Keita Watanabe

• Name:
  Keita Watanabe
• E-mail:
  
• Affiliation:
  JST ERATO, User Interfaces for Design (Design UI) Project <link>
• Interests:
  Designing and developing novel interactive application for ubiquitous computing focused on life time

Projects

Interactive application for everyday life considered ubiquitous.

• Memorium: An application for encountering information in everyday life.
• Push&Pull: Operation by just only push and pull.
• Ubink: Actual world become color palette in realtime.
• ReflectiveClock: Easy to remind memory in everyday life.
• PhotoLoop: Recoding to watch slideshow, creating narration.
• WillCam: Visualizing user's intention in photograph
• CastOven: Providing Just-in-time video clip in wating time.
• HappyPrinter: A novel printer enable to create happy experience

Interactive Application based on the mechanism of the human perception.

• VisualHaptics: A novel experience through visual perception.
• FlexibleBrush: A novel brush foucus on draw experience.

Awards

1. Finalist Prizes. Asia Digital Art Award2009. December, 2009.
2. Outstanding Performance Award and Jury's Special Award / Mashup Awards5. November, 2009.
3. Best Demonstration / WISS (Workshop on Interactive System and Software). November, 2008.
4. Creative Showcase Award First Prize. ACE2008. December, 2008.
5. Best Interactive Award. Interaction2007. March, 2007.
6. SFC AWARD. Keio University. March, 2006.
7. Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications Award. January 2006.
8. SFC AWARD. Keio University. March, 2004.
9. Best Presentation Award. Human Interface Symposium September, 2004.
10. Best Presentation Award. Human Interface Symposium September, 2003.
11. Special Prize Award. Digital Art Awards 2002.November, 2002.
12. Iwasaki school award. Software and Idea Contest 16th. 1999.

Publications

1. Watanabe, K., Matsuda, S., Yasumura, M., Inami, M., and Igarashi, T. CastOven: a microwave oven with just-in-time video clips. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM international Conference Adjunct Papers on Ubiquitous Computing (Copenhagen, Denmark, September 26 - 29, 2010). Ubicomp '10. ACM, New York, NY, 385-386.
2. Watanabe, K., Sugawara, K., Matsuda, S., Yasumura, M., Time-Oriented Interface Design: Picking the Right Time and Method for Information Presentation, HCII 2009, (July, 2009).
3. Keita Watanabe, Michiaki Yasumura. VisualHaptics: Generating Haptic Sensation Using Only Visual Cues .ACE2008. 2008, December.
4. Keita Watanabe, Michiaki Yasumura. FlexibleBrush: A realistic brush stroke experience with a virtual nib. Adjunct Proceedings of the 20th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology.
5. Kubo, M., Kodama, A., Takaishi, E., Chiba, R., Watanabe, K. and Yasumura, M., Interactive Design of Memory Sharing Applications for Families, Human Computer Interaction International 2007, (July 2007).
6. Watanabe, K., Tsukada, K. and Yasumrua, M., WillCam: a digital camera visualizing users' interest, CHI 2007 Conference Proceedings and Extended Abstracts, pp.2747-2752, (2007)
7. Yasumura, M., Kodama, A. and Watanabe, k., Interaction design for ubiquitous home ~ From digital storage to human memories, APCHI2006, (2006, Oct.).

and many Japanese publications.

 

© Keita Watanabe 2010