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Updates
August 1, 2025
My co-authored paper on GUI widgets for creative professionals featuring a new set called Tweeq is accepted to ACM UIST 2025. Congratulations to the first author, Baku Hashimoto, for his first academic paper — it's well deserved, considering his expertise and efforts!
May 10, 2025
Organized Anime SIG: Researching Japanese Animation from Technical, Cultural, and Industrial Perspectives from 11:10 Mon, Apr 28, which drew a standing-room-only crowd (thanks!), presented a position paper on a post-growth future vision for creativity support tools in the Advancing Post-growth HCI workshop, and presented two co-authored papers at ACM CHI 2025.
March 14, 2025
The permanent exhibition facility of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) is being renewed as "AIST-Cube", as publicly announced. I contributed to the exhibition production related to the Lyric App Framework.
March 4, 2025
Delivered a keynote talk at the international workshop Intelligence Augmentation and Amplification plus Society Forum (IAA+Soc 2025). Also participated in the panel discussions over the following two days.
February 12, 2025
Organized A Workshop on Creativity Support for Hand-drawn Art Practices (CHAP 2025 Paris) in Paris over three days, from February 10 to 12, 2025. Researchers and artists from Japan and France, where animation and manga/bande dessinée are both vibrant yet culturally distinct practices, participated in the event.
February 4, 2025
Visited the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany, and gave a talk titled "Being a toolsmith researcher: a constructive approach to science of tools?" Also visited the HCI and Software Architecture groups at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam and delivered a talk. In Hamburg, I visited The New Institute and met with Kohei Saito.
January 23, 2025
Paid a courtesy visit to the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology following the selection for Researchers with Nice Step 2024 for notable contributions to science and technology.
Invited Talks
September 28, 2025
Keynote: ACM UIST 2025 co-located workshop Facilitating Longitudinal Interaction Studies of AI Systems, "Untangling the myth of 'generalizability': some notes from longitudinal systems research with/for creators"
March 4, 2025
Keynote: Intelligence Augmentation and Amplification plus Society Forum (IAA+Soc 2025), "Creativity Support Tools as Boundary Objects: bridging computer and social science methodologies"
Lectures
March 19, 2025
Université Paris Cité, Études Japonaises, Guest Lecture "How anime is made"
New Projects
Animāre
Animāre (pronounced ah-nee-MAH-ray) comes from the Latin "to give life," which is also the root of the word "animation." This project sets anime creation as a key application domain to develop foundational techniques for malleable tools and realize an environment where anime creators and tool developers can form reciprocal relationships.
2025-2026UndoneCS '26
Anime SIG
Organized by experts from industry and academia, this SIG invited participants to the emerging area of anime research with the aim to open up a new alley for human-computer interaction (HCI) research through collective discussion on potential directions and community fostering of anime-interested researchers.
2025
AIST-Cube: Interacting with music/lyricsDesigned and implemented the exhibibition of Lyric App Framework for AIST-Cube, the permanent exhibition facility of AIST renewed in April 2025.
2025
Publications
Tweeq: Parameter-Tuning GUI Widgets by/for Creative Professionals
Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
Anime SIG: Researching Japanese Animation From Technical, Cultural, and Industrial Perspectives
Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Power, Culture, and Sustainability in Creativity Support Tools: A Post-growth Perspective
Advancing Post-growth HCI Workshop, the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Super Kawaii Vocalics: Amplifying the "Cute" Factor in Computer Voice
2025CHI '25
Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Inter(sectional) Alia(s): Ambiguity in Voice Agent Identity via Intersectional Japanese Self-Referents
2025CHI '25
Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems