September 2022 – ABC Project

Research Subject 2: Human City Interaction with non-human like robots

by NakanishiYasutoResearch Subjects 2022年9月27日2022年9月29日Comments are Disabled

Yasuto Nakanishi Group The environment in which people live influences their behavioral patterns and unconscious thoughts. When I moved from the Nara to Tokyo upon entering university, I was initially concerned about the lack of mountains in my surroundings. My friend from Funabashi, a flat area by the sea, disliked the hills around her university …

Boomshin

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We proposed “Boomshin”, which uses an encounter-type tactile display to temporally switch between the presence and absence of tactile presentation of objects in space. We named the objects without tactile presentation as “Boomshin” and evaluated changes in the impression of the game experience by using the temporal appearance patterns of both as independent variables. The …

AmplifiedCarousel

by NakanishiYasutoProjects 2022年9月27日2022年9月27日No Comments

With the spread of virtual reality (VR) attractions, vector generation techniques that enhance the sense of realism are gaining attention. Additionally, mixed reality (MR) at- tractions, which overlay VR onto a real-world display, are expected to become more prevalent in the future. However, with MR, it is impossible to move all the coordinates of the …

AmplifiedCoaster

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By combining a HMD showing VR images of the roller coaster experience and an electric wheelchair as a simple motion platform with a small moving ramp that is a customized electric wheelchair, we provide continuous sensation of ascent, and continuous sensation of descent. And, the combination of an electric wheelchair as a simple motion platform …

Furnituroid & Friends : AmplifiedPark

by NakanishiYasutoProjects 2022年9月27日2022年9月27日No Comments

We are developing furniture robots and playground robots in our laboratory. We would like to create space of the future where robots appear in a large parking lot or playground and generate a new park or amusement park. 　Each member of our team has been working on each robot, but we have never seen them …

Furnituroid #1, BarLight

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We introduced our furniture robot at ACM/IEEE HRI2022, and the paper title is “Furnituroid: Shape-Changing Mobile Furniture Robot for Multiple and Dynamic Affordances”. We proposed a design approach named as “Furnituroid”, and described the concept and the design space.It is a shape-changing mobile furniture robot and the first instance “Barlight” was unveiled.

SmartCity, Fungi and Budda

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In the following note, we archive discussions with people from various fields on the following topics as a project named “Smart City, Fungi and Buddha”.https://note.com/cityfungibuddha・Autonomous car, Robotics and AI・Smart City and Landscape・The future of design focused on post human-centered Design・Multi-species Ethnography with various intelligence different from human・The Art of thinking and living with objects beyond …

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Large-scale Estimation of People’s Moods using Web Search Queries and Mobile Sensor Data

by SasakiWataruProjects 2022年9月24日2022年10月28日No Comments

Focusing on the emotional state which is closely related to the rationality states, we constructed machine learning models to estimate the emotional state (mood score) from the user’s search keywords by combining (1) values obtained from various sensors on smartphones, (2) self-reported subjective data obtained through the Experience Sampling Method (ESM), and (3) search keywords …