Waseda University

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How Does Delegation in Social Interaction Evolve Over Time? Navigation with a Robot for Blind People

Autonomy and independent navigation are vital to daily life but remain challenging for individuals with blindness. Robotic systems can enhance mobility and confidence by providing intelligent navigation assistance. However, fully autonomous systems may reduce users’ sense of control, even when they wish to remain acti…

CHI '26Honorable MentionBiosensors & Physiological Monitoring +2

Sensing Your Vocals: Exploring the Activity of Vocal Cord Muscles for Pitch Assessment Using Electromyography and Ultrasonography

Vocal training is difficult because the muscles that control pitch, resonance, and phonation are internal and invisible to learners. This paper investigates how Electromyography (EMG) and ultrasonic imaging (UI) can make these muscles observable for training purposes. We report three studies. First, we analyze the E…

CHI '26Social & Collaborative VR +2

Effects of Embodied Self-Distancing in Virtual Environments on Group Decision-Making

In organizational and team decision-making, it is critical for each member to engage in discussions from a broader perspective, without fixating on personal values and knowledge. Self-distancing has been proposed as a means of supporting such a perspective; however, its role in multiparty group discussions with decisi…

CHI '26Social Robot Interaction +2

Robot-Assisted Group Tours for Blind People

Group interactions are essential to social functioning, yet effective engagement relies on the ability to recognize and interpret visual cues, making such engagement a significant challenge for blind people. In this paper, we investigate how a mobile robot can support group interactions for blind people. We used the s…

CHI '26Social & Collaborative VR +3

Harassment in Virtual Reality: A Systematic Review

This systematic review examines harassment in virtual reality (VR), synthesizing findings from 85 studies published between 2017 and 2025. We propose a nuanced typology of harassment, encompassing spatial intrusion, sexual and verbal abuse, identity-based discrimination, group-targeted harassment, and systemic harms,…

CSCW '25Communicating With/Through AI

Introspectus AI: Long-term AI-Driven Dialogue Training To Promote Self-Reflection

IntrospectusAI is a generative AI-based system designed to enhance self-reflection and support positive behavior change. By leveraging multimodal information from users' daily life recordings, it provides personalized and detailed feedback, aiming to deepen self-awareness and facilitate positive behavioral adjustments…

DIS '25Serious & Functional Games +2

Cracking Aegis: An Adversarial LLM-based Game for Raising Awareness of Vulnerabilities in Privacy Protection

Traditional methods for raising awareness of privacy protection often fail to engage users or provide hands-on insights into how privacy vulnerabilities are exploited. To address this, we incorporate an adversarial mechanic in the design of the dialogue-based serious game Cracking Aegis. Leveraging LLMs to simulate na…

CHI '25Reproductive & Women's Health +1

Beyond Omakase: Designing Shared Control for Navigation Robots with Blind People

Autonomous navigation robots can increase the independence of blind people but often limit user control—following what is called in Japanese an "omakase" approach where decisions are left to the robot. This research investigates ways to enhance user control in social robot navigation, based on two studies conducted wi…

CHI '25Honorable MentionHuman-LLM Collaboration

Understanding and Supporting Formal Email Exchange by Answering AI-Generated Questions

Replying to formal emails is time-consuming and cognitively demanding, as it requires crafting polite phrasing and providing an adequate response to the sender's demands. Although systems with Large Language Models (LLMs) were designed to simplify the email replying process, users still need to provide detailed prompt…

CHI '25Conversational Chatbots +2

WanderGuide: Indoor Map-less Robotic Guide for Exploration by Blind People

Blind people have limited opportunities to explore an environment based on their interests. While existing navigation systems could provide them with surrounding information while navigating, they have limited scalability as they require preparing prebuilt maps. Thus, to develop a map-less robot that assists blind peo…

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Accessibility & Inclusive Design

Visual Impairment Technologies (Screen Readers, Tactile Graphics, Braille)

Robotics & Autonomous Systems

Social Robot Interaction

Virtual, Augmented & Mixed Reality (XR)

Social & Collaborative VR

Voice Interaction & Conversational Systems

Conversational Chatbots

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Context-Aware Computing