Please contact me if you want to pursue research on "Japanimation!"
7/7/2018
My first-authored papers about Songle Sync and DeployGround are accepted to ACM Multimedia 2018 and IEEE VL/HCC 2018, respectively. Looking forward to attending the conferences!
4/28/2018
At ACM CHI 2018, Ryo presented our work on the Reactile project. Its demo video and slides are available.
3/7/2018
Organized the Forth Workshop of SIGPX at The University of Tokyo.
2/18/2018
With TextAlive, I created lyrics animation videos used in SNOW MIKU LIVE! 2018, a live performance by a renowned virtual idol singer - Hatsune Miku!
1/30/2018
A co-authored paper of the Reactile project discussing how to program Swarm UI has been accepted to ACM CHI 2018.
1/20/2018
Renewed the website. See how it's made—source code available! Beside UI changes, newly-added content includes the follow-up page for the LIVE keynote talk discussing user interfaces for Live Programming, the f3.js project page, the TextAlive project page, and the design portfolio.

Awards

Apr. 2018
IEEE PacificVis '18 Honorable Mention Poster Award for the co-authored TextTimeline poster

Publications

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

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

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

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

2017

Updates

11/8/2017
Provided a keynote talk at SPLASH LIVE 2017. I'm writing a follow-up article about the talk, but for now, please refer to the talk abstract and slide deck.
9/23/2017
Will serve as a keynote speaker at SPLASH LIVE 2017. See you in Vancouver!
6/29/2017
Visited Pittsburgh for ACM UIST 2017 PC meeting, gave a talk at CMU HCII, dropped by Seattle and visited UW and Microsoft Research.
6/14/2017
Presented f3.js at ACM DIS 2017. Slides are available for download in the publications page.
4/4/2017
Presented User-Generated Variables at <Programming> PX workshop. It's always good to get to know new people!
3/27/2017
Publicly demonstrated Robocam (f3js-logs) for the first time at ACM/IEEE HRI 2017, which is an accompanying tool and web-based interface to f3.js that helps recording event logs of IoT applications and authoring their demo videos.

Invited Talks

Publications

User Interfaces for Live Programming

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

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

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 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

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

2016

Updates

12/18/2016
Attended the First ACM SIGCHI Asian Symposium and was named as a board member for Japan ACM SIGCHI Chapter.
10/19/2016
Served as a Student Volunteer Chair for ACM UIST 2016. Thanks all for coming to Tokyo!
8/7/2016
7/16/2016
Created a web page for the new ECOOP 2016 LIVE workshop paper that introduces "Live Tuning".
7/15/2016
Created a web page for the new IEEE Computer journal article that introduces "Programming with Examples".
5/23/2016
Visited VPRI, Y Combinator Research HARC, and several other places around Bay Area. Organized Japanese HCI Symposium at ACM CHI 2016.
2/27/2016
Organized the First Workshop of SIGPX. English translation of the press release that introduces the TextAlive web service is now available.

Invited Talks

Apr. 2016
Viewpoints Research Institute and Y Combinator Research HARC, "Programming with {Examples | People}"

Publications

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

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

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

2015

Updates

12/18/2015
Received the Best Paper Award at SMC 2015 for co-authoring a paper about an interactive music puzzle named CrossSong - please enjoy :)
11/20/2015
Publicly demonstrated f3.js for the first time at ACM UIST 2015, which is an IDE to create IoT applications purely by code.
9/23/2015
7/29/2015
Presented TextAlive Online (ver.βjs) at ICLC 2015 and visited friends around UK!
5/14/2015
Presented TextAlive in the "Programming Environments" session and organized Japanese HCI Symposium at ACM CHI 2015.
4/11/2015
In preparation for the CHI presentation, TextAlive is finally released as ver.βjs! Make videos within your browser.
3/20/2015
Served as an organizing committee member for a special event named IPSJ-ONE. It gathered 19 top-notch researchers in Information Processing (computer science, information science, that sort of thing) from all over Japan, each of them giving 5-minutes talk introducing their work with their passion for research.
3/2/2015
My paper about TextAlive, an IDE to create Kinetic Typography videos with live programming, is accepted to ACM CHI 2015. It wins a silver medal! See you in Korea :)

Awards

Jul. 2015
SMC '15 Best Paper for the co-authored CrossSong paper

Invited Talks

Publications

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

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

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

2014

Updates

11/1/2014
Chaired "Novel Interaction Techniques" session and presented Sharedo which was nominated for the best paper at HAI 2014.
8/9/2014
My paper about Sharedo that discusses sharing tasks between human and agents is accepted to HAI 2014. See you in Japan this October!
6/19/2014
Visited the University of Toronto DGP and gave a talk. I'm also visiting the University of Manitoba HCI Lab in a few days and will give another talk. Both of these talks are about "Live Programming" in the real world, which is based on my Ph.D dissertation and discusses the direction of future work in my current position.
4/25/2014
Serving as a program committee member for ACM UIST 2014 is exciting but difficult. Apart from it, I'm getting settled in the new environment and have just started to prepare for attending Graphics Interface 2014. I'm going to present VisionSketch in the "Video and Collaboration" session on 5/8.
4/1/2014
Received a Ph.D degree in Computer Science and started to work as a researcher in AIST, a research organization funded by the Japanese government in which over 2000 researchers work hard to contribute to both industry and science. My primary task won't change - to conduct interesting research, write good paper, and do some other stuff to make world better place with help of information technology :)
2/25/2014
Upgraded Bootstrap framework from v2 to v3 for better browsing experience. What a modern flat design!
2/20/2014
Defended my dissertation! Details will come later. My paper about VisionSketch is accepted to Graphics Interface 2014.

Awards

Invited Talks

Jun. 2014
University of Toronto DGP seminar, "Toward Live Programming in the Real World"

Publications

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

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

2014
Jun Kato

2013

Updates

11/19/2013
Visited St. Andrews to for ACM UIST 2013, gave a talk at University of Washington dub, met friends of the Microsoft campus, and finished the Adobe internship... I'm back in Japan!
8/12/2013
Started internship at Adobe Creative Technologies Lab in Seattle.
8/4/2013
I am going to attend ACM UIST 2013 ... expecting fruitful discussion at Doctoral Symposium. My paper describing the development process of OpenPool is accepted to present at IEEE GCCE 2013.
6/24/2013
Got some sort of recognition at ACM conferences, ACM CHI and ACM PLDI, detailed in Awards section. Will work for Adobe Research Seattle this summer.
4/16/2013
My sole-authored poster about VisionSketch is accepted to present at Student Research Competition of ACM PLDI 2013.
3/5/2013
My colleagues are going to present OpenPool at SXSW 2013. I've worked on the project as one of the main programmers. Stay tuned for its open-source distribution!
3/2/2013
Collaboration with PL people turned out to be a full paper at ACM PLDI 2013. It's about live programming on TouchDevelop Web App!

Awards

Invited Talks

Oct. 2013
University of Washington dub seminar, "Integrated Graphical Representations for Programming with Real-world Input and Output", Video

Publications

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

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

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

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

2012

Updates

12/13/2012
My short paper about Picode is conditionally accepted to ACM CHI 2013. See you in Paris!
10/28/2012
Attended 21 CCC in Tianjin, China and received this year's Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship.
10/15/2012
Finished my talk at ACM UIST 2012 in the "Toolkits" session on 10/9. Will serve as a Publicity Co-chair at ACM UIST 2013!
9/18/2012
Back in Japan again. The future plan includes a visit to Beijing in this month and Boston and New York in October.
7/21/2012
My paper about an IDE named DejaVu is accepted to ACM UIST 2012. The details will come later.
6/21/2012
Started to work with TouchDevelop team as a research intern in RiSE Group, Microsoft Research Redmond.
5/5/2012
Back in Japan... In June, I will start an internship in Redmond.
3/23/2012
My paper about Phybots is accepted to ACM DIS 2012. I will present the paper in the "Absolutely Fab" session on 6/13.
3/19/2012
Renewed the website.
1/9/2012
Started an internship at HCI Group of Microsoft Research Asia.

Awards

Publications

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

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

2011 and before

Awards

Invited Talks

Publications

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

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