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KIMURA Asako

Department / Course College of Information Science and Engineering Department of Information Science and Engineering

Title / Position Professor

Other Affiliations
1.	Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering
2.	Research Organization of Open Innovation & Collaboration Center for MONODZUKURI Qualitative Research
3.	Research Organization of Science and Technology Frontier Research Center for Natural Disaster Mitigation
4.	Kinugasa Research Organization Institute of Human Sciences

Academic background
1.	～2000	Doctorial Course │ Department of Systems and Human Science │ Graduate School, Division of Engineering Science │ Osaka University │ Unfinished
2.		│ Osaka University Ph.D. (Engineering)
3.	～1996	Department of System Engineering │ Faculty of Engineering Science │ Osaka University │ Graduated

Business career
1.	2001/08 ～ 2002/03	Special Project Associate [国外] │ │ Mayo Clinic, Biomedical Imaging Resource Laboratory (Rochester, MN, USA)

Research activities
1.		Human Interface Society
2.		Information Processing Society of Japan
3.		The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE)
4.		THE VIRTUAL REALITY SOCIETY OF JAPAN

Subject of research
1.	Construction of Kansei Emergence World Based on Synergetic Interaction
2.	Development and Application of Non-restrictive/Environment-superimposable Human Interface
3.	Study on Tool-type Input Interface with Use of Shape of Tool and Tactile Feeling When Used

Research summary
Intuitive User Interfaces I aim to build interactive devices that help unfamiliar users to smoothly understand operation methods based on their experiences, by making use of three human senses: sight, hearing and touch.

Present specialized field
Information Library Science/Humanistic Social Informatics (Keyword：Real World Oriented Interface, Interactive Device, Multimodal Interface, Mixed Reality)

Papers
1.	2023/07/26	Analysis and Considerations of the Controllability of EMG-based Force Input │ Proc. Human-Computer Interaction Int. 2023 (HCII 2023) │ ,pp.563-572 (Co-authored)
2.	2023/06	Real-time co-embodiment of a virtual avatar improves movement performance │ Proc. of the 21st International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF2023) │ (Co-authored)
3.	2023/05	Modified egocentric viewpoint for softer seated experience in virtual reality │ IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics │ 29 (5),pp.1-9 (Co-authored)
4.	2023	Point & Teleport with orientation specification revisited: Is natural turning always superior? │ Journal of Information Processing │ 31,pp.392-403 (Co-authored)
5.	2022/08	Generating Haptic Textures with Vibrotactile Under-clothing Wearables │ Proc. 15th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Mixed and Augmented Reality (APMAR 2023) │ (Co-authored)
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2021/05/12	Virtual Weight Illusion: Weight Perception of Virtual Objects Using Weight Illusions (CHI 2021)
2.	2019/07/25	The effects of changing the mental model of one's body and sense of body ownership on pain perception (Proc. of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci2019))
3.	2019/07/25	The effects of changing the mental model of one’s body and sense of body ownership on pain perception (The 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci2019))
4.	2019/07/11	ExtickTouch: A novel interactive haptic device for getting contact-feeling of virtual objects (Proc. 2019 IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC 2019))
5.	2019/07/11	ExtickTouch: A novel interactive haptic device for getting contact-feeling of virtual objects (2019 IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC 2019))
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Works
1.	2012/08	How to make user interface intuitive?

Winning science prize
1.	2019/03	The 12th Asia Pacific Workshop on Mixed and Augmented Reality (APMAR 2019) Best Paper Runner-up Award (Analysis and evaluation of behavior of R-V Dynamics Illusion in various conditions)
2.	2016/04	Asia-Pasific Workshop on Mixed Reality (APMR 2016) APMR2016 Best Presentation Award (Mixed reality based virtual carving system - Surface carving using ToolDevice)
3.	2015/09	14th Int. Symp. on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2015) ISMAR2015 Best Demo Award (DOMINO (Do Mixed-reality Non-stop) Toppling)
4.	2015/04	mappingThe 8th Korea-Japan Workshop on Mixed Reality KJMR2015 Best Presentation Award (An AR/MR camera tracker using view dependent texture)
5.	2014/04	KJMR KJMR2014 Best Presentation Award (Building a data acquisition studio for diminished reality research)
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