Focus
Shared sensation through haptics, robotics + HCI, and XR interaction development
Research / Embodied Media Lab
Research Staff at Embodied Media Lab
The research side of my practice focuses on haptics, embodied interaction, and XR systems that make otherwise invisible sensations legible through implementation and prototyping.
Current themes
Current themes
Rather than separating concept from build, I approach research as something that needs to be implemented, tuned, and felt in order to be understood.
Shaping imagination into form.
Shared Sensation Through Haptics
Research into how tactile signals can help people share intention, presence, and felt understanding across bodies and distance.
Haptic interfacesUser studiesExperience design
Shaping imagination into form.
Robotics + HCI
Prototyping interfaces that reshape relationships between people and environments by crossing robotics, control, and spatial interaction.
Hardware implementationControl systemsSystems integration
Shaping imagination into form.
XR Interaction Development
Developing and validating XR interactions that shape bodily understanding, co-action, and presence through prototyping.
XR prototypingSpatial captureInteractive implementation
Master’s Research
Sense-LinQuest: designing a "sense of collaboration" through tactile sharing in MR spaces
This project is the clearest single frame for my current research direction: how tactile sharing can shape togetherness and presence during collaborative work in MR.
2025
Sense-LinQuest: designing a "sense of collaboration" through tactile sharing in MR spaces
A master’s research project centered on Sense-LinQuest, a system for tactile sharing in MR spaces designed to strengthen the sense of collaboration during co-located and remote collaborative work.
As multi-user work in mixed reality becomes increasingly feasible, sustaining a strong sense of presence and togetherness remains difficult, especially when tactile experience is absent. This project developed Sense-LinQuest, a system that shares haptic information in real time between participants so that each user can feel the consequences of another person’s interaction during collaborative work.
Contribution: Through the design and implementation of a tactile sharing system, the project established a basis for evaluating how shared haptics can influence togetherness and presence in MR collaboration.
Related lead-author study
Intersubjective Design
Alongside the master’s research, this study shows another way I have approached tactile sharing and interpersonal understanding through visual intervention in XR.
2024
Intersubjective Design
A foundational study of intersubjective design that examines how visual interventions on another body affect shared haptic sensation in XR.
This lead-author study examines how visual interventions on another person’s body in XR can alter self-perceived touch and interpersonal understanding when physical constraints are no longer reliable cues.
Role: Lead author, responsible for the research design, implementation, and evaluation.
Research Contributions
Research Contributions
This part gathers both how I contribute to research and the papers or presentations that came out of that work.
How I contribute
How I contribute
Most of my research contributions emerge where systems need to move from idea to reality: hardware and software implementation, prototyping, and experimental integration.
Practice
Implementation
Building the hardware and software systems that let research questions become testable.
Practice
Prototype
Turning ideas into devices, interactions, and experiences that can be touched and revised.
Practice
Integration
Connecting sensors, control, capture, and presentation into cohesive experimental systems.
Selected papers and presentations
Selected papers and presentations
Lead-author and co-authored work are listed together here, with the emphasis placed on the specific role I played in each project.
Lead-author study
2024
Foundational Study of Intersubjective Design for Multi-person Haptic Interaction in Digital Space
Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan (September 2024)
Contribution: Lead author responsible for the study design, system implementation, and evaluation.
Co-authored publication
2026
A Room as an Assistive Robotic Interface based on Cable-Driven Parallel Robotics
TEI ’26: Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction
Contribution: A co-authored study to which I contributed through cable-winch-related hardware implementation.
Co-authored publication
2025
Experience Sharing Box: A Platform for Capturing, Storing, and Playback of Multisensory Memory
SA Emerging Technologies ’25: Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Emerging Technologies
Contribution: A co-authored publication to which I contributed through hardware fabrication and spatial-capture rig design.
Co-authored publication
2025
A Study on 3D Journaling in Daily Life and Context-dependent Memory Recall
Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan (September 2025)
Contribution: A co-authored publication to which I contributed across requirements definition, point-cloud capture, data processing, and interactive implementation.
Publications here are framed less as lead-author output and more as research contributions through implementation, technical support, and prototyping. Contributions