National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

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UIST '25360° Video & Panoramic Content +1

Tweeq: Parameter-Tuning GUI Widgets by/for Creative Professionals

Professionals in the creative industry rely on digital content authoring tools that provide graphical user interface (GUI) widgets for tuning primitive values, such as numeric sliders, rotary knobs, and color pickers. Despite their prevalence, GUI studies have sometimes been considered “done” in the context of HCI, an…

UIST '25Human-LLM Collaboration +1

Cooperative Design Optimization through Natural Language Interaction

Designing successful interactions requires identifying optimal design parameters. To do so, designers often conduct iterative user testing and exploratory trial-and-error. This involves balancing multiple objectives in a high-dimensional space, making the process time-consuming and cognitively demanding. System-led op…

CHI '25Graphic Design & Typography Tools +1

FontCraft: Multimodal Font Design Using Interactive Bayesian Optimization

Creating new fonts requires a lot of human effort and professional typographic knowledge. Despite the rapid advancements of automatic font generation models, existing methods require users to prepare pre-designed characters with target styles using font-editing software, which poses a problem for non-expert users. To…

CHI '25Intelligent Voice Assistants (Alexa, Siri, etc.) +2

Inter(sectional) Alia(s): Ambiguity in Voice Agent Identity via Intersectional Japanese Self-Referents

Conversational agents that mimic people have raised questions about the ethics of anthropomorphizing machines with human social identity cues. Critics have also questioned assumptions of identity neutrality in humanlike agents. Recent work has revealed that intersectional Japanese pronouns can elicit complex and somet…

CHI '25Intelligent Voice Assistants (Alexa, Siri, etc.) +1

Super Kawaii Vocalics: Amplifying the “Cute” Factor in Computer Voice

"Kawaii" is the Japanese concept of cute, which carries sociocultural connotations related to social identities and emotional responses. Yet, virtually all work to date has focused on the visual side of kawaii, including in studies of computer agents and social robots. In pursuit of formalizing the new science of kawa…

CHI '24Graphic Design & Typography Tools +2

Griffith: A Storyboarding Tool Designed with Japanese Animation Professionals

The ``E-conte,'' storyboard in English, is commonly referred to as the ``blueprint'' in Japanese animation (anime) production, consisting of scene illustrations, timing information, and textual descriptions. This paper introduces ``Griffith,'' a digital system for creating these storyboards. Due to its highly cultura…

CHI '23Honorable MentionAI-Assisted Creative Writing +1

Lyric App Framework: A Web-based Framework for Developing Interactive Lyric-driven Musical Applications

Lyric videos have become a popular medium to convey lyrical content to listeners, but they present the same content whenever they are played and cannot adapt to listeners' preferences. Lyric apps, as we name them, are a new form of lyric-driven visual art that can render different lyrical content depending on user int…

CHI '23Human-LLM Collaboration +2

CatAlyst: Domain-Extensible Intervention for Preventing Task Procrastination Using Large Generative Models

CatAlyst uses generative models to help workers’ progress by influencing their task engagement instead of directly contributing to their task outputs. It prompts distracted workers to resume their tasks by generating a continuation of their work and presenting it as an intervention that is more context-aware than conv…

UIST '22Generative AI (Text, Image, Music, Video) +2

BO as Assistant: Using Bayesian Optimization for Asynchronously Generating Design Suggestions

Many design tasks involve parameter adjustment, and designers often struggle to find desirable parameter value combinations by manipulating sliders back and forth. For such a multi-dimensional search problem, Bayesian optimization (BO) is a promising technique because of its intelligent sampling strategy; in each iter…

UIST '22Generative AI (Text, Image, Music, Video) +1

Photographic Lighting Design with Photographer-in-the-Loop Bayesian Optimization

It is important for photographers to have the best possible lighting configuration at the time of shooting; otherwise, they need post-processing on images, which may cause artifacts and deterioration. Thus, photographers often struggle to find the best possible lighting configuration by manipulating lighting devices,…

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Creative Tools & Content Creation

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