Program

Schedule

The conference sessions will be held online. Links to the sessions will be published when they are available. Please note that time zones are shown in Eastern European Time (EET, UTC+2) to match the original location of the conference, Rovaniemi, and additionally in Japan Standard Time (UTC+9). If you registered for the conference and did not receive the login data for the streaming platform, contact us here: [email protected].
All sessions are streamed live on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uij0jRwgbe8.

Monday, 22nd of February 2021

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Doctoral Consortium

Tuesday, 23rd of February 2021

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Opening Watch
08:45 - 09:00 15:45 - 16:00 Conference Opening
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09:00 - 10:00 16:00 - 17:00 Opening Keynote
Mel Slater
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10:00 - 10:30 17:00 - 17:30 Break
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Session 1: Remixed Bodies
Session Chair: Yamen Saraiji
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10:30 - 10:45 17:30 - 17:45 MultiSoma: Distributed Embodiment with Synchronized Behavior and Perception
Reiji Miura, Shunichi Kasahara, Michiteru Kitazaki, Adrien Verhulst, Masahiko Inami, and Maki Sugimoto
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10:45 - 11:00 17:45 - 18:00 Dynamic Shared Limbs: An Adaptive Shared Body Control Method Using EMG Sensors
Ryo Takizawa, Takayoshi Hagiwara, Adrien Verhulst, Masaaki Fukuoka, Michiteru Kitazaki and Maki Sugimoto
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11:00 - 11:15 18:00 - 18:15 Independent Control of Supernumerary Appendages Exploiting Upper Limb Redundancy
Hideki Shimobayashi, Tomoya Sasaki, Arata Horie, Riku Arakawa, Zendai Kashino and Masahiko Inami
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11:15 - 11:30 18:15 - 18:30 Research on the transcendence of bodily differences, using sport and human augmentation medium
Ryoichi Ando, Isao Uebayashi, Hayato Sato, Hayato Ohbayashi, Shota Katagiri, Shuhei Hayakawa and Kouta Minamizawa
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11:30 - 11:45 18:30 - 18:45 Ubiquitous Body: Effect of Spatial Arrangement of Task’s View on Managing Multiple Tasks
Yukiko Iwasaki and Hiroyasu Iwata
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11:45 - 12:45 18:45 - 19:45 Lunch Break and Social Activities
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Session 2: Augmented Cameras
Session Chair: Niels Henze
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12:45 - 13:00 19:45 - 20:00 Deep Learning-Based Scene Simplification for Bionic Vision
Nicole Han, Sudhanshu Srivastava, Aiwen Xu, Devi Klein and Michael Beyeler
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13:00 - 13:15 20:00 - 20:15 FaceRecGlasses: A Wearable System for Recognizing Self Facial Expression Using Compact Wearable Cameras
Hiroaki Aoki, Ayumi Ohnishi, Naoya Isoyama, Tsutomu Terada and Masahiko Tsukamoto
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13:15 - 13:30 20:15 - 20:30 CircadianVisor: Image Presentation With an Optical See-Through Display in Consideration of Circadian Illuminance
Takumi Tochimoto, Yuichi Hiroi and Yuta Itoh
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13:30 - 13:45 20:30 - 20:45 Advantage and Misuse of Vision Augmentation - Exploring User Perceptions and Attitudes using a Zoom Prototype
Chloe Eghtebas, Francisco Kiss, Marion Koelle and Paweł Woźniak
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13:45 - 14:15 20:45 - 21:15 Coffee Break
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Session 3: Future of Speech Interfaces
Session Chair: Valentin Schwind
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14:15 - 14:30 21:15 - 21:30 SilentMask: Mask-type Silent Speech Interface with Measurement of Mouth Movement
Hirotaka Hiraki and Jun Rekimoto
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14:30 - 14:45 21:30 - 21:45 Derma: Silent Speech Interaction Using Transcutaneous Motion Sensing
Jun Rekimoto and Yui Nishimura
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14:45 - 15:00 21:45 - 22:00 Conversational Partner’s Perception of Subtle Display Use for Monitoring Notifications
Jacob Logas, Kelsie Belan, Thad Starner and Blue Lin
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Session 4: Wearables Beyond the Wrist
Session Chair: Kai Kunze
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15:30 - 15:45 22:30 - 22:45 Detecting Episodes of Increased Cough Using Kinetic Earables
Tobias Röddiger, Michael Beigl, Michael Hefenbrock, Daniel Wolffram and Erik Pescara
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15:45 - 15:00 22:45 - 22:00 Portable 3D Human Pose Estimation for Human-Human Interaction using a Chest-Mounted Fisheye Camera
Kohei Aso, Dong-Hyun Hwang and Hideki Koike
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16:00 - 16:15 23:00 - 23:15 CapGlasses: Untethered Capacitive Sensing with Smart Glasses
Denys J.C. Matthies, Chamod Weerasinghe, Bodo Urban and Suranga Nanayakkara
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16:15 - 16:30 23:15 - 23:30 Exploratory Design of a Hands-free Video Game Controller for a Quadriplegic Individual
Atieh Taheri and Misha Sra
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16:30 - 16:45 23:30 - 23:45 Virtual Whiskers: Spatial Directional Guidance using Cheek Haptic Stimulation in a Virtual Environment
Fumihiko Nakamura, Adrien Verhulst, Kuniharu Sakurada and Maki Sugimoto
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23:45 - open end Social Activities on Discord
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Wednesday, 24th of February 2021

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Session 5: Physical Interfaces for Movement
Session Chair: Pawel W. Wozniak
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09:00 - 09:15 16:00 - 16:15 SmartAidView Jacket: Providing visual aid to lower the underestimation of assistive forces
Swagata Das, Velika Wongchadakul and Yuichi Kurita
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09:15 - 09:30 16:15 - 16:30 Virtual Physical Task Training: Comparing Shared Body, Shared View and Verbal Task Explanation
Jens Reinhardt, Marco Kurzweg and Katrin Wolf
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09:30 - 09:45 16:30 - 16:45 Hippocampal Cognitive Prosthesis, Memory and Identity: Case Study for the Role of Ethics Guidelines for Human Enhancement
Yasemin J. Erden and Philip Brey
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09:45 - 10:00 16:45 - 17:00 CV-Based Analysis for Microscopic Gauze Suturing Training
Mikihito Matsuura, Shio Miyafuji, Erwin Wu, Satoshi Kiyofuji, Taichi Kin, Takeo Igarashi and Hideki Koike
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10:00 - 10:30 17:00 - 17:30 Coffee Break
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Session 6: Augmented Vision
Session Chair: Yuta Itoh
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10:30 - 10:45 17:30 - 17:45 A Machine Learning Model Perceiving Brightness Optical Illusions: Quantitative Evaluation with Psychophysical Data
Yuki Kubota, Atsushi Hiyama and Masahiko Inami
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10:45 - 11:00 17:45 - 18:00 POV Display and Interaction Methods extending Smartphone
Yura Tamai, Maho Oki and Koji Tsukada
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11:00 - 11:15 18:00 - 18:15 From Strangers to Friends: Augmenting Face-to-face Interactions with Faceted Digital Self-Presentations
Mikko Kytö, Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas and David McGookin
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11:15 - 11:30 18:15 - 18:30 Interactive Eye Aberration Correction for Holographic Near-Eye Display
Kenta Yamamoto, Ippei Suzuki, Kosaku Namikawa, Kaisei Sato and Yoichi Ochiai
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11:30 - 12:00 18:30 - 19:00 Break
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Posters, Demos, and Design Exhibition Watch
12:00 - 13:00 19:00 - 20:00 Posters, Demos, and Design Exhibition
  • REFLECTIONS ON AIR: An Interactive Mirror for the Multisensory Perception of Air (Jessica Broscheit, Susanne Draheim, Kai von Luck and Qi Wang)
  • PAL: Wearable and Personalized Habit-support Interventions in Egocentric Visual and Physiological Contexts (Mina Khan, Glenn Fernandes and Pattie Maes)
  • Jumple: Interactive Contents for the Virtual Physical Education Classroom in the Pandemic Era (Soohyun Shin, Jaekyung Cho and Seong-Woo Kim)
  • Sparkle: A Detachable and Versatile Wearable Sensing Platform in a Sustainable Casing (Adarsh Ravi and Hsin-Liu Cindy Kao)
  • Demo: Towards Universal User Interfaces for Mobile Robots (Dávid Rozenberszki and Gábor Sörös)
  • GemiN' I: Seamless Skin Interfaces Aiding Communication through Unconscious Behaviors (Shuyi Sun, Neha Deshmukh, Xin Chen, Hao-Chuan Wang and Katia Vega)
  • Design and Implementation of an Input Interface for Wearable Devices using Pulse Wave Control by Compressing the Upper Arm (Yuma Akimoto and Kazuya Murao)
  • DualBreath: Input Method Using Nasal and Mouth Breathing (Ryoya Onishi, Tao Morisaki, Shun Suzuki, Saya Mizutani, Takaaki Kamigaki, Masahiro Fujiwara, Yasutoshi Makino and Hiroyuki Shinoda)
  • EarRecorder: A Multi-Device Earable Data Collection Toolkit (Likun Fang, Tobias Röddiger, Felix Schmid and Michael Beigl)
  • Reducing Muscle Activity when Playing Tremolo by Using Electrical Muscle Stimulation (Arinobu Niijima, Toki Takeda, Ryosuke Aoki and Yukio Koike)
  • Tranquillity at Home: Designing Plant-mediated Interaction for Better Fatigue Assessment (Michi Kanda and Kai Kunze)
  • Cough Activated Dynamic Face Visor (Timo Luukkonen, Ashley Colley, Tapio Seppänen and Jonna Häkkilä)
  • Exploring a Dynamic Change of Muscle Appearance in VR,Based on Muscle Activity and/or Skeleton Position (Edouard Ferrand, Adrien Verhulst, Masahiko Inami and Maki Sugimoto)
  • Boiling Mind - A Dataset of Physiological Signals during an Exploratory Dance Performance (Zhuoqi Fu, Jiawen Han, Dingding Zheng, Moe Sugawa, Taichi Furukawa, Chernyshov George, Hynds Danny, Padovani Marcelo, Marky Karola, Kouta Minamizawa, Jamie A Ward and Kai Kunze)
  • Heavenly Hunt: Using Body Tracking for Involving Museum Visitors in Digital Storytelling (Caglar Genc and Jonna Hakkila)
  • Designing Socially Acceptable Light Therapy Glasses for Self-managing Seasonal Affective Disorder (Christian Nordstrøm Rasmussen, Minna Pakanen and Marianne Graves Petersen)
  • Towards Immersive Virtual Reality Simulations of Bionic Vision (Justin Kasowski, Nathan Wu and Michael Beyeler)
  • Moving Visual Stimuli on Smart Glasses Affects the Performance of Subsequent Tasks (Eiichi Hasegawa, Naoya Isoyama, Nobuchika Sakata and Kiyoshi Kiyokawa
  • Text Summary Augmentation for Intelligent Reading Assistant (Pramod Vadiraja, Andreas Dengel and Shoya Ishimaru)
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13:00 - 14:00 20:00 - 21:00 Lunch Break and Get-Together in Gather.Town
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Session 7: Augmentations from Head to Toes
Session Chair: Bruno Fruchard
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14:00 - 14:15 21:00 - 21:15 Wearable System for Promoting Salivation
Kai Washino, Ayumi Ohnishi, Tsutomu Terada and Masahiko Tsukamoto
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14:15 - 14:30 21:15 - 21:30 HemodynamicVR - Adapting the User's Field Of View during Virtual Reality Locomotion Tasks using Wearable Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy
Hiroo Yamamura, Holger Baldauf and Kai Kunze
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14:30 - 14:45 21:30 - 21:45 Augmented Foot: A Comprehensive Survey of Foot Augmentation Devices
Don Samitha Elvitigala, Jochen Huber and Suranga Nanayakkara
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14:45 - 15:00 21:45 - 22:00 Motion-specific Browsing method by mapping to a circle for personal video Observation with Head-Mounted Displays
Natsuki Hamanishi and Jun Rekimoto
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15:00 - 15:15 22:00 - 22:15 Exploring Pseudo Hand-Eye Interaction on the Head-Mounted Display
Myung Jin Kim and Andrea Bianchi
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15:15 - 16:00 22:15 - 23:00 Coffee Break
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Closing Watch
16:00 - 16:30 23:00 - 23:30 Awards Ceremony
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16:30 - 17:00 23:30 - 00:00 Conference Closing
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17:00 - 18:00 00:00 - 01:00 Coffee Break and Socializing
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18:00 - 19:00 01:00 - 02:00 Closing Keynote
Pattie Maes
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Opening Keynote
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