Publications
Affective Design Lab is involved in a variety of national & international activities!
Journal Articles
- Young ah Seong, Design Research of Wearable Soft Avatar Robot for Interactive Social Presence, Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 325-327 (2022).
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jrobomech/34/2/34_325/_pdf - Kazuya Saito, Hiroto Nagai, Kai Suto, Naoki Ogawa, Young ah Seong, Tomohiro Tachi, Ryuma Niiyama and Yoshihiro Kawahara, “Insect wing 3D printing”, Scientific Reports 11, Article No. 18631 (2021).
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-98242-y - Young ah Seong, Tomoko Hashida, Ryoko Ueoka, “rapoptosis: Design of the Autonomous Farewell of Artifacts for Revaluing of itself,” The Transactions of Human Interface Society, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp.251-254 (2021).
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/his/23/3/23_251/_article/ - Ryuma Niiyama, Young ah Seong, Yoshihiro Kawahara and Yasuo Kuniyoshi, “Blower-Powered Soft Inflatable Joints for Physical Human-Robot Interaction,” Frontiers in Robotics and AI 8:720683 (2021).
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2021.720683/full - Kazuya Saito, Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente, Koichi Arimoto, Young ah Seong, Hitoshi Aonuma, Ryuma Niiyama and Zhong You, “Earwig fan designing: Biomimetic and evolutionary biology applications.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Vol. 117, No. 30, pp.17622-17626 (2020).
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2005769117 - Young ah Seong, Hiroshi Sugihara, Ryuma Niiyama, Yasuaki Kakehi and Yoshihiro Kawahara, “Workshop Design for Hands-on Exploration Using Soft Robotics and Onomatopoeia.” IEEE Pervasive Computing, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 52-61 (2020).
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8962287 - Koya Narumi, Hiroki Sato, Kenichi Nakahara, Young ah Seong, Kunihiro Morinaga, Yasuaki Kakehi, Ryuma Niiyama and Yoshihiro Kawahara, “Liquid Pouch Motors: Printable Planar Actuators Driven by Liquid-to-Gas Phase Change for Shape-Changing Interfaces.” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 3915-3922 (2020). (Won the Best Paper Award Runner Up)
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9050916
International Conferences
- Yuhu Liu, Satoshi Nishikawa, Young ah Seong, Ryuma Niiyama and Yasuo Kuniyoshi, “ThermoCaress: A Wearable Haptic Device with Illusory Moving Thermal Stimulation.” In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI conference on Human Factor in Computing Systems (CHI), (2021.5).
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411764.3445777 - Dominique Chen*, Young ah Seong*, Hiraku Ogura, Kiichi Moriya, Yuto Mitani and Naoto Sekiya, “Nukabot: Design of Care for Human-Microbe Relationships.” In Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factor in Computing Systems (CHI), Late-Breaking Work, (2021.5). (* joint first authors)
https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3411763.3451605
Domestic Conferences
- Ayumi TAKAGI, Syun NAOI, Reika NAKAMURA, Rintaro CHUJO, Yuchi YAHAGI, Katsufumi MATSUI, Young ah SEONG, “Copter: A Design Inquiry for Objects that Move Autonomously While Coexisting with Humans,” The 29th Annual Conference of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan, 2G-09 (2024).
https://conference.vrsj.org/ac2024/program/doc/2G-09.pdf - Haru HATORI, Serina TANAKA, Yukun WANG, Rintaro CHUJO, Yuchi YAHAGI, Katsufumi MATSUI, Young ah SEONG, “Interaction design with movement for the suppression of aggressive speech on smart speakers,” The 29th Annual Conference of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan, 2A1-10 (2024).
https://conference.vrsj.org/ac2024/program/doc/2A1-10.pdf - Sakurako OHIRA, Yukina NAKANISHI, Kanato MATSUURA, Rintaro CHUJO, Yuchi YAHAGI, Katsufumi MATSUI, Young ah SEONG, “Proposing ‘Calomon’: A Playful Reflection Method Using Pens that Rotate According to Daily Life Logs,” The 29th Annual Conference of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan, 1E2-05 (2024).
https://conference.vrsj.org/ac2024/program/doc/1E2-05.pdf - Mikiko Kato, Young ah Seong, Kozo Sato, “A basic study of a human presence transmitter using the movement of flower blooming as a metaphor,” Interaction 2022, 1D-08 (2022.3) (Won the Interactive Presentation Award (general nomination))
https://www.interaction-ipsj.org/proceedings/2022/data/pdf/1D08.pdf - Yuri Nakahashi, Young ah Seong, “Creating New Sleep Values to Explore with Cats,” Interaction 2022, 1P-04 (2022.3)
https://www.interaction-ipsj.org/proceedings/2022/data/pdf/1P04.pdf - Young ah Seong, Tomoko Hashida, Ryoko, Ueoka, “rapoptosis: Renatusu via Apoptosis Prototyping using Clothes,” Interaction 2018, 3B24 (2018.3). (Won the Interactive Presentation Awards, both general and PC nominations)
https://www.interaction-ipsj.org/proceedings/2018/data/pdf/3B24.pdf
Awards
- Runner-up, Knowledge Innovation Award, Knowledge Capital Category, 9th Knowledge Innovation Awards (2021)
https://kc-i.jp/activity/award/innovation/2021/nominate/ - Innovative Technologies 2022
https://www.dcexpo.jp/i-tech2022.php - Interaction 2022 Interactive Presentation Awards (General Nomination) (2022.3)
https://www.interaction-ipsj.org/2022/award/ - Innovative Technologies 2021
https://www.dcexpo.jp/archives/2021/news/20472.html
Products & Services
- Samsung Bot Handy: proposed the first concept as project leader at Samsung Electronics Design Management Center in 2017
https://research.samsung.com/news/-CES-2022-Samsung-Research-New-Tech-Trio-Samsung-Bot-Handy-Housework-robot
Exhibitions & Workshops
- Dominic Chen & Ferment Media Research’s Creativity Fostering Workshop — How to Design Rich Relationships from the Metaphor of Fermentation, Diamond Business Creation Workshop 2022, Tokyo Midtown. (2022.11.22, 12.6).
https://ferment-media-research-ws2022.peatix.com/ - CHORDxxCODE’s Business Creativity Workshop: Communication design of “a sense of being there” created by soft alter ego robots, Diamond Business Creation Workshop 2022, Tokyo Midtown (2022.10.6, 10.13).
https://designhub.jp/events/8087/
Invited Talks
- “Interaction Design for Soft Robots That Can Stay Close to People”, Robotics and Mechatronics Lecture Meeting 2022 Workshop “Soft Robotics for Creating Future by Science of Vagueness”, Sapporo, Japan (2022.6.1).
https://softrobot.jp/events/2022/04241809272202/
Press Coverages
- “Make it, touch it, feel it - Thinking about future interfaces from the viewpoint of soft robots,” Diamond Online (2022.9.17).
https://diamond.jp/articles/-/308654 - “Growing out of the body! The new experiential value brought by soft robots,” Diamond Online (2022.9.14).
https://diamond.jp/articles/-/308652
Miscellaneous
- Patent (Japan) No. 6966829, Mobile, Inventors: Ryosuke Yamamura, Yoshihiro Kawahara, Ryoma Niiyama, Hiroki Sato, Young ah Seong
https://jglobal.jst.go.jp/detail?JGLOBAL_ID=202103013787107490