Kajimoto Laboratory†

Kajimoto lab was established in April 2007. The main research topic is human perception, haptics interface, and virtual reality.

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• 2025.12.15-18 Onoda (M1) presented their work at SIGGRAPH ASIA 2025@Hong Kong
  

• 2025.8.10-14 Sobue (M2) and Kon (M2) presented their work at SIGGRAPH 2025@Vancouver, Canada.
  

• 2025.7.8-11 Luan, Akiba(M2), Onoda (M1), Sakamoto (M1), Fuji (M1) presented their work at World Haptics Conference 2025@Suwon, Korea
  

• 2025.4.28-5.1 Y.Kon(D3), Sobue(M2), Onoda(M1), Sugimoto(B4) presented their work at CHI2025@Yokohama
  

• 2024.10.28-30 Kajimoto, Takami (Master graduate), Narita (M2), Kato (M2) presented their work at AsiaHaptics2024@Malaysia
  

• 2024.7.8-8.1 Narita (M2) presented their work at SIGGRAPH2024@Denver, USA.
  

• 2024.6.30-7.3 Mizoguchi,Nakayama (Master graduate), Kato (M2), Teo (M2), Sobue (M1), Kon (M1), Akiba (M1), Hamaguchi (M1) presented their work at EuroHaptics2024@Lille, France.
  
  Sobue received Best Paper Honorable MentionAward Page
  

• 2024.5.11-16 Hamazaki (M2, Graduated) presented their work at CHI 2024@Hawaii, USA
  

• 2024.4.7-10 Kajimoto, Mizoguchi, Ushiyama(D3), Kato (M2), Sobue(M1) presented their work at Haptics Symposium 2024@Long Beach, USA
  
  Kato was selected as one of Best Paper Finalists
  

• 2024.3.18-21 Suga (M2) presented their work at IEEE VR 2024@Orlando, USA
  

• 2023.10.13-15 Takami (M2) presented their work atACM SUI 2023@Sydney, Australia.
  

• 2023.8.6-10 Takami (M2) presented their work at SIGGRAPH 2023@Los Angeles, US.
  

• 2023.7.10-13 Suga (M2), Narita (M1), Mizoguchi, Tanaka (D3), Takami (M2), Kato (M1), Teo (M1), Hamaguchi (B4) presented their work at World Haptics Conference 2023@Delft, Netherlands.
  
  Tanaka and Narita were selected as finalists of Best Demo Award（6 among 86)
  

• 2023.3.13 Saito (M2) presented their work at Augmented Humans 2023@Glasgow, UK.
  

• 2022.11.12 Tanaka (D2), Hamazaki (M1) and Suga (M1) presented their work at AsiaHaptics2022 Tokyo Venue
  

• 2022.5.22-27 Ushiyama (D1), Hamazaki (M1), and Nakayama (M1) presented their work at EuroHaptics2022@Hamburg,
  

• 2022/4/12 Research by Moriyama was published in IEEE Spectrum.
  

• 2022.3.22-23 Moriyama, Kaneda, Hamazaki presented their work at IEEE Haptics Symposium.
  Hamazaki received the Best Conference Technical Paper Honorable Mention
  

• 2021.7.6-9 Kameoka, Kaneko, Takeuchi, Zhang, Manabe, Saito presented their work at World Haptics Conference 2021.
  Kaneko received Work in Progress Honorable Mention Award
  

• 2021.5.8-13 Takahashi, Karasawa, Ushiyama,k Saito presented their work at CHI2021.
  

• 2020.9.6-9 Kaneko, Tanaka, Naito, Ushiyama, Tirado, Vladislav, presented their work at EuroHaptics (online)
  Naito received the Best Demo Award (special mention for online demo)。
  

• 2020.8.26-27 Moriyama, Mizuhara, Ushiyama presenteda t SIGGRAPH(Online)
  

• 2020.5 Tanaka, Takeuchi presented their work at Haptics Symposium.
• 2020.3.16-17 Sanada presented their work at Augmented Humans (Online).
  

• 2019.11.17-20 Moriyama, Miyakami, Murata, Kobayashi, Ushiyama presented their work at SiggraphAsia2019 in Brisbane
  Kobayashi received Best Demo Voted by Attendees - Runners Up
  Moriyama's co-authored work (Scoltech's SwarmClock) received Best Demo by Committee - Honorable Mention.
  

• 2019.11.14-16 Mizuhara presented their work at VRCAI2019 in Brisbane
  

• 2019/Kajimoto worked as a General Chair in WorldHaptics2019. Kobayashi, Sanada presented their work at Student Competition. Takahashi, Kaneko, MUrata, Miyakami worked as student volunteers.
  

• Kobayashi, Miyakami, Asazu, Mizuhara presented their work at Augmented Human 2019.
  

• 2018.12.4 Moriyama and Kameoka presented their work at SiggraphAsia2018.
  Moriyama received Best Demo Voted by Attendees受賞報告
  

• 2018.11.28 Takahashi presented their work at VRST2018.
  

• 2018.11.27 Yamaguchi presented their work at ISS2018
  

• 2018.11.14 Kaneko, Moriyama, Kobayashi, Miyakami, Yamaguchi, Kameoka presented their work at AsiaHaptics2018.
  

• 2018.11.7 Murata presented their work at ICAT-EGVE2018.
  

• 2018.10.13 Takahashi, Moriyama, Kameoka presented their work at SUI2018およびUIST2018.
  Takahashi received Best poster award
  

• 2018.6.13-16 Shionoiri, Kaneko, Kobahashi, Miyakami, Mizuhara presented their work at EuroHaptics2018.
  

• 2018.3.25-28 Yem, Moriyama, Murata presented their work at Haptics Symposium2018.
  

• 2018.3.18-22 Yem and Kon presented their work at IEEEVR2018.
  

• 2017.12.14-16 Oishi (M2) presented their work at ACE2017 in London.
  

• 2017.11.27-30 Nakamura(D2) presented their work at Emerging Technologies session in SIGGRAPH ASIA2017 in Bangkok
  

• 2016.7.24-28 Kon (M2) presented two demonstrations at Siggraph2017 in Los Angeles.
  

• 2017.6.6-9 Yem, Sakuragi(M1), Shitara(M1), Kameoka (B3) presented their work at WorldHaptics2017 in Fürstenfeldbruck (Munich)
  

• 2017.3.18-22 Yem presented their work at IEEE-VR2017 in Los Angeles.
  Kodama(D2) and Kon (M1) presented their work at IEEE-3DUI2017.
  

• 2016.10.15-16 Oishi (M1) presented their work at ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction in Tokyo
  

• 2016.11.29-12.1 Yem, Nakamura (D1), Tanabe (M2), Kon (M1), Shitara (M1), Takahashi (M1), Kaneko (B4), and Kameoka (B3) presented their work at AsiaHaptics in Kashiwanoha
  

• 2016.7.24-28 Yem, Uematsu (M2), Ogawa (15graduated), and Tanabe (M2) presented their work at Siggraph2016 emerging technology session, and Nishi (M1) presented their work at poster session.
  

• 2016.7.4-7 Yem, Nakamura (D1), Uematsu (M2), Shitara (M1), Kaneko (B4), Hoshino (M2), Sura (M2), Sakuragi (M1) , Takahashi (M1) presented their work at EuroHaptics2016 in London.
  

• 2016.5.7-12 Sura (M2) presented their work at CHI2016 in San Jose (Note).
  

• 2016.4.8-11 Yem, Nakmura 9M2), Kon (M1) presented their work at Haptics Symposium2016 in Philadelphia.
  

• 2015.11.2-5 Takei (M2) and Ogawa (M2) presented their work at SIGGRAPH ASIA at Kobe.
  Ogawa's work was introduced at GIZMODOで
  

• 2015.10.28-30 Sakuragi (B4) presented their work at ICAT-EGVE2015 at Kyoto.
  

• 2015.6.22-6.26 Takuto Nakamura (M2), Tanabe (M1), Uematsu (M1), Sura (M1) Sakuragi (B4), Kon (B4) presented their work at World Haptics Conference2015.
  Takuto Nakamura was chosen as a candidate for best demo.
  

• 2015.4.18-23 Kodama(D1) and Hoshino (B4) presented their work at Work-in-progress session of CHI2015 in Seul, Korea.
  

• 2015.3.23-24 Ikeno(M2), Kouge (M1) presented their work at IEEE 3DUI at Arles, France
  

• 2015.3.9-11 Kudo(M2) presented their work at Augmented Human at Singapore.
  

• 2014.11.18-20 Hachisu (D3), Okazaki (D2), Watanabe (D1), Ikeno (M2), Takuto Nakamura (M1), Takei (M1) presented their work at AsiaHaptics2014.
  

• 2014.11.11-14 Takuto Nakamura (M1) and Kouge (M1) presented their work at ACE2014.
  Kouge received Best Poster Award.受賞報告
  

• 2014.10.31(金) Kajimoto presented their work at Asia Faculty Summit.
  

• 2014.10.5-8 Nakai (M1), Ogawa (M1) presented their works at UIST2014
  

• 2014.6.24-27 Taira Nakamura (M1) and Okazaki (D2) presented their work at EuroHaptics2014.
  

• 2014.6.10-14 Takuto Nakamura (M1) presented their work at MDS2014
  

• 2014.4.26-5.1 Nakai (M1), Okazaki (D2), Hachisu (D3) and Kajimoto presented their work at CHI2014.
  Kajimoto's work was introduced by Network World
  

• 2014.3.29-4.2 Takuto Nakamura (B4) presented their work at 3DUI2014 and IEEEVR.
  

• 2014.3.3-3.5 Laboratory Camp at Naha, Okinawa.
  

• 2014.2.23-26 Hachisu (D2), Kurihara(M2), Nishimura(M2), Watanabe(M2) presented their work at IEEE Haptics Symposium.
  

• 2013.11.19-22 Kurihara(M2) presented their work at SIGGRAPH Asia (Emerging Technologies Demonstration)
  Yosuke Kurihara received Emerging Technologies Prize
  Kurihara's Jointonation was introduced in 3D Artist Magazine．
  

• 2013.11.13-15 Kurihara(M2), Ikeno(M1) presented their work at ACE2013
  Yosuke Kurihara received Best Paper Silver
  

• 2013.6.16-6.20 Takuto Nakamura (B4) presented their work at 17th International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders
  

• 2013.4.27-5.2 Hachisu (D1) presented their work at CHI2013.
  

• 2013.4.14-17 Kurihara (M1), Okazaki (M2) and Kajimoto presented their work at IEEE World Haptics Conference.
  

• 2013.3.16-23 Kurihara (M1) presented their work at IEEE VR
  

• 2013.3.7-8 Watanabe (M1), Nishimura (M1), Katoh (B4) presented their work at Augmented Human.
  

• 2012.11.28-12.1 Sato (D2) and Kajimoto presented their work at SIGGRAPH ASIA 2012(Singapore)
  Kajimoto received Emerging Technologies Prize.
  

• 2012.11.11-14 Okabe (M2) and Yokoyama (M2) presented their work at ITS2012 (USA, Boston)
  

• 2012.11.3-5 Hachisu (D1) and Kajimoto presented their work at ACE2012 (Nepal, Kathmandu)
  

• 2012.8.5 Fukushima (D3) presented their work at e-tech session of SIGGRAPH (Los Angeles, USA)（Emerging Technologies）
  

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• 2012.6.12-15 Okazaki (M2), Hachisu (D1) and Kajimoto presented their work at EuroHaptics (Finland, Tampere).
  

• 2012.5.5-10 Nishimura (M1) presented their work at CHI (USA, Austin)(Work in Progress)
  

• 2012.3.8-9 Fukushima (D2), Kuniyasu (M2), Zhao (M2), Yokoyama (M1) and Kurihara (B4) presented their work at Augmented Human (France, Megéve).
  Kuniyasu and Fukushima received Best Paper Awards!
  

• 2012.3.5-7 Kajimoto presented their work at Haptic Symposium (Canada, Vancouver)
  

• 2011.11.28-30 Two works were presented their work at ICAT2011 (Osaka) (M1:Okabe, M2: Zhao)
  

• 2011.11.13-16 One work was presented their work at ITS2011 (Kobe) (D2: Fukushima)
  

• 2011.11.8-11 One work was presented their work at ACE (Lisbon) (M2: Hachisu)
  

• 2011.10.16-19 One work was presented their work at UIST (Santa Barbara) (M2: Hachisu)
  

• 2011.8.7-11 One work was presented their work at e-tech session of ACM SIGGRAPH 2011 (Vanconver) (M1 YoshikawaVection Field for Pedestrian Traffic Control)
  

• 2011.6.22-24 Two works were presented their work at World Haptics Conference 2011 (Istanbul) (M1 Okazaki, Kajimoto)
  

• 2011.5 Some works were introduced by Diginfo
  • Kiss Transmission Device cited by: abc cnbc TIME dailymail weirdnews news.com CNN REUTERS Discovery
  • Pedestrian Guidance System For Crowded Places
  • Pedestrian Collision Prevention System
  • A Touch Screen In The Palm Of Your Hand
  • Touchpanels That Don't Rely On Fingertip Movement
  • Tickle Transmission Device for the iPhone
    

• Sense-Roid will be presented their work at Laval Virtual2011 ( 2011.4.4-10 ).
  Abstract—What type of emotions could be obtained if you were able to hug yourself? When we hug someone, we feel a sense of ease coming from emotions such as belief, security and love. However, it is not possible to hug oneself, who is the closest person. To experience this situation, we proposed a tactile device called the Sense-Roid. The system is composed of a lay figure with tactile sensors to detect the user's caressing motion, and a tactile jacket with vibrators and artificial muscles to reflect the caressing motion to the user. As a result, users caress themselves through our Sense-Roid. We believe that this self-caressing experience will enlighten people about the value of caressing.
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  • Publication
    N. Takahashi, R. Okazaki, H. Okabe, H. Yoshikawa, K. Aou, S. Yamakawa, M. Yokoyama, H. Kajimoto, Sense-Roid: Emotional Haptic Communication with Yourself, Virtual Reality International Conference 2011 (VRIC2011) proceedings, France, 2011[pdf]
    

• 2011.3.19-20 At ISVRI 2011, two papers were presented，and Taku Hachisu (M1) received Best Poster Award
  

• 2011.3.12-14 At Augmented Human 2011, one oral and one demo was presented, and Masahiro Furukawa received Best Paper Award
  
  

• 2011.3.10-12 At Interaction2011, four demos were presented their work at interactive session, and Hiromi Yoshikawa (B4) received Interactive Presentation Award
  
  

• 2010.12.15-18 At SIGGRAPH ASIA2010 (Seoul, Korea), Yu Okano(M2) presented their work at poster session.
  

• 2010 10/3-6, At UIST, Kanako Aou (B4) presented their work at poster session.
  

• 2010.7.7-10, AtEuroHaptics, Jun Ohara(M1), Hiroshi Kato (M2), Michi Sato (M2) and Hiroyuki Kajimoto presented. Kajimoto received Best Oral presentation Award
  

• 2009 12/24-26, Junya Miyake received Presentation Award atSICE-SI conference.
  

• 2010 4/10-15 Shogo Fukushima will present at CHI2010.
  

• Pull-Navi was presented their work at Laval Virtual2010.
  

• Yuki Hashimoto individually received the Demostration Award at Virtual Reality Conference in Japan
  

• 2010.3.25-26, Taku Hachisu and Satsuki Nakata presented their work at Haptics Symposiumin Boston
  

• Pull-Navi was introduced in Shanghai-Daily News.
  
  

• 2009.10.29-31 Yuichiro Kojima and Yuki Hashimoto presented their work at ACE2009 in Athens, Greece
  

• 2009.9.30 Michi Sato received the Best Paper Award at IEEE RO-MAN 2009.
  

• 2009.9.16 Shogo Fukushima received the Best paper Award at Entertainment Computing 2009
  

• 2009.8.3-7，Yuichiro Kojima presented their work at SIGGRAPH2009 Emerging Technology Session.
  

• 2009.3.5 Michi Sato and Yuki Hashimoto individually received the Interactive Presentation Award at Interaction2009．
  

• 2008.10.31 Michi Sato received the Best Presentation Award at Entertainment Computing 2008.
  

• 2008.8.11-15 Three works (/ed，Emotional Touch，Ants in the Pants) will be presented their work at the New Tech Demo session in SIGGRAPH2008.

• 2008.6.11-13 Three works will be presented their work at oral, poster and demo session in EuroHaptics2008
  

• 2008.4.5-10 Two works will be presented their work at Work-in-Progress session in CHI2008.

• 2008.3.4 Hashimoto and Kajimoto individually received Interactive Demonstration Award at Interaction2008.

• 2007.12.7 Hashimoto and Fukushima individually received Demonstration Awards in WISS2007.

• 2007.11.24 Open Lab

• 2007.11.3 Team "Tamago-chan" won triple crown: Grand Prix, Laval Award, and Kagamihara Award in IVRC. The team will be invited to Laval Virtual (France) in April.

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