7 papers
Profy: Interpretable Visualization of Expertise-Dependent Motor Skills Toward Supporting Piano Practice
Kazuki Kawamura, Fujiki Nakamura, Hayato Nishioka +3
The quality of piano performance depends on nuanced timing, articulation, and dynamic control, but practice feedback is often summary-based and hard to act on. We introduce Profy,…
NasoVoce: A Nose-Mounted Low-Audibility Speech Interface for Always-Available Speech Interaction
Jun Rekimoto, Yu Nishimura, Bojian Yang
Silent and whispered speech offer promise for always-available voice interaction with AI, yet existing methods struggle to balance vocabulary size, wearability, silence, and noise…
OpticalAging: Real-time Presbyopia Simulation for Inclusive Design via Tunable Lenses
Qing Zhang, Zixiong Su, Yoshihito Kondoh +5
Presbyopia, a common age-related vision condition affecting most people as they age, often remains inadequately understood by those unaffected. To help bridge the gap between abstr…
Semantic Glitch: Agency and Artistry in an Autonomous Pixel Cloud
Qing Zhang, Jing Huang, Mingyang Xu +1
While mainstream robotics pursues metric precision and flawless performance, this paper explores the creative potential of a deliberately "lo-fi" approach. We present the "Semantic…
Panel-by-Panel Souls: A Performative Workflow for Expressive Faces in AI-Assisted Manga Creation
Qing Zhang, Jing Huang, Yifei Huang +1
Current text-to-image models struggle to render the nuanced facial expressions required for compelling manga narratives, largely due to the ambiguity of language itself. To bridge…
Look and Talk: Seamless AI Assistant Interaction with Gaze-Triggered Activation
Zhang Qing, Rekimoto Jun
Engaging with AI assistants to gather essential information in a timely manner is becoming increasingly common. Traditional activation methods, like wake words such as Hey Siri, Ok…