Kai Kunze

Hi, I'm Kai. I work on technology to understand ourselves better. I'm an Associate Professor at the Keio Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University, Japan. General love for science, hacking, making and playing with tech.

news

9th - 11th Oct 2018 ISWC/UbiComp General Co-Chair in Singapore.

8th Oct. 2018 co-organized the 2nd eyewear workshop at UibComp ISWC in Singapore.

5th - 10 Aug. 2018 attended a Dagstuhl Seminar on Human Computer Integration, Wadern Germany.

26th - 30th Aug JST Presto Visit in Silicon Valley (NVP, IBM, PARC, Fujitsu etc.)

28th July - 3rd Aug 2017 attended Siggraph, Los Angeles.

5-10 Feb. 2017 co-organized a Dagstuhl Seminar on Beyond VR, Dagstuhl.

27-30 Dec. 2016 attenting the 33c3, Hamburg.

Nov 2016 PC-Co-Chair of IoT IoT 2016, Stuttgart.

recent blog posts

Kai @ Miraikan Science Quest

Sun, Aug 20, 2017

On the 9th August I had the opportunity to take part in a Miraikan Science Quest. It’s an open event at Miraikan, the Science Museum in Tokyo, to encourage a dialog between the public and researchers. This Science Quest was a premier, as it was the first ever held in English ;)

Kai @ Siggraph

Sun, Aug 20, 2017

My second Siggraph was pretty amazing again. Unfortunately, we had another emerging technology exhibit, so my time joining the main conference was limited.

JST Presto Project on Open Eyewear

Mon, Dec 26, 2016

I’m excited and happy to be one of few non-Japanese researchers to receive a JST Presto (Sakigake) project grant, on the Topic Open Collective Eyewear.