Jun Rekimoto (暦本純一) is a Professor of Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies at

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. He is also a co-founder of Koozyt Inc., and a Deputy Director of the Interaction Laboratory at Sony Computer Sciences Laboratories. Rekimoto has published more than 100 research articles in the field of Human-Computer Interaction. His work spans human-computer interactions, augmented reality,

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, human augmentation,

telepresence Telepresence is the appearance or sensation of a person being present at a place other than their true location, via telerobotics or video. Telepresence requires that the users' senses interact with specific stimuli in order to provide the feeli ...

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and hybrid intelligence.

Early life

In 1971 at the age of 10, before personal computers existed, Rekimoto bought a textbook on computer programming. As a youth, Rekimoto would write out his programs on paper and imagine their results. Rekimoto received his B.A.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D in Information Science from

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in 1984, 1986 and 1996 respectively.

Career

Pre-2000s

After earning his master's degree, Rekimoto worked on

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interfaces as part of the R&D department at NEC Corp. Later, in 1993 Rekimoto went to Canada as a visiting scientist at the University of Alberta. In Canada he experimented with virtual-reality systems, but was disappointed with the unrealistic graphics. Upon returning to Japan in 1994, Rekimoto started working for the Sony Computer Science Laboratories (CSL). Five years later, in 1999 he founded and directed the CSL's Interaction Laboratory.

2000 to Present

In 2007 Rekimoto became a Professor of Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies at The University of Tokyo. That same year, he co-founded Koozyt, Inc. alongside two other researchers from the CSL. Since 2011, Rekimoto has been a Deputy Directory at Sony's CSL.

Notable Research and Inventions

Rekimoto was inducted to the

ACM SIGCHI The Special Interest Group on Computer–Human Interaction (SIGCHI) is one of the Association for Computing Machinery's special interest groups which is focused on human–computer interactions (HCI). It hosts the flagship annual international H ...

Academy in 2007. Rekimoto has published research papers in areas such as mobile wear and computing,

and

information visualization Data and information visualization (data viz/vis or info viz/vis) is the practice of designing and creating Graphics, graphic or visual Representation (arts), representations of a large amount of complex quantitative and qualitative data and i ...

. Rekimoto's work includes: * SmartSkin: a

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for the freehand manipulation of interactive surfaces * Pick-and-drop: a proposal of new

user interfaces In the industrial design field of human–computer interaction, a user interface (UI) is the space where interactions between humans and machines occur. The goal of this interaction is to allow effective operation and control of the machine fro ...

for directly manipulating multiple computers * Augmented surfaces: a design for users to interchange information between their devices, including laptops and digital table and wall displays * Cybercode: a way to digitally tag objects using

augmented reality Augmented reality (AR), also known as mixed reality (MR), is a technology that overlays real-time 3D computer graphics, 3D-rendered computer graphics onto a portion of the real world through a display, such as a handheld device or head-mounted ...

* Gesturewrist and gesturetouch: two devices to interact with nearby computers via gesture commands

References

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