Organizers

Shoichi Hasegawa
Shoichi Hasegawa researches on haptic rendering, simulation and human interfaces at Tokyo Institute of Technology. He brought 9 projects relating to haptics to past SIGGRAPH Emerging Technologies. He received best paper awards from Euro Graphics, Euro Haptics and Advances in Computer Entertainment Technologies (ACE) conferences. He has served as program co-chair in ACE 2014 and demo chair in ACE 2012 and 2010. He is interested in haptic interactions, realtime physics, character motion, computer entertainment and entertainment robots.

Satoshi Saga
Satoshi Saga is an associate professor of University of Tsukuba, JAPAN. His research interests include virtual reality, augmented reality, computer vision and haptic / tactile interfaces. Satoshi received a Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology at University of Tokyo in 2007. His doctoral thesis focuses on teaching method of haptic skills based on haptic technology, and sensing method of detailed tactile skills. From 2007 to 2013, he was an assistant professor of Tohoku University, JAPAN. His awards include an outstanding paper award at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2008.

Yoshihiro Kuroda
Yoshihiro Kuroda is an associate professor of the Cybermedia Center at Osaka University, JAPAN. He received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Kyoto University, Japan, in 2000, 2003, 2005, respectively, all in Informatics. His research interests include haptic interaction technologies and biomedical engineering. His current projects include mid-air haptic display and non-linear soft body simulation and tracking for surgical AR navigation.

Masashi Konyo
Masashi Konyo is an Associate Professor of the Graduate School of Information Sciences at Tohoku University. He received his PhD degree in engineering from Kobe University in 2004. His research interests include haptic interfaces, rescue robotics, and new actuators. His awards include the Best Paper Award of the Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics in 2010, the Best Poster Awards of the IEEE World Haptics Conference in 2007 and 2013, and the Best Hands on Demo Awards of the EuroHaptics 2008 and the IEEE Haptics Symposium 2014.

Hiroyuki Kajimoto
Hiroyuki Kajimoto is an associate professor of the University of Electro-Communications, Japan. He received a PhD in information science and technology in 2006 from The University of Tokyo. His research interests include tactile display, tactile sensor, electrical nerve stimulation, human computer interaction, welfare device and virtual reality. His research projects include vision-tactile conversion systems SmartTouch and HamsaTouch, tactile sensor GelForce, and large area electrotactile display Skeletouch.

Masahiko Inami
Masahiko Inami is a professor in the School of Media Design at the Keio University (KMD), Japan. He is also the SIGGRAPH 2015 Emerging Technologies Chair. His research interest is in human I/O enhancement technologies including bioengineering, HCI and robotics. He received BE and MS degrees in bioengineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology and PhD in 1999 from the University of Tokyo.
His scientific achievements include the Retro-reflective Projection Technology (RPT) known as "Optical Camouflage," which was chosen as one of the coolest inventions of 2003 by /TIME/ magazine. His research has appeared at the Siggraph Emerging Technologies via 36 installations from 1997 through 2014. His installations have appeared at Ars Electronica Center.

Ki-Uk Kyung
Dr. Ki-Uk Kyung is a research scientist investigating human-computer interaction. His major interests are peripheral/central human sensory responses occurred during interactive tasks and their applicability to human-computer interface. His works include haptic interface interacting with mobile devices such as an interactive stylus named ‘Ubi-Pen’, a thin film tactile sensor, a transparent visuo-hatic panel and etc. He has received Ph.D. degrees in KAIST in 2006. Since 2006, he has been a senior research scientist at ETRI and now he is managing a research center for transparent transducer and UX creative research center. He is a member representing Korea in International organization for Standardization (ISO) TC159/SC4/WG9.