Director, Interaction Laboratory Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. Takanawa Muse Building 3-14-13 Higashi-gotanda, Shinagawa-ku Tokyo 141-0022 Japan (Map) Mail: rekimoto@acm.org Phone: +81 3-5448-4380 Fax: +81 3-5448-4273 Bio: here Notice

Recent progress in hardware technology has brought about computers that are small enough to carry or even wear. These new computers, however, preclude traditional user-interface techniques such a graphical user interface (GUI) or desktop metaphor. To overcome these shortfalls, human computer interaction (HCI) technology is rapidly changing, resulting in a transition akin to the switch to GUI in the 80's.

I am interested in designing a new human computer interaction style for highly portable computers, that will be situation-aware and assistance-oriented rather than command oriented. Using this style, a user will be able to interact the real world that is augmented by the computer's synthetic information. The user's situation will be automatically recognized by applying a range of recognition methods, allowing the computer to assist the user without having to be directly instructed by the user. Before the end of the decade, I expect that such computers will be as commonplace as today's Walkmans, electronic hearing aids, eyeglasses, and wristwatches.

(also see the BusinessWeek article on my work)

Human Computer Interaction, Computer Augmented Environments, Augmented Reality, Mobile & Wearable Computing, Interaction Techniques, Information Visualization, and Virtual Reality

Sony ExploraScience A science museum in Beijing (will open Oct.28th,2000). HoloWall, HoloTable and CyberCode are exhibited.

ToolStone

CyberCode won the iF Interaction Award 2000

Time-Machine Computing

InfoPoint: A direct-manipulation device for inter-appliance, inter-object computing

Augmented Surfaces and InfoRoom: A hybrid augmented computing environment

ThingsBoard (Real-Object Bulletin Board System) try it!

Augment-able Reality

CyberCode and VAIO PCG-C1

WISS'97 Online Conference Project

HoloWall: interactive wall surfaces

Pick-and-Drop: a direct-manipulation technique for multi-computer environments

NaviCam article on BusinessWeek

The Matrix method for Augmented Reality

Tilting Interface for Samll Screen Computers

NaviCam at Gallery "MA"

TransVision: A collaborative augmented reality testbed

UbiquitousLinks: A mobile and context aware web browser

WalkNavi: A mobile and location-aware interface to WWW

NaviCam and Augmented Interaction: Interacting with the world through the computer

VirtuaHead: A Vision-Based Head Tracker for desktop VR

InformationCube: A 3D Information Visualizer

Virtual Society

Links to Augmented Reality & Computer Augmented Environments

Yuji Ayatsuka from Tokyo University Masuda Laboratory (now at Sony IT Laboratory)

Naohiko Kohtake from Keio University. Anzai Laboratory (now at NASDA)

Nobuyuki Matsushita from Keio University Anzai Laboratory (now at Sony IT Laboratory)

my Java Applets

IntelliCast

MidiCam: The Reactive Musical Instruments

MacWebCam: WebCam for Mac

The world simplest WebCam for SGIs

Photo Diary

Music CD memo

Sony Local

Sony CSL Local

InteractionLab