J UN N IS H IDA

jun.nishida@acm.org

Profilehttp://junnishida.net

I'm a postdoctoral fellow at University of Chicago. I received my Ph.D. degree in Human Informatics at

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University of Tsukuba, Japan in 2019. I have received more than 45 awards including ACM UIST Best5730 S. Ellis Avenue

Paper Award, ACM CHI Best Paper Honorable Mention Award, Forbes 30 Under 30, and outstanding

Chicago, IL, USA

postdoc award at University of Chicago. I had internship opportunities including Microsoft Research

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Asia in Beijing and Sony Computer Science Laboratories in Tokyo.

Research Goal
My research goal is to change our perspectives by changing our bodies for supporting mutual
understanding in the fields of rehabilitation, education, and design. To achieve this, I implement
wearable devices that can communicate our embodied and social experiences among people. I also
investigate how our perception, action, and interaction can be changed when our perspectives andbodies have modified through psychophysics studies and field studies.

Education & Employment
Present | Postdoctoral Fellow: University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois
2019| Ph.D. in Human Informatics: University of Tsukuba | Tsukuba, Japan2014| Bachelor in Engineering: University of Tsukuba | Tsukuba, Japan

Conference Awards
1)

Best Paper Award, ACM UIST 20202)

Best Paper Honorable Mention Award, ACM CHI 20193)

Best Journal Award, Trans. of Virtual Reality Society of Japan (2019)4)

Outstanding PhD Thesis Award, Information Processing Soc. of Japan (2019)5)

Laval Virtual Grand Prize, ACM SIGGRAPH 20196)

Best Journal Award, Trans. of Virtual Reality Society of Japan (2018)7)

Honorable Mention Award for Student Innovation Contest, ACM UIST 2016

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Honorable Mention Award for Best Research Demo, IEEE Virtual Reality 2016

9)

Best Presentation Award, IPSJ Interaction 2016

Selected Publications
1)

HandMorph: a Passive Exoskeleton that Miniaturizes Grasp
ACM UIST 2020 Papers (acceptance rate: ~22%) | Best Paper Award (Top 1%)
Jun Nishida, Soichiro Matsuda, Hiroshi Matsui, Shan-Yuan Teng, Zoe Liu, Kenji Suzuki and Pedro Lopes

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Egocentric Smaller-person Experience by Changing a Visual Perspective
ACM CHI 2019 Papers (acceptance rate: ~25%) | Best Paper Honorable Mention Award (Top 5%)
Jun Nishida, Soichiro Matsuda, Mika Oki, Hikaru Takatori, Kosuke Sato and Kenji Suzuki

3)

bioSync: A Paired Wearable Device for Blending Kinesthetic Experience
ACM CHI 2017 Papers (acceptance rate: ~25%) & Interactivity
Jun Nishida and Kenji Suzuki

4)

HYPERSPECTIVE: Shaping Experiences beyond Perspectives
IEEE VR 2019 Workshop
Jun Nishida and Kenji Suzuki

5)

Preemptive Action: Accelerating Human Reaction using Electrical Muscle Stimulation Without
Compromising Agency
ACM CHI 2019 Papers (acceptance rate: ~25%)
Shunichi Kasahara, Jun Nishida, and Pedro Lopes

Publications & Presentations
1)

Preserving Agency During Electrical Muscle Stimulation Training Speeds up Reaction Time
Directly After Removing EMS
ACM CHI 2021 Papers (acceptance rate: ~25%)
Shunichi Kasahara, Kazuma Takada, Jun Nishida, Kazuhisa Shibata, Shinsuke Shimojo, Pedro Lopes

2)

Stereo-Smell via Electrical Trigeminal Stimulation
ACM CHI 2021 Papers (acceptance rate: ~25%)
Jas Brooks, Shan-Yuan Teng, Jingxuan Wen, Romain Nith, Jun Nishida, Pedro Lopes

3)

Successful Outcomes in a Stroop Test Modulate the Sense of Agency When the Human
Response and the Preemptive Response Actuated by Electrical Muscle Stimulation are
AlignedJournal of Vision 2020. 20(11):173.
Daisuke Tajima, Jun Nishida, Pedro Lopes, and Shunichi Kasahara

4)

Next Steps in Human-Computer Integration
ACM CHI 2020 Papers (acceptance rate: ~25%)
Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller, Pedro Lopes, Paul Strohmeier, Wendy Ju, Caitlyn Seim, Martin Weigel, Suranga
Nanayakkara, Marianna Obrist, Zhuying Li, Joseph Delfa, Jun Nishida, Elizabeth M. Gerber, Dag Svanaes,
Jonathan Grudin, Stefan Greuter, Kai Kunze, Thomas Erickson, Steven Greenspan, Masahiko Inami, Joe
Marshall, Harald Reiterer, Katrin Wolf, Jochen Meyer, Thecla Schiphorst, Dakuo Wang, and Pattie Maes

5)

Wearable Kinesthetic I/O Device for Sharing Wrist Joint Stiffness
IEEE EMBC 2019 Full Papers
Jun Nishida, Keisuke Yagi, Modar Hassan and Kenji Suzuki

6)Perceptual and Kinetic Characteristics by Egocentric Child Experience
Transaction on Virtual Reality Society of Japan, Vol.23(3), 2018 | Best Journal Award
Jun Nishida, Soichiro Matsuda, Mika Oki, Hikaru Takatori, Kosuke Sato and Kenji Suzuki

7)

bioSync: Wearable Kinesthetic I/O Device for Blending Kinesthetic Experience
Transactions of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan, Vol.22(1), 2017
Jun Nishida and Kenji Suzuki

8)

CHILDHOOD: Wearable Suit for Augmented Child Experience
Transactions of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan, Vol.22(1), 2017 | Best Journal Award
Kosuke Sato, Jun Nishida, Hikaru Takatori, Kenji Suzuki

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CHILDHOOD: Wearable Suit for Augmented Child Experience
Virtual Reality International Conference 2015
Jun Nishida, Hikaru Takatori, Kosuke Sato and Kenji Suzuki10) Haptic Augmentation of Surgical Operation using a Passive Hand Exoskeleton
Springer Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol.277, 2015
Jun Nishida, Kei Nakai, Akira Matsushita, and Kenji Suzuki

Posters, Demos, and Workshops
11) Do Cyborgs dream of Electric Limbs?
ACM CHI 2021 Symposia
Valdemar Danry, Pat Pataranutaporn, Adam Haar Horowitz, Paul Strohmeier, Josh Andres, Takuto Nakamura,
Jun Nishida, Pedro Lopes, Andrea Stevenson Won, Dag Svanæs, Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller, Pattie Maes, SangWon Leigh12) HandMorph: a Passive Exoskeleton that Miniaturizes Grasp
IEEE/ASME AIM 2020 Workshop on Supernumerary Robotic Devices
Jun Nishida, Soichiro Matsuda, Hiroshi Matsui, Shan-Yuan Teng, Zoe Liu, Kenji Suzuki and Pedro Lopes

13) Sharing Embodied Experiences using Wearable Devices
Society for Neuroscience 5th Annual Satellite Event: Orofacial Functions: From Neural Mechanisms to
Rehabilitation
Jun Nishida and Pedro Lopes

14) Demonstrating Preemptive Reaction: Accelerating Human Reaction using Electrical Muscle
Stimulation Without Compromising Agency
ACM SIGGRAPH 2019 Emerging Technologies (acceptance rate: ~25%) | Laval Virtual Grand Prize
Jun Nishida, Shunichi Kasahara, and Pedro Lopes

15) Wearable Kinesthetic I/O Device for Sharing Muscle Compliance
ACM UIST 2018 Poster
Jun Nishida and Kenji Suzuki16) Wired Muscle: Generating Faster Kinesthetic Reaction by Inter-personally Connecting
Muscles
ACM SIGGRAPH 2017 Emerging Technologies (acceptance rate: ~25%)
Jun Nishida*, Shunichi Kasahara*, and Kenji Suzuki17) We-Coupling! Designing New Forms of Embodied Interpersonal Connection
ACM TEI 2017 Studio
Robb Mitchell, Jun Nishida, Enrique Encinas and Shunichi Kasahara18) bioSync: Synchronous Kinesthetic Experience among People
ACM SIGCHI 2016 Interactivity
Jun Nishida and Kenji Suzuki19) bioSync: Wearable Haptic I/O Device for Synchronous Kinesthetic Interaction
IEEE VR 2016 Research Demos & Poster | Best Demo Honorable Mention
Jun Nishida and Kenji Suzuki20) Innovation in the age of virtual reality through organizing international student competition
ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA 2015 Symposium
Akihiko Shirai, Jun Nishida, Takahiro Sato, Kosuke Sato, Hikaru Takatori and Susumu Tachi21) CHILDHOOD: Wearable Suit for Augmented Child Experience
ACM SIGGRAPH 2015 Emerging Technologies (acceptance rate: ~25%) & Posters
Jun Nishida, Hikaru Takatori, Kosuke Sato and Kenji Suzuki22) A Wearable Stimulation Device for Sharing and Augmenting Kinesthetic Feedback
Augmented Human 2015 Demo
Jun Nishida, Kanako Takahashi and Kenji Suzuki

Grants & Fellowships
1)

Suzuki Postdoctoral Fellowship Award | $10k
selected as an outstanding postdoc across all physical science departments
University of Chicago (2020)

2)

Postdoc Fellowship Award | $120k
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2019-2021)

3)

Research Grant Award | $10k
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan (2017)4)

PhD Fellowship Award | $10k
Microsoft Research Asia (2016)

5)

PhD Fellowship & Grant Award | $100k
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2016-2019)6)

MS. Scholarship Award | $40k
Ministry of Education, Science and Technology of Japan (2014-2016)

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BS. Scholarship Award | $24k
Agilent Technologies, Inc. (2010-2014)

Other Awards
1)

Laval Virtual Award, Laval Virtual 20202)

Forbes 30 Under 30, Forbes Japan (2018)

3)

Innovative Technologies Selection, Digital Content Assoc. of Japan (2018)4)

University President Award, University of Tsukuba (2017)

5)

Special Recognitions for Reviewing, ACM CHI 2018 Papers (2017)

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Grand Prize, Hardware Startup Competition GUGEN 2016

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Excellent Award, Art & Technology Tohoku 2016

8)

Kids Design Award, KIDS DESIGN AWARD 2016

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Best Entrepreneur Award, Microsoft Innovation Award 201610) Japan Airline Entrepreneur Award, Microsoft Innovation Award 201611) Laval Virtual Award, Larval Virtual 201612) Special Award, KIDS DESIGN AWARD 201513) Kids Design Award, KIDS DESIGN AWARD 201514) University President Award, University of Tsukuba (2015)15) Best Category Award, Microsoft Imagine Cup Japan 201516) Laval Virtual Award, Larval Virtual 201517) 1st Place, International Virtual Reality Contest 201418) Laval Virtual Award, International Virtual Reality Contest 201419) Christie Digital Systems Award, International Virtual Reality Contest 201420) Gold Award, Japan Research Festa 2012
21) First Award in Informatics, Japan Science Inter-college 201222) TOSHIBA Award, Japan Science Inter-college 201223) University President Award, University of Tsukuba (2010)24) Commendation, Minister of Education, Science and Technology of Japan
25) Best Programmer Award, Millennium Youth Camp in Finland 201026) Second Award of American Intellectual Property Law Association
Intel International Science & Engineering Fair 201027) Third Award of Engineering/Bioengineering and Materials
Intel International Science & Engineering Fair 201028) Minister of State for Special Missions(Science & Technology) Award
Japan Science & Engineering Challenge 200929) Agilent Technologies Special Award
Japan Science & Engineering Challenge 200830) Japan Science & Technology Agency Award
Japan Science & Engineering Challenge 200831) JFE Steel Award, Japan Science & Engineering Challenge 200732) Minister of State for Special Missions(Science & Technology) Award
Japan Student Science Award 200733) Minister of Education, Science and Technology Award
National Super Science High School Conference 2007
34) First Award, Japan Physics Society for High School Students 2007

Academic Services
Organizing Chair

1)

ACM UIST 2021 Demo Co-Chair

2)

Augmented Humans 2021 Paper Co-Chair

3)

IEEE World Haptics 2021 Co-Chair of the Student Innovation Challenge

Program Committee

4)

ACM IUI 2021 Program Committee

5)

IEEE VR 2021 Program Committee

6)

ACM UIST 2020 Program Committee, Associate Chair, Session Chair

7)

ACM CHI 2020 Program Committee, Subcommittee Associate Chair

8)

Augmented Human 2019, 2020 Program Committee

Reviews

ACM CHI 2021 Papers | ACM TEI 2021 Paper | IEEE TVCG 2020, 2021 | ACM SAP 2020 Papers | ACM
SIGGRAPH Asia 2020 XR | IEEE VR 2019 Journal Papers | ACM IMWUT 2019 | IPSJ Journal | ACM
CHI 2019 Papers, Late Breaking Work, Workshop, Session Chair | ACM/IEEE HRI 2019 Papers | IEEE
VR 2019 Papers, Journal Papers | ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2019 Emerging Technologies | ACM TEI 2019
Papers, Works in Progress | ACM CHI 2018 Papers | IEEE VR 2018 Papers | ACM UIST 2018 Papers

Research Experience
Postdoctoral Fellow | University of Chicago
2019 - Present | Chicago, Illinois
human computer integration lab lead by assistant professor pedro lopes

Research Fellow | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science2019 - 2021 | Chicago, Illinois
received overseas fellowship from japanese government organization

Research Assistant | Sony Computer Science Laboratories
2019 | Tokyo, Japan
conducted research on perception engineering with dr. shunichi kasahara

Project Researcher | Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications Japan2017 - 2018 | Tokyo, Japan
strategic information and communications R&D promotion programme (SCOPE)

PhD Fellow | Microsoft Research Asia
2017 - 2018 | Beijing, China
received research grant and mentorship program (MSRA phd fellowship award 2016)

Research Fellow | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science2016 - 2019 | Tokyo, Japan
received fellowship and grant from japanese government organization

Short-term Intern | SEGA
2011 | Tokyo, Japan
participated interaction design of an embodied entertainment system

SkillsInteraction Design, Analog/Digital Circuit Design, Mechanical Design, Biomedical Engineering,
Medical Application, Psychophysics Study

Student Advising
1)

Pengyu Li | Master Student | 2021mechanical design

2)

Zoe Liu | Predoctoral Master Student | 2019-2020
co-author of ACM UIST paper (Best Paper Award)

3)

Arash Amlesh | Research Assistant | 2019-2020
hardware/software development, conducting psychological study

Teaching
1)

Emergent Interface Technologies 2021 Winterheld a talk as a guest lecturer on embodiment and sharing perspectives
University of Chicago, Illinois | Grad, CMSC 23240/3240

2)

Emergent Interface Technologies 2020 Winterheld a talk as a guest lecturer on embodiment and sharing perspectives
University of Chicago, Illinois | Grad, CMSC 23240/3240

3)

Inventing, Engineering and Understanding Interactive Devices 2019 Spring
designed and prepared electrical and mechanical components for students’ projects
University of Chicago, Illinois | Ugrad, CMSC 23220

4)Grant Writing 2016 Winter & 2017 Wintersupported grad students’ fellowship submissions and interview practice
University of Tsukuba, Japan | Grad

5)

Contents Engineering 2014 Autumn
assisting hardware/software implementation for students’ projects, and held a lecture on interaction designand hardware design
University of Tsukuba, Japan | Ugrad

Invited Talks & Exhibitions
1)

Laval Virtual ReVolution. France. April. 22-26, 2020

2)

CNBC EVOLVE CHICAGO. Chicago, USA. Sept. 24, 20193)

Digital Contents Expo. Tokyo, Japan. Nov. 14-16, 2019

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Open Innovation 2018
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication of Japan. Tokyo, Japan. Oct. 24, 20185)

Sony CSL Open House 2018. Tokyo, Japan. Oct. 23-24, 2018

6)

German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). Germany. 20187)

Dagstuhl Seminar 18322 “Human-Computer Integration”. Germany. 2018

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Visual Plaza Museum. Saitama, Japan. Sept. 16, 2017-Mar. 11, 2018.

9)

Annual Conference of Japan Psychology Association
Fukuoka, Japan. Sept. 22, 2017.

10) ARS ELECTRONICA. Linz, Austria, Sept.6-10, 2017.
11) 79th Annual Conference of Information Processing Society of Japan
Nagoya, Japan. Mar. 17, 2017.
12) Tsukuba Medical Engineering Forum 2017. Tsukuba, Japan, Jan. 20, 2017.
13) National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST).
Tokyo, Japan. Dec. 7, 2015.
14) Microsoft de:code 2016. Tokyo, Japan, May 24–25, 2016.
15) SPECULUM ARTIUM. Slovenia. Oct. 15-17, 201516) Laval Virtual ReVolution. France. Apr. 8-12, 2015

Thesis
Shaping Egocentric Experiences with Wearable Cybernic Interfaces
Ph.D. in Human Informatics
Supervisors: Kenji Suzuki, Yoshiyuki Sankai, Yoshinari Kameda, Hideo Tsurushima , Yanaga Masao. Mar. 2019.

Neurosurgery Assistive Devices for Augmenting Surgical Field Perception and Physical Operation
Bachelor of Engineering
Supervisor: Kenji Suzuki. Mar. 2014.

Media Coverage
1)[TV] Current Time, Voice of America Russia, Jan. 2021

2)[Newspaper] Asahi Shimbun, Sept. 20203)[TV] Aitsu ima nani shiteru?, TV Asahi, Nov. 20194)[Web] UChicago Magazine, Aug. 20195)[Web] Gizmode US, July. 20196)[Web] Gizmode Japan, July. 20197)[Web] IEEE Spectrum, July. 20198)[TV] TBS News, June. 20199)[Web] P-ban.com, June. 201910) [TV] Heureka!, NHK Television, Sept. 201811) [TV] Next Creators, NTV Nippon Television, Feb. 201912) [Magazine] Forbes Japan, ATOMIXMEDIA Inc., Aug 201813) [Web] Forbes Japan, ATOMIXMEDIA Inc., Aug 201814) [Magazine] Weekly ASCII, Kadokawa, June 201815) [Web] TV Tokyo Plus, Dec. 201716) [Book] “A to Z: National Univ. Secondary Schools”, Tohotsushinsha, Oct 201717) [Newspaper] Asahi Shimbun, July 201718) [Web] Co.Design, June 201719) [TV] Fuji TV Yume no Buramayo Kenkyuzyo, May 201720) [Web] RBB Today IT/Digital, Mar 201721) [TV] TV Tokyo World Business Satellite, Jan 201722) [Magazine] TSUKUCOMM by University of Tsukuba, vol.32, July 201623) [Magazine] Weekly Playboy, July 201624) [Magazine] IEEE Spectrum, May 201625) [TV] RTV, Slovenia, RTV SLO, October 201526) [Magazine] CGWORLD, September 201527) [TV] NEWS ZERO, Nippon Television Network, June 201528) [TV] Mezamashi TV, Fuji Television, May 201529) [TV] M6, France, Métropole Télévision, April 201530) [TV] NEXT WORLD, NHK Special, NHK Television, January 201531) [TV] SENSORS, Nippon Television Network, October 201432) [Web] mynavi News, 201033) [TV] BS Asahi News Bird, BS Asahi, 201034) [TV] ABC News USA, May 201035) [Newspaper] Asahi Shimbun, July 200836) [Newspaper] Yomiuri Shimbun, Dec 200837) [Newspaper] Sankei Shimbun, Aug 200838) [Newspaper] Sankei Shimbun, Jan 200839) [Newspaper] JST News, Oct 200740) [Newspaper] nature digest, Oct 200741) [Newspaper] Sankei Shimbun, March 200742) [Newspaper] Sankei Shimbun, July 2007