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Timeline (2015)

This page shows 2015 updates to the website as well as publication records. View the full timeline.

Updates

December 18, 2015
Received the Best Paper Award at SMC 2015 for co-authoring a paper about an interactive music puzzle named CrossSong — please enjoy :)
November 20, 2015
Publicly demonstrated f3.js for the first time at ACM UIST 2015, an IDE to create IoT applications purely by code.
September 23, 2015
My Ph.D dissertation is finally online in the university's repository. Jun Kato, "Integrated Graphical Representations for Development of Programs with Real-world Input and Output", Mar. 2014.
July 29, 2015
Presented TextAlive Online (ver.βjs) at ICLC 2015 and visited friends around the UK!
May 14, 2015
Presented TextAlive in the "Programming Environments" session and organized a Japanese HCI Symposium at ACM CHI 2015.
April 11, 2015
In preparation for the CHI presentation, TextAlive is finally released as ver.βjs! Make videos in your browser.
March 20, 2015
Served as an organizing committee member for an event named IPSJ-ONE that gathered 19 top-notch researchers in Information Processing across Japan, each giving a 5-minute passionate introduction to their work.
March 2, 2015
My paper about TextAlive, an IDE for creating Kinetic Typography videos with live programming, was accepted to ACM CHI 2015 and received an Honorable Mention Award!

Awards

July 30, 2015
SMC '15 Best Paper Award for the co-authored CrossSong paper
April 23, 2015
ACM CHI '15 Honorable Mention Award

Invited Talks

July 1, 2015
University of Bristol BIG Group seminar, "Integrated Design Environments for Creating Interactive Media Content"

New Projects

f3.js

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

2015-2018DIS '17Physical Creativity PwE Communication Live IDE Design
CrossSong

A logic puzzle for "musical thinking," deepening your understanding on music while enjoying the puzzle.

2015-2017SMC '15Co-authoredMusic

Publications

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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
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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
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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
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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