Collaborative Avatar Platform for Collecting Human Expertise

Presenter(s):
Ryohei Tanada, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Takumi Nishimura, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Yoshihiro Tanaka, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Kouta Minamizawa, Keio University Graduate School of Media Design, Japan
Takayoshi Hagiwara, Keio University Graduate School of Media Design, Japan
Takumi Katagiri, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Hikari Yukawa, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Itsuki Ogura, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan

Ryohei Tanada is an undergraduate student of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan from 2018. His research interests include body fusion via avatar robots. He is investigating the effect of sensory sharing on workability and body awareness during body fusion by feeding back the motion information of others and tactile information from the robot.

Takumi Nishimura is an undergraduate student of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan from 2018. His research interests include body fusion by sharing a robot avatar with multiple people. To achieve sensory and motion control in body fusion, he is investigating a method to present each other's haptic and motion information as vibration between operators.

Yoshihiro TANAKA, received his Ph.D. (Eng.) from Tohoku University in 2006. He was a Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in 2005. In 2006, he was a Research Associate with Nagoya Institute of Technology and is working as a Professor since 2021. He was a Visiting Researcher at Utrecht University (2011) and a PRESTO Researcher of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (2014-2018). His research interests include haptic perception, tactile interfaces, tactile design, and human-human/robot cooperation with shared haptic perception. He also serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Haptics from 2020.

Kouta MINAMIZAWA, Ph.D, Professor at Keio University Graduate School of Media Design Received his PhD in Information Science and Technology from the University of Tokyo in 2010, he directs the KMD Embodied Media Project, where conduct research on technology, design and social deployment of haptics and embodied interaction to transfer, enhance and create the human bodily experiences, and organizes research projects on Haptic Design, Superhuman Sports, and Sports Co-creation. He also serves as a Project Manager of JST Moonshot R&D Program, Executive Director of the Superhuman Sports Society, and Technical Advisor at Telexistence Inc. http://embodiedmedia.org http://superhuman-sports.org http://hapticdesign.org

Graduated from the Department of Electrical & Electronices Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Numazu College in 2017. Graduated from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology in 2019 and received master degree in Engineering in 2021. Entered Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University in the same year. Research Assistant, Cybernetic being Project, JST Moonshot R&D Program.

Takumi Katagiri received the BS degree in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan, in 2020. Currently, he is a master student in the same university. His research interests include body integration through a robotic avatar by multiple people. To achieve sensory and motor control in body fusion, he is investigating the presentation of the operator's movement information by sharing the sense of touch.

Hikari Yukawa received the Ph.D. (Human Centered Engineering) degree from Nara Women’s University, Japan, in 2021. Currently, she is working at the Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan, as a project based assistant professor of JST Moonshot R&D program. Her research interests include haptic and olfactory perception, illusion of bodily sensation, and human-human cooperation shared with sensations.

Itsuki Ogura is an undergraduate student of Creative Engineering from Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan from 2018. His research interests include cooperation between human-human/robot that share the sense of touch with each other. Currently, he is working on division of the avatar robot's operation and improving the camera for working smoothly of avatar robot.

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