Hi, I'm Kai. I strive to make technology more accessible and our lives more predictable.
-General love for science, hacking and playing with tech- I work as an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University, Japan. more
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7-12 May 2016 attending CHI 2016, San Jose, US. 28 Feb -1 Mar 2016 KAIST GSCT and KMD Workshop at KAIST Daejeon, South Korea. 24-29 Jan 2016 organized a Dagstuhl Seminar on Eyewear Computing, Wadern, Germany. 19-21 Nov 2015 IDAKS Meeting in Fukuoka. 13 Nov 2015 presented and participated in a Panel at Science Agora, Odaiba. 26-27 Oct 2015 attended NII Activity Recognition Workshop, Karuizawa. 14 Oct 2015 attended J!NS MEME Press Conference, Omotesando. 13 - 17 Sep 2015 attended NII Shonan Meeting, Shonan. 09 - 11 Sep 2015 attended UbiComp/ISWC, Osaka. 08 Sep 2015 co-organized UbiComp Workshop WAHM Osaka. 03 - 04 Sep 2015 Workshop with KAIST GSCT Professors, Yokohama. 09 - 14 Aug 2015 2 E-Tech Demos at SIGGRAPH Los Angeles. 21 - 23 May 2015 Pervasive Health Istanbul, Turkey. 19 May 2015 ISWC PC Meeting at Google, Mountain View. 18 May 2015 visiting d-school , Stanford, US. 18 - 23 Apr 2015 attending CHI , Seoul. 16 Apr 2015 organized EyeWear Computing Workshop , Tokyo.

10-13 Mar 2015 attending Augmented Human , Singapore. 27 Jan 2015 NAIST visit and talk, Nara, Japan. 27-30 Dec 2014 talk at 31C3, Slides. 20 Oct 2014 visiting Tokuda Lab, Slides. 01-05 Sep 2014 attending a Dagstuhl Seminar. 28-31 Jul 2014 attending MIRU in Okayama. 19-22 Jul 2014 attending APCV in Takamatsu Slides on Speaker Deck. 22-29 Jun 2014 attending Big Data Workshop, Goldrain, Italy. Slides (2MB). 16-19 Jun 2014 attending IDAKS Workshop, Dresden. 1-5 Apr 2014 attending a Sino-German Symposium, Kaiserslautern. 5-7 Mar 2014 attending Augmented Human. 27 Feb 2014 attending Innovate Osaka . 27 Feb 2014 Google Glass Talk at OPU, Osaka. 24 Feb 2014 attending the Symposium on Service Systems Science, Tokyo. 13 Feb 2014 presenting at Hacker News Kansai Meetup , (Slides), Kobe. 27-30 Dec 2013 attending 30c3 , Hamburg. 18 Nov 2013 attending NII Shonan Meeting , Shonan. 05 Nov 2013 attending ACPR, Naha, Okinawa. 08 Sep 2013 at UBICOMP / ISWC (slides), Zurich. 25 Aug 2013 at ICDAR, Washington D.C. 23 Aug 2013 invited keynote at CBDAR (slides), Washington D.C. 05 Aug 2013 invited keynote at AI4IE, Beijing, China. 28 Apr 2013 attending CHI 2013, Paris, France. 28 Mar 2013 invited talk at NII, Toyko. 13 Mar 2013 invited talk (slides) at MPI, Saarbruecken. 07 Mar 2013 attending Augmented Human 2013. 23 Dec 2012 visiting Kyushu University. 02 Dec 2012 attending the AR Dagstuhl Seminar. 29 Oct 2012 attending ACM Multimedia 2012 in Nara. 15 Oct 2012 visiting Kyushu University. 27 Sep 2012 Sendai visit for the CREST project 01 Aug 2012 finalizing coordination of a Dagstuhl Seminar. 23 Jul 2012 attending the Activity Context Workshop. 12 Jul 2012 invited talk at AAAI Workshop in Toronto. 04 Jul 2012 started working as Assistant Professor in Osaka. 01 Aug 2011 began to work for the FuturICT project proposal.

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Kai at CHI 2016 back @ this year's CHI 2016. We just have 3 Late Breaking Work submissions accepted ... May 8, 2016

Lessons from the Dagstuhl Seminar on Eyewear Computing We took a risk in organizing the Eyewear Computing Seminar as we deviated largely from the standard model, yet I believe it payed off. May 7, 2016

Looking back on UbiComp/ISWC in Osaka It felt nice to be back in Kansai for the biggest conferences in my field. September 28, 2015

After my first SIGGRAPH I'm impressed mostly by the Hacking Studios and the interactivity exhibits. Siggraph is my new favorite research conference. September 14, 2015

Affective Wear- Recognizing facial expressions Katsutoshi Masai, one of my Master students had the idea to track facial expressions using low cost sensors in glasses. Quite nice work! August 18, 2015

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