Published papers

Not only in Japan but also in other countries, there are some case studies in the museum using virtual reality and augmented reality technologies. Based on this trend, Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. developed Toppan VR which a method to show digital archive data, and have organized the Museum Theater with Tokyo National Museum (Tohaku). This research designed a service on The Great Map of Japan (Inouzu) in order to expand the user experience in the museum as well as to solve some issues extracted through operational experiences. This service designed 4 touch points on Inouzu, an interactive map viewer, a VR movie "Map of Japan created by Ino Tadataka" at Museum Theater, a workshop on pace countings, Special exhibition "Map of Japan created by Ino Tadataka" at Heiseikan Thematic Exhibition Room, and aligned them. As a result of the evaluation tests, this service changed passive experiences on the Museum Theater to more subjective experiences, and achieved more effective linkage between the Museum Theater and the exhibition.

In this paper, we present a development process for "Smart Kitchen Utensil", which involves "xtel" Keio University Ubiquitous Content Project developed and Design Thinking methods. Smart Kitchen Utensil is a cookware embedded with some sensors and actuators, which allows users to put ingredients or cook over a fire. As an example of developing it, we introduce designing process of "panavi" system, a frying pan with embedded sensors and actuators inside, and also a communication module that improves user's cooking skills. From the early stage of developing the system to an exhibition "Ubiquitous Content Showcase 2009", we used xtel platform for prototyping. In this paper, we describe developmental process during this term as a case study of our design process.

This paper presents “Design Methodology for Ubiquitous Content” as a methodology for creating various interactive contents especially in an ubiquitous computing environment. This methodology encourages a designer's creation through the design-thinking-based ideation and prototyping with xtel(ubiquitous content platform). In this paper, AMAGATANA is described as a case study of this methodology. AMAGATANA is a playable umbrella which makes a sound of the sword by swinging.