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Grand Prix du Jury, Trophées Laval Virtual (2007) and so on

Best Presentation Award (2007)

Outstanding Paper Award (2005)

Awardings

Journal Papers

1. Tomohiro Amemiya, Taro Maeda, Hideyuki Ando, "Location-free Haptic Interaction for Large-Area Social Applications", Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Vol. 13, No. 5, pp. 379-386, Springer, June 2009.
   pdf Springer
2. Tomohiro Amemiya, Taro Maeda, "Directional Force Sensation by Asymmetric Oscillation from a Double-layer Slider-crank Mechanism", Transactions of the ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, Vol. 9, No. 1, 011001, March 2009.
   pdf ASME [DOI]
3. Tomohiro Amemiya, "Haptic Direction Indicator for Visually Impaired People Based on Pseudo-Attraction Force", eMinds: International Journal on Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 1, No. 5, pp.23-34, March 2009.
   pdf [eMinds]
4. Tomohiro Amemiya, Taro Maeda, "Miniaturization of haptic interface utilizing sensory illusion of being pulled and its effect", Transactions of Human Interface Society, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp.125-134, 2008. (in Japanese)
   pdf [Publisher]
5. 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, August 2008.
   [frontpage] ACM
6. 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.
   IEEE (Xplore) [Publisher]
7. Tomohiro Amemiya, Taro Maeda, "Heaviness Perception by Hand-held Object Vibrating with Asymmetric Acceleration", Trans. of VRSJ, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 59-68, 2008. (in Japanese)
   [Publisher]
8. Tomohiro Amemiya, Taro Maeda, Hideyuki Ando, "Haptic Interaction Based on Perceptual Attraction Force without Constraint of Location", Trans. of VRSJ, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 409-412, 2007. (in Japanese)
   [Publisher]
9. Tomohiro Amemiya, Hideyuki Ando, Taro Maeda, "Effective Perception Method for Directed Force When Holding a Nongrounding Force Display in the Air", Trans. of VRSJ, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 545-556, 2006. (in Japanese)
   
   [Publisher]
10. Tomohiro Amemiya, Hideyuki Ando, Taro Maeda, "Non-grounding Force Display Utilizing Nonlinearity of Human Perception", Trans. of VRSJ, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 47-58, 2006. (in Japanese)
    
    [Publisher]
11. Hideyuki Ando, Junji Watanabe, Tomohiro Amemiya, Taro Maeda, "The Study of Selective Visual Information Display using Wearable Saccade Detection Device", Trans. of VRSJ, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 505-512, 2005. (in Japanese)
    
    [Publisher]
    
12. Tomohiro Amemiya, Koichi Hirota, Michitaka Hirose, "Development and Evaluation of Oboe-like Braille Input Interface for Wearable Computing", Trans. of IPSJ, Vol. 46, No. 7, pp. 1701-1710, 2005. (in Japanese)
    
    [abstract] [Publisher]
13. Hideyuki Ando, Tomohiro Amemiya, Taro Maeda, "A Wearable Scanning Laser Projector for augmenting annotation information", Trans. of VRSJ, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 191-200, 2005. (in Japanese)
    
    [Publisher]
14. Tomohiro Amemiya, Koichi Hirota, Michitaka Hirose, "Wearable Tactile Interface for Way-Finding Deaf-Blind People using Verbal and Nonverbal Mode", Trans. of VRSJ, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 207-216, 2004. (in Japanese)
    [VRSJ Outstanding Paper Award]
    
    [abstract] [Publisher]

International Conferences (Oral Presentations)

2009

1. Tomohiro Amemiya, et al., (submitted)
2. Tomohiro Amemiya, Hisashi Sugiyama, "Navigation in Eight Cardinal Directions with Pseudo-Attraction Force for the Visually Impaired", In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC 2009), Texas, October 2009.(accepted)
3. Tomohiro Amemiya, Taro Maeda, "Impact of Pulse Width and Pulse Oscillation Interval on Perception of Pseudo-Attraction Force", In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC 2009), Texas, October 2009.(accepted)
4. Tomohiro Amemiya, "Portable Two-dimensional Direction Indicator with a Pseudo-Attraction Force", In Proc. of IEEE International Workshop on Portable Information Devices (Portable 2009), Anchorage, Alaska, September 2009.(accepted)
5. Tomohiro Amemiya, "Visualizing Thermal Traces to Reveal Histories of Human-Object Interactions", In Proc. of 13th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI International 2009), Universal Access in Human Computer Interaction, San Diego, CA, July 2009. (accepted)

2008

6. Tomohiro Amemiya, Hideyuki Ando, Taro Maeda, "Bear's Beer and Smart Platter -Handheld Interactive Haptic Display-", In Proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA 2008 Sketches, Singapore, December 2008.
   
   SIGGRAPH
7. Junji Watanabe, Tomohiro Amemiya, Shin'ya Nishida, Alan Johnston, "Independent local adaptation of tactile frequency and duration", Perception, Vol. 37, European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP 2008) Abstract Supplement, p. 87, Utrecht, Netherlands, August 2008.
[Publisher]
8. Tomohiro Amemiya, Hisashi Sugiyama, "Design of a Haptic Direction Indicator for Visually Impaired People in Emergency Situations", In Proc. of 11th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2008), pp.1141-1144, Linz, Austria, July 2008.
   pdf Springer

2007

9. Tomohiro Amemiya, Hideyuki Ando, Taro Maeda, "Haptic Navigation for Broad Social Applications by Kinesthetic Illusion of Pulling Sensation", In Proc. of 17th International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence (ICAT 2007), pp.129-134, Esbjerg, Denmark, December 2007.
   pdf IEEE (Xplore) [Publisher]
10. Tomohiro Amemiya, Ichiro Kawabuchi, Hideyuki Ando, Taro Maeda, "Double-Layer Slider-Crank Mechanism to Generate Pulling or Pushing Sensation without an External Ground", In Proc. of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2007), pp. 2101-2106, San Diego, CA, October 2007.
    
    pdf IEEE (Xplore) [Publisher]
11. Hideyuki Ando, Junji Watanabe, Tomohiro Amemiya, Taro Maeda, "Full-Scale Saccade-Based Display: Public/Private Image Presentation Based on Gaze-Contingent Visual Illusion", In Proc. of Workshop on Emerging Display Technologies 2007, San Diego, CA, August 2007.
    pdf ACM
12. Hideyuki Ando, Junji Watanabe, Tomohiro Amemiya, Taro Maeda, "Full-Scale Saccade-Based Display: Public/Private Image Presentation Based on Gaze-Contingent Visual Illusion", In Proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 Emerging Technologies, San Diego, CA, August 2007.
    
    pdf ACM SIGGRAPH
13. Tomohiro Amemiya, "Handheld Haptic Display with Braille I/O", In Proc. of 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI International 2007), Universal Access in Human Computer Interaction, Part II, LNCS 4555, pp. 730-739, Beijing, China, July 2007.
    pdf Springer

2006

14. Tomohiro Amemiya, Hideyuki Ando, Taro Maeda, "Perceptual Attraction Force: Exploit the Nonlinearity of Human Haptic Perception", In Proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Sketches, p. 40, Boston, MA, July 2006.
    
    pdf ACM SIGGRAPH
15. Tomohiro Amemiya, Hideyuki Ando, Taro Maeda, "Perceptual Attraction Force: The Sixth Force", In Proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Emerging Technologies, p. 26, Boston, MA, July 2006.
    
    pdf ACM SIGGRAPH
16. Hideyuki Ando, Junji Watanabe, Masashi Nakatani, Tomohiro Amemiya, Taro Maeda, "Novel Tactile Contour Presentation: Embossed Touch Display", In Proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Sketches, p. 40, Boston, MA, July 2006.
    
    ACM SIGGRAPH
    
    
17. Hideyuki Ando, Tomohiro Amemiya, Taro Maeda, Masashi Nakatani, Junji Watanabe, "Embossed Touch Display -illusory elongation and shrinking of tactile objects-", In Proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Emerging Technologies, p. 8, Boston, MA, July 2006.
    
    ACM SIGGRAPH
18. Tomohiro Amemiya, Hideyuki Ando, Taro Maeda, "Directed Force Perception When Holding a Nongrounding Force Display in the Air", In Proc. of EuroHaptics 2006, pp. 317-324, Paris, France, July 2006.

2005

19. 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]
    
    pdf ACM
20. Hideyuki Ando, Junji Watanabe, Tomohiro Amemiya, Taro Maeda, "Study of Saccade-incident Information Display using Saccade Detection Device", In Proc. of 15th International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence (ICAT 2005), pp. 119-124, Christchurch, New Zealand, December 2005.
    
    pdf ACM
21. Taro Maeda, Hideyuki Ando, Tomohiro Amemiya, Naohisa Nagaya, Maki Sugimoto, Masahiko Inami, "Shaking The World: Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation As A Novel Sensation Interface", In Proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Emerging Technologies, p.17, L.A., CA, August 2005.
    
    pdf pdf(handout) ACM SIGGRAPH

2004

22. Tomohiro Amemiya, Koichi Hirota, Michitaka Hirose, "OBOE: Oboe-like Braille interface for Outdoor Environment", In Proc. of 9th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2004), pp. 498-505, Paris, France, July 2004.
    
    pdf Springer
23. Tomohiro Amemiya, Jun Yamashita, Koichi Hirota, Michitaka Hirose, "Virtual Leading Blocks for the Deaf-Blind: A Real-Time Way-Finder by Verbal-Nonverbal Hybrid Interface and High-Density RFID Tag Space", In Proc. of IEEE Virtual Reality Conference 2004 (VR 2004), pp. 165-172, Chicago, IL, March 2004.
    
    pdf IEEE (Xplore) [Publisher]

2003

24. Michitaka Hirose, Tomohiro Amemiya, "Wearable Finger-Braille Interface for Navigation of Deaf-Blind in Ubiquitous Barrier-Free Space", In Proc. of 10th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI International 2003), Universal Access in Human Computer Interaction, Vol. 4, pp. 1417-1421, Crete, Greece, June 2003.



International Conferences (Poster Presentations)

2009

25. Tomohiro Amemiya, Yuka Amemiya, "Tangible Interaction for Wedding Reception: Conversion from Invitation Letter into Gratitude Message", In Proc. of 13th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI International 2009), Human Interface and the Management of Information, San Diego, CA, July 2009.(accepted)

2008

26. Tomohiro Amemiya, Taro Maeda, "NOBUNAGA: Multicylinder-like Pulse Generator for Kinesthetic Illusion of Being Pulled Smoothly", In Proc. of EuroHaptics 2008, pp. 580-585, Madrid, Spain, June 2008.
    pdf Springer

2007

27. Junji Watanabe, Tomohiro Amemiya, Shin'ya Nishida, Alan Johnston, "Distortion of tactile duration perception", In Proc. of NEUROSCIENCE 2007, Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, Nov. 2007.
    [Abstract] [Publisher]
28. Hsin-Ni Ho, Tomohiro Amemiya, Hideyuki Ando, "Revealing invisible traces of human-object interactions with thermal vision", In Proc. of the 2007 InfraMation 2007Conference, pp. 431-438, Las Vegas, NV, Oct. 2007.
    
    pdf [Publisher]
29. 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]
    
    pdf IEEE (Xplore) [Publisher]

2006

30. Tomohiro Amemiya, Hideyuki Ando, Taro Maeda, "Palm-sized Attraction Force Display Exploiting the Nonlinearity of Perception", In Proc. of the Tenth IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC 2006), pp. 115-116, Montreux, Switzerland, October 2006.
    
    pdf IEEE (Xplore) [Publisher]
    

2005

31. Tomohiro Amemiya, Hideyuki Ando, Taro Maeda, "Virtual Force Display:Direction Guidance using Asymmetric Acceleration via Periodic Translational Motion", In Proc. of World Haptics Conference 2005 (1st Joint Eurohaptics Conference and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems), pp. 619-622, Pisa, Italy, March 2005.
    
    pdf IEEE (Xplore) [Publisher]
32. Hideyuki Ando, Tomohiro Amemiya, Junji Watanabe, Masahiko Inami, Taro Maeda, "The Evaluation of Nail-Mounted Tactile Display", In Proc. of World Haptics Conference 2005 (1st Joint Eurohaptics Conference and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems), Pisa, Italy, March 2005.(poster presentation)



International Conferences (no reviewing process)

33. Hideyuki Ando, Junji Watanabe, Tomohiro Amemiya, Taro Maeda, "The two dimension outline shape display device using active touch", In Proc. of 16th International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence (ICAT 2006) Special Workshop, China, December 2006.(demo in workshop)

Issues

Invited Talks and Seminars

1. Tomohiro Amemiya, (tutorial) "Haptic Interface using Sensory Illusion", Tutorial in IEEE Virtual Reality 2008 (VR 2008), Integration of Haptics in Virtual Environments: from Perception to Rendering, Reno, NV, March, 2008.
2. Tomohiro Amemiya, Hideyuki Ando, Taro Maeda, "Perceptual Attraction Force: The Sixth Force", SIGGRAPH 2006 HIGHLIGHT, Walt Disney New Technology Forum, Burbank, CA, Sep, 2006.

Press Release (international)

1. "NTT Brings "Lead-Me" Interface to Mobile Phone",
   Nikkei Electronics Asia, Nov. 2006.
   
2. "Holding hands"
   textually.org, August 3, 2006.
3. "Gadgets get the feel of the tactile world"
   NewScientist, No. 2560, July 15, 2006.
   
4. "Sensory illusions dazzle at graphics conference"
   NewScientist.com, August 2, 2006.
5. "Pioneering Leaps in Technology: From Heart Surgery to Virtual Reality"
   DCC Cafe.com, Apr 26, 2006.
   etc..

Exhibition (international)

1. "Bear's Beer", DAT, Singapore Science Center, Singapore, Dec. 2007.
2. "Full-Scale Saccade-Based Display: Public/Private Image Presentation Based on Gaze-Contingent Visual Illusion", ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 Emerging Technologies, San Diego, CA, August 2007.
3. "Come Over Here, or Catch You", Laval Virtual ReVolution, Laval, France, April 2007.
   "Buru-Navi"
   [Laval Virtual Award, "Grand Prix" Award]
   [Laval Virtual Award, Interfaces de realite virtuelle Award]
4. "Perceptual Attraction Force: The Sixth Force", Walt Disney New Technology Forum, Burbank, CA, Sep. 2006.
5. "Perceptual Attraction Force: The Sixth Force", ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Emerging Technologies, Boston, MA, July-Aug. 2006.
   
6. "Embossed Touch Display -illusory elongation and shrinking of tactile objects-", ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Emerging Technologies, Boston, MA, July-Aug. 2006.
   
7. "Shaking The World: Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation As A Novel Sensation Interface", ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Emerging Technologies, L.A., CA, July-Aug. 2005.
   etc..

Reports

Others

1. Doris Carver, "Computer Recognizes Expert Reviewers", IEEE Computer, pp. 77-79, Dec. 2005.
   http://csdl.computer.org/comp/mags/co/2005/12/rz077.pdf