About

Shoko Kimura is a Assistant Professor at the Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto University. She received her Doctor of Engineering degree at the Department of Architecture Design, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan in 2024. She received her B. Eng. from Nihon University in 2009 and her M.S. degree from the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in 2021, respectively.

Her current interests are Mental/Autism/Developmental Disability Support, Calm Down, Inclusive, Digital Rehabilitation, Digital Fabrication, Media art, and Interaction.

Before she worked at Yamagata University as a researcher between 2015-2016, and an Academic Specialist and Technician at The University of Tokyo from 2021-2023, Assistant Professor from 2023-2025, at the Department of Intelligent Information Technology at Aoyama Gakuin University. She was also previously interested in HCI, affective engineering, and facial emotion. These studies are connected to the realization of an inclusive society that she is aiming for.

Ayaka Fujii received a Master’s degree from the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo, in 2019. She obtained a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, in 2023. After working at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), she has been with RIKEN since 2025. Her research focuses on human–robot interaction.

Kenichi Ito received his Ph.D. degree in 2024 from the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. He has been a researcher at Diver-X Inc. since 2024. His research interests include applying cross-modal effects to multimodal display.

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