Ken Nakagaki

65 papers A* 22A 3B 14C 1Journal 6Unranked 19
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 A* conf
Attention Nooks: Situated Frictions to Foster Intentional Technology Use.
CHI
Anup Sathya, Ken Nakagaki
2026 B conf
Attention-Preserving Tangible Interfaces: Using Physicality and Materiality to Preserve Attention in the Home.
TEI
Anup Sathya, Ken Nakagaki
2026 A* conf
BloomBeacon: Blooming Physical Touch Display Surfaces via Persistence-of-Vision Motion.
CHI
Willa Yunqi Yang, Justice T. Andersen, David Dajun Yuan, Ken Nakagaki
2026 — conf
Embodying Relationships: Designing TUIs for Co-Located Human-Human Dynamics.
CHI Extended Abstracts
Ofir Sadka, Iddo Yehoshua Wald, Andrey Grishko, Ken Nakagaki, Julia Dominiak, Tanja Döring, Oren Zuckerman
2026 A* conf
Exploring Texture-Level Creative Decisions with penPal, a Novel Handheld Actuated Drawing Tool.
CHI
Tucker Rae-Grant, Luke Jimenez, Lea Albaugh, Ken Nakagaki
2026 B conf
FocuShift: Actuated Intervention to Prevent Smartphone Overuse via Phone-Attached Shape-Changing Device.
TEI
Harrison Dong, Anup Sathya, Ken Nakagaki
2026 B conf
GadJets: Air-Jet-Actuated Passive Materials and Mechanisms for Actuated and Shape-Changing Interfaces.
TEI
Sora Oka, Willa Yunqi Yang, Yifan Zou, Miyu Fukuoka, Koya Narumi, Yasuaki Kakehi, Ken Nakagaki
2026 B conf
PopTuber: Discretely Reshaping High Resolution 3D Curves with "Serial Multistable" Tubes.
TEI
Willa Yunqi Yang, Yifan Zou, Anup Sathya, Ken Nakagaki
2025 A* conf
Buoyancé: Reeling Helium-Inflated Balloons with Mobile Robots on the Ground for Mid-Air Tangible Display, Interaction, and Assembly.
UIST
Alan Pham, Yuxiao Li, Miyu Fukuoka, Ken Nakagaki
2025 — conf
Demonstrating Shape-Kit: A Design Toolkit for Crafting On-Body Expressive Haptics.
CHI Extended Abstracts
Ran Zhou, Jianru Ding, Chenfeng Gao, Wanli Qian, Benjamin Erickson, Madeline Balaam, Daniel Leithinger, Ken Nakagaki
2025 — conf
Facilitating Longitudinal Interaction Studies of AI Systems.
UIST Adjunct
Tao Long, Sitong Wang, Émilie Fabre, Tony Wang, Anup Sathya, Jason Wu, Savvas Dimitrios Petridis, Ding Li, Tuhin Chakrabarty, Yue Jiang, Jingyi Li, Tiffany Tseng, Ken Nakagaki, Qian Yang, Nikolas Martelaro, Jeffrey V. Nickerson, Lydia B. Chilton
2025 J jnl
Facilitating Longitudinal Interaction Studies of AI Systems.
CoRR
Tao Long, Sitong Wang, Émilie Fabre, Tony Wang, Anup Sathya, Jason Wu, Savvas Petridis, Dingzeyu Li, Tuhin Chakrabarty, Yue Jiang, Jingyi Li, Tiffany Tseng, Ken Nakagaki, Qian Yang, Nikolas Martelaro, Jeffrey V. Nickerson, Lydia B. Chilton
2025 — conf
Pino: Design and Development of a Spherical Pin Array Interface and Exploration of Interactivity.
CHI Extended Abstracts
Ryuhei Sugimoto, Ken Nakagaki, Hiroyuki Kajimoto
2025 A* conf
Shape n' Swarm: Hands-on, Shape-aware Generative Authoring with Swarm UI and LLMs.
UIST
Matthew Jeung, Anup Sathya, Wanli Qian, Steven Arellano, Luke Jimenez, Ken Nakagaki
2025 A* conf
Shape-Kit: A Design Toolkit for Crafting On-Body Expressive Haptics.
CHI
Ran Zhou, Jianru Ding, Chenfeng Gao, Wanli Qian, Benjamin Erickson, Madeline Balaam, Daniel Leithinger, Ken Nakagaki
2025 J jnl
Shape-Kit: A Design Toolkit for Crafting On-Body Expressive Haptics.
CoRR
Ran Zhou, Jianru Ding, Chenfeng Gao, Wanli Qian, Benjamin Erickson, Madeline Balaam, Daniel Leithinger, Ken Nakagaki
2024 A conf
"Push-That-There": Tabletop Multi-robot Object Manipulation via Multimodal 'Object-level Instruction'.
Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Keru Wang, Zhu Wang, Ken Nakagaki, Ken Perlin
2024 A* conf
Attention Receipts: Utilizing the Materiality of Receipts to Improve Screen-time Reflection on YouTube.
CHI
Anup Sathya, Ken Nakagaki
2024 A* conf
CARDinality: Interactive Card-shaped Robots with Locomotion and Haptics using Vibration.
UIST
Aditya Retnanto, Emilie Faracci, Anup Sathya, Yukai Hung, Ken Nakagaki
2024 J jnl
CARDinality: Interactive Card-shaped Robots with Locomotion and Haptics using Vibration.
CoRR
Aditya Retnanto, Emilie Faracci, Anup Sathya, Yukai Hung, Ken Nakagaki
2024 B conf
FabRobotics: Fusing 3D Printing with Mobile Robots to Advance Fabrication, Robotics, and Interaction.
TEI
Ramarko Bhattacharya, Jonathan Lindstrom, Ahmad Taka, Martin Nisser, Stefanie Mueller, Ken Nakagaki
2024 — conf
Game Jam with CARDinality: A Case Study of Exploring Play-based Interactive Applications.
UIST (Adjunct Volume)
Emilie Faracci, Aditya Retnanto, Anup Sathya, Ashlyn Sparrow, Ken Nakagaki
2024 — conf
HRI and UIST: Designing Socially Engaging Robot Interfaces.
UIST (Adjunct Volume)
Pragathi Praveena, Arissa J. Sato, Amy Koike, Ran Zhou, Nathan Thomas White, Ken Nakagaki
2024 A* conf
SHAPE-IT: Exploring Text-to-Shape-Display for Generative Shape-Changing Behaviors with LLMs.
UIST
Wanli Qian, Chenfeng Gao, Anup Sathya, Ryo Suzuki, Ken Nakagaki
2024 J jnl
SHAPE-IT: Exploring Text-to-Shape-Display for Generative Shape-Changing Behaviors with LLMs.
CoRR
Wanli Qian, Chenfeng Gao, Anup Sathya, Ryo Suzuki, Ken Nakagaki
2024 B conf
Threading Space: Kinetic Sculpture Exploring Spatial Interaction Using Threads In Motion.
Creativity & Cognition
Ramarko Bhattacharya, You Li, Emilie Faracci, Harrison Dong, Yi Zheng, Ken Nakagaki
2024 A* conf
TorqueCapsules: Fully-Encapsulated Flywheel Actuation Modules for Designing and Prototyping Movement-Based and Kinesthetic Interaction.
UIST
Willa Yunqi Yang, Yifan Zou, Jingle Huang, Raouf Abujaber, Ken Nakagaki
2024 — conf
Towards Multimodal Interaction with AI-Infused Shape-Changing Interfaces.
UIST (Adjunct Volume)
Chenfeng Gao, Wanli Qian, Richard Liu, Rana Hanocka, Ken Nakagaki
2024 B conf
[e]Motion: Designing Expressive Movement in Robots and Actuated Tangible User Interfaces.
TEI
Vali Lalioti, Ken Nakagaki, Ramarko Bhattacharya, Yasuaki Kakehi
2023 A* conf
AeroRigUI: Actuated TUIs for Spatial Interaction using Rigging Swarm Robots on Ceilings in Everyday Space.
CHI
Lilith Yu, Chenfeng Gao, David Wu, Ken Nakagaki
2023 A conf
Physica: Interactive Tangible Physics Simulation based on Tabletop Mobile Robots Towards Explorable Physics Education.
Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Jiatong Li, Ryo Suzuki, Ken Nakagaki
2023 A* conf
ThrowIO: Actuated TUIs that Facilitate "Throwing and Catching" Spatial Interaction with Overhanging Mobile Wheeled Robots.
CHI
Ting-Han Lin, Willa Yunqi Yang, Ken Nakagaki
2023 B conf
Xs: Interactive Scissor Mechanisms as Portable and Customizable Shape-Changing Interfaces.
TEI
Vasco Xu, Ken Nakagaki
2022 A* conf
(Dis)Appearables: A Concept and Method for Actuated Tangible UIs to Appear and Disappear based on Stages.
CHI
Ken Nakagaki, Jordan L. Tappa, Yi Zheng, Jack Forman, Joanne Leong, Sven Koenig, Hiroshi Ishii
2022 — conf
Embodied Calligraphy Learning through Direct Kinesthetic Feedback.
SCF
Cathy Mengying Fang, Ken Nakagaki, Jean-Baptiste Labrune, Hiroshi Ishii
2022 — conf
ShadowAstro: Levitating Constellation Silhouette for Spatial Exploration and Learning.
UIST (Adjunct Volume)
Jiatong Li, Chenfeng Gao, Ken Nakagaki
2022 A* conf
Sketched Reality: Sketching Bi-Directional Interactions Between Virtual and Physical Worlds with AR and Actuated Tangible UI.
UIST
Hiroki Kaimoto, Kyzyl Monteiro, Mehrad Faridan, Jiatong Li, Samin Farajian, Yasuaki Kakehi, Ken Nakagaki, Ryo Suzuki
2022 J jnl
Sketched Reality: Sketching Bi-Directional Interactions Between Virtual and Physical Worlds with AR and Actuated Tangible UI.
CoRR
Hiroki Kaimoto, Kyzyl Monteiro, Mehrad Faridan, Jiatong Li, Samin Farajian, Yasuaki Kakehi, Ken Nakagaki, Ryo Suzuki
2021 A* conf
OmniFiber: Integrated Fluidic Fiber Actuators for Weaving Movement based Interactions into the 'Fabric of Everyday Life'.
UIST
Ozgun Kilic Afsar, Ali Shtarbanov, Hila Mor, Ken Nakagaki, Jack Forman, Karen Modrei, Seung Hee Jeong, Klas Hjort, Kristina Höök, Hiroshi Ishii
2021 B conf
inDepth: Force-based Interaction with Objects beyond A Physical Barrier.
TEI
Takatoshi Yoshida, Junichi Ogawa, Kyung Yun Choi, Sanad Bushnaq, Ken Nakagaki, Hiroshi Ishii
2020 A* conf
HERMITS: Dynamically Reconfiguring the Interactivity of Self-propelled TUIs with Mechanical Shell Add-ons.
UIST
Ken Nakagaki, Joanne Leong, Jordan L. Tappa, João Wilbert, Hiroshi Ishii
2020 — conf
KI/OSK: Practice Study of Load Sensitive Board for Farmers Market.
CHI Extended Abstracts
Koichi Yoshino, Takatoshi Yoshida, Yo Sasaki, Xiaoyan Shen, Ken Nakagaki, Hiroshi Ishii
2020 — conf
Mechanical Shells: Physical Add-ons for Extending and Reconfiguring the Interactivities of Actuated TUIs.
UIST (Adjunct Volume)
Ken Nakagaki
2020 B conf
Prototyping Interactive Fluidic Mechanisms.
TEI
Hila Mor, Ken Nakagaki, Tianyu Yu, Benjamin Harvey Miller, Yichen Jia, Hiroshi Ishii
2020 B conf
TRANS-DOCK: Expanding the Interactivity of Pin-based Shape Displays by Docking Mechanical Transducers.
TEI
Ken Nakagaki, Yingda (Roger) Liu, Chloe Nelson-Arzuaga, Hiroshi Ishii
2020 A* conf
Venous Materials: Towards Interactive Fluidic Mechanisms.
CHI
Hila Mor, Tianyu Yu, Ken Nakagaki, Benjamin Harvey Miller, Yichen Jia, Hiroshi Ishii
2020 B conf
WraPr: Spool-Based Fabrication for Object Creation and Modification.
TEI
Joanne Leong, Jose Martinez, Florian Perteneder, Ken Nakagaki, Hiroshi Ishii
2019 A* conf
SCALE: Enhancing Force-based Interaction by Processing Load Data from Load Sensitive Modules.
UIST
Takatoshi Yoshida, Xiaoyan Shen, Koichi Yoshino, Ken Nakagaki, Hiroshi Ishii
2019 B conf
inFORCE: Bi-directional 'Force' Shape Display for Haptic Interaction.
TEI
Ken Nakagaki, Daniel Fitzgerald, Zhiyao (John) Ma, Luke Vink, Daniel S. Levine, Hiroshi Ishii
2018 A* conf
Force Jacket: Pneumatically-Actuated Jacket for Embodied Haptic Experiences.
CHI
Alexandra Delazio, Ken Nakagaki, Roberta L. Klatzky, Scott E. Hudson, Jill Fain Lehman, Alanson P. Sample
2018 — conf
Programmable Droplets for Interaction.
CHI Extended Abstracts
Udayan Umapathi, Patrick Shin, Ken Nakagaki, Daniel Leithinger, Hiroshi Ishii
2018 — conf
reMi: Translating Ambient Sounds of Moment into Tangible and Shareable Memories through Animated Paper.
UIST (Adjunct Volume)
Kyung Yun Choi, Darle Shinsato, Shane Zhang, Ken Nakagaki, Hiroshi Ishii
2017 A conf
AnimaStage: Hands-on Animated Craft on Pin-based Shape Displays.
Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Ken Nakagaki, Udayan Umapathi, Daniel Leithinger, Hiroshi Ishii
2017 J jnl
Designing Line-Based Shape-Changing Interfaces.
IEEE Pervasive Comput.
Ken Nakagaki, Sean Follmer, Artem Dementyev, Joseph A. Paradiso, Hiroshi Ishii
2016 A* conf
ChainFORM: A Linear Integrated Modular Hardware System for Shape Changing Interfaces.
UIST
Ken Nakagaki, Artem Dementyev, Sean Follmer, Joseph A. Paradiso, Hiroshi Ishii
2016 B conf
HydroMorph: Shape Changing Water Membrane for Display and Interaction.
TEI
Ken Nakagaki, Pasquale Totaro, Jim Peraino, Thariq Shihipar, Chantine Akiyama, Yin Shuang, Hiroshi Ishii
2016 A* conf
Materiable: Rendering Dynamic Material Properties in Response to Direct Physical Touch with Shape Changing Interfaces.
CHI
Ken Nakagaki, Luke Vink, Jared Counts, Daniel Windham, Daniel Leithinger, Sean Follmer, Hiroshi Ishii
2015 A* conf
LineFORM: Actuated Curve Interfaces for Display, Interaction, and Constraint.
UIST
Ken Nakagaki, Sean Follmer, Hiroshi Ishii
2015 — conf
Linked-Stick: Conveying a Physical Experience using a Shape-Shifting Stick.
CHI Extended Abstracts
Ken Nakagaki, Chikara Inamura, Pasquale Totaro, Thariq Shihipar, Chantine Akiyama, Yin Shuang, Hiroshi Ishii
2015 — conf
TRANSFORM as Adaptive and Dynamic Furniture.
CHI Extended Abstracts
Luke Vink, Viirj Kan, Ken Nakagaki, Daniel Leithinger, Sean Follmer, Philipp Schoessler, Amit Zoran, Hiroshi Ishii
2014 — conf
Comp*Pass: a compass-based drawing interface.
CHI Extended Abstracts
Ken Nakagaki, Yasuaki Kakehi
2014 — conf
metamoCrochet: augmenting crocheting with bi-stable color changing inks.
SIGGRAPH Posters
Momoko Okazaki, Ken Nakagaki, Yasuaki Kakehi
2013 C conf
Petanko Roller: A VR System with a Rolling-Pin Haptic Interface for Entertainment.
Advances in Computer Entertainment
Ken Nakagaki, Keina Konno, Shuntaro Tashiro, Ayaka Ikezawa, Yusaku Kimura, Masaru Jingi, Yasuaki Kakehi
2012 — conf
Needle user interface: a sewing interface using layered conductive fabrics.
UIST (Adjunct Volume)
Ken Nakagaki, Yasuaki Kakehi
2011 — conf
SonalShooter: a spatial augmented reality system using handheld directional speaker with camera.
SIGGRAPH Posters
Ken Nakagaki, Yasuaki Kakehi