Gesture control PC

“You can browse recipe site while you are at kitchen and hands are wet” I was lead UX designer and made both UX concept, gestures and a bit of screen design. Simple set of easy and memorable gestures would make your daily life efficient. For example, while cooking at the…

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Future office proposal

ブラザー工業のための近未来のオフィス環境のプロトタイプです。   プリントアウトの代わりにタブレットや携帯電話で書類のやりとりをする時代がやってくる中で、オフィスの空間自体を使って情報を表示と操作をするビジョンを、実際に触れるモックアップを使ってアピールしました。   1960年代に研究者が提案したデジタルデスクのコンセプトを参考に、プリンタービジネスの先にありうるサービスを提案しました。プロジェクタ、カメラ、様々なセンサーなど、現在民生品で手に入る技術を組み合わせて、手書きとデジタルデータの間をスムースに繋ぐ体験を作り出しました。 画像の著作権はブラザー工業にあります

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Time lapse studies

  This series of computer generated images are study of how we extract invisible factors in public space. Artist chose to use old technique of photograph, so-called “time lapse image”. Here artist manipulated several 3to 5 minutes movies to create long size images. In horizontal image, time flows left to…

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UI for inkjet printer

(ブラザー工業での仕事) スマートフォンが登場してから、ユーザはより直観的、感覚的な操作を求めるようになりました。プリンターの操作パネルにも変化が必要になり、私はブラザー工業での初期のタッチパネル操作のUIをデザインしました。

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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…

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Remote Furniture  

Overview  Two rocking chairs are installed on the floor facing each other.The audience sees no interactions between chairs. The interaction is triggered when two people from the audience sit in the chairs and rock. Each chair has a sensor and motor.These devices enable mutual interaction between the chairs. They allow…

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Traceability

How mobile phone works? How we can imagine it works in urban space? Explore the things which provide communication and we usually don’t know how. * Workshop of an attempt to trace lines of mobile phone network. We will try to find antennas for mobile phones in urban space. But…

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