<a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/about-microsoft-research/">Microsoft Research</a> <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/global/asia-pacific/regions/japan-core.aspx">7th Collaborative Research (CORE7) Program</a> Principal Investigator

An integrated design environment for kinetic typography; desktop app revamped as a web service in 2015.

Built a brand kit for <a href="/textalive"> the TextAlive research project</a>. Built its main website with Node.js and MySQL and the documentation website with WordPress. Used the Bootstrap CSS framework.

TextAlive brand design

TextAlive

An Integrated Design Environment for kinetic typography

Griffith is a web-based authoring tool for Japanese animation (anime) storyboards.

Griffith

A Web-based Tool for Authoring Anime Storyboards

The Songle Sync platform allows controlling numerous devices in synchrony with the songs with its <abbr title="Software Development Kit">SDK</abbr>.

Created a variation of Songle Sync and Songle API logos from the existing Songle logo. Demonstrated its use on <a href="/songle-sync">the Songle Sync tutorial website</a> and <a href="https://github.com/SongleJp">GitHub repositories</a>. The tutorial site is built on the Semantic UI CSS/JavaScript framework.

Songle Sync brand design

Songle Sync

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

A parametric design tool for physical computing devices for both interaction designers and end-users.

Built a brand kit for <a href="/f3js">the f3.js research project</a>. Built its main website with Node.js and MySQL and the documentation website with WordPress. Used the Semantic UI CSS/JavaScript framework.

f3.js brand design

f3.js

A Parametric Design Tool for Physical Computing Devices for Both Interaction Designers and End-users

A to-do list interface for sharing tasks between human and agents including robots and software personal assistants.

Sharedo

To-Do List Interface for Human-Agent Task Sharing

An <abbr title="Integrated Development Environment">IDE</abbr> that shows inline photos representing posture data in source code. It manages the data binding between the photos and posture data and show photos to aid source code comprehension and editing.

Picode

Inline Photos Representing Posture Data in Source Code

Have been hacking my home to automate various tasks.

Home hacking

A Java-based tool for listening to your home iTunes Library from anywhere.

RemotiTunes

Listen to Your Home iTunes Library from Anywhere

<a href="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/labs/asia/" title="IDE for Designing Actions of Robots">Microsoft Research Asia</a>, <a href="/publications/core-project7-kato-booklet.pdf"><i class="file icon"></i>Document</a>

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