Profile Yuta Sugiura　 Age : 25　CV yuta.sugiura[at]gmail.com Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University Doctor's Program Robotic Life Project JST ERATO Igarashi Design Interface Project Research Assistant Research Area Human-robot Collaboration Soft User Interface Entertainment Computing

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Biography

2005.4　The University of Electro-Communications (at Department of Electronic Engineering)
2008.4　Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University Master's Program
2008.8　JST ERATO IGARASHI Design Interface Project Reseach Assistant
2010.4　Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University Ph.D Student

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Research Projects

Projects

Cooking with Robots: Designing a Household System Working in Open Environments (2009.3-，CHI 2010, SIGGRAPH ASIA 2011 E-Tech) Walky: Direct Operation Method with Self-projectable Finger Gesture for Bipedal Robots (2009.8-，SIGGRAPH ASIA 2009 E-Tech) Foldy: Graphical Instruction for Garment-Folding Robot (2008.9-，SIGGRAPH 2009 E-Tech) An Operating Method for a Bipedal Walking Robot for Entertainment (2006.9-2007.11) FuwaFuwa: Detecting Shape Deformation of Soft Objects Using Directional Photoreflectivity Measurement (2009.12-, SIGGRAPH 2011 E-Tech, UIST 2011) Noopy: Making Robot Application (2009.1-，on Sale) PINOKY: A Ring That Animates Your Plush Toys (2011.5-, SIGGRAPH ASIA 2011 E-Tech, CHI 2012 (to appear))

Collaborations

PHOENIX-LETTERS: Designing Special Messages with Burning Patterns in a Microwave Oven (2010.6-7, EC 2010) ImpAct: Immersive Haptic Stylus (2008.4-, SIGGRAPH ASIA 2011 E-Tech, WHC 2011 demo) RoboJockey: real-time, simultaneous, and continuous creation of robot actions for everyone (2010.1-, ACE 2010) An Online Communication System to Encourage Rapid Decision Making (2009.3) MYGLOBE : Cognitive Map as Communication Media (2008.4-，SIGGRAPH 2009 Posters) An Actuated Physical Puppet as an Input Device for Controlling a DigitalManikin (2008-, CHI 2011)

Fun Projects→

puddish: Interactive Dish on iPad (2010.5) iCut: Interactive Cutting Board on iPad (2010.5) Voice Painting (2010.5) Robo Presen (2009.1-2, application system＠KMD's class) Snake Cube Robot (2008.10-12) Guru-Guru-Nyokki (2008.7-8, Real media＠KMD's class) Pets (2008.4-7, media design＠KMD's class) Noopy: Open Source Robot Platform (2009.1-2009.9)

Home Robots

Garment Folding Robot (2008.8-) Cooking Robot(2009.3-)

Humanoid Robots

KITRO (2009.4-，ROBO-ONE 15th in Kawasaki) PITRO (2008.4-2008.10，ROBO-ONE 14th in Yokohama) Nero (2008.1-2008.5，ROBO-ONE 13th in Korakuen) Swimming robot (2007.5-2008.8) [Movie] Retro type2 (2006-2008) Kappa robot (2006-2007) Retro type1 (2005-2006) Dynamizer Jr (2003-2005)

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Publications

Peer Reviewed Journals and Conferences

• Yuta Sugiura, Calista Lee, Masayasu Ogata, Anusha Withana, Yasutoshi Makino, Daisuke Sakamoto, Masahiko Inami, and Takeo Igarashi. 2012. PINOKY: a ring that animates your plush toys. In Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '12), Austin, Texas. (to appear)
  
• Yuta Sugiura, Gota Kakehi, Anusha Withana, Calista Lee, Daisuke Sakamoto, Maki Sugimoto, Masahiko Inami, and Takeo Igarashi. 2011. Detecting shape deformation of soft objects using directional photoreflectivity measurement. In Proceedings of the 24th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 509-516. DOI=http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2047196.2047263 [PDF][Video][Slides]
  
• Wataru Yoshizaki, Yuta Sugiura, Albert C. Chiou, Sunao Hashimoto, Masahiko Inami, Takeo Igarashi, Yoshiaki Akazawa, Katsuaki Kawachi, Satoshi Kagami, and Masaaki Mochimaru. 2011. An actuated physical puppet as an input device for controlling a digital manikin. In Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 637-646. DOI=http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1978942.1979034 [PDF][Video]
  
• Takumi Shirokura, Daisuke Sakamoto, Yuta Sugiura, Tetsuo Ono, Masahiko Inami, and Takeo Igarashi. 2010. RoboJockey: real-time, simultaneous, and continuous creation of robot actions for everyone. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE '10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 53-56. DOI=http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1971630.1971646 (Best Paper Silver Award)[PDF][Video][Slides]
  
• Yuta Sugiura, Daisuke Sakamoto, Anusha Withana, Masahiko Inami, and Takeo Igarashi. 2010. Cooking with robots: designing a household system working in open environments. In Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2427-2430. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1753326.1753693 [PDF][Video][Slides]
  

• Yuta Sugiura, Calista Lee, Anusha Withana, Yasutoshi Makino, Masahiko Inami, and Takeo Igarashi. 2011. PINOKY: a ring that animates your plush toys. In SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 Emerging Technologies (SA '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, , Article 14 , 1 pages. DOI=http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2073370.2073383 [PDF][Video]
  
• Yuta Sugiura, Anusha Withana, Teruki Shinohara, Masayasu Ogata, Daisuke Sakamoto, Masahiko Inami, and Takeo Igarashi. 2011. Cooky: a cooperative cooking robot system. In SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 Emerging Technologies (SA '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, , Article 17 , 1 pages. DOI=http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2073370.2073386 [PDF][Video]
  
• Anusha Withana, Yuta Sugiura, Charith Fernando, Yuji Uema, Yasutoshi Makino, Maki Sugimoto, and Masahiko Inami. 2011. ImpAct: haptic stylus for shallow depth surface interaction. In SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 Emerging Technologies (SA '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, , Article 10 , 1 pages. DOI=http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2073370.2073379 [PDF][Video]
  
• Gota Kakehi, Yuta Sugiura, Anusha Withana, Calista Lee, Naohisa Nagaya, Daisuke Sakamoto, Maki Sugimoto, Masahiko Inami, and Takeo Igarashi. 2011. FuwaFuwa: detecting shape deformation of soft objects using directional photoreflectivity measurement. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2011 Emerging Technologies (SIGGRAPH '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 5, 1 pages. DOI=http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2048259.2048264[Exhibition][PDF][Video]
  
• Anusha Withana, Yuta Sugiura, Charith Fernando, Yuji Uema, Yasutoshi Makino, Maki Sugimoto, and Masahiko Inami. ImpAct: Through Surface Haptic Interaction with Touch Surfaces. World Haptics Conference 2011, Istanbul, Turkey, June 22-24, 2011. [Video]
  
• Takumi Shirokura, Daisuke Sakamoto, Yuta Sugiura, Tetsuo Ono, Masahiko Inami, and Takeo Igarashi. RoboJockey: real-time, simultaneous, and continuous creation of robot actions for everyone. In Adjunct proceedings of the 23nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST '10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 399-400. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1866218.1866239 [PDF][Video]
  
• Yuta Sugiura, Charith Lasantha Fernando, Anusha Indrajith Withana, Gota Kakehi, Daisuke Sakamoto, Maki Sugimoto, Masahiko Inami, Takeo Igarashi, and Masa Inakage, An Operating Method for a Bipedal Walking Robot for Entertainment, ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA 2009 Emerging Technologies, 79-79, Yokohama, December 2009. [PDF][Link][Video]
  
• Masahiro Furukawa, Naohisa Nagaya, Takuji Tokiwa, Masahiko Inami, Atsushi Okoshi, Maki Sugimoto, Yuta Sugiura, and Yuji Uema. 2009. Fur display. In ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA 2009 Art Gallery & Emerging Technologies: Adaptation (SIGGRAPH ASIA '09). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 70-70. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1665137.1665189 [PDF][Video]
  
• Yuta Sugiura, Takeo Igarashi, Hiroki Takahashi, Tabare Akim Gowon, Charith Lasantha Fernando, Maki Sugimoto, and Masahiko Inami. 2009. Graphical instruction for a garment folding robot. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 Emerging Technologies (SIGGRAPH '09). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 12, 1 pages. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1597956.1597968 [PDF][Video]
  
• Fumitaka Ozaki, Takuo Imbe, Shin Kiyasu, Yuta Sugiura, Yusuke Mizukami, Shuichi Ishibashi, Maki Sugimoto, Masahiko Inami, Adrian D. Cheok, Naohito Okude, and Masahiko Inakage. 2009. MYGLOBE: cognitive map as communication media. In SIGGRAPH '09: Posters (SIGGRAPH '09). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 49, 1 pages. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1599301.1599350 [PDF][Video]
  

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Academic Service

Paper Reviewer

• IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2011
  

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Media

Magazine and Books

• The latest developments in robotics research, Finantial Times, November 2009. [Link]
  
• KITRO-ECOBOT, An engaging, ecologically friendly humanoid, Robot Magazine, September 2009. [Link]
  

• Walky Jumps Onto The iPad, PLASTICPALS, Dec7, 2010. [Link]
  
• What's next for Foldy/Cooky/Walky robot creator Yuta Sugiura, GetRobo, May 11, 2010. [Link]
  
• Cooky robots will make soup for you, won't clean up afterwards, Engadget, Dec 15, 2009. [Link]
  
• Cooky makes you miso soup, GetRobo, Dec 15, 2009. [Link]
  
• Gourmet Robots Make Cooking More Complicated, Fun, PLASTICPALS. [Link]
  
• walky iphone robot controller, designboom, Nov 16, 2009. [Link]
  
• Walky robot understands iPhone gestures, football fanaticism (video), engadget, Nov 17, 2009. [Link]
• iPhone controlled bipedal walking robot with multi-touch gestures, Make, Nov 13, 2009. [Link]
• Foldy The Laundry Folding Robot Is Qualified To Work At The Gap, GIZMODO, Sep 8, 2009. [Link]
  
• Robots Make Picking Up Chicks Easier... and Harder, GIZMODO, Mar 17, 2009. [Link]
  
• A Doing the robot(without irony), Associated Press, Dec 19, 2006. [Link]
  
• 'Ubiquitous' control system makes you the robot puppet master, DVICE, Oct 23, 2007. [Link]
  

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