Updated on March. 31, 2006.

In this research group, we are studying to establish the evaluation method of "sense of being there with another place", called "shared reality", by investigating human perceptual and cognitive mechanism. We are also studying sensing/integration/display technologies of multimodal (visual, auditory, haptic, etc) information based on human perceptual and cognitive mechanism. Following research themes are studied.

i) Perceptual and cognitive mechanism
ii) Multimodal information processing
iii) Shared reality system
iv) Network information analysis

We will make a contribution to establish natural and novel communication by evaluating and realizing "shared reality" through these studies.

i) Perceptual and cognitive mechanism
This research project focuses on human cognition dynamics in visual, auditory and multi-modal communication. The aims are to understand human cognition mechanism and also propose the evaluation/measurement method of "sense of being there with another place" based on the research results.

ii) Multimodal information processing
Multimodal information enables us to make communication with a person in another place more natural. This research project focuses on sensing/transmission/display and integration of visual, auditory and haptic information. The aims are to create novel multimodal information processing technologies.

iii) Shared reality system
This research project focuses on developing technologies to display virtual objects naturally in real environment, in order to create shared reality systems, such as tele-conference/tele-training systems. The aims are to develop communication tools based on this research results.

iv) Network information analysis
ICT based on trustable and robust society will need social technologies to analyze such large-scale, multiple and dynamic networks and to provide information visualization. The project aims to uncover structures and principles hidden in the real-data of distributed communications, new social networking, economic networks, and so on. Design in information visualization will be invented as social technologies that are applicable in individual systems.

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