HCI at The University of Tokyo

The University of Tokyo has one of the world's largest and broadest Human-Computer Interaction research communities.

Researchers and Groups (partial list)

Lab or Project Faculty Areas Graduate Program School or Institute
AI Lab Koichi Hori Creative Activity Support Systems AA AA
Cognitive Systems Engineering Lab Kazuo Furuta Cognitive Modeling, Social Systems IES SFS
Computer Vision Lab Yoichi Sato Mixed Reality, Virtual Reality EE IIS
Design Engineering Lab Tamotsu Murakami CAD, Input Devices Mech.Eng Engineering
Digital Museum Ken Sakamura Virtual Exhibits, MUDs III, CS UM, IST
Human Communication Media Lab Takeshi Naemura Human Communication, Face Processing EE, III III, IST
Intelligent Cooperative Systems Lab Michitaka Hirose Virtual Reality Mech.Info. IST
Intelligent Modeling Laboratory . . . Virtual Reality . . . IML
Ishizuka Lab Mitsuru Ishizuka Anthropomorphic Agents EE IST
Interaction Technology Lab Masanori Sugimoto Augmented Reality, Digital Libraries GSS ITC
ITC Kazutaka Maruyama User Interfaces, Recommendation Systems ITC
User Interface Research Group Takeo Igarashi Interaction Techniques for Graphics CS IST
Rekimoto Lab Jun Rekimoto Human-Computer Interaction III III

Nigel Ward   (updated June 17, 2009, but not up-to-date)