Held a symposium ("How to science embodied experience in a daily life without describing it ? - Intersection of psychology and engineering - ") at Annual Conference of Japan Psychology Association in Kurume, Fukuoka Pref on Sept. 22, 2017.
Exhibited "bioSuits Project" designed at Space Art Workshop class at ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL 2017 during Sept.6-10, 2017 in Linz, Austria. Alberto Boem, John Brumley, Karlos Ishac, Jun Nishida, Takeshi Oozu, Rintaro Takashima, Hikaru Takatori, Tadayuki Tone, "Life the Space-Age: Experiments of Art and Technology in Zero Gravity", ARS ELECTRONICA, 2017
Featured on Microsoft Research Asia's newsletter, as titled "SIGGRAPH 2017：深度学习与计算机图形学的碰撞". Weixin | https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/QYFO9V6sZp1EKpwXtP6-HQ
Appeared on Asahi Shinbun (Japanese Newspaper) on Jul. 22, 2017.
Our project "Wired Muscle" has been invited to SIGGRAPH 2017 Experience Presentations, which will be held in Los Angels, USA during Jul. 30 - Aug. 3. This work has been done in a cooperation with Shunichi Kasahara, a researcher of Sony Computer Science Laboratory.
Moved to Microsoft Research Asia in Beijing, PRC for my research intern. Microsoft Research Asia | https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/lab/microsoft-research-asia/
Our project "Wired Muscle" has been accepted to SIGGRAPH 2017 Emerging Technologies, which will be held in Los Angels, USA during Jul. 30 - Aug. 3. This work has been done in a cooperation with Shunichi Kasahara, a researcher of Sony Computer Science Laboratory.
I have received my 3rd University President Award on May 18, 2017.
Our project bioSync has been featured on Fuji Television.
Our project bioSynFrom May. 6 to 11 in Denver USA, we had a full paper presentation and an exhibition of bioSync Project at ACM CHI 2017. Thank you for visiting our talk and booth !c has been featured on Fuji Television.
Our full paper of bioSync project has been finally accepted to CHI 2017 Papers ! Jun Nishida and Kenji Suzuki, 2017, "bioSync: A Paired Wearable Device for Blending Kinesthetic Experience", In Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17), 12 pages, DOI: 10.1145/3025453.3025829 (acceptance rate ~25%)
Invited talk at 79th annual conference of Information Processing Society of Japan.