Arata Jingu | 神宮 亜良太
I am a third-year Ph.D. student at Human Computer Interaction Lab at Saarland University, advised by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Steimle.
My research interest is to create 3D virtual objects with the same visuo-haptic characteristics as the real world. My work has been published/exhibited at top-tier venues (e.g., ACM CHI/UIST, Laval Virtual) and featured on mainstream media (e.g., Yahoo Finance, Business Today, Engadget, hackster.io, and Communications of the ACM). Recipient of Google PhD Fellowship 2024.
CV | Google Scholar | X | Email: jingu@cs.uni-saarland.de
Main Publications
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Awards
- 2023.11 Best Demo Honorable Mention Award, ACM UIST'23
- 2022.03 2nd Best Dean's Award, Master's Thesis at the University of Tokyo
- 2019.11 Unity Award, 27th International Virtual Reailty Contest (IVRC)
- 2019.11 Laval Virtual Award, 27th International Virtual Reailty Contest (IVRC)
Funding
- 2024.10 Google PhD Fellowship: 2-year funding
- 2023.06 ERC Proof of Concept Grant: 1-year funding
- 2022.10 SIGCHI Gary Marsden Travel Award: $3.2K
- 2022.05 Funai Overseas Scholarship: 2-year funding
- 2018.03 Mercari BOLD Scholarship for SXSW 2018
Perspectives
Lips as Interface
My three papers (CHI'23, UIST'21, WHC'21) explored "Lips as Interface". Lips have high potential as I/O interfaces: dexterous, inherent in humans, sensitive to touch, electrically conductive, valley-shaped capable of converging ultrasonic waves, close to other intraoral parts, and easy to access from the outside environment. Just as our fingers have become a touch I/O interface in today's touchscreens, we might witness how our lips EVOLVE in the following decades.
Exhibitions
Be in"tree"sted in | きになるき
International Virtual Reality Contest 2019, Tokyo (Laval Virtual Award, Unity Award)
Laval Virtual 2020, Virtual
VR experience of becoming a tree and spending the four seasons.
(w/ three co-creators, my part: VR/Server)
Autonomous Shadow | 自律する影
IIIExhibition 2018 "Dest-logy REBUILD", Tokyo
Your shadow moves autonomously.
(w/ two co-creators, my part: Python/OpenCV/Shadow Image Processing/OSC)