Our abstract, which was prepared with Dr. Daisuke Tajima (Sony), Dr. Shunnichi Kasahara (Sony CSL), Prof. Pedro Lopes (UChicago) has been accepted to Vision Sciences Society 2020, which was supposed to be held in Florida, US in May 2020. Vision Sciences Society 2020 has been physically cancelled due to the declaration of a state of emergency in United States. Laval Virtual 2020 has been cancelled
Our EMS agency research was featured on the University of Chicago Magazine FALL/19, Vol.112, Number 1.
A coverage on my research life by a Japanese TV company (TV Asahi) was on the air on Nov. 6, 2019 (Japan Standard Time).
I presented my poster titled as "Sharing Embodied Experiences by Wearable Devices", at SfN Neuroscience 2019 Satellite Symposium Orofacial Functions: From Neural Mechanisms to Rehabilitation, which was held at ShirleyRyan AbilityLab in Chicago, USA on Oct. 18, 2019.
I demonstrated my devices, CHILDHOOD and bioSync, at CNBC EVOLVE CHICAGO, which was held in Chicago, USA on Sept. 24, 2019. The Evolving Worker How will a new generation of wearable technology help create a more efficient, more skilled and more productive workforce? A top researcher will provide a sneak peek into his high-tech lab and demonstrate a device that could take human performance
My PhD thesis "Shaping Egocentric Experiences with Wearable Cybernic Interfaces"(pdf) has received Nominated PhD Thesis Award from Information Processing Society of Japan (Ubiquitous Computing Group)[link]. Jun Nishida, “Shaping Egocentric Experiences with Wearable Cybernic Interfaces”, PhD Thesis Abstract, 2019 (pdf)
Our journal paper "Perceptual and Kinetic Characteristics by Egocentric Child Experience", which has published in Transaction on the Virtual Reality Society of Japan on September 30, 2018, has received Best Journal Award from Japan Virtual Reality Society! Jun Nishida, Soichiro Matsuda, Mika Oki, Hikaru Takatori, Kosuke Sato, Kenji Suzuki, Perceptual and Kinetic Characteristics by Egocentric Child Experience, Transactions of the Virtual Reality Society
Our demonstration, entitled "Demonstrating preemptive reaction: accelerating human reaction using electrical muscle stimulation without compromising agency", has received Laval Virtual Grand Prize at ACM SIGGRAPH 2019 Emerging Technologies, which was held in Los Angeles, USA from July 28 to August 1, 2019.
Our full contributed paper has been presented at IEEE EMBC; 41st International Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, which was held in Berlin, Germany from July 23-27, 2019. J. Nishida, K. Yagi, M. Hassan and K. Suzuki, “Wearable Kinesthetic I/O Device for Sharing Wrist Joint Stiffness,” 2019 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Berlin, 2019, pp. x-x. (in press)
My PhD thesis has been accepted for ACM SIGGRAPH Thesis Fast Forward Top 13 Finalist, which will be held in Los Angeles, USA from July 28 to August 1, 2019. Jun Nishida. 2019. Shaping Egocentric Experiences with Wearable Cybernic Interfaces. SIGGRAPH ’19 Thesis Fast Forward, Los Angeles, CA, USA, July 28 – August 01, 2019. (in press)
Our project Wired Muscle was featured on Japanese TV program, TBS News on June 10, 2019.
Here are our papers at this year's CHI.AR/VR 2Tuesday, May 07, 2019, 14:00Room: Lomod AuditoriumJun Nishida, Soichiro Matsuda, Mika Oki, Hikaru Takatori, Kosuke Sato, and Kenji Suzuki. 2019. Egocentric Smaller-person Experience through a Change in Visual Perspective. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 696, 12 pages. DOI: