Affective Information Media Lab
Crossmodal interaction, enactive emergence, kinetic resonance, and the intersection of sound and touch.
Exploring how media can engage our affective senses, through practice-based research.
Crossmodal interaction, enactive emergence, kinetic resonance, and the intersection of sound and touch.
Exploring how media can engage our affective senses, through practice-based research.
Our research is organized around four pillars, explored through artistic practice
Expanding and transforming experience through sensory interactions. We explore what new affective experiences emerge when different sensory modalities intersect.
Exploration and emergence of sensory delight and reflective curiosity through action. We design spaces where the experiencer's active engagement triggers unexpected affective experiences.
Constructing fields where information and physical objects co-constitute through movement. Digital information manifests as physical motion, and physical motion generates information.
Exploring the significance of touch in sound art. We investigate how various tactile submodalities — thermal, kinesthetic, and more — transform the acoustic experience.
The creative process itself serves as a research method — through iterative cycles of conception, design, implementation, and experiential evaluation, we generate insights that theoretical inquiry alone cannot reach.
Research projects
A fluid-mediated music interface incorporating warm/cold sensory feedback, creating an experience where thermal sensation and sound are coupled.
Pillars: Multimodal/Crossmodal Affectivity, Hapsonic Art
A sound installation combining elastic materials and vibrotactile feedback. The work aims to evoke a sense of vitality through soft materials and an immersive underwater-like experience via multisensory integration of vision, audition, and touch.
Pillars: Multimodal/Crossmodal Affectivity, Enactive Affectivity, Hapsonic Art
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A multimodal heartbeat presentation device that conveys a sense of another person's presence and mental state. Presents heartbeats through multiple sensory channels such as sound, vibration, and light.
Pillars: Multimodal/Crossmodal Affectivity
YouTube →A group workshop exploring concepts that emerge from combining everyday objects with various impressions (onomatopoeia, adjectives, sensory qualities).
A group workshop brainstorming new expressions by combining everyday objects, places, and value-linked impressions.
Evaluating the kansei values of everyday objects using methods such as the Semantic Differential (SD) method.
Quantitatively evaluating and comparing emotions evoked by everyday objects using SAM (Self-Assessment Manikin) across three dimensions: valence, arousal, and dominance.
Evaluating and comparing the perceived restorativeness (appeal) of various everyday spaces using PRS (Perceived Restorativeness Scale).
Quantitatively evaluating preferences for multiple attributes of everyday objects using conjoint analysis to reveal the magnitude of each attribute's influence on preference.
Evaluating and comparing the user experience of everyday products and services from multiple perspectives using UX evaluation methods.
Faculty
Multimodal Interaction, Crossmodality, Sound Art, Kinetic Art
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