Dual-purpose Interaction: Designing interactive systems interwoven with what people already do
Guest Speaker: Dr. Koji Yatani, Associate Professor, School of Engineering, University of Tokyo
Moderated by Dr. Reza Rawassizadeh, Associate Professor of Computer Science
November 15, 2022
Abstract: Interweaving technology into our daily life is a dream of ubiquitous computing. Such integration not only achieves indistinguishability of technology, but also creates additional values and benefits in existing user interaction. In this talk, I am sharing our recent work that adds new benefits to existing user interaction and behavior. I present three projects that exploit existing user interaction in usable security and interactive machine teaching. I also share our envision on how HCI research can enrich people’s life through interface design with multiple purposes.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Koji Yatani (https://yatani.jp) is an Associate Professor and 2017 UTokyo Excellent Young Researcher in Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems (EEIS), School of Engineering at The University of Tokyo, where he leads Interactive Intelligent Systems Laboratory (https://iis-lab.org). He is also affiliated with Emerging Design and Informatics Course, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies. His research emphasizes on development and evaluations of IoT applications with novel sensing technology, productivity/creativity support, creative use of AI technology for interactive systems, and usable security. He was the winner of RIEC Award (2019); IPSJ/ACM Award for Early Career Contributions to Global Research (2020); Japan ACM SIGCHI Local Chapter Distinguished Young Researcher Award (2021); Funai Academic Award (2021); and IPSJ Microsoft Faculty Award (2022). He also received 2 Best Paper awards at CHI (2011 and 2016) as well as 3 Honorable Mention Awards at CHI (2014, 2020) and 2 at MobileHCI (2014). He was also a winner of School of Engineering Best Teaching Award at University of Tokyo (2022). Dr. Koji Yatani served as a founding editor for Proceedings of ACM Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technology (2016–2020), a Papers co-Chair for CHI 2022, a Program co-Chair for UbiComp 2015, and a subcommittee co-chair for CHI 2019 and 2020. He was also a Steering Committee chair for UbiComp (2019 — 2021). He currently serves as a Vice chair for Japan ACM SIGCHI Chapter.