• Ken Nakagaki

      Interaction Designer / HCI Researcher @UChicago CS

    • 'Actuated Experience'

      I invent and speculate on the gap between our fingertips and the physical world, with means of physical computing, robotics, and HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) research. I investigate the future of the physical environment and materials coupled with computation for novel tangible and embodied experiences.

       

      Currently, as an assistant professor at the University of Chicago, I direct Actuated Experience Lab - AxLab, where we invent and design the future User Experience based on actuated User Interface technology that shape-change and physic reconfigures.​

    • [New] I've launched AxLab's Web!

      I have released my lab's webpage at axlab.cs.uchicago.edu.

       

      My latest projects will be updated on the lab's webpage.

       

      Please check AxLab's Twitter and Instagram as well!

      Research Summary

      Presentation

      Originally created for MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35 Japan Award Ceremony.

       

      *Japanese Version: こちら

    • Selected Research

      See Full Portfolio here

      (Dis)Appearables

      Making TUIs Appear and Disappear with Stages

      [CHI '22, Nakagaki et al]

      PDF | ACM | Video | Web

      OmniFiber

      Pneumatic Muscle Fiber Interaction Toolkit

      [UIST '21, Kilic et al]]

      PDF | ACM | Video | Web

      HERMITS

      Mechanical Shell Add-ons for Robotic TUIs

      [UIST '20, Nakagaki et al]

      Japan Media Arts Festival - Jury Selections

      PDF | ACM | Video | Web

      Venous Materials

      Interactive Fluidic Mechanism

      [CHI '20, Mor et al]

      FastCo Innovation by Design Awards

      PDF | ACM | Video | Web

      TRANS-DOCK

      Shape Displays with Interchangeable Transducers

      [TEI '20, Nakagaki et al]

      PDF | ACM | Video | Web

      inFORCE

      Bi-directional 'Force' Shape Display

      [TEI '19, Nakagaki et al]

      Honorable Mention Award

      PDF | ACM | Video | Web

      Force Jacket

      Pneumatically-Actuated Jacket for Embodied Haptic Experiences

      [CHI '18, Delazio et al]

      PDF | ACM | Video | Web

      AnimaStage

      Animated Craft on Shape Display

      [DIS '17, Nakagaki et al]

      PDF | ACM | Video | Web

      ChainFORM

      Modular Line-based Shape Changing UIs

      [UIST '16, Nakagaki et al]

      YouFab Award - Finalist

      PDF | ACM | Video | Web

      Materiable

      Representing Material Property with Shape Changing UIs

      [CHI '16, Nakagaki et al]

      Honorable Mention Award

      PDF | ACM | Video | Web

      LineFORM

      Line-based Shape Changing UIs

      [UIST '15, Nakagaki et al]

      Golden A' Design Award

      PDF | ACM | Video | Web

      TRANSFORM

      Dynamic and Adaptive Furniture

      [CHI '15 EA, Vink et al]

      Golden Mouse Award

      PDF | ACM | Video | Web  

      COMP*PASS

      Digitally Augmented Compass

      [CHI '14 Interactivity, Nakagaki et al]

      James Dyson Award - TOP20

      PDF | ACM | Video

      Petanko Roller

      Rolling Pin-based Haptic Interface

      [ACE '13, Nakagaki et al]

      Japan Media Arts Festival - Jury Selections

      PDF | Springer | Video

    • Career and Education

      View the Full CV here

      The University of Chicago

      Assistant Prof. of Computer Science Department

      Chicago, IL, USA
      Jan 2022 - 

      Director of AxLab

      MIT Media Lab

      Postdoctoral Associate

      Cambridge, MA USA

      Sep 2021 - Dec 2021

      MIT Media Lab

      M.S and Ph.D & Research Assistant

      Cambridge, MA USA

      Sep 2014 - Aug 2021

      Advisor: Prof. H. Ishii

      Disney Research Pittsburgh

      Research Associate (Intern)

      Pittsburgh, PA USA

      May - Aug 2017

      Advisor: Dr. A. Sample

      Keio University SFC

      B.A. and M.M.G

      Kanagawa, JAPAN

      Apr 2009 - Aug 2014

      Advisor: Prof. Y. Kakehi

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