Bloxel : Glowing Blocks as Volumetric Pixels
<formerly introduced as tangible pixels>

A Bloxel is a translucent cubical block that glows in full color according to the transmitted data from the neighboring Bloxel, and works as a volumetric pixel when a user stacks hundreds of Bloxels to build displays with a variety of shapes.Users can build displays with a variety of shapes by stacking hundreds of Bloxels.
(2008 Apr ~ Present, Senior Thesis, SIGGRAPH 1st author)
Keyword: Tangible interface, Volumetric Display, Education

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Familiar Street

In the familiar street project, we aim to build a mobile device that is familiar with street and building; that recognizes building and artificial structures and makes their information overlapped on the images instantaneously. We envision this system being used with large volume of picture database of streets such as Google street view, and this would enable a more intuitive access to our surroundings.

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(2008 Aug~Oct, Research Project at Sony CSL)
Keyword: just in time information, context-aware system,

Stock Ecology

The Stock Ecology project visualizes the stock market as a forest changing its feature with the weather and season. By providing invisible and abstract information with a visible form, people can access to information in more intuitive and familiar way. The system makes use of fractal shape whose shape is determined dynamically by a few parameters to highlight the factors of complex information people want to concentrate on.

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(2006 May ~ Present, Independent Project)
Keyword: visualization, cognitive friction

SMILE

SMILE, which refers to the Surface of Multimodal Interaction for Legible Entertainment, is an independent installation art project which was done over the campus of the University of Tokyo. Using object-tracking, detecting algorithm and camera, the smile system capture and recognize the motion and face of people and uses those to render interactive animation on the physical surface. I envision the SMILE system would be able to redefine relationship between people and information and make diverse people engaged in entertainment and visual communication.

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(2008 Mar ~ Nov, Independent Project)
Keyword: interactive art