This talk will highlight recent research projects at the IIS-Lab, University of Tokyo ( http://iis-lab.org ) including sensing technologies, wearable/mobile devices, tangible user interfaces, programming activity support, and novel user interfaces.

 

The talk will introduce SpinalLog, a novel tangible user interface for teaching and learning spinal mobilisation. The system was co-designed with physiotherapy experts to look and feel like a human spine, supporting the learning of mobilisation techniques through real-time visual feedback and deformation-based passive haptic feedback. We evaluated Physical Fidelity, Visual Feedback and Passive Haptic Feedback in an experiment to understand their effects on physiotherapy students' ability to replicate a mobilisation pattern recorded by an expert. We found that simultaneous feedback has the largest effect, followed by passive haptic feedback. The high fidelity of the interface has little effect, but it plays an important role in the perception of the system's benefit. It will also introduce CodeGlass and RealCode that repurpose GitHub data to code understanding support and programming exercises, respectively.

 

 

 

Antony Chacon is a PhD student, and Mechatronics Engineer with an MPhil from the University of Melbourne working on Tangible User Interfaces, haptics, wearable devices, and their applications. Daisuke Shibato is a Masters student focusing on code understanding and programming learning support. Both work at the IIS-Lab, University of Tokyo under the supervision of Prof. Koji Yatani ( http://iis-lab.org/member/koji-yatani/ ).