OMRON SINIC X Corporation (HQ: Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Masaki Suwa, hereinafter “OSX”) will present the latest research findings at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2025) (hereinafter “UIST 2025”). UIST 2025 is one of the top-tier international conferences in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and user interface technologies. The conference will be held from September 28 to October 1, 2025, in Busan, Korea, (local time). This year, 210 out of 947 submissions were accepted, resulting in an acceptance rate of approximately 22%. The research papers to be presented by OSX are as follows: …

　　The collaborative research outcome with OSX has been accepted to ACM SIGGRAPH 2025 Emerging Technologies to be held in Vancouver, Canada from August 10 to 14. A demo will be exhibited throughout the conference.　　 Title FluidicSwarm: Embodiment of Swarm Robots Using Fluid Behavior Imitation Author Michikuni Eguchi (Cluster Metaverse Lab / University of Tsukuba), Shigeo Yoshida, Mai Nishimura, Takefumi Hiraki (Cluster Metaverse Lab / University of Tsukuba) Research overview This paper introduces FluidicSwarm, a swarm robot control system that enhances the operability of swarm robots by embodying fluid-like swarm robots as an extension of the user’s body. In FluidicSwarm, users …

Our two collaborative achievements have been presented at the ACM SIGGRAPH 2023 Emerging Technologies held in Los Angeles, California, USA from August 6 to 10, 2023. Title SomatoShift: A Wearable Haptic Display for Somatomotor Reconfiguration via Modifying Acceleration of Body Movement Authors Takeru Hashimoto1, Shigeo Yoshida2, Takuji Narumi11: The University of Tokyo2: OSX Research Overview This study is a collaborative achievement with Kuzuoka-Narumi Laboratory (https://www.cyber.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en) at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo. This study aims to create a new physical sensation by intervening in human movements with a wearable force feedback device named “SomatoShift.” …