Invited exhibition at Open Innovation 2018 held by the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications on Oct. 24th, 2018. The former Minster of Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications joined my demo booth.
Demonstrated Wired Muscle: Generating Faster Kinesthetic Reaction by Inter-Personally Connecting Muscles at Open House of Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. held on Oct. 23 & 24, 2018 Collaborator: Dr.Shunichi Kasahara from SonyCSL
My application have been accepted for Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship for Overseas Research, the best fellowship system in Japan. I will join Pedro Lopes's newly established lab at University of Chicago from April, 2019.
Attended ACM UIST 2018 held in Berlin & Potsdam in Germany, during Oct. 14-17. Jun Nishida and Kenji Suzuki, "Wearable Kinesthetic I/O Device for Sharing Muscle Compliance", ACM UIST Poster, Germany, Oct. 14-17, 2018 (PDF) Collaborator: Dr.Shunichi Kasahara from SonyCSL
Project CHILDHOOD was featured on NHK Television, on Sept. 12, 2018.
Our project bioSync has been listed for Innovative Technologies 2018 held by Digital Content Association of Japan on Aug 22., 2018. (Press Release)
I was listed for Forbes Japan 30 Under 30 in the category of Healthcare & Science. Will appear on a magazine of Forbes Japan on 25 Aug., 2018.
Talk at German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), on 10 Aug., 2018.
Talk at Dagstuhl Seminar of Human Computer Integration in Germany on Aug. 6, 2018. Jun Nishida, "HYPERSPECTIVE: Changing Perspectives by Wearable I/O Devices to Understand, Communicate and Cooperate with People", Dagstuhl Seminar 18322 "Human-Computer Integration", 2018 Human-Computer Integration Organizers Jonathan Grudin (Microsoft Research – Redmond, US) Kristina Höök (KTH Royal Institute of Technology – Stockholm, SE) Pattie Maes (MIT – Cambridge, US) Florian Mueller (RMIT University – Melbourne, AU) Dagstuhl-Seminar
Received Best Presentation Award at UTsukuba Standard Entrepreneurship Course on 13 Jul, 2018.
Our full paper of CHILDHOOD project has been finally accepted to Transactions of Virtual Reality Society of Japan ! (PDF In Japanese)
Appeared in a magazine of Weekly ASCII on Jun 8, 2018.