Category: research
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Archaeology or imagination(WIP)考古学か想像か （習作）
A Generative Study of Sculptural Perception This study began from a question about how we look at historical sculptures today. Many public sculptures and religious figures were originally created as representations of important citizens, leaders, or symbolic individuals of their time. However, centuries later, most viewers no longer know who these people were. Their identities…
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Pulse(Study) 脈動（習作）
A study exploring the visualization of internal bodily rhythms. By pressing a finger against a mobile phone camera, the image reveals subtle fluctuations in a red field, driven by blood flow. This work attempts to make the internal flow of the body directly perceptible. Watch for a few seconds — a subtle rhythm begins to emerge. 体内を流れる血流と心拍を可視化する試み。携帯電話のカメラに指を当てて撮影された映像には、赤く満たされた画面の中で、血の流れに合わせて微細な変化が現れる。身体の内部にある流れを、直接的に知覚するための習作。…
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Timeless UX design concepts to connect xR experience and the real. 現実とxR体験を繋ぐUX設計: 借景、身体性、速度空間
(in Japanese) Public lecture regarding UX design principle for AR experience inspired from an traditional east asian landscape design method, etc. https://xrkaigi.com/2020/session/9493c8f576ef.html
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If buildings start to talk…もし建築が話し出したら
I have facilitated, designed and developed software for a workshop for architects. What if a building start to have a personality and we can interact with them via chat? I made a quick tool based on Google suite to let Architects create chatbots in a short time (1.5hours) and let them chat each other…. もし建築が話し出したら：環境の擬人化の試み…
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Limelight
Sometimes we encounter emotional moments like drama in real life. Personal moment such as commemoration is such a case. Restaurant with the Limelight is the place where lighting effects are added onto these moments. The system detects when the moments occur and show it up with lighting effects so that the moments become more impressive…
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OpenLight
OpenLight: a concept of urban lighting to make urbanites aware of each other Though there are many examples of attempts to create interactive lighting installations in urban public space, its meaning for urbanites has not been fully explored and defined. What could interactive lighting contribute to urban public space? Using the concept of Third Place,…
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Open Light
In modern city a type of urban spaces are being created. A type which let us tend to ignore the others. The goal of the research is to recreate such urban space to a space which let us aware of each other. The latter space gives us more safe in terms of social and emotion.…
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When Audiences Start to Talk to Each Other
When Audiences Start to Talk to Each Other: Interaction Models for Co-Experience in Installation Artworks This position paper presents models of interactions among audience members for installation and workshop-type media artworks that accommodate the participation of more than one audience member. To suggest models that are applicable for new media works, we select some examples…
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Tabletop community
We have undertaken a research project that visualizes a community, especially for events such as academic conferences. As research progresses, we have noticed that small gatherings of a few persons happen during events as a vital component of forming a community. We call these happenings Social Interactions. Typical situations that foster Social Interactions include gathering…