Ken Nakagaki, Jordan L. Tappa, Yi Zheng, Joanne Leong, Sven Koenig, and Hiroshi Ishii:
“(Dis)Appearables: A Concept and Method for Actuated Tangible UIs to Appear and Disappear based on Stages,”
ACM CHI2022 (2022.4). [PDF] [ACM]

Ozgun Kilic Afsar, Ali Shtarbanov, Hila Mor, Ken Nakagaki, Jack Forman, Karen Modrei, Seung Hee Jeong, Klas Hjort, Kristina Höök, and Hiroshi Ishii:
“OmniFiber: Integrated Fluidic Fiber Actuators for Weaving Movement based Interactions into the ‘Fabric of Everyday Life’,”
ACM UIST2021 (2021.10). [PDF] [ACM]

Ken Nakagaki, Joanne Leong, Jordan L. Tappa, João Wilbert, and Hiroshi Ishii:
“HERMITS: Dynamically Reconfiguring the Interactivity of Self-propelled TUIs with Mechanical Shell Add-ons,”
ACM UIST2020 (2020.10). [PDF] [ACM]

Hila Mor, Tianyu Yu, Ken Nakagaki, Benjamin Harvey Miller, Yichen Jia, and Hiroshi Ishii:
“Venous Materials: Towards Interactive Fluidic Mechanisms,”
ACM CHI2020 (2020.4). [PDF] [ACM]

Ken Nakagaki, Yingda (Roger) Liu, Chloe Nelson-Arzuaga and Hiroshi Ishii:
“TRANS-DOCK: Expanding the Interactivity of Pin-based Shape Displays by Docking Mechanical Transducers,”
ACM TEI2020 (2020.2). [PDF] [ACM]

Takatoshi Yoshida, Xiaoyan Shen, Koichi Yoshino, Ken Nakagaki, and Hiroshi Ishii:
“SCALE: Enhancing Force-based Interaction by Processing Load Data from Load Sensitive Modules,”
ACM UIST2019 (2019.10). [PDF] [ACM]

Ken Nakagaki, Daniel Fitzgerald, Zhiyao (John) Ma, Luke Vink, Daniel Levine and Hiroshi Ishii:
“inFORCE: Bi-directional `Force’ Shape Display For Haptic Interaction,”
ACM TEI2019 (2019.3). [PDF] [ACM]

[Honorable Mention Award]

Alexandra Delazio, Ken Nakagaki, Roberta L. Klatzky, Scott E. Hudson, Jill Fain Lehman and Alanson P. Sample:
“Force Jacket: Pneumatically-Actuated Jacket for Embodied Haptic Experiences,”
ACM CHI2018 (2018.4) [PDF] [ACM]

Ken Nakagaki, Udayan Umapathi, Daniel Leithinger, and Hiroshi Ishii:
“AnimaStage: Hands-on Animated Craft on Pin-based Shape Displays,”
ACM DIS2017 (2017.6). [PDF] [ACM]

Ken Nakagaki, Artem Dementyev, Sean Follmer, Joseph A. Paradiso, and Hiroshi Ishii:
“ChainFORM: A Linear Integrated Modular Hardware System for Shape Changing Interfaces,”
ACM UIST2016 (2016.10). [PDF] [ACM]

Ken Nakagaki^*, Luke Vink^*, Jared Counts, Daniel Windham, Daniel Leithinger, Sean Follmer and Hiroshi Ishii:
“Materiable: Rendering Dynamic Material Properties in Response to Direct Physical Touch with Shape Changing Interfaces,”
ACM CHI2016 (2016.5). (^*The first two authors contributed equally.) [PDF] [ACM]

[Best Paper Honorable Mention Award]

Ken Nakagaki, Sean Follmer, and Hiroshi Ishii:
“LineFORM: Actuated Curve Interfaces for Display, Interaction, and Constraint,”
ACM UIST2015 (2015.11). [PDF] [ACM]

Ken Nakagaki, Keina Konno, Shuntaro Tashiro, Ayaka Ikezawa, Yusaku Kimura, Masaru Jingi, and Yasuaki Kakehi:
“Petanko Roller: A VR System with a Rolling-Pin Haptic Interface for Entertainment,”
10th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE2013) (2013.11). [Springer]

Ken Nakagaki

Interaction Designer / HCI Researcher @UChicago CS

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