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Ken Nakagaki selected as one of MIT Technology Review's "Innovators Under 35: Japan" for 2020

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Jan. 20, 2021

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Tangible Media PhD student Ken Nakagaki has been chosen as one of MIT Technology Review's "Innovators Under 35: Japan" for 2020.

The award recognizes Nakagaki's work developing tangible interfaces, such as LineFORM, ChainFORM, and HERMITS.

See all of the winners (in Japanese) Read the profile of Ken Nakagaki (in Japanese) See all of the winners (in English) Read the profile of Ken Nakagaki (in English)

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Ken Nakagaki selected as one of MIT Technology Review's "Innovators Under 35: Asia Pacific" for 2021

Nakagaki is an incoming assistant professor at the University of Chicago, where he's launching his own lab, the Actuated Experience Lab.

MIT’s HERMIT crab robots can do anything you shell them to

Inspired by the shell-swapping hermit crab, MIT’s HERMITS use interchangeable mechanical shells to do all sorts of creative things

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Mechanical Shells: Physical Add-ons for Extending and Reconfiguring the Interactivity of Actuated TUIs

Ken Nakagaki. 2020. Mechanical Shells: Physical Add-ons for Extending and Reconfiguring the Interactivities of Actuated TUIs. In Adjunct Publication of the 33rd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '20 Adjunct). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 151–156. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3379350.3415801

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HERMITS: Dynamically Reconfiguring the Interactivity of Self-propelled TUIs with Mechanical Shell Add-ons

Ken Nakagaki, Joanne Leong, Jordan L. Tappa, João Wilbert, and Hiroshi Ishii. 2020. HERMITS: Dynamically Reconfiguring the Interactivity of Self-propelled TUIs with Mechanical Shell Add-ons. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 882–896. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3379337.341583

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CambridgeCHI

This event was organized as an alternative for CHI 2020 (which got canceled due to COVID-19) for paper authors in the Cambridge, MA area.