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Updates
December 13, 2023
Concluded the "AIST Creative HCI Seminar series" with the sixth edition, focusing on "HCI research in the wild", inviting Jennifer Jacobs and Koya Narumi.
October 23, 2023
Served as Co-chair of LIVE 2023 and had a great time — thanks to everyone who was involved in the workshop.
September 28, 2023
Added a summary of the Japanese tutorial course titled "Introduction to Live Programming: Try It, Make It, Know It" held as part of The 40th JSSST Annual Conference to the page "User Interfaces for Live Programming".
August 20, 2023
My resume has been outdated for a while, and I finally managed to update it.
June 23, 2023
The Summer 2023 issue of ACM XRDS (Crossroads) is dedicated to "Exploring the Horizon of Computation for Creativity", to which I contributed an article. It discusses the role of computer scientists in helping creative and cultural activities "in the wild." For more details, please refer to my blog article.
June 20, 2023
Presented Lights, Animation, Interaction! – Synchronizing Music with Computer-controlled Visuals in Live Performances in the "Sound and Motion" session of SAS34. In this talk, I discussed how the "animating lights" contribute to the stage performances based on my experience helping creators author lyric videos projected on the stages.
May 8, 2023
Was featured in People of ACM while attending ACM CHI 2023 — such excellent timing!
April 16, 2023
Will organize Special Interest Group on Creativity and Cultures in Computing from 16:35 Mon, Apr 24 and present Lyric App Framework: A Web-based Framework for Developing Interactive Lyric-driven Musical Applications (Honorable Mention Award) in the "Creative Applications" session from 9:00 Thu, Apr 27 at ACM CHI 2023.
March 31, 2023
Started a seminar series titled "AIST Creative HCI Seminar" and held its first edition on 3/7/2023. It focused on "creativity support" and invited Jonas Frich and Zhicong Lu. The second edition will be held online on 4/14/2023 with a focus on "AI for HCI" and will invite Amy Pavel and Xingyu Bruce Liu. We are calling for participation!
February 24, 2023
Received 2023 Japan ACM SIGCHI Chapter Distinguished Young Researcher Award and gave the award talk titled "The HCI researcher as toolsmith".
February 4, 2023
LIVE 2022 in Auckland (NZ) was a big success, thank you! One paper and one SIG proposal were conditionally accepted to ACM CHI 2023, while one paper was accepted to SAS Conference 2023. I'm resuming (physical) travels this year, looking forward to seeing you somewhere.
Awards
April 23, 2023
February 18, 2023
Invited Talks
February 18, 2023
Japan ACM SIGCHI Chapter International Symposium on HCI, "The HCI researcher as toolsmith," award talk for 2023 Japan ACM SIGCHI Chapter Distinguished Young Researcher Award, YouTube
February 8, 2023
Mozilla MIECO weekly meeting, "A Toolsmith for Programmers, Musicians, and Anime Creators"
New Projects
Tweeq
GUI studies are sometimes considered "done" in HCI, but this is never truly the case, especially for creative professionals with demanding needs. In this work, we analyzed parameter-tuning GUI widgets from popular production software and identified three key design principles, embodied in a set of widgets called Tweeq, developed and refined through use in the first author's animation projects.
2023-2025UIST '25
AIST Creative HCI Seminar
This seminar series is organized by AIST and invited rising stars in the Human-Computer Interaction field and cover diverse topics which are directly/indirectly connected to creativity support research.
2023-2024
Media Coverage
Publications
On the Relationship between HCI Researchers and Creators---Or How I Became a Toolsmith
XRDS 29(4), pp.26-31
Lights, Animation, Interaction! – Synchronizing Music with Computer-controlled Visuals in Live Performances
Society for Animation Studies 34th Annual Conference: The Animated Environment
Lyric App Framework: A Web-based Framework for Developing Interactive Lyric-driven Musical Applications
2023CHI '23ACM CHI '23 Honorable Mention Award第40回電気通信普及財団賞（テレコム学際研究賞 奨励賞）産総研 論文賞2025（優秀賞） Lyric App Framework
Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Special Interest Group on Creativity and Cultures in Computing
Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems