Hokkaido University

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Understanding the Feasibility of Auditory Hand-Steering Guidance for Blind and Low-Vision People

Everyday tasks like hand-washing and tea-making require people to steer their hands to use tools, navigating their hands to reach targets while avoiding hazards. Hand-steering becomes challenging when one cannot visually recognize if their hand is approaching the target and is away from hazards. Currently, no practica…

CSCW '25Voice Technology

“I feel lonely when they stop chatting”: Exploring Auditory Comment Display for Eyes-Free Social-Viewing Experience in Online Music Videos

Online music videos on video-sharing platforms offer video comments that viewers can read to enjoy their social-viewing experience. However, because these comments rely on visual elements through texts, they are not accessible to eyes-free listeners, such as those who listen to music videos while jogging, commuting, o…

CHI '25Honorable MentionAR Navigation & Context Awareness +1

“I can run at night!": Using Augmented Reality to Support Nighttime Guided Running for Low-vision Runners

Dark environment challenges low-vision (LV) individuals to engage in running by following sighted guide—a Caller-style guided running—due to insufficient illumination, because it prevents them from using their residual vision to follow the guide and be aware about their environment. We design, develop, and evaluate Ru…

CHI '25Honorable MentionEye Tracking & Gaze Interaction +2

Understanding Usability of VR Pointing Methods with a Handheld-style HMD for Onsite Exhibitions

Handheld-style head-mounted displays (HMDs) are becoming increasingly popular as a convenient option for onsite exhibitions. However, they lack established practices for basic interactions, particularly pointing methods. Through our formative study involving practitioners, we discovered that controllers and hand gestu…

UIST '24Best PaperIn-Vehicle Haptic, Audio & Multimodal Feedback +1

EarHover: Mid-Air Gesture Recognition for Hearables Using Sound Leakage Signals

We introduce EarHover, an innovative system that enables mid-air gesture input for hearables. Mid-air gesture input, which eliminates the need to touch the device and thus helps to keep hands and the device clean, has been known to have high demand based on previous surveys. However, existing mid-air gesture input met…

MOBILEHCI '24Vibrotactile Feedback & Skin Stimulation +1

Exploring User-Defined Gestures as Input for Hearables and Recognizing of Ear-Touch Gestures by IMUs

Hearables are highly functional earphone-type wearables; however, existing input methods using stand-alone hearables are limited in the number of commands, and there is a need to extend device operation through hand gestures. In previous research on hearables for hand input, user understanding and gesture recognition…

UBICOMP '23Passwords & Authentication

User Authentication Method for Hearables Using Sound Leakage Signals

We propose a novel biometric authentication method that leverages sound leakage signals from hearables that are captured by an external microphone. A sweep signal is played from hearables, and sound leakage is recorded using an external microphone. This sound leakage signal represents the acoustic characteristics of t…

UBICOMP '23Mid-Air Haptics (Ultrasonic) +1

UltrasonicWhisper: Ultrasound Can Generate Audible Sound in Your Hearable

Recent studies have shown that ultrasound can be used for voice input to microphones such as smart speakers by taking advantage of the nonlinearity of the microphones. A similar attack on the hearing of a user wearing a hearable with an outside microphone is also possible. Specifically, information modulated by ultr…

UBICOMP '23Haptic Wearables +1

Input Interface with Touch and Non-touch Interactions using Atmospheric Pressure for Hearable Devices

A hearable device is a wearable computer that is worn on the ear. In addition to offering conventional music listening functions when utilized as earphones, a hearable device can be linked to smartphones and various onboard sensors to recognize user actions and voice assistants. Although some devices recognize command…

CHI '22Eye Tracking & Gaze Interaction +1

Kuiper Belt: Utilizing the "Out-of-natural Angle" Region in the Eye-gaze Interaction for Virtual Reality

The maximum physical range of horizontal human eye movement is approximately $45^\circ$. However, in a natural gaze shift, the difference in the direction of the gaze relative to the frontal direction of the head rarely exceeds $25^\circ$. We name this region of $25^\circ - 45^\circ$ the ``Kuiper Belt'' in the eye-gaz…

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Virtual, Augmented & Mixed Reality (XR)

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Gesture, Body & Motion Interaction

Eye Tracking & Gaze Interaction

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Vibrotactile Feedback & Skin Stimulation

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Motor Impairment Assistive Input Technologies

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Audio Accessibility (Captions, Sign Language, Vibration)