Tomohiro Amemiya. Ph.D.
My photo taken in Bolivia, 2009
Sensory and Motor Research Group
Human and Information Science Laboratory
NTT Communication Science Laboratories
NTT Corporation Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan
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Tomohiro Amemiya (born in Yamanashi, Japan, on Dec. 1979) received B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechano-informatics from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 2002 and 2004, respectively. Since 2004, he has been a researcher at NTT Communication Science Laboratories. He was awarded a Ph.D. in biomedical information science by Osaka University, Japan, in 2008. His research interests include haptic perception, wearable interfaces, and assistive technologies. He received the Young Researchers Award (VRSJ, 2004), the Outstanding Paper Award (VRSJ, 2005), the Best Presentation Award (Human Interface Society in Japan, 2005 and 2007), Annual Meeting Award (HIS, 2009), Human Communication Award (IEICE, 2009), and "Grand Prix" Award and VR Interfaces Award at the Laval Virtual International Awards (2007).
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Recent Activities
Book (Chapter) Virtual Reality Gaku VR Gaku 25 Jan 2010
Kogyo Chosakai Publishing
Press Asahi Shinbun be Asahi Shinbun 19 Oct 2009
Asahi Shinbun be
Journal published TAP TAP 16 Sep 2008
The cover page of ACM Trans. on Applied Perception
Award GrandPrix of Laval Virtual International Award 2007 Laval Virtual '07 20 Apr 2007
won the Grand Prix award
Selected Papers
update: November 2010
  • Tomohiro Amemiya, Hisashi Sugiyama, "Orienting Kinesthetically: A Haptic Handheld Wayfinder for People with Visual Impairments", ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing, Vol. 3, No. 2, Article 6, pp. 1-23, November 2010.
  • Tomohiro Amemiya, Hideyuki Ando, Taro Maeda, "Lead-Me Interface for a Pulling Sensation from Hand-held Devices", ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, Vol. 5, No. 3, Article 15, pp.1-17, August 2008.
  • Tomohiro Amemiya, Taro Maeda, "Asymmetric Oscillation Distorts the Perceived Heaviness of Handheld Objects", IEEE Transactions on Haptics, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 9-18, Jan-Jun, 2008.
  • Tomohiro Amemiya, Hideyuki Ando, Taro Maeda, "Buru-Navi", Laval, France, April 2007.
    [Laval Virtual Trophies, "GrandPrix" Award]
    [L    aval Virtual Trophies, Interfaces de realite virtuelle Award]
  • Tomohiro Amemiya, Hideyuki Ando, Taro Maeda, "Hand-held Force Display with Spring-Cam Mechanism for Generating Asymmetric Acceleration", In Proc. of World Haptics Conference 2007 (2nd Joint Eurohaptics Conference and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems), pp. 572-573, Tsukuba, March 2007.
    [Best Poster Nominee]
  • Tomohiro Amemiya, Hideyuki Ando, Taro Maeda, "Perceptual Attraction Force: The Sixth Force", ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Emerging Technologies, p. 26, Boston, July 2006.
  • Tomohiro Amemiya, Hideyuki Ando, Taro Maeda, "Phantom-DRAWN: Direction Guidance using Rapid and Asymmetric Acceleration Weighted by Nonlinearity of Perception", In Proc. of 15th International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence (ICAT 2005), pp. 201-208, Christchurch, New Zealand, December 2005.
    [Best Paper Nominee]
Research Interests
Wearable Finger-Braille Interface Finger-Braille Wearable Finger-Braille Interface
2002 - 2004
RCAST, the Univ. Tokyo
Oboe-like Braille Input Interface OBOE Oboe-like Braille Input Interface
2004 - 2005
RCAST, the Univ. Tokyo
Buru-Navi Buru-Navi Buru-Navi
2004 -
NTT CSL
Tactile duration perception Time percepion Tactile duration perception
2006 -
NTT CSL, JST, UCL
Smart tray for novice servers Smart tray Smart tray for novice servers
2007 - 2008
NTT CSL
Heaviness illusion Heaviness illusion Heaviness illusion
2007 - 2008
NTT CSL
Haptic compass for people with visual impairments Haptic compass Haptic compass for people with visual impairments
2007 - 2009
NTT CSL
Keyword
Applied Sensory-illusion Engineering, Human Interfaces using sensory illusions, Buru-Navi, Haptic, Tactile, Somatosensory, Perception, Interaction, Assistive Technology
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Oral presentation & Hands-on demo

I will make an oral presentation at 20th Anniversary NTT CS Labs. Open House. (2011.6.5)
-Oral presentation
-Hands-on Demo

My original paper was published in TACESS.
My paper was published in ACM Trans. Accessible Computing 3(2) (Special issue on ASSETS2009). (2010.11.30)
YouTube
I uploaded some movies of my research.(2010.11.8)
I appeared in Hong Kong Economic Times
My research work and interview appeared in Hong Kong daily newspaper.(2010.7.28)
ICT for the Future R&D Forum
Exhibition in HongKong (2010.7.16)
Workshop Co-chair
I participated to the organization of VRIC 2010 conference, co-chair of Workshop on “Recent Advances in Haptic Interaction”. (2010.4.8)
Organized the WIT 52th meeting (domestic)
I organized the 52th SIG Well-being Information Technology(WIT), which held in NTT Musashino R&D Center. (2010.3.12)
The first VR text book was published.
I partially wrote the "haptic rendering" section. (2010.1.25)
Received the HCS award
I received the award of Human Communication Group, IEICE Society. (2009.12.12)
Buru-Navi appeared in Asahi Shinbun.
Buru-Navi was introduced in the news paper. (2009.10.17)
My original paper was published.

My paper was published in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. (2009.6.10)

Exhibition
In addition to NTT Atsugi R&D Center Exhibition Hall, Buru-Navi was introduce in NTT Musashino R&D Center. (2009.4.1)
Buru-Navi appeared in a web news (Sankei).
Our research appeared in Sankei Business-i. (2009.3.16)
Received the HI meeting award
I received the annual meeting award of Human Interface Society. (2009.2.13)
My original paper was published in ASME.
My paper was published in J. Comput. Inf.Sci.Eng. (ASME) and won the second place of monthly download ranking. (2009.2.10)
Presentation at URCF meeting
I made a presentation at SIG meeting of URCF. (2009.2.3)
My paper was published and appeared in the cover.
My paper was published in ACM Trans. on Applied Perception. Buru-Navi also appeared in the cover page. (2008.9.16)
Presentation at a Science Café
I made a presentation and discussion in Science Café "- Man Machine Interface ". See also [web news] . (2008.9.14)
My original paper was published in IEEE ToH.
My paper was published in IEEE Transactions on Haptics Vol.1, No.1. (2008.7.15)
Tutorial speaker in IEEE VR 2008
I made a presentation as a tutorial speaker in IEEE VR 2008 Tutorial "Integration of Haptics in Virtual Environments: from Perception to Rendering. (2008.3.9)
Contact information
e-mail: t-amemiya(at)avg.brl.ntt.co.jp
3-1 Morinosato Wakamiya, Atsugi,
Kanagawa, 243-0198 JAPAN
TEL: +81-46-240-3524, FAX: +81-46-250-4450