Timeline (2018)

This page shows 2018 updates to the website as well as publication records. View the full timeline.

Updates

October 25, 2018
Presented Songle Sync in the "Experience" session at ACM Multimedia 2018. Slides are available for download on the project page.
October 7, 2018
Presented DeployGround in the "APIs and Use of Programming Languages" session at IEEE VL/HCC 2018. Slides are available for download on the project page.
July 9, 2018
Started a new part-time technical advisor position at Arch Inc., a Japanese animation production company. Please contact me if you want to pursue research on "Japanimation!"
July 7, 2018
My first-authored papers about Songle Sync and DeployGround are accepted to ACM Multimedia 2018 and IEEE VL/HCC 2018, respectively. Looking forward to attending the conferences!
April 28, 2018
At ACM CHI 2018, Ryo presented our work on the Reactile project. Its demo video and slides are available.
March 7, 2018
Organized the Fourth Workshop of SIGPX at The University of Tokyo.
February 18, 2018
With TextAlive, I created lyrics animation videos used in SNOW MIKU LIVE! 2018, a live performance by the renowned virtual idol singer Hatsune Miku!
January 30, 2018
A co-authored paper of the Reactile project discussing how to program Swarm UI has been accepted to ACM CHI 2018.
January 20, 2018
Renewed the website. See how it's made—source code available! Besides UI changes, newly added content includes the follow-up page for the LIVE keynote talk discussing user interfaces for Live Programming, the f3.js project page, the TextAlive project page, and the design portfolio.

Awards

April 12, 2018
IEEE PacificVis '18 Honorable Mention Poster Award for the co-authored TextTimeline poster

New Projects

Magical Mirai 2018 live lyrics animation

Once again, authored lyrics animation for a live performance by Hatsune Miku!

2018Design
DeployGround

DeployGround is a framework for developing web-based tutorials that seamlessly connects the API playground and deployment target for kick-starting the application development.

2018VL/HCC '18Live IDE
Society, Science, and Technology

I have been involved in various activities with a broad interest in science and technology. In the past, I constructed a website for promoting science and technology as the leader of the Tachibana seminar. After that, I have been continuously interested in science communication.

Since I started my research career, I have constantly been working on implementing the research results into society, writing essays on the future opened up by scientific research, and commenting on settings in science fiction films.

2018-2026(Work in progress)
SNOW MIKU LIVE! 2018 lyrics animation

Authored lyrics animation for a live performance by a renowned virtual idol singer - Hatsune Miku!

2018Design
"junkato.jp" Website

This portfolio website is built with various OSS and itself is open-sourced on GitHub.

2018-2026Design

Publications

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

2018MM '18Songle Sync
Jun Kato, Masa Ogata, Takahiro Inoue, Masataka Goto
Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, pp.1697-1705

DeployGround: A Framework for Streamlined Programming from API playgrounds to Application Deployment

2018VL/HCC '18DeployGround
Jun Kato, Masataka Goto
Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, pp.259-263

Placing Music in Space: A Study on Music Appreciation with Spatial Mapping

2018DIS '18 Companion
Shoki Miyagawa, Yuki Koyama, Jun Kato, Masataka Goto, Shigeo Morishima
Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems, pp.39-43

Reactile: Programming Swarm User Interfaces Through Direct Physical Manipulation

2018CHI '18Reactile
Ryo Suzuki, Jun Kato, Mark D. Gross, Tom Yeh
Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp.199:1-199:13