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2026/04/09
【Awards】The Augmented Humans 2026 Awards
At The Augmented Humans (AHs) International Conference 2026 — an international conference focusing on the augmentation of human physical, cognitive, and perceptual abilities through digital technologies — held in Okinawa, Japan from March 16th to 19th, 2026, two projects exhibited by the KMD Embodied Media Project received awards in the Poster & Demo track. ◆AHs 2026 “Best Demo Award” Demonstrating "The Third Between Us": Multi-User Co-Presence through Shared Auditory-Haptic Vibroscapes Jiayi Shen, Kiryu Tsujita, Kohei Kobayashi, Hanrui Peng, Fuko Yamamura, Ryoya Kagawa, Masaru Yokoi, Ximing Shen, Takatoshi Yoshida, and Kouta Minamizawa KMD Embodied Media Project x TV Asahi Corporationhttps://www.embodiedmedia.org/projects/the-third-between-us ◆...
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2026/04/09
【Award】TEI 2026 Awards
At The International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI2026) — an international conference focusing on the tangible interface and embodied interaction— held in Chicago, USA in March 2026, a paper presented by the KMD Embodied Media Project received awards in the paper track. ◆ TEI 2026 “Special Recognition Runner-up Award” ROomBOT: A Room as an Assistive Robotic Interface based on Cable-Driven Parallel Robotics Masahiro Ohta, Takatoshi Yoshida, Tomoya Sasaki, Jinsuke Morita, Hideaki Nii, and Kouta Minamizawa KMD Embodied Media Projecthttps://www.embodiedmedia.org/projects/roombot
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2026/04/01
Announcement Regarding the Appointment of New Dean and Director of the KMD Research Institute
We are pleased to announce that Professor Kouta Minamizawa has been appointed as the new Dean of the Graduate School, effective April 1, 2026. He succeeds Professor Masa Inakage, whose term concludes on March 31, 2026. Professor Nanako Ishido has been appointed as the director of the KMD Research Institute.  [Comment from Professor Masa Inakage] I am deeply grateful to the KMD community and our collaborators for their support in launching this ambitious graduate school and shaping it into a unique global platform for research and education with a strong commitment to social impact. Over eighteen years, this journey has...
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The Keio University Graduate School of Media Design (KMD) addresses real-world challenges while envisioning optimal futures. Our mission is to pioneer "media design" - creating new connections between people and their environments - while developing "media innovators" who transcend traditional disciplinary and national boundaries.