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Timeline (2013)

This page shows 2013 updates to the website as well as publication records. View the full timeline.

Updates

November 19, 2013
Visited St. Andrews for ACM UIST 2013, gave a talk at University of Washington dub, met friends at the Microsoft campus, and finished my Adobe internship... back in Japan!
August 12, 2013
Started an internship at the Adobe Creative Technologies Lab in Seattle.
August 4, 2013
I will attend ACM UIST 2013... looking forward to fruitful discussions at the Doctoral Symposium. A paper describing the development process of OpenPool was accepted for presentation at IEEE GCCE 2013.
June 24, 2013
Gained some recognition at ACM conferences ACM CHI and ACM PLDI. Details are in the Awards section. Will work at Adobe Research Seattle this summer.
April 16, 2013
My sole-authored poster about VisionSketch was accepted for the Student Research Competition at ACM PLDI 2013.
March 5, 2013
My colleagues will present OpenPool at SXSW 2013. I worked on it as one of the main programmers. Stay tuned for its open-source release!
March 2, 2013
A collaboration with programming language researchers became a full paper at ACM PLDI 2013. It's about live programming on the TouchDevelop Web App!

Awards

June 17, 2013
ACM PLDI '13 Student Research Competition Finalist
April 27, 2013
ACM CHI '13 Honorable Mention Award

Invited Talks

October 1, 2013
University of Washington dub seminar, "Integrated Graphical Representations for Programming with Real-world Input and Output", Video

New Projects

VisionSketch

An IDE for example-centric programming of image processing applications, enabling fluid transition between abstract text-based coding and concrete direct manipulation.

2013-2014GI '14PwE Live IDE NUI

Media Coverage

Gearburn
7 of the best gadgets of SXSW
March 15, 2013OpenPool
Roclay
OpenPool; Change your billiards game with Kinect’s camera controlled lights!
March 15, 2013OpenPool
DarGadgetZ (Blip.tv)
OpenPool, Open-source Super Billiards, at SXSW 2013
March 14, 2013OpenPool
Jeuxvideo.org
Kinect, un projecteur et un billard = OpenPool !
March 14, 2013OpenPool
CultureMap Austin
The 5 coolest things at the SXSW Interactive trade show
March 13, 2013OpenPool
TechHive
Five highlights from the SXSW Gaming Expo
March 12, 2013OpenPool
Laptop Mag
OpenPool Lets Fish and Lights Dance and Play with Moving Objects
March 10, 2013OpenPool
The Cool Geek
OpenPool transforms billiards with a Kinect camera controlled light show
March 9, 2013OpenPool
Engadget
OpenPool transforms billiards with a Kinect camera-controlled light show
March 9, 2013OpenPool
Gizmodo
Turn Your Pool Table Into a Psychedelic Aquarium with Kinect-Powered Projection Effects
March 9, 2013OpenPool

Publications

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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
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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
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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
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It's Alive! Continuous Feedback in UI Programming

2013PLDI '13It's Alive! (TouchDevelop)
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
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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