Timeline (2014)

This page shows 2014 updates to the website as well as publication records. View the full timeline.

Updates

November 1, 2014
Chaired the "Novel Interaction Techniques" session and presented Sharedo, which was nominated for Best Paper at HAI 2014.
August 9, 2014
My paper about Sharedo, discussing task sharing between humans and agents, was accepted to HAI 2014. See you in Japan this October!
June 19, 2014
Visited the University of Toronto DGP and gave a talk. I will also visit the University of Manitoba HCI Lab in a few days for another talk. Both talks were about "Live Programming" in the real world, based on my Ph.D dissertation.
April 25, 2014
Serving as a program committee member for ACM UIST 2014 is exciting but challenging. I'm settling into my new environment and preparing to attend Graphics Interface 2014, where I will present VisionSketch in the "Video and Collaboration" session on 5/8.
April 1, 2014
Received a Ph.D in Computer Science and started working as a researcher at AIST, a Japanese government-funded research organization with over 2000 researchers dedicated to advancing both industry and science. My main task remains the same: conduct interesting research, write good papers, and help make the world a better place with information technology :)
February 25, 2014
Upgraded the Bootstrap framework from v2 to v3 for a better browsing experience. What a modern flat design!
February 20, 2014
Defended my dissertation! Details will come later. My paper about VisionSketch was accepted to Graphics Interface 2014.

Awards

Invited Talks

June 1, 2014
University of Toronto DGP seminar, "Toward Live Programming in the Real World"

New Projects

TextAlive

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

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