Pedro Lopes (Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany) will give a lecture at Tokyo University Daiwa Ubiquitous Hall.

Date & Time: Oct 3rd, 2017 13:00- (Doors open around 12:50)
Venue: Ishibashi Hall, Daiwa-Ubiquitous Research Building (3F), The University of Tokyo (direction)

Note: This lecture is a part of Tokyo University
Advanced Lectures in Applied Computer Science XII 東京大学大学院講義：総合分析情報学特論XII (aka Human-Computer Interaction Lectures), but it is open to the public.

Interactive Systems based on Electrical Muscle Stimulation

Abstract: In the past years interfaces got closer and closer to the human body to the point that now, they literally attach to it, such as wearable devices and virtual reality headsets. These provide a very direct and immersive interaction with virtual worlds. But what if, instead, these interfaces were “part of our body”? In this talk I introduce the idea of an interactive system based on electrical muscle stimulation (EMS). EMS is a technique from medical rehabilitation in which a signal generator and electrodes attached to the user’s skin are used to send electrical impulses that involuntarily contract the user’s muscles. While EMS devices have been used to regenerate lost motor functions in rehabilitation medicine since the ’60s, it has only been a few years since researchers started to explore EMS as a means for creating interactive systems. These more recent projects, including six of my projects, explore EMS as a means for teaching users new motor skills, increasing immersion in virtual experiences by simulating impact and walls in VR/AR, communicating with remote users and allowing users to read & write information using eyes-free wearable devices.

Bio: Pedro is a researcher at Prof. Baudisch’s Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany. Pedro’s work is published at ACM CHI/UIST and demonstrated at venues such as ACM SIGGRAPH and IEEE Haptics. Pedro has received the ACM CHI Best Paper award for his work on Affordance++, several nominations and exhibited at Ars Electronica 2017. His work also captured the interest of media, such as MIT Technology Review, NBC, Discovery Channel, NewScientist or Wired.

(Learn more about Pedro’s work here: plopes.org/).

東京大学情報学環ヒューマンオーグメンテーション学（ソニー寄付講座）では，学生向けのサマースクールを2017年9月21日（木）〜23日（土）の３日間開催します．

レクチャー形式の技術解説や最新研究動向セミナーと，実際に参加者が手を動かすワークショップからなるこのイベントでは，「感覚の拡張・変換」をテーマに様々な興味を持った学生を募りハッカソン形式のグループワークを行います．

開催日程
9月21日(木) 13:00-20:00　ソニー本社見学，レクチャー， ディナーイベント
9月22日(金) 10:00-18:00　各グループに別れてアイデア創出・プロトタイピング
9月23日(土) 10:00-20:00　プレゼンテーション・審査，講評会，懇親会

募集人数：20名程度
参加費：無料（会場までの交通費および宿泊費は全額個人負担となります．）

詳細は以下をご参照ください：
https://humanaugmentation.jp/summerschool2017/

The University of Tokyo Human Augmentation Studies (Sony endowed chair)
Summer School 2017: “Extension and Substitution of Perception”

The University of Tokyo Human Augmentation Studies will hold a 3-day summer school for students from September 21st to 23rd.

This event is consisting of a lecture on latest research trend, and a Hackathon-style workshop where participants actually create perception-enhancing devices. We invite students of various interests with the theme of “Extension and Substitution of perception”.

We are recruiting students those who can exchange with other fields while researching and practicing in the fields of engineering and art, and are able to explore new possibilities of human augmentation science of the future.

The number of participants : 20
Participation fee: Free
Venue: The University of Tokyo Hongo Campus Daiwa Ubiquitous Computing Research Building
Eligibility: University Students
Application deadline: August 25 (Fri)

For detailed information, please refer to the following web page:
https://humanaugmentation.jp/summerschool2017/

ソニー株式会社と東京大学は、ヒューマンオーグメンテーションに関する研究推進、次世代人材育成のため、「ヒューマンオーグメンテーション学　」（ソニー寄付講座）を設置することで合意しました(2017年4月より３年間の予定）

Sony and The University of Tokyo jointly establish a new course “Human Augmentation （endowed chair by Sony）” from April 2017.

プレスリリース(2017.3.13)

4/4追記：facebookに講座のページを立ち上げました。https://fb.me/humanaugmentation.jp

2017年3月19日、　IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces (3DUI 2016)にて暦本が基調講演を行います。

• Internet of Abilities: Human Augmentation, and beyond, Jun Rekimoto