Kouta Minamizawa

About Kouta Minamizawa

Affiliations

University of Tokyo

JST ACCEL

Keio University, Keio University Graduate School of Media Design

SIGGRAPH Member Profile

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Awards and Recognition

SIGGRAPH 2024 Emerging Technology Audience Award: Person, Hanamitsu, Hynds, Wakisaka, Isobe, et al. …

SIGGRAPH 2017 Emerging Technology Best in Show Award: Sasaki, Saraiji, Fernando, Minamizawa and Inami

SIGGRAPH Asia 2021 Emerging Technologies Best in Show Award

SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 Emerging Technologies Best in Show Award: Ando, Barbareschi, Kawaguchi and Minamizawa

SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions

Chair

SIGGRAPH Asia 2021: Emerging Technologies

SIGGRAPH Asia 2023: Emerging Technologies

Conference Contributions

Experiences

ACM SIGGRAPH Village

Blasts from the Past: Highlights from the Best of ETech from Past SIGGRAPH Conferences.

SIGGRAPH 2023

[ACM SIGGRAPH Village]

Contributor(s):

• Mark Nathan Billinghurst
• Carolina Cruz-Neira
• Masahiko Inami
• Hirokazu Kato
• Kiyoshi Kiyokawa
• Hiroo Iwata
• Hideyuki Ando
• Kouta Minamizawa
• Takayuki Hoshi
• Takuji Narumi

Entry #: 26

Emerging Technologies

Transformed Skin: Changing own skin texture feeling for VR avatar embodiment

SIGGRAPH Asia 2024

[Emerging Technologies]

Contributor(s):

• Sohei Wakisaka
• Masatoshi Matsubara
• Haruka Onoda
• Fu Zening
• Lucas Ogasawara
• Kouta Minamizawa

Multichannel Haptic Communication Platform with Wearable Sensing and Display

SIGGRAPH Asia 2023

[Emerging Technologies]

Contributor(s):

• Harunobu Taguchi
• Youichi Kamiyama
• Kenta Kan
• Yulan Ju
• Arata Horie
• Yoshihiro Tanaka
• Hironori Ishikawa
• Kouta Minamizawa

Phantom Walls : Spatial Perception and Navigation Without Vision

SIGGRAPH Asia 2023

[Emerging Technologies]

Contributor(s):

• Takumi Ikeda
• Sohei Wakisaka
• Kouta Minamizawa

Synced Drift: A Novel Sport Using a System that Harmonises Human Movement to Transcend Distance and Ability

SIGGRAPH Asia 2023

[Emerging Technologies]

Contributor(s):

• Ryoichi Ando
• Giulia Barbareschi
• Midori Kawaguchi
• Kouta Minamizawa

Waylet: Self-Contained Haptic Device for Park-Scale Interactions

SIGGRAPH Asia 2023

[Emerging Technologies]

Contributor(s):

• Tomosuke Maeda
• Junnosuke Yamamoto
• Takayoshi Yoshimura
• Hiroyuki Sakai
• Kouta Minamizawa

Collaborative Avatar Platform for Collective Human Expertise

SIGGRAPH Asia 2021

[Emerging Technologies]

Contributor(s):

• Takayoshi Hagiwara
• Takumi Katagiri
• Hikari Yukawa
• Itsuki Ogura
• Ryohei Tanada
• Takumi Nishimura
• Yoshihiro Tanaka
• Kouta Minamizawa

Frisson Waves: Sharing Frisson to Create Collective Empathetic Experiences for Music Performances

SIGGRAPH Asia 2021

[Emerging Technologies]

Contributor(s):

• Yan He
• George Chernyshov
• Dingding Zheng
• Jiawen Han
• Ragnar Thomsen
• Danny Hynds
• Yuehui Yang
• Yun Suen Pai
• Kai Kunze
• Kouta Minamizawa

Parallel Ping-Pong: Demonstrating Parallel Interaction through Multiple Bodies by a Single User

SIGGRAPH Asia 2021

[Emerging Technologies]

Contributor(s):

• Kazuma Takada
• Midori Kawaguchi
• Yukiya Nakanishi
• Akira Uehara
• Mark Armstrong
• Adrien Verhulst
• Kouta Minamizawa
• Shunichi Kasahara

KABUTO: Inducing Upper-Body Interactions using a Head Mounted Haptic Display with Flywheels

SIGGRAPH Asia 2020

[Emerging Technologies]

Contributor(s):

• Taku Tanichi
• Futa Asada
• Kento Matsuda
• Danny Hynds
• Kouta Minamizawa

Synesthesia Wear : Full-body haptic clothing interface based on two-dimensional signal transmission

SIGGRAPH Asia 2019

[Emerging Technologies]

Contributor(s):

• Taichi Furukawa
• Nobuhisa Hanamitsu
• Yoichi Kamiyama
• Hideaki Nii
• Charalampos Krekoukiotis
• Kouta Minamizawa
• Akihito Noda
• Junko Yamada
• Keiichi Kitamura
• Daisuke Niwa
• Yoshiaki Hirano
• Tetsuya Mizuguchi

ThermoReality: Thermally Enriched Head Mounted Displays for Virtual Reality

SIGGRAPH Asia 2017

[Emerging Technologies]

Contributor(s):

• Zikun Chen
• Wei Peng
• Roshan Lalintha Peiris
• Liwei Chan
• Kouta Minamizawa

HapticAid: Wearable Haptic Augmentation System for Enhanced, Enchanted and Empathised Haptic Experiences

SIGGRAPH Asia 2016

[Emerging Technologies]

Contributor(s):

• Tomosuke Maeda
• Roshan Lalintha Peiris
• Nakatani Masashi
• Yoshihiro Tanaka
• Kouta Minamizawa

Twech: A Mobile Platform to Search and Share Visuo-Tactile Experiences

SIGGRAPH Asia 2015

[Emerging Technologies]

Contributor(s):

• Nobuhisa Hanamitsu
• Haruki Nakamura
• Masashi Nakatani
• Kouta Minamizawa

Enforced Telexistence: Teleoperating Using Photorealistic Virtual Body and Haptic Feedback

SIGGRAPH Asia 2014

[Emerging Technologies]

Contributor(s):

• MHD Yamen Saraiji
• Charith Lasantha Fernando
• Yusuke Mizushina
• Youichi Kamiyama
• Kouta Minamizawa
• Susumu Tachi

Haptic Editor

SIGGRAPH Asia 2012

[Emerging Technologies]

Contributor(s):

• Sho Kamuro
• Yuta Takeuchi
• Kouta Minamizawa
• Susumu Tachi

Adaptive Parallax Autostereoscopic LED Display

SIGGRAPH Asia 2011

[Emerging Technologies]

Contributor(s):

• Kouta Minamizawa
• Susumu Tachi
• Keitaro Shimizu
• Shigeto Yoshida
• Masahiko Inami
• Noriaki Yamaguchi
• Naohisa Ohta
• Shigeki Imai

ARForce

SIGGRAPH Asia 2008

[Emerging Technologies]

Contributor(s):

• Kensei Jo
• Yasuaki Kakehi
• Kouta Minamizawa
• Hideaki Nii
• Naoki Kawakami
• Susumu Tachi

FEELTECH Wear: Enhancing Mixed Reality Experience With Wrist to Finger Haptic Attribution

SIGGRAPH 2024

[Emerging Technologies]

Contributor(s):

• Rodan Umehara
• Harunobu Taguchi
• Arata Horie
• Yusuke Kamiyama
• Shin Sakamoto
• Hironori Ishikawa
• Kouta Minamizawa

ImageFlowing-Enhance Emotional Expression by Reproducing the Vital Signs of the Photographer

SIGGRAPH 2022

[Emerging Technologies]

Contributor(s):

• Qianqian Mu
• George Chernyshov
• Ziyue Weng
• Danny Hynds
• Dingding Zheng
• Kouta Minamizawa
• Dunya Chen
• Atsuro Ueki
• Masa Inakage
• Kai Kunze

Entry #: 05

Arque: Artificial Biomimicry-Inspired Tail for Extending Innate Body Functions

SIGGRAPH 2019

[Emerging Technologies]

Contributor(s):

• Junichi Nabeshima
• MHD Yamen Saraiji
• Kouta Minamizawa

HAPTIC PLASTeR: Soft, Thin, Light, and Flexible Haptic Display Using DEA Composed of Slide-Ring Material for Daily Life

SIGGRAPH 2019

[Emerging Technologies]

Contributor(s):

• Tadatoshi Kurogi
• Yuji Yonehara
• Roshan Lalintha Peiris
• Takeshi Fujiwara
• Kouta Minamizawa

PinocchioVR

SIGGRAPH 2019

[Emerging Technologies]

Contributor(s):

• Makoto Uju
• Kenichiro Shirota
• Roshan Lalintha Peiris
• Kouta Minamizawa

TeleSight: Enabling asymmetric collaboration in VR between HMD user and Non-HMD users.

SIGGRAPH 2019

[Emerging Technologies]

Contributor(s):

• Taichi Furukawa
• Daisuke Yamamoto
• Moe Sugawa
• Roshan Lalintha Peiris
• Kouta Minamizawa

Fusion: Full Body Surrogacy for Collaborative Communication

SIGGRAPH 2018

[Emerging Technologies]

Contributor(s):

• MHD Yamen Saraiji
• Tomoya Sasaki
• Reo Matsumura
• Kouta Minamizawa
• Masahiko Inami

Entry #: 07

Altered Touch: Miniature Haptic Display with Force, Thermal and Tactile Feedback for Augmented Haptics

SIGGRAPH 2017

[Emerging Technologies]

Contributor(s):

• Takaki Murakami
• Tanner Person
• Charith Lasantha Fernando
• Kouta Minamizawa

Entry #: 02

atmoSphere: Designing Cross-Modal Music Experiences Using Spatial Audio with Haptic Feedback

SIGGRAPH 2017

[Emerging Technologies]

Contributor(s):

• Haruna Fushimi
• Daiya Kato
• Youichi Kamiyama
• Kazuya Yanagihara
• Kouta Minamizawa
• Kai Kunze

Entry #: 04

Submerged Haptics: A 3-DOF Fingertip Haptic Display using Miniature 3D Printed Airbags

SIGGRAPH 2017

[Emerging Technologies]

Contributor(s):

• Yuan-Ling Feng
• Charith Lasantha Fernando
• Jan Rod
• Kouta Minamizawa

Entry #: 22

MetaLimbs: Multiple Arms Interaction Metamorphism

SIGGRAPH 2017

[Emerging Technologies]

Contributor(s):

• Tomoya Sasaki
• MHD Yamen Saraiji
• Charith Lasantha Fernando
• Kouta Minamizawa
• Masahiko Inami

Entry #: 16

Layered Telepresence: Simultaneous Multi Presence Experience using Eye Gaze based Perceptual Awareness Blending

SIGGRAPH 2016

[Emerging Technologies]

Contributor(s):

• MHD Yamen Saraiji
• Shota Sugimoto
• Charith Lasantha Fernando
• Kouta Minamizawa
• Susumu Tachi

Entry #: 14

HaptoMIRAGE Mid-air Autostereoscopic Display for Seamless Interaction with Mixed Reality Environments

SIGGRAPH 2014

[Emerging Technologies]

Contributor(s):

• Yuta Ueda
• Karin Iwazaki
• Mina Shibasaki
• Yusuke Mizushina
• Masahiro Furukawa
• Hideaki Nii
• Kouta Minamizawa
• Susumu Tachi

Entry #: 11

TECHTILE toolkit - A prototyping tool for designing haptic media -

SIGGRAPH 2012

[Emerging Technologies]

Contributor(s):

• Kouta Minamizawa
• Yasuaki Kakehi
• Masashi Nakatani
• Soichiro Mihara
• Susumu Tachi

Entry #: 22

TELESAR V: TELExistence Surrogate Anthropomorphic Robot

SIGGRAPH 2012

[Emerging Technologies]

Contributor(s):

• Charith Lasantha Fernando
• Masahiro Furukawa
• Tadatoshi Kurogi
• Kyo Hirota
• Sho Kamuro
• Katsunari Sato
• Kouta Minamizawa
• Susumu Tachi

Entry #: 23

HAPMAP: Haptic Walking Navigation System with Support by the Sense of Handrail

SIGGRAPH 2011

[Emerging Technologies]

Contributor(s):

• Yuki Imamura
• Hironori Arakawa
• Sho Kamuro
• Kouta Minamizawa
• Susumu Tachi

Entry #: 06

Colorful Touch Palette

SIGGRAPH 2010

[Emerging Technologies]

Contributor(s):

• Yuki Hirobe
• Shinobu Kuroki
• Katsunari Sato
• Takumi Yoshida
• Kouta Minamizawa
• Susumu Tachi

Entry #: 10

RePro3D: Full-parallax 3D Display using Retro-reflective Projection Technology

SIGGRAPH 2010

[Emerging Technologies]

Contributor(s):

• Takumi Yoshida
• Sho Kamuro
• Kouta Minamizawa
• Hideaki Nii
• Susumu Tachi

Entry #: 20

Pen de Touch

SIGGRAPH 2009

[Emerging Technologies]

Contributor(s):

• Sho Kamuro
• Kouta Minamizawa
• Naoki Kawakami
• Susumu Tachi

Entry #: 17

ForceTile: Tabletop Tangible Interface with Vision-based Force Distribution Sensing

SIGGRAPH 2008

[Emerging Technologies]

Contributor(s):

• Yasuaki Kakehi
• Kensei Jo
• Katsunori Sato
• Kouta Minamizawa
• Hideaki Nii
• Naoki Kawakami
• Takeshi Naemura
• Susumu Tachi

Entry #: 17

GhostGlove: Haptic Existence of the Virtual World

SIGGRAPH 2008

[Emerging Technologies]

Contributor(s):

• Kouta Minamizawa
• Sho Kamuro
• Souichiro Fukamachi
• Naoki Kawakami
• Susumu Tachi

Entry #: 18

MeisterGRIP: Cylindrical Interface for Intuitional Robot Manipulation

SIGGRAPH 2008

[Emerging Technologies]

Contributor(s):

• Shuji Komeiji
• Katsunari Sato
• Kouta Minamizawa
• Hideaki Nii
• Naoki Kawakami
• Susumu Tachi

Entry #: 26

Gravity Grabber: Wearable Haptic Display to present Virtual Mass Sensation

SIGGRAPH 2007

[Emerging Technologies]

Contributor(s):

• Kouta Minamizawa
• Souichiro Fukamachi
• Hiroyuki Kajimoto
• Naoki Kawakami
• Susumu Tachi

Entry #: 10

Haptic Telexistence

SIGGRAPH 2007

[Emerging Technologies]

Contributor(s):

• Katsunari Sato
• Kouta Minamizawa
• Naoki Kawakami
• Susumu Tachi

Entry #: 12

Spinning-disc 3D Television

SIGGRAPH 2007

[Emerging Technologies]

Contributor(s):

• Hideaki Nii
• Kouta Minamizawa
• Naoki Kawakami
• Susumu Tachi

Entry #: 20

Transparent Cockpit

SIGGRAPH 2007

[Emerging Technologies]

Contributor(s):

• Takumi Yoshida
• Kensei Jo
• Kouta Minamizawa
• Hideaki Nii
• Naoki Kawakami
• Susumu Tachi

Entry #: 24

VR Experiences

Heightened Empathy: A Multi-user Interactive Experience in a Bioresponsive Virtual Reality

SIGGRAPH 2023

[VR Experiences]

Contributor(s):

• Mark Armstrong
• Kinga Skiers
• Danyang Peng
• Tamil Selvan Gunasekaran
• Anish Kundu
• Tanner Person
• Yixin Wang
• Kouta Minamizawa
• Yun Suen Pai

Entry #: 09

Sophroneo: Fear not. A VR Horror Game with Thermal Feedback and Physiological Signal Loop

SIGGRAPH 2020

[VR Experiences]

Contributor(s):

• Kirill Ragozin
• George Chernyshov
• Dingding Zheng
• Danny Hynds
• Jianing Zhao
• Kouta Minamizawa
• Kai Kunze

Entry #: 18

Synesthesia Suit: The Full Body Immersive Experience

SIGGRAPH 2016

[VR Experiences]

Contributor(s):

• Yukari Konishi
• Nobuhisa Hanamitsu
• Benjamin I. Outram
• Kouta Minamizawa
• Tetsuya Mizuguchi
• Ayahiko Sato

VR Planet: Interface for Meta-view and Feet Interaction of VR Contents

SIGGRAPH 2016

[VR Experiences]

Contributor(s):

• Kevin Fan
• Liwei Chan
• Daiya Kato
• Kouta Minamizawa
• Masahiko Inami

Experience Collaborations

HaptoRoom: Using Vibrotactile Floor Interfaces to Enable Reconfigurable Haptic Interaction Onto Any Furniture Surfaces

SIGGRAPH 2024

[Emerging Technologies]

The Malleable-Self Experience: Transforming Body Image by Integrating Visual and Whole-body Haptic Stimuli

SIGGRAPH 2024

[Emerging Technologies]

Learning

Art Papers and Presentations

Understated Haptics: Physicalization of Tactile Memories through a Co-creative Practice between Human and Nonhuman

SIGGRAPH Asia 2024

[Art Papers and Presentations]

Presenter(s):

• Ivana Chaloska
• Tatsuya Saito
• Junichi Yamaoka
• Kouta Minamizawa

Frontiers

Frontiers Workshop: Design and Spatial Computing

SIGGRAPH 2024

[Frontiers]

Presenter(s):

• Kouta Minamizawa
• Osha Makai Smith
• Martha Tsigkari

Posters

Arque: Artificial Biomimicry-Inspired Tail for Extending Innate Body Functions

SIGGRAPH 2019

[Posters]

Presenter(s):

• Junichi Nabeshima
• MHD Yamen Saraiji
• Kouta Minamizawa

Entry #: 52

Skin+

SIGGRAPH 2018

[Posters]

Presenter(s):

• Feier Cao
• MHD Yamen Saraiji
• Kouta Minamizawa

Entry #: 71

Altered Touch: Miniature Haptic Display with Force, Thermal and Tactile Feedback for Augmented Haptics

SIGGRAPH 2017

[Posters]

Presenter(s):

• Takaki Murakami
• Tanner Person
• Charith Lasantha Fernando
• Kouta Minamizawa

Entry #: 53

MetaLimbs: Metamorphosis for Multiple Arms Interaction using Artificial Limbs

SIGGRAPH 2017

[Posters]

Presenter(s):

• Tomoya Sasaki
• MHD Yamen Saraiji
• Charith Lasantha Fernando
• Kouta Minamizawa
• Masahiko Inami

Entry #: 55

Submerged Haptics: A 3-DOF Fingertip Haptic Display using Miniature 3D Printed Airbags

SIGGRAPH 2017

[Posters]

Presenter(s):

• Yuan-Ling Feng
• Charith Lasantha Fernando
• Jan Rod
• Kouta Minamizawa

Entry #: 58

ThermoReality: Thermally Enriched Head Mounted Displays for Virtual Reality

SIGGRAPH 2017

[Posters]

Presenter(s):

• Zikun Chen
• Wei Peng
• Roshan Lalintha Peiris
• Kouta Minamizawa

Entry #: 32

Layered Telepresence: Simultaneous Multi Presence Experience using Eye Gaze based Perceptual Awareness Blending

SIGGRAPH 2016

[Posters]

Presenter(s):

• MHD Yamen Saraiji
• Shota Sugimoto
• Charith Lasantha Fernando
• Kouta Minamizawa
• Susumu Tachi

Entry #: 24

Synesthesia Suit : the full body immersive experience

SIGGRAPH 2016

[Posters]

Presenter(s):

• Yukari Konishi
• Nobuhisa Hanamitsu
• Kouta Minamizawa
• Ayahiko Sato
• Tetsuya Mizuguchi

Entry #: 32

Twech: A Mobile Platform to Search and Share Visuo-tactile Experiences

SIGGRAPH 2015

[Posters]

Presenter(s):

• Nobuhisa Hanamitsu
• Kanata Nakamura
• MHD Yamen Saraiji
• Kouta Minamizawa
• Susumu Tachi

Entry #: 40

Enforced Telexistence

SIGGRAPH 2014

[Posters]

Presenter(s):

• MHD Yamen Saraiji
• Yusuke Mizushina
• Charith Lasantha Fernando
• Masahiro Furukawa
• Youichi Kamiyama
• Kouta Minamizawa
• Susumu Tachi

Entry #: 41

HaptoMIRAGE Mid-air Autostereoscopic Display for Seamless Interaction with Mixed Reality Environments

SIGGRAPH 2014

[Posters]

Presenter(s):

• Yuta Ueda
• Karin Iwazaki
• Mina Shibasaki
• Yusuke Mizushina
• Masahiro Furukawa
• Hideaki Nii
• Kouta Minamizawa
• Susumu Tachi

Entry #: 52

Ubiquitous Substitutional Reality: Re-Experiencing the Past in Immersion

SIGGRAPH 2014

[Posters]

Presenter(s):

• Kevin Fan
• Yuta Sugiura
• Kouta Minamizawa
• Sohei Wakisaka
• Masahiko Inami
• Naotaka Fujii

Entry #: 102

Haptic editor

SIGGRAPH 2012

[Posters]

Presenter(s):

• Sho Kamuro
• Kouta Takeuchi
• Susumu Tachi
• Kouta Minamizawa

HAPMAP: haptic walking navigation system with support by the sense of handrail

SIGGRAPH 2011

[Posters]

Presenter(s):

• Yuki Imamura
• Hironori Arakawa
• Sho Kamuro
• Kouta Minamizawa
• Susamu Tachi

Pen de Touch

SIGGRAPH 2009

[Posters]

Presenter(s):

• Sho Kamuro
• Kouta Minamizawa
• Naoki Kawakami
• Susumu Tachi

A GPU-based real-time rendering method for immersive stereoscopic displays

SIGGRAPH 2008

[Posters]

Presenter(s):

• Kensei Jo
• Kouta Minamizawa
• Hideaki Nii
• Naoki Kawakami
• Susumu Tachi

GhostGlove: haptic existence of the virtual world

SIGGRAPH 2008

[Posters]

Presenter(s):

• Kouta Minamizawa
• Sho Kamuro
• Souichiro Fukamachi
• Naoki Kawakami
• Susumu Tachi

MeisterGRIP: cylindrical interface for intuitional robot manipulation

SIGGRAPH 2008

[Posters]

Presenter(s):

• Shuji Komeiji
• Katsunari Sato
• Kouta Minamizawa
• Hideaki Nii
• Naoki Kawakami
• Susumu Tachi

Haptic telexistence

SIGGRAPH 2007

[Posters]

Presenter(s):

• Katsunari Sato
• Kouta Minamizawa
• Naoki Kawakami
• Susumu Tachi

Talks-Sketches

Wearable haptic display to present virtual mass sensation

SIGGRAPH 2007

[Talks-Sketches]

Presenter(s):

• Kouta Minamizawa
• Souichiro Fukamachi
• Hiroyuki Kajimoto
• Naoki Kawakami
• Susumu Tachi

Other Information

Roles

ACM SIGGRAPH Village Presenter

Awardee

Emerging Technologies Organizing Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Emerging Technologies Presenter

Frontiers Presenter

Immersive Pavilion (VR Village) Developer

Poster Presenter

Talk (Sketch) Presenter

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