Timeline (2012)

This page shows 2012 updates to the website as well as publication records. View the full timeline.

Updates

December 13, 2012
My short paper about Picode is conditionally accepted to ACM CHI 2013. See you in Paris!
October 28, 2012
Attended 21 CCC in Tianjin, China and received this year's Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship.
October 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!
September 18, 2012
Back in Japan again. Plans include a visit to Beijing this month and to Boston and New York in October.
July 21, 2012
My paper about an IDE named DejaVu was accepted to ACM UIST 2012. Details will come later.
June 21, 2012
Started working with the TouchDevelop team as a research intern in the RiSE Group, Microsoft Research Redmond.
May 5, 2012
Back in Japan... Starting an internship in Redmond in June.
March 23, 2012
My paper about Phybots was accepted to ACM DIS 2012. I will present it in the "Absolutely Fab" session on 6/13.
March 19, 2012
Renewed the website.
January 9, 2012
Started an internship at the HCI Group, Microsoft Research Asia.

Awards

New Projects

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
CapStudio

An IDE for visual applications that shows interactive screencasts for replaying program executions and editing visual parameters.

2012-2014CHI EA '14Co-authoredPwE Live IDE
It's Alive! (TouchDevelop)

The TouchDevelop IDE enables live programming for user interface programming by cleanly separating the rendering and non-rendering aspects of a UI program, allowing the display to be refreshed on a code change without restarting the program.

2012-2013PLDI '13Live IDE
OpenPool

An open-source project that augments a standard billiard table with the cutting-edge computing technologies to provide the "super-billiard" experience.

2012-2013IEEE GCCE '13Toolkit NUI
DejaVu

An IDE that eases the iterative development of interactive camera-based programs with support for monitoring, recording, reviewing, and reprocess temporal data

2012UIST '12PwE Live IDE NUI

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