What's new

• 2025/03/10 Our laboratory will be open to the public during Suzukake Science Day 2025. The laboratory will be open from 11:00 to 16:00 on Saturday, May 17, and from 11:00 to 15:00 on Sunday, May 18.

• 2025/3/8-3/12 Ph.D. student XU Yunxiu presented a poster entitled "Lightweight Wearable Fingertip Haptic Device with Tangential Force Feedback based on Finger Nail Stimulation" at The 32nd IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces.

• 2024/10/30 Ph.D. student XU Yunxiu presented "Fingernail-Based Tangential Force Simulation for Enhanced Dexterous Manipulation in Virtual Reality" at AsiaHaptics 2024 and received the "The Best Demonstration Awards-Bronze" award.

• 2024/9/12 Master's student Manami Shirakawa presented "Investigation of a Softness-Presentation Mechanism Using Changes in the Longitudinal Finger Contact Area Induced by a Thread" at the 29th Annual Conference of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan.

• 2024/9/12 Master's student Natsuki Yotsumoto presented "Investigation of a Method for Creating Vibrotactile Stimuli to Improve the Sports-Viewing Experience of People with Hearing Impairments" at the 29th Annual Conference of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan.

• 2024/9/12 Master's student Yuta Tsuboi presented "Evaluation of a Metaverse Interface for Reducing Physical Load and Facilitating Smooth Communication Using Simulation in the Metaverse" at the 29th Annual Conference of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan.

• 2024/9/12 Master's student Kan Ishikawa presented "A Metaverse Environment for Remote Collaborative Work with Physical Movement Using Existing PC Applications" at the 29th Annual Conference of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan.

• 2024/7/3 Ph.D. student XU Yunxiu presented Optimizing Haptic Feedback in Virtual Reality: The Role of Vibration and Tangential Forces in Enhancing Grasp Response and Weight Perception at Euro Haptics 2024. XU Yunxiu also gave a demonstration entitled Miniaturized Haptic Devices with Vibration-Only Feedback to Eliminate Tangential Forces and Enhance Grasping Experiences.

• 2024/2/6 Our laboratory will be open to the public in conjunction with Suzukake Science Day from 11:00 to 16:00 on Saturday, May 11, and from 11:00 to 15:00 on Sunday, May 12.

• 2023/10/5 Our laboratory will be open to the public from 10:30 to 17:00 on Friday, October 27, during IIR Open House 2023.

• 2023/9/14 Master's students Ayaka Fukasawa and Riho Taniguchi presented "Portable Self-Propelled Haptic Device with Limited Force Output" at the 28th Annual Conference of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan.

• 2023/9/13 Master's student Takumi Satoh presented "Collaborative Virtual Environment for a Workshop to Improve Nursery School Environments" at the 28th Annual Conference of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan.

• 2023/9/13 Master's student Keigo Kato presented "Generation of Natural Body Motions Using LSTM for a Conversational Agent Participating in Multi-Person Conversations in Social VR" at the 28th Annual Conference of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan.

• 2023/8/6 Ph.D. students Yunxiu Xu and Siyu Wang presented "Realistic Dexterous Manipulation of Virtual Objects with Physics-Based Haptic Rendering" at ACM SIGGRAPH 2023 Emerging Technologies.

• 2023/7/11 Master's students Ayaka Fukasawa and Riho Taniguchi presented "Portable Self-propelled Force Feedback Device" at the IEEE World Haptics 2023 conference.

• 2023/03/28 Ph.D. student Yusuke Yamazaki presented "Providing 3D Guidance and Improving the Music-Listening Experience in Virtual Reality Shooting Games Using Musical Vibrotactile Feedback" at IEEE VR 2023.

• 2023/03/15 Our laboratory will be open to the public during Suzukake Science Day 2023. The laboratory will be open from 11:00 to 16:00 on Saturday, May 13, and from 13:00 to 16:00 on Sunday, May 14. We also plan to hold an alumni reunion from 17:00 to 20:00 after the laboratory open house on Saturday, May 13. We look forward to your participation.

• 2023/02/03 We will hold an information session in the laboratory for prospective students from 13:00 to 14:00 on Friday, March 17. If you would like to attend, please contact us in advance at info@haselab.net and then come to Room 627, Building R2.

• 2023/02/03 We will hold an online laboratory information session from 14:00 on Saturday, February 18 (Prof. Hasegawa will also participate from home). If you would like to attend, please email info@haselab.net.

• 2022/12/17 Prof. Shoichi Hasegawa gave a presentation entitled "Differences between Metaverses Using Proximity Chat and HMD VR" at Virtual Conference 2022.

• 2022/11/12 Yusuke Yamazaki, Yunxiu XU, Siyu Wang, Riho Taniguchi, Ayaka Fukasawa, Takumi Satoh, Sen Nakahara, and Prof. Shoichi Hasegawa participated in Asia Haptics 2022, where Sen Nakahara received an award.

• 2022/09/12-14 Ph.D. student Yusuke Yamazaki presented "A Navigation Method that Enhances the Music-Listening Experience through Musical Vibrotactile Stimulation on Both Sides of the Neck" at the 27th Annual Conference of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan.

• 2022/09/12-14 Master's student Mizuki Ueno presented "Automatic Conversion of Motion Data into Sequences of Reaching Targets for Interactive Character Agents" at the 27th Annual Conference of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan.

• 2022/09/12-14 Master's student Sen Nakahara presented "Material-Texture Presentation Using Haptic Rendering that Precisely Reproduces Stick-Slip" at the 27th Annual Conference of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan.

• 2022/09/12-14 Master's student Riho Taniguchi presented "Character Motion Generation that Produces Microslips Based on Uncertainty in Memory and Recognition" at the 27th Annual Conference of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan.

• 2022/5/23 Ph.D. student Yusuke Yamazaki published a paper entitled Implementation of Tension-based Compact Necklace-type Haptic Device Achieving Widespread Transmission of Low-frequency Vibrations in IEEE Transactions on Haptics.
• 2022/5/14 We will hold a laboratory information session from 11:30 to 14:00.
• 2022/4/4-8 Ph.D. student Haoyan Li presented "Task-oriented robot control user interface designer for cable-driven soft robots without kinematic models" at the 2022 IEEE 5th International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft).

• From April 2022, Prof. Hironori Mitake moved to the Department of Frontier Media Science, Meiji University, where he became an Associate Professor.

• March 2022 Hiroki Ohara received the Outstanding Student Award of the Department of Information and Communications Engineering.

• 2022/3/18 (Fri.) Undergraduate student Riho Taniguchi presented "Character Motion Generation that Produces Microslips Based on Uncertainty in Memory and Recognition" at the 63rd IPSJ Entertainment Computing Research Group Meeting.

• 2022/3/13 (Sun.) Master's student Hiroki Ohara presented "DualEMS: Two-Channel Arbitrary Waveform Electrical Muscle Stimulation Device to Design Interference Stimulation" at the Augmented Humans International Conference 2022.

• 2022/3/9 (Wed.) Master's student Sho Onodera presented "Proposal of Continuous Mutual Haptic Communication and Investigation of Transmittable Information" at the 28th Meeting of the Haptics Research Committee, Virtual Reality Society of Japan.

• 2022/2/28 (Mon.) Master's student Mizuki Wakayama presented "Proposal for Reducing VR Sickness by Adding Low-Speed Optical Flow" at the Virtual Reality Psychology Research Committee of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan (SIG-VRPSY).