October 20, 2021
Yuto Kunitake, a first-year student at the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, has received the 2021 Student Encouragement Award from the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction (SIG-HCI).
The IPSJ Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction is a community for researchers and practitioners addressing various issues in information processing technology and related fields.
Established in 2009, the Student Encouragement Award is presented to a select few outstanding presentations from among those given by students at each research meeting.
Mr. Kunitake received the award in recognition of his presentation titled "The Effect of HMD Experience on the Perception of Falling Sensation in VR Space."
Comment from Yuto Kunitake (First-year student, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)
I am greatly honored to receive such a wonderful award. The research for which I received this award involved collecting experimental data since my high school days, and it was presented as a research report paper after I entered university. Although I was able to receive guidance from Associate Professor Atsushi Aoyama just before submitting the paper, I was also anxious about how a paper I wrote by myself would be evaluated by external researchers. Therefore, I honestly cannot hide my surprise at winning an award for my first single-authored paper.
The research investigated whether a correlation exists between the presence or absence of VR (HMD) experience and pseudo-sensations. It is expected to contribute to the design of experimental methods and research on the long-term effects of VR (HMD) experience on the human body.
Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to express my deepest gratitude to the VRChat users who cooperated with the experiment online, and to my alma mater, the Department of Information Science and Mathematics at Chiba Prefectural Kashiwanoha High School, for providing the experimental site. In the future, I will continue to advance this research at the Aoyama Lab to achieve even greater results.
Source: General Affairs Section, Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC) Office