SonyCSL reopened the Internship program. My Superception project is also looking for enthusiastic hacker and researcher students. Now only for students in Japan, but will also resume for overseas students at the beginning of 2021. 1st slot due: 23rd Dec. https://www.sonycsl.co.jp/internship/superception/

I gave an online lecture at Keio University Graduate School of Media Design. 講義：KMD理論戦略科目 身体性インタラクション日時： 2020年11月26日（木曜日） 16:30 – 18:00場所： Zoom

Our abstract, which was prepared with Dr. Daisuke Tajima (Sony), Dr Jun Nishida (UChicago) and Prof. Pedro Lopes (UChicago) has been published in Journal of Vision. 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 Aligned Daisuke Tajima; Jun Nishida; Pedro Lopes; Shunichi Kasahara The sense of agency (SoA)…

I gave an online lecture at Keio University. 講義：慶應義塾大学理工学部情報工学科　情報工学特別講義日時： 2020年10月30日（金） 16:30 – 18:00対象： 情報工学科 3，4年生 （約70名）場所： Zoom

Superception – Engineering the sense of self Speaker: Shunichi Kasahara Date: 23/9/2020Perception refers to recognizing meaning and organizing it into information via the inputs of sensory organs such as eyes, ears and somatosensory organs, as a basis for actions and constructing the self. How we can leverage our own perceptual ability and emerging technologies to…

We presented our project “The Tight Game: Implicit Force Intervention in Inter-personal Physical Interactions on Playing Tug of War” at Siggraph 2020 Emerging Technologies on August 27, 2020. The presentation was held virtually.https://s2020.siggraph.org/presentation/?id=gensub_478&sess=sess354 Related : THE TIGHT GAME was accepted to Siggraph 2020 Emerging Technologies

The Tight Game: Implicit Force Intervention in Inter-personal Physical Interactions on Playing Tug of War This work will be presented at SIGGRAPH 2020 Emerging Technologies https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3388534.3407301 ContributorsAzumi MaekawaUniversity of TokyoShunichi KasaharaUniversity of Tokyo, Sony Computer Science LabratoriesHiroto SaitoUniversity of TokyoDaisuke UriuUniversity of TokyoResearch Center for Advanced Science and TechnologyGowrishankar GaneshCentre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueMasahiko…

Our project “Preemptive Reaction: Accelerating Human Reaction using Electrical Muscle Stimulation Without Compromising Agency” has received Laval Virtual Award: VR/AR for Safety and Improvement of Work Environment on April 22, 2020.

I (Shunichi Kasahara) and Satoru Higa have been working on Fragment Shadow ( Interactive installation of Optical Shadow with Multiple Projectors). In the exhibition in Ginza Sony Park, we created the installation of Fragment Shadow with 16 projectors and 13 meters white wall. At the end of the exhibition of Fragment Shadow in Ginza Sony Park, we held the online — but interactive —…