Rodan Umehara and Yufan Zhu, who completed the Master’s Program at KMD in March 2025 (Real Project affiliation: Embodied Media), received the 2024 VRSJ Young Researchers Award (Technical & Artistic Exhibition Division) from the Virtual Reality Society of Japan (VRSJ) for their technical demonstration at the 29th Annual Conference of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan.
The awarded presentations are as follows:
Fundamental Study on Haptic Remapping from Wrist to Fingertips for a Palm-Free Haptic Feedback System
Authors: Rodan Umehara, Arata Horie, Yusuke Kamiyama (SPLINE DESIGN HUB Corp.), Shin Sakamoto (commissure, Inc.), Hironori Ishikawa (NTT DOCOMO, Inc.), Kouta Minamizawa
Exploring the Applicability of a Haptic Feedback System for the Transmission of Pottery Skills
Authors: Yufan Zhu, Arata Horie, Kouta Minamizawa
URL: https://vrsj.org/awards/best_presentions/
