March 18, 2022
Yuto Kunitake, a first-year student in the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies and a member of Associate Professor Atsushi Aoyama's lab, has been awarded the HCI Research Award for Continuous Contribution by the Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction of the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ).
The IPSJ Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction (hereafter SIG-HCI) is a community for researchers and practitioners addressing various issues in information processing technology and related fields.
The "HCI Research Award for Continuous Contribution" is presented to a presenter who has made three or more presentations within a single year (which may span across academic years, within five consecutive study group meetings). The award is granted in the fiscal year of the third presentation, provided that a significant contribution is recognized in the content of each presentation.
Comment from the Award Winner, Yuto Kunitake (1st-year student, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)
I am deeply honored to receive the prestigious HCI Research Award for Continuous Contribution. Since the 2021 academic year, I have been continuously presenting my research on cognitive science, VR, and law. For example, I have presented research on the relationship between pseudo-sensations in VR spaces and HMD usage time, as well as research on the act of signing in VR spaces based on Article 228, Paragraph 4 of the Code of Civil Procedure. I could not have conducted multiple studies within a single year without the daily support of everyone around me. I would like to express my gratitude to the members of the Aoyama Lab for their warm guidance, the residents of VRChat and NeosVR who cooperated with my experiments, the legal department of the NPO Virtual Rights, with whom I co-authored some work, and my friends and "osato" (close companions in VR) who supported my experiments and daily VR life with their insights. I plan to continue my research on VR in the Aoyama Lab in the coming academic year.
Source: General Affairs Section, Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC) Office