Publications

Peer Reviewed Journals and Conferences

2009

• Yotam Gingold, Takeo Igarashi, Denis Zorin, "Structured Annotations for 2D-to-3D Modeling", The 2nd ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 Technical Paper, Yokohama, December 2009D
• Okihide Teramoto, In Kyu Park, Takeo Igarashi, "Interactive Motion Photography from a Single Image," accepted for publication in The Visual Computer, October 2009. PDF
• Takashi Ijiri, Kenshi Takayama, Hideo Yokota, and Takeo Igarashi. "ProcDef: Local-to-global Deformation for Skeleton-free Character Animation" Computer Graphics Forum, Vol.28, No.7, (Proceedings of Pacific Graphics 2009), Jeju, Korea, Oct. 2009. PDF
• Yuki Igarashi, Takeo Igarashi, Hiromasa Suzuki. "Interactive Cover Design Considering Physical Constraints." Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Pacific Graphics 2009), Vol.28, No.7, pp.1965-1973, Jeju, Korea, Oct. 2009. PDF
• Takeo Igarashi and Yuki Igarashi. "Implementing As-Rigid-As-Possible Shape Manipulation and Surface Flattening." Journal of Graphics, GPU, and Game Tools, A.K.Peters, Volume 14, Number 1, pp.17-30, ISSN:2151-237X, June, 2009. PDF
• Kentaro Ishii, Shengdong Zhao, Masahiko Inami, Takeo Igarashi and Michita Imai, Designing Laser Gesture Interface for Robot Control, Proceedings of the 12th IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT2009), pp.479-492, August 2009 in Uppsala, Sweden. PDF
• Daisuke Sakamoto, Koichiro Honda, Masahiko Inami and Takeo Igarashi, "Sketch and Run: A Stroke-based Interface for Home Robots", Proceeding of the 27th Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI2009), Boston, USA (April 2009). PDF
• Shengdong Zhao, Koichi Nakamura, Kentaro Ishii and Takeo Igarashi, "Magic Cards : A Paper Tag Interface for Implicit Robot Control" , Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI2009), Boston, USA (April 2009). PDF, movie
• James E. Young, Richard Hawkins, Ehud Sharlin, and Takeo Igarashi, "Toward Acceptable Domestic Robots: Applying Insights from Social Psychology", Inaugural Issue of the International Journal on Social Robotics 1(1). (Jan. 2009) Springer PDF,

2008

• Toshio Nakamura, Takeo Igarashi, "An Application-Independent System for Visualizing User Operation History", ACM UIST (ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology), pp.23-32, Monterey, USA, October 19-22, 2008. PDF, movie
• Takashi Ijiri, Takashi Ashihara, Takeshi Yamaguchi, Kenshi Takayama, Takeo Igarashi, Tatsuo Shimada, Tsunetoyo Namba, Ryo Haraguchi, Kazuo Nakazawa, "A Procedural Method for Modeling the Purkinje Fibers of the Heart", The Journal of Physiological Sciences, 58(7), pp.481-486, 2008. [Link]
• Kenshi Takayama, Takashi Ashihara, Takashi Ijiri, Takeo Igarashi, Ryo Haraguchi, Kazuo Nakazawa, "A Sketch-Based Interface for Modeling Myocardial Fiber Orientation that Considers the Layered Structure of the Ventricles", The Journal of Physiological Sciences, 58(7), pp.487-492, 2008. [Link]
• Yuki Igarashi, Takeo Igarashi, Hiromasa Suzuki. "Knitting a 3D Model." Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Pacific Graphics 2008), Volume 27, Number 7, pp.1737-1743, ISSN 0167-7055, Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 2008. PDF
• Yuki Igarashi, Takeo Igarashi. "Pillow: Interactive Flattening of a 3D Model for Plush Toy Design" Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer (SmartGraphics 2008), Vol. 5166/2008, pp.1-7, ISBN:978-3-540-85410-4, Rennes, France, August 2008. PDF
• Yuki Igarashi, Takeo Igarashi, Hiromasa Suzuki. "Knitty: 3D Modeling of Knitted Animals with a Production." Eurographics 2008 Annex to the Conference Proceedings (ISSN 1017-4656), pp.187-190. PDF
• Shigeru Owada, Takahiro Harada, Philipp Holzer and Takeo Igarashi gVolume Painter: Geometry-Guided Volume Modeling by Sketching on the Cross-Section", Proc. Eurographics Symposium on Sketcy-Based Interfaces and Modeling 2008 (SBIM 08), pp.9-16 PDF
• Shigeru Owada, Frank Nielsen, Takeo Igarashi, Ryo Haraguchi, and Kazuo Nakazawa "Projection Plane Processing for Sketch-based Volume Segmentation", IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, pp.117-120, 2008 PDF
• James E. Young, Richard Hawkins, Ehud Sharlin, and Takeo Igarashi, Toward Acceptable Domestic Robots: Applying Insights from Social Psychology. Inaugural Issue of the International Journal on Social Robotics 1(1), Jan 2009. Springer. PDF
• James E. Young, Takeo Igarashi, Ehud Sharlin, Puppet Master: Designing Reactive Character Behavior by Demonstration, ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation, Dublin, Ireland, July 2008 PDF
• Kenshi Takayama, Makoto Okabe, Takashi Ijiri, Takeo Igarashi, "Lapped Solid Textures: Filling a Model with Anisotropic Textures", ACM Transactions on Graphics, vol.27, no.3 (SIGGRAPH 2008), 2008. PDF movie
• Takashi Ijiri, Mihoshi Yokoo, Saneyuki Kawabata, Takeo Igarashi, "Surface-based growth simulation for opening flowers", In Proc. Graphics Interface 2008, 227-234. May 2008.(Michael A. J. Sweeney Award (best student paper award)) PDF
• Masatomo Kobayashi, Takeo Igarashi "Ninja Cursors: Using Multiple Cursors to Assist Target Acquisition on Large Screens" Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008, pp.949-958, 2008. PDF movie
• Takashi Ijiri, Radomir Mech, Gavin Miller, Takeo Igarashi. "An Example-based Procedural System for Element Arrangement", Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Eurographics 2008), April 2008 - Vol. 27 Issue 2, pp. 429-436, 2008. PDF

2007

• Kazutaka Kurihara, Masataka Goto, Jun Ogata, Yosuke Matsusaka, and Takeo Igarashi, "Presentation Sensei: A Presentation Training System using Speech and Image Processing," Proc. of ACM ICMI International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, in printing, 2007.
• Kazutaka Kurihara, and Takeo Igarashi "A Flexible Presentation Tool for Diverse Multi-display Environments," Proc. of INTERACT 2007, pp.430-433, 2007.
• Takeshi Nishida, Takeo Igarashi, "Bringing Round-Robin Signature to Computer-Mediated Communication", In the proceedings of ECSCW 2007, pp. 219-230, 2007.
• Takeshi Nishida, Takeo Igarashi, "Drag-and-Guess: Drag-and-Drop with Prediction", In the proceedings of INTERACT 2007, pp.461-474, 2007.
• Dan Maynes-Aminzade, Terry Winograd, Takeo Igarashi "Eyepatch: Prototyping Camera-based Interaction through Examples", ACM UIST (ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology) , Newport, USA, October 7-10, 2007. PDF
• Nayuko Watanabe, Motoi Washida, Takeo Igarashi, "Bubble Clusters: An Interface for Manipulating Spatial Aggregation of Graphical Objects" ACM UIST (ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology) , Newport, USA, October 7-10, 2007. PDF
• Masatomo Kobayashi, Takeo Igarashi "Boomerang: Suspendable Drag-and-Drop Interactions Based on a Throw-and-Catch Metaphor" ACM UIST (ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology) , Newport, USA, October 7-10, 2007. PDF
• Andrew Nealen, Takeo Igarashi, Olga Sorkine, Marc Alexa, "FiberMesh: Designing Freeform Surfaces with 3D Curves", ACM Transactions on Computer Graphics, Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2007, vol.26, No.3, Article No.41, 2007. PDF
• Yuki Mori, Takeo Igarashi, "Plushie: An Interactive Design System for Plush Toys", ACM Transactions on Computer Graphics, Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2007, vol.26, No.3, Article No.45, 2007. PDF
• Hideki Todo, Ken-ichi Anjyo, William Baxter, Takeo Igarashi, "Locally Controllable Stylized Shading", ACM Transactions on Computer Graphics, Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2007, vol.26, No.3, Article No.17, 2007. PDF
• Makoto Okabe, Yasuyuki Matsushita, Li Shen, Takeo Igarashi, "Illumination Brush: Interactive Design of All-frequency Lighting", Proceedings of Pacific Graphics 2007.
• Makoto Okabe, Kenshi Takayama, Takashi Ijiri, Takeo Igarashi, "Light Shower: A Poor Man's Light Stage Built with an Off-the-shelf Umbrella and Projector", DVD publication at SIGGRAPH 2007 Sketches. PDF
• Kenshi Takayama, Takeo Igarashi, Ryo Haraguchi, Kazuo Nakazawa, "A Sketch-Based Interface for Modeling Myocardial Fiber Orientation", Smart Graphics, , 2007, pp.1--9.
• Shigeru Owada, Makoto Okabe, Takeo Igarashi, Frank Nielsen, Norimichi Tsumura, "Customized Slider Bars for Adjusting Multi-dimension Parameter Sets", Smart Graphics 2007, pp. 230-232.
• HyoJong Shin, Takeo Igarashi, "Magic canvas: interactive design of a 3-D scene prototype from freehand sketches", GI '07: Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2007, , 2007, pp.63--70. PDF
• Yuki Mori, Takeo Igarashi, Ryo Haraguchi, and Kazuo Nakazawa. A Pen-based Interface for Generating Graphical Reports of Findings in Cardiac Catheterization. Methods of Information in Medicine, 2007;46(6) pp.694-699.
• Ryo Haraguchi, Takeo Igarashi, Shigeru Owada, Takenori Yao, Tsunetoyo Namba, Takashi Ashihara, Takanori Ikeda, and Kazuo Nakazawa, "Electrophysiological Heart Simulator Equipped with Sketchy 3-D Modeling", In Complex Medical Engineering, J. L. Wu, K. Ito, S. Tobimatsu, T. Nishida and H. Fukuyama (eds), Springer, 2007, pp.107-116. PDF movie

2006

• Makoto Okabe, Gang Zeng, Yasuyuki Matsushita, Takeo Igarashi, Long Quan, Heung-Yeung Shum, "Single-View Relighting with Normal Map Painting", Pacific Graphics 2006, Taipei, Taiwan, October 11-13, 2006, pp. 27-34. PDF
• Takashi Ijiri, Shigeru Owada, Takeo Igarashi, "Seamless Integration of Initial Sketching and Subsequent Detail Editing in Flower Modeling", Eurographics 2006, Vienna, Austria, September 4-8, 2006, pp. 617-624. PDF
• Yuki Mori, Takeo Igarashi. Pillow: Interactive Pattern Design for Stuffed Animals. DVD publication at SIGGRAPH 2006 Sketches & Applications, Boston, August, 2006. PDF
• Takashi Ijiri, Shigeru Owada, Takeo Igarashi, "The Sketch L-System: Global Control of Tree Modeling Using Free-form Strokes", Smart Graphics 2006, Vanvcouver, Canada, July 23-25, 2006, pp. 138-146. PDF
• Kazutaka Kurihara, Masataka Goto, Jun Ogata and Takeo Igarashi, "Speech Pen: Predictive Handwriting based on Ambient Multimodal Recognition," Proc. of ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems(CHI'06), pp.851-860, 2006. PDF

2005

• Yasunari Hashimoto, Takeo Igarashi, "Retrieving Web Page Layouts using Sketchesto Support Example-based Web Design ", 2nd Eurographics Workshop on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, August 28-29, 2005, pp. 155-164 PDF
• Makoto Okabe, Shigeru Owada, Takeo Igarashi, "Interactive Design of Botanical Trees Using Freehand Sketches and Example-based Editing", Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 24, Issue 3, (Eurographics 2005), Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, Aug 29 - Sep 02, 2005. PDF
• Yuki Mori, Shigeo Takahashi, Takeo Igarashi, Yuriko Takeshima, Issei Fujishiro, Automatic Cross-Sectioning based on Topological Volume Skeletonization, SmartGraphics 2005, Munich, Germany, 22-24 August 2005. PDF
• Takeo Igarashi, Tomer Moscovich, John F. Hughes, "As-Rigid-As-Possible Shape Manipulation", ACM Transactions on Computer Graphics, Vol.24, No.3, ACM SIGGRAPH 2005, Los Angels, USA, 2005, pp. 1134-1141. PDF
• Takashi Ijiri, Makoto Okabe, Shigeru Owada, Takeo Igarashi, "Floral diagrams and inflorescences: Interactive flower modeling using botanical structural constraints" ACM Transactions on Computer Graphics, Vol.24, No.3, pp.720-726, ACM SIGGRAPH 2005, Los Angels, USA, 2005. PDF
• Takeo Igarashi, Tomer Moscovich, John F. Hughes, "Spatial Keyframing for Performance-driven Animation", ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, 2005, pp. 107-115. PDF
• Kazutaka Kurihara, David Vronay, Takeo Igarashi, "Flexible Timeline User Interface using Constraints", Proceedings of ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems(CHI'05), , 2005, pp.1581-1584. PDF
• Shigeru Owada, Frank Nielsen, Takeo Igarashi, "Volume Catcher", Proc. ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games 2005, pp. 111 - 116, 2005, PDF

2004

• Shigeru Owada, Frank Nielsen, Makoto Okabe, Takeo Igarashi, "Volumetric Illustration: Designing 3D Models with Internal Textures", ACM Transactions on Computer Graphics, Vol.23, No.3, ACM SIGGRAPH 2004, pp.322-328, Los Angels, USA, August 8-12, 2004. PDF, movie
• Takeo Igarashi, "3D Graphics for Everyday Communication", SICE Annual Conference 2004 (The Society of Instrument and Control Engieers), Sapporo, Japan, August 4-6, 2004. PDF
• Hua Wang, Helmut Prendinger, Takeo Igarashi, "Communicating Emotions in Online Chat Using Physiological Sensors and Animated Text", Proceedings of ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI'04, Vienna, Austria, April 24-29, 2004, pp.1171-1176. PDF
• Masatomo Kobayashi, Takeo Igarashi, "Considering the Direction of Cursor Movement for Efficient Traversal of Cascading Menus" (TechNote), 16th Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, ACM UIST'03, Vancouver, Canada, November 2-5, pp.91-94. PDF
• Makoto Okabe, Takeo Igarashi, "3D Modeling of Trees from Freehand Sketches", Technical Sketch, ACM SIGGRAPH 2003, July, 2003. PDF
• Takeo Igarashi, John F. Hughes, "Clothing Manipulation", UIST and I3D Reprise session, ACM SIGGRAPH 2003 San Diego, USA, July 27-31, 2003, p.697 PDF

2003

• Takeo Igarashi, "Freeform User Interfaces for Graphical Computing", Proceedings of 3rd International Symposium on Smart Graphics, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, July 2-4, 2003, pp.39-48. PDF
• Shigeru Owada, Frank Nielsen, Kazuo Nakazawa, Takeo Igarashi, "A Sketching Interface for Modeling the Internal Structures of 3D Shapes", Proceedings of 3rd International Symposium on Smart Graphics, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, July 2-4, 2003, pp.49-57. PDF
• Takeo Igarashi, John F. Hughes, "Smooth Meshes for Sketch-based Freeform Modeling", ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, ACM I3D'03, Monterey, California, April 27-30, 2003, pp.139-142. PDF

2002

• Takeo Igarashi, John F. Hughes, "Clothing Manipulation", 15th Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, ACM UIST'02, Paris, France, October 27-30, 2002, pp.91-100. ( Best Paper ) PDF
• Verlinden, J.C., Igarashi, T., Vergeest, J.S.M. "Snapshots and Bookmarks as a Graphical Design History", in proceedings of the Design 2002 (May 14-17 2002, Dubrovnik, Kroatia) ISBN 953-6313-46-4, pp. 567-572. PDF

2001

• Takeo Igarashi, John F. Hughes, "A Suggestive Interface for 3D Drawing ", 14th Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, ACM UIST'01, Orlando, Florida, November 11-14, 2001, pp.173-181. PDF
• Takeo Igarashi, John F. Hughes "Voice as Sound: Using Non-verbal Voice Input for Interactive Control " 14th Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, ACM UIST'01, Orlando, Florida, November 11-14, 2001, pp.155-156. PDF
• Takeo Igarashi, Dennis Cosgrove "Adaptive Unwrapping for Interactive Texture Painting" ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, ACM I3D'01 Research Triangle Park, NC, March 19-21, 2001, pp.209-216. PDF

2000

• Elizabeth D. Mynatt, Takeo Igarashi, W. Keith Edwards, Anthony LaMarca, "Designing an Augmened Writing Surface", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, July/August 2000, pp.55-61.
• Takeo Igarashi, Ken Hinckley "Speed-dependent automatic zooming for browsing large documents" 13th Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, ACM UIST'00, San Diego, CA , November 5-8, 2000, pp.139-148. PDF
• W. Keith Edwards, Takeo Igarashi, Anthony LaMarca, Elizabeth D. Mynatt "A Temporal Model for Multi-Level Undo and Redo" 13th Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, ACM UIST'00, San Diego, CA , November 5-8, 2000, pp.31-40.
• Takeo Igarashi, "Supportive Interfaces for Creative Visual Thinking" Collective Creativity Workshop, Nara (Japan), May 7-8, 2000. PDF
• Takeo Igarashi, W. Keith Edwards, Anthony LaMarca, Elizabeth D. Mynatt, " An Architecture for Pen-based Interaction on Electronic Whiteboards", AVI 2000, ACM Press, Palermo (Italy), May 24-26, 2000, pp.68-75. PDF

1999

• Masaaki Honda, Takeo Igarashi, Hidehiko Tanaka, Shuichi Sakai "Integrated Manipulation: Context-aware Manipulation of 2D Diagrams " (Technote) 12th Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, ACM UIST'99, Asheville, NC , November 7-10, 1999, pp.159-160. PDF
• Takeo Igarashi, Satoshi Matsuoka, Hidehiko Tanaka, "Teddy: A Sketching Interface for 3D Freeform Design" ACM SIGGRAPH'99, Los Angels, 1999, pp.409-416. ( Impact Paper ) PDF
• Takeo Igarashi, Elizabeth D. Mynatt, W. Keith Edwards, Anthony LaMarca, "Demonstrating Flatland User Interfaces" [Demonstration], ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM CHI'99, Extended Abstract, Pittsburgh, May 15-20, 1999, pp.27-28. PDF
• Elizabeth D. Mynatt, Takeo Igarashi, W. Keith Edwards, Anthony LaMarca, "Flatland: New Dimensions in Office Whiteboards", ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM CHI'99, Pittsburgh, May 15-20, 1999, pp. 346-353. PDF

1998

• Bay-Wei Chang, Jock D. Mackinlay, Polle Zellweger, Takeo Igarashi "A Negotiation Architecture for Fluid Documents", 11th Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, ACM UIST'98, San Fransisco, November 1-4, 1998, pp.123-132.
• Takeo Igarashi, Rieko Kadobayashi, Kenji Mase, Hidehiko Tanaka, "Path Drawing for 3D Walkthrough", 11th Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, ACM UIST'98, San Fransisco, November 1-4, 1998, pp.173-174. PDF
• Takeo Igarashi, Jock D. Mackinlay, Bay W. Chang, Polle T. Zellweger "Fluid Visualization for Spreadsheet Structures", 14th IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages , Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada , September 1st - 4th, 1998 , pp.118-125, ( Best Paper Award ) PDF
• Sachiko Kawachiya, Takeo Igarashi, Satoshi Matsuoka, Hidehiko Tanaka, "Reduction of Overhead in Drawing Figures with Computer - Detailed Analyses of Drawing Tasks -" Asia Pacific Computer Human Interaction 1998 (APCHI'98), 1998, pp.11-18.
• Takeo Igarashi, Satoshi Matsuoka, Sachiko Kawachiya, Hidehiko Tanaka "Pegasus: A Drawing System for Rapid Geometric Design", CHI'98 Summary (ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems) Los Angels, U.S.A, 18-23 April, 1998, pp.24-25. PS , PDF

1995-1997

• Takeo Igarashi, Satoshi Matsuoka, Sachiko Kawachiya, Hidehiko Tanaka "Interactive Beautification: A Technique for Rapid Geometric Design", UIST'97 ( ACM Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology) Banff, Canada, 14-17 October, 1997, pp.105-114. PS , PDF
• Takeo Igarashi, Sachiko Kawachiya, Satoshi Matsuoka, Hidehiko Tanaka "In Search for an Ideal Computer-Assisted Drawing System", INTERACT'97 ( The Sixth IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction ) Sydney, Australia, 14-18 July, 1997, pp.104-111. PS , PDF
• Sachiko Kawachiya, Takeo Igarashi, Satoshi Matsuoka, Hidehiko Tanaka, "GIGA:A Pen-Based Constraint Drawing System", Proc. of OZCHI'96(6th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction), 1996, pp.314-315.
• Takeo Igarashi, Satoshi Matsuoka, Toshiyuki Masui, "Adaptive Recognition of Human-Organized Implicit Structures", Proceedings of Visual Languages '95, September, 1995, pp. 258-266. PS , PDF

Book

• Takeo Igarashi, Nelson Max, Francois Sillion (Guest Editors), Computer Graphics Forum, Volume 27, Number 7, Proceedings of Pacific Graphics 2008, Eurographcis Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., ISSN 0167-7055, 2008.
• Marie-Paule Cani, Takeo Igarashi, Geoff Wyvill, Brian Barsky (Series Editor), "Interactive Shape Design", Morgan&Claypool Publishers, ISBN 1598292102, 2008
• Takeo Igarashi, "Data Structures and Algorithm", Saiensu-sha Co., Ltd. Piblishers, ISBN 978-4-901683-49-4, 2007.
• Takeo Igarashi, J.A.Jorge (Guest Editors), "Eurographics Symposium Proceedings, Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling 2005", Eurographcis Association, ISSN 1812-3503, 2005.

Dissertation

• Takeo Igarashi, Freeform User Interfaces for Graphical Computing, December 1999. PDF

Patents

• US PAT6,886,061 Electronic record system and control program device with display and tablet function for manipulating display area functions with pen stylus
• US PAT6,747,680 Speed-dependent automatic zooming interface
• US PAT6,584,479 Overlay presentation of textual and graphical annotations
• US PAT6,549,201 Method for constructing a 3D polygonal surface from a 2D silhouette by using computer, apparatus thereof and storage medium
• US PAT6,459,442 System for applying application behaviors to freeform data
• US PAT6,297,838 Spinning as a morpheme for a physical manipulatory grammar
• US PAT6,256,649 Animated spreadsheet for dynamic display of constraint graphs
• US PAT6,230,170 Spatial morphing of text to accommodate annotations
• US PAT6,185,582 Spreadsheet view enhancement system

Invited Talk

2009

• Guest Lecture, Interactive Smart Computers, Taiwan National University, Taipei, Taiwan, Sep 25, 2009.
• Keynote speech, Interactive Smart Computers, International Conference on Arts and Technology (ArtsIT2009), Yi-Lan, Taiwan, September 24, 2009.
• Invited talk, Interactive Smart Computers, IEEE International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications (SMI 2009), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, June 28, 2009.
• Guest Lecture, Interactive Smart Computers, Sophia Univesity, Tokyo, Japan, June 18, 2009.
• Guest Lecture, Interactive Smart Computers, MIT, Boston, USA, Mar 30, 2009.
• Guest Lecture, Interactive Smart Computers, Niigata Univesity, Niigata, Japan, Jan 22, 2009.
• Invited Talk, Interactive Smart Computers, Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology (PSIVT) 2009, Tokyo, Japan, Jan 15, 2009.
• Guest Lecture, Interactive Smart Computers, Meiji Univesity, Kawasaki, Japan, Jan 9, 2009.

2008

• Invited talk, Interactive Smart Computers, CREST symposium, Tokyo, Japan, Nov 10, 2008.
• Invited talk, Interactive Smart Computers, UK/Japan joint workshop on "Human-Computer Interaction Beyond the Desktop", Tokyo, Japan, Nov 18, 2008.
• Invited Lecture, Interactive Smart Computers, Chinagraph , Chansha, Changsha, Sep 26, 2008.
• Guest Lecture, Interactive Smart Computers, Sophia Univesity, Tokyo, Japan, June 12, 2008.
• Invited talk, Interactive Smart Computers, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, May 14, 2008.
• Keynote, Interactive Smart Computers, Eurographics 2008, Crete, Greece, April 14-18, 2008.

2007

• Invited talk, Interactive Smart Computers, The 2nd International Digital Image Forum, The Future Direction and Current Development of User-centered Digital Image Processing Technology, Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea, December 13, 2007.
• Guest Lecture, Interactive Smart Computers, Kochi University of Technology, Japan, Nov 27, 2007.
• Guest Lecture, Interactive Smart Computers, Sophia Univesity, Tokyo, Japan, June 14, 2007.
• Guest Lecture, Interactive Smart Computers, Chiba University of Technology, Japan, May 9, 2007.
• Guest Lecture, Interactive Smart Computers, University of Calinfornia, Berkley, USA, Apr 1, 2007
• Katayanagi Prize, Interactive Smart Computers, CMU, Pittsburgh, USA, 22 March 2007.
• Katayanagi Prize, Interactive Smart Computers, Tokyo Univ of Technolgy, Tokyo, Japan, 12 March 2007.

2006

• Keynote Speech, Interactive Smart Computers, Virtuality Conference, Turin, Italy, 20 October 2006
• Invited Talk, Interactive Smart Computers, International Workshop on Information Communication Technology Theory and Practice towards u-World, Sendai, Japan, 21 Dec, 2006.
• Invited Talk, Interactive Smart Computers, The 14th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics 2006), October 12, 2006 in Taipei, Taiwan.
• Guest Lecture, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, 5 June, 2006

-2005

• "Sketching Interfaces for 3D Modeling" and "As-Rigid-As-Possible Shape Manipulation", Invited Lecture, Aim@Shape Summer school on Interactive Shape Modeling, Darmstadt, Germany, July 8-11, 2005.
• "3D Graphics for Everyone", Invited Talk, The 2004 Kyoto Prize Workshop, Future of Personal Computing and Education, November 12, 2004, Kyoto.
• "Interactive Smart Computers"
  • Invited Talk, The International Conference on Creating, Connecting, and Collaborating through Computing, Shiran Kaikan, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Jan. 28-19, 2005.
  • Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China, June, 2004
  • University of Michigan, Ann Avor, Michigan, March, 2004
  • Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, June, 2003
  • Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea, June, 2003
  • Kyoto University, Kyoto, October, 2003
  • Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, October, 2003
• "Freeform User Interfaces for Graphical Computing",
  • Keynote Talk, Eurographics Workshop on Sketch-based Modeling and Interface, Grenoble, France, Aug, 2004.
  • Graphic/HCI Seminar, Stanford University, CA, Oct 18, 2001.
  • HCC Seminar, University of California, Berkeley, CA, Oct 16, 2001.
  • Institute for Creative Technologies, Los Angels, CA, Aug, 2001.
  • Mitsubishi Electronic Research Laboratories (MERL), Boston, MA, Feb, 2001.
  • University of Maryland, College Park, MD, (HCIL Seminar), Oct. 2000
• "Teddy: A Sketching Interface for 3D Freeform Design",
  • Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, Oct. 2000
  • The MIT Media Laboratory, Boston, MA, Nov. 1999
  • Siemens Corp. Research, Princeton, NJ, Nov. 1999
  • Microsoft Research, Seattle, WA, Oct, 1999
  • University of Washington, Seattle, WA, (CS departmental colloquium), Sep, 1999
  • ATR Media Integration & Communications Research Laboratories , Kyoto, June 1999
  • Ochanomizu University, Yound Researcher Seminar, Tokyo, June 1999
  • IBM Tokyo Basic Research Laboratory, Kanagawa, June 1999
  • Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Tokyo, June 1999
  • New York University, New York, (CS departmental colloquium), May 1999
  • Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, (ETC&HCII seminar), Apr 1999.
  • Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, (Brawn bag meeting), Apr 1999.
  • University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, (Graphics lunch), Mar.1999.
• Guest Lecture, "Designing Pen-based User Interfaces", Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Apr 1999.

Media

• Zooming in on Legibility, The Feature, 15 March (Tue), 2005.
• Seeking Better Web Searches, Scientific American, February 2005 issue, p.71, 2005.
• 3D Modelling From a Sketch Slashdot, Wed Dec 17, 2003.
• "Consonants Not Required", Slashdot, 18 October (Thu) , 2001.
• "Grunts to control computers", BBC News, 18 October (Thu) , 2001,
• "Easier Than Crayons: Graphics Grows Up" New York Times, August 18, 1999

Professional Service

• ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, Program committee, 2010.
• ACM CHI, Program committee, Associate chairs, 2010.
• Eurographics SBIM, Program committee 2009.
• ACM SCA, Program committee, 2009.
• Pacific Graphics, Program committee, 2009.
• ACM SIGGRAPH general submission / later-breaking results jury, 2009.
• ACM NPAR, Program committee, 2009.
• Shape Modeling International, Program committee, 2009.
• ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, Program committee, 2009.
• ACM CHI, Program committee, Associate chairs, 2009.
• ACM UIST, Program committee, 2008.
• Eurographics SBIM, Program committee 2008.
• ACM NPAR, Program committee, 2008.
• ACM SIGGRAPH, Papers program committee 2008.
• Pacific Graphics Program co-chair 2008.
• Pacific Graphics Program committee 2007.
• ACM NPAR, Program committee, 2007.
• ACM SIGGRAPH, Papers program committee 2007.
• ACM SIGGRAPH, Posters program Advisory Board 2007.
• IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces, Program Committee, 2007.
• ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, Program committee, 2007.
• IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Guest Editor, Special issue on sketching, 2006.
• ACM UIST, Program committee, 2006.
• Eurographics workshop on sketch-based modeling, program committee 2006.
• Eurographics, Program comittee, 2005, 2006.
• ACM SIGCHI, CHI-notes associate chair 2006.
• ACM UIST, Demo program Co-Chairs 2005.
• Eurographics workshop on sketch-based interfaces and modeling, program chair 2005.
• ACM UIST, Demo program committee 2004.
• Eurographics workshop on sketch-based modeling, program committee 2004.
• ACM SIGGRAPH, Posters program committee 2004.
• ACM CHI, Associate Chair, 2004.
• Smart Graphics 2003, Program committee, 2003, 2004.
• ACM SIGGRAPH, Papers Program committee, 2003, 2004.
• ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, Program committee, 2003, 2005.
• ACM Symposium on Computer Animation, Program committee, 2002, 2003, 2004.
• ACM Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering, Program committee, 2002,2004,2006.
• ACM User Interface Software and Technology, Program committee, 2001, 2002.

Awards

• Katayanagi Prize in Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University and Tokyo University of Technology, March 22, 2006.
• ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Significant New Researcher Award, August, 2006.
• Best paper: "Clothing Manipulation" ACM UIST'02, October, 2002.
• Best paper: "Fluid Visualization for Spreadsheet Structures", IEEE Visual Languages '98, September 1998,
• Impact paper: "Teddy: A Sketching Interface for 3D Freeform Design", ACM SIGGRAPH'99, August 1999,