Awards and Fundings

• Mar. 2016, IPSJ Interaction 2016 Interactive Presentation Award (Program Committee selection)
• Jul. 2015, SMC 2015 Best Paper (for the co-authored CrossSong paper)
• Apr. 2015, ACM CHI '15 Best Paper Honorable Mention Award
• Nov. 2014, JSSST WISS 2014 Best Paper Award
• Nov. 2014, HAI 2014 Best Paper Nominee
• Aug. 2014, IPSJ SIGMUS Best Presentation Award
• Jul. 2014, PhD dissertation selected for IPSJ Quick Report on Doctoral Theses Recommended by SIGs
• Oct. 2013, JDP Good Design Award for OpenPool Project
• Jun. 2013, ACM PLDI '13 Student Research Competition Finalist
• Apr. 2013, ACM CHI '13 Best Paper Honorable Mention Award
• 2012, Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship 2012 Award
• Apr. 2011 - Mar. 2012, Microsoft Research 7th Collaborative Research (CORE7) Program Principal Investigator
• Apr. 2011 - Mar. 2014, JSPS Research Fellowships for Young Scientists (DC1)
• Nov. 2011, 4th Rakuten Research & Development Symposium Best Research & Development Award
• 2010, ACM Student Research Competition Grand Finals Finalist
• Aug. 2009, ACM SIGGRAPH '09 Laval Virtual Award (Best of Emerging Technologies)
• Apr. 2009, ACM CHI '09 Student Research Competition 1st Place
• Dec. 2008 - Aug. 2009, IPA Exploratory IT Human Resources Project (MITOH)

Talks

• Jun. 2017, CMU HCII, Special Human-Computer Interaction Talk, "Delivering Benefits of Programming to Everyone through Programming Experience Research", Video
• Jun. 2017, Dagstuhl Seminar 17232 (Computational Interactivity), "The Future of Programming and Data Sciences"
• Apr. and May 2016, Viewpoints Research Institute and Y Combinator Research HARC, "Programming with {Examples | People}"
• Jul. 2015, University of Bristol BIG Group seminar, "Integrated Design Environments for Creating Interactive Media Content"
• Jun. 2014, University of Manitoba HCI Lab seminar, "Toward Live Programming in the Real World"
• Jun. 2014, University of Toronto DGP seminar, "Toward Live Programming in the Real World"
• Oct. 2013, University of Washington dub seminar, "Integrated Graphical Representations for Programming with Real-world Input and Output", Video
• May 2011 Microsoft Research Asia, Document

Publications

BibTex file including publications shown below is available for download. Domestic publication can be found on the Japanese page.

7/14/2016 update: My new journal article has been published in the IEEE Computer special issue on the 21st Century User Interfaces that discusses interaction design of programming environments that support development of data-intensive applications. Jun Kato, Takeo Igarashi, and Masataka Goto. "Programming with Examples to Develop Data-Intensive User Interfaces", Jul. 2016.

9/23/2015 update: My Ph.D dissertation finally got online on the university's repository. Jun Kato, "Integrated Graphical Representations for Development of Programs with Real-world Input and Output", Mar. 2014.

• Paper (archival and semi-archival)
• Poster and demo (non-archival)
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1. Jun Kato, Masataka Goto, "F3.Js: A Parametric Design Tool for Physical Computing Devices for Both Interaction Designers and End-users", In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems. pp.1099-1110, 2017.
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2. Jun Kato, Masataka Goto, "User-Generated Variables: Streamlined Interaction Design for Feature Requests and Implementations", In Companion to the First International Conference on the Art, Science and Engineering of Programming. pp.28:1-28:7, 2017.
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3. Jordan B.L. Smith, Jun Kato, Satoru Fukayama, Graham Percival, Masataka Goto, "The CrossSong Puzzle: Developing a Logic Puzzle for Musical Thinking", In Journal of New Music Research. pp.1-16, 2017.
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4. Jun Kato, Masataka Goto, "A Robotic Framework for Video Recording and Authoring", In Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. pp.41-41, 2017.
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5. Jun Kato, Masataka Goto, "Live Tuning: Expanding Live Programming Benefits to Non-Programmers", In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Live Programming Systems. 2016.
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6. Jun Kato, Takeo Igarashi, Masataka Goto, "Programming with Examples to Develop Data-Intensive User Interfaces", In Computer 49(7). pp.34-42, Jul. 2016. Special Issue on 21st User Interfaces.
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7. Tomoyasu Nakano, Jun Kato, Masahiro Hamasaki, Masataka Goto, "PlaylistPlayer: An Interface Using Multiple Criteria to Change the Playback Order of a Music Playlist", In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. pp.186-190, 2016.
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8. Jun Kato, Masataka Goto, "Form Follows Function(): An IDE to Create Laser-cut Interfaces and Microcontroller Programs from Single Code Base", In Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. pp.43-44, 2015.
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9. Jordan Smith, Graham Parcival, Jun Kato, Masataka Goto, Satoru Fukayama, "CrossSong Puzzle: Generating and Unscrambling Music Mash-ups with Real-time Interactivity", In SMC '15: Proceedings of the 12nd Sound and Music Computing Conference. pp.61-67, Jul. 2015. SMC 2015 Best Paper Award.
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10. Jun Kato, Tomoyasu Nakano, Masataka Goto, "TextAlive Online: Live Programming of Kinetic Typography Videos with Online Music", In ICLC '15: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Live Coding. pp.199-205, Jul. 2015.
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11. Jun Kato, Tomoyasu Nakano, Masataka Goto, "TextAlive: Integrated Design Environment for Kinetic Typography", In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. pp.3403-3412, 2015. ACM CHI 2015 Best Paper Honorable Mention Award.
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12. Jun Kato, Daisuke Sakamoto, Takeo Igarashi, Masataka Goto, "Sharedo: To-do List Interface for Human-agent Task Sharing", In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Human-agent Interaction. pp.345-351, 2014. HAI 2014 Best Paper Nominee.
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13. Jun Kato, Takeo Igarashi, "VisionSketch: Integrated Support for Example-centric Programming of Image Processing Applications", In Proceedings of the 2014 Graphics Interface Conference. pp.115-122, 2014.
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14. Koumei Fukahori, Daisuke Sakamoto, Jun Kato, Takeo Igarashi, "CapStudio: An Interactive Screencast for Visual Application Development", In CHI '14 EA: Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. pp.1453-1458, 2014.
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15. Jun Kato, "Integrated Visual Representations for Programming with Real-world Input and Output", In UIST '13: Proceedings of the adjunct publication of the 26th annual ACM symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. pp.57-60, 2013.
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16. Jun Kato, Takashi Nakashima, Hideki Takeoka, Kazunori Ogasawara, Kazuma Murao, Toshinari Shimokawa, Masaaki Sugimoto, "OpenPool: Community-based Prototyping of Digitally-augmented Billiard Table", In GCCE '13: Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Global Conference on Consumer Electronics. pp.175-176, Oct. 2013.
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17. Jun Kato, "Visionsketch: Gesture-based Language for End-user Computer Vision Programming", In Student Research Competition at PLDI '13: The 34th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation. Jun. 2013. ACM PLDI 2013 Student Research Competition Finalist.
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18. Sebastian Burckhardt, Manuel Fahndrich, Peli Halleux, Sean McDirmid, Michal Moskal, Nikolai Tillmann, Jun Kato, "It's Alive! Continuous Feedback in UI Programming", In PLDI '13: Proceedings of the 34th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation. pp.95-104, 2013.
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19. Jun Kato, Daisuke Sakamoto, Takeo Igarashi, "Picode: Inline Photos Representing Posture Data in Source Code", In CHI '13: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. pp.3097-3100, Apr. 2013. ACM CHI 2013 Best Paper Honorable Mention Award.
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20. Jun Kato, Sean McDirmid, Xiang Cao, "DejaVu: Integrated Support for Developing Interactive Camera-Based Programs", In UIST '12: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. pp.189-196, Oct. 2012.
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21. Jun Kato, Daisuke Sakamoto, Takeo Igarashi, "Phybots: A Toolkit for Making Robotic Things", In DIS '12: Proceedings of the 9th conference on Designing Interactive Systems. pp.248-257, Jun. 2012.
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22. Jun Kato, Daisuke Sakamoto, Takeo Igarashi, "Surfboard: Keyboard with Microphone as a Low-cost Interactive Surface", In UIST '10: Adjunct proceedings of the 23nd annual ACM symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. pp.387-388, Oct. 2010.
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23. Daisuke Sakamoto, Jun Kato, Masahiko Inami, Takeo Igarashi, "A Toolkit for Easy Development of Mobile Robot Applications with Visual Markers and a Ceiling Camera", In UIST '09: 22nd symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. Oct. 2009.
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24. Thomas Seifried, Christian Rendl, Florian Perteneder, Jakob Leitner, Michael Haller, Daisuke Sakamoto, Jun Kato, Masahiko Inami, Stacey D. Scott, "CRISTAL, Control of Remotely Interfaced Systems using Touch-based Actions in Living Spaces", In SIGGRAPH '09: ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 Emerging Technologies. Aug. 2009. Laval Virtual Award (Best of Emerging Technologies).
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25. Jun Kato, Daisuke Sakamoto, Masahiko Inami, Takeo Igarashi, "Multi-touch Interface for Controlling Multiple Mobile Robots", In CHI '09 EA: Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. pp.3443-3448, Apr. 2009. ACM CHI 2009 Student Research Competition 1st Place.
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