Do you want to know what we are doing inside and outside the lab? 🙂 Here are some photos of us.
私たちがラボや外でどんな活動をしているかご存知ですか?ここではラボでの活動やラボメンバーの様子を紹介しています.
Season #10 (April 2024 – March 2025)

Anran presented his work published in IMWUT at UbiComp 2024.

Anran won a PACM IMWUT Distinguished Paper Award!

TOHAI invited speakers visited our lab.

Petter Bae Brandtzæg visited our lab and gave a talk.

Sylvain Malacria has joined our lab as a visiting researcher!

HIroki presented his work at DICOMO 2024.

Yuya presented his work at DICOMO 2024.

Haruma presented his work at DICOMO 2024.

Anran presented his GCR work at CHI 2024.
Season #9 (April 2023 – March 2024)

Yuya, Haruma, and Hiroki graduated! Congrats!

Yuya, Haruma, and Hiroki graduated! Congrats!

Zhongyi won an Excellent Dissertation Award! Big congrats!

Zhongyi, Ryo, Kosuke, and Ginshi graduated! Congrats!

Lab tour during our TOHAI event.

Will Guzman gave a talk at our TOHAI event.

Alyssa Castillo Yap gave a talk at our TOHAI event.

Zefan, our Ph.D. student, gave a talk at our TOHAI event.

Zhanna Sarsenbayeva gave a talk at our TOHAI event.

Benjamin Tag gave a talk at our TOHAI event.

Chi-lan, our assistant professor, gave a talk at our TOHAI event.

Daniel Szabo gave a talk at our TOHAI event.

Niels van Berkel gave a talk at our TOHAI event.

Aakar Gupta visited us and gave a talk.

Koji gave an invited talk at Japan Alcohol, NIcotine & Drug Addiction Conference.

Kazuhiro did a demo at Tokyo Maker Faire!

A group photo! So glad to have such a big team!

Zefan won the Best Demo Award at DIS 2023!

Zefan presented his work at DIS 2023 and also did a demo.

We made 10 presentations at DICOMO 2023!

Kakeru presented his work at DICOMO 2023.

Ginshi presented his work at DICOMO 2023.

Ryo presented his work at DICOMO 2023, and won an Excellent Presentation Award!

Shumpei presented his work at DICOMO 2023.

Rei presented his work at DICOMO 2023.

Hiroki presented his work at DICOMO 2023.

Kosuke presented his work at DICOMO 2023, and won an Excellent Presentation Award!

Keitaro presented his work at DICOMO 2023.

Kazuhiro presented his work at DICOMO 2023, and won an Excellent Presentation Award!.

Shitao presented his poster work at CHI 2023!

Arissa presented her full-paper work at CHI 2023!
Season #8 (April 2022 – March 2023)
Our lives are gradually coming back, and enjoying research life!

Kazuhiro won a Student Encouragement Award at an IPSJ conference!

HIroki, Kakeru, Rei, and Shunpei successfully graduated!

Arissa, Akari, and Kazuhiro successfully graduated!

Kazuhiro won an Interactive Demo Award at Interaction!

Kazuhiro did his demo presentation at Interaction.

Kazuhiro gave a presentation at an IPSJ conference, and won a Student Encouragement Award!

Akari gave a presentation at Japan Society of Health Promotion.

Aida-sensei's final lecture

Koji has been inducted into an ACM Distinguished Member!

FInal project presentations at my infovis class!

FInal project presentations at my infovis class!

Yoshihisa Ijiri from LINE gave us a talk.

Akira Tajima from Yahoo Research gave us a talk.

Takeshi Yabe from Nissei IT gave us a talk.

Naomi Yamashita from NTT gave us a talk.

Anran, Shitao, and Shixian successfully graduated with their master degrees! Congrats!

Our SyncUp paper won a PACM IMWUT Distinguished Paper Award!

Ryo presented his DualCheck work at SOUPS 2022.

Koji gave his final presentation for Secom foundation.

Yuta gave a talk at Japan Society of Gerodontology.

Anran presented his work at an IPSJ UBI workshop.

Season 8 started! Great to have Simo Hosio as a visiting researcher!
Season #7 (April 2021 – March 2022)
COVID-19 still impacts on our life, but we keep being creative on how to enjoy our lab life and drive research energetically!

Takaharu, Ryo, Ginshi, and Takuma successfully graduated with their bachelor degrees. Congrats!

Yuta, Ryo, Hirotaka, and Shoko successfully graduated with their master degrees. Congrats!

Koji won a Best Teaching Award!

Our online open house was very successful!

Koji won an IPSJ Microsoft Faculty Award!

Koji gave an invited talk at an MSRA Alumni online event.

Zefan graduated with his master degree, and he is now a Ph.D. student in IIS Lab!

Koichi Narasaki from Sompo HD gave us a talk!

Koji won a Funai Academic Award!

A social gathering with cool mixture of fully offline, fully online, and a telepresence robot!

A virtual group photo. We have now 23. What a big and great team!
Season #6 (April 2020 – March 2021)
Because of constraints by COVID-19, we do not have good photos to share, but we worked actively with fun!

Asahi and Yuji graduated with their master degrees. Congrats!

Kazuhiro won a Department Dean Special Recognition Award and an Excellent Graduation Thesis Award. Big Congrats!

Ikutoshi, Kazuhiro, Ryoto, Naho and Shinichiro graduated with their bachelor degrees. Congratulations!

Koji won Japan the ACM SIGCHI Local Chapter Distinguished Young Researcher Award!

Koji won the IPSJ/ACM Award for Early Career Contributions to Global Research!

We are growing! Now we are 22!
Season #5 (April 2019 – March 2020)

Siwook won an Excellent Graduation Thesis Award! Big congratulations!

Ayuka, Siwook, Takahiro, Yuki, and Kosuke successfully graduated with their bachelor degrees. Congratulations!

Hiroaki won an Department Dean Award for his master thesis. Big congrats!

Hiroaki and Hidenori successfully graduated with their master degrees! Congratulations!

Arissa and Tatsuhiko successfully graduated with their master degrees! Congratulations!

Arissa presented her work at an IPSJ HCI workshop.

Hiroaki presented his work at an IPSJ HCI workshop.

Final demo presentations in Koji's course

Final demo presentations in Koji's course

Steven Drucker visited us.

Peer-review session in Koji's class

Taiichi Hashimoto's lab visit

Taiichi Hashimoto from LINE gave us a talk.

Masayuki Imamura's lab visit

Satoru Joraku's lab visit

Zhongyi demoed his work at UIST.

Masayuki Imamura gave us a talk.

Satoru Joraku from Sansan Inc. gave us a talk.

Yuki Matsumoto from DMM.com gave us a talk.

Great meeting with all IMWUT editors!

Hardware demos at Koji's course.

Hardware demos at Koji's course.

FInal presentations in Koji's HCI course.

Group photo in front of Yasuda hall

Yuji presented his work at an IPSJ UBI workshop.

Ivan gave an invited talk.

Koji co-chaired DC at CHI this year.

Brainstorming session in the lab

Season 5 started with the largest number of students!
Season #4 (April 2018 – March 2019)

Undergrads successfully graduated. Congrats!

outdoor activities in Chichibu

outdoor activities in Chichibu

Antony won the Best Paper Award at TEI 2019!

Daisuke graduated with his master degree. Congratulations!

Students' visit at Microsoft Japan

Had a wonderful discussion at the workshop with visitors from Stockholm University

Had a workshop with visitors from Stockholm University

Had a great discussion with chairs for WristSense.

Koji gave a keynote speech at a Percom WriteSense workshop.

Daisuke gave an oral presentation at Interaction 2019.

Benio gave a talk at a UBI workshop, and she won an Excellent Paper Award!

Koji's talk at Fujitsu SSL

Visit with students at Stockmark Inc.

Asahi gave a talk at a UBI workshop.

A user study at a department store

Antony gave a talk at NTU.

Daisuke gave a talk at NTU.

Visitors from Oath Inc. talked with my students.

Visitors from Oath Inc. gave a talk.

Mike Chen at NTU visited us!

Quick design prototyping discussion with students

Final demo presentations at Koji's infovis course

Final demo presentations at Koji's infovis course

IIS Lab members joined an ideathon!

Great meeting with IMWUT editors!

Takahiro presented his Auth 'n' Scan work at UbiComp.

Hidenori presented his Al-light work at UbiComp.

A visitor from LINE gave us a talk.

A visitor from DMM.com gave us a talk.

Koji gave a lecture to kids in Bunkyo Ward.

Koji gave a lecture to kids in Bunkyo Ward.

Daisuke did a poster presentation.

Demos for visitors from Ajou University

Great gathering with profs and students from Ajou University!

Visitors from Ajou University gave us talks.

A startup company visited us.

A presentation for III group coursework.

A presentation for III group coursework.

Hidenori presented his work at an IPSJ UBI workshop and won an Excellent Paper award!

Workshop course work with III grad students

Workshop course work with III grad students

VR game demo for school festival
Season #3 (April 2017 – March 2018)

Takahiro won a Department Thesis Award for his master thesis!

Namiki, Takahiro, and Takuma graduated. Congrats!

Takuma presented his work at the IPSJ conference.

Namiki presented his another work at the IPSJ conference.

Tatsuhiko presented his work at the IPSJ conference.

Yuji presented his work at the IPSJ conference, and won a Student Paper award.

Daisuke presented his work at the IPSJ conference, and won a Student Paper award.

Hidenori presented his work at the IPSJ conference, and won a Student Paper award.

Namiki presented his work at the IPSJ conference, and won a Student Paper award.

Takuma presented his work at an IPSJ CGVI workshop.

Demo showcases in DMM.make AKIBA

Daisuke presented his work at a SIGPX workshop.

Junpei presented his work at a SIGPX workshop.

Koji has been elected as a UTokyo Excellent Young Researcher!

Students at my infovis class show their demos to a guest from industry.

Students at my infovis class show their demos to a guest from industry.

Lunch meeting with guests from NTU

Mitsuo Hasiba from DMM.make AKIBA visited us.

Namiki Shimoo presented his work at a SIGMUS workshop and won a Student Paper Award!

Infovis hands-on class demo presentation

Tadashi Jogetsu visited us.

High-school students visited us.

Namiki's poster presentation

Takahiro's poster presentation

Takuma's poster presentation

Shunya presented his full paper with a poster presentation at ICME 2017.

Pizza dinner at a paper deadline night

Advanced Topics in HCI taught by Koji

Season 3 started with 12 students!
Season #2 (April 2016 – March 2017)

Yu, Takuya, Daisuke, Hiroki, Wakana, and Shota graduated with bachelor degrees. Congrats!

Daisuke won a best undergraduate thesis award!

Shunya and Tomomi graduated with Master degree. Congrats!

Barry Brown and researchers at Mobile Life visited us.

Shuya presented his work at a SIGMUS workshop, and won a student paper award!

Takahiro presented his work at a UBI workshop, and won an excellent paper award!.

Takuya presented his work at a UBI workshop, and won a student paper award!.

Shota presented his work at a UBI workshop.

Takuya presented his demo at Interaction 2017.

Steve Brewster from University of Glasgow visited us!

We joined a post-UIST open house.

Tomomi's poster presentation

Shunya's poster presentation

Takahiro presented his a printed puressure sensor at UbiComp 2016.

Takuma presented his LumiO paper at UbiComp 2016.

Mark Chignell visited us.

Being a user is important and fun!

Koji's poster presentation at Microsoft

We won a best paper award at CHI 2016!

Course project presentation

Course project presentation

Career discussions with a guest

Open lab for junior high school students

Koji contributed to a book chapter!

Our second season started!

Qualitative analysis on the way
Season #1 (April 2015 – March 2016)

IIS Lab first undergrads graduation, congrats!

Project madness in Koji's infovis course

Demo presentations in Koji's infovis course

Demo presentations in Koji's infovis course

Won the third place in department's futsal games!

Group reviewing on research reports

Group reviewing on research reports

Comments on demos in open lab

Open lab for high school students

Open lab for high school students

Qualitative analysis in progress

A typical scene of the lab

Business magazine set for a research project

Open lab for high school students

Open lab for high school students

Open lab for high school students

Arduino and robot tutorial

Arduino and robot tutorial

Machine learning tutorial

Brainstorming with lab members

A formative study with a guitar