Seminar on Research on XR, AI, and Nonverbal Information to Enrich Future Telecommunications

19 Jun 2026 02.00 PM - 03.00 PM LT5 (North Spine, NS2-02-07) Current Students, Public

Professor Kitamura Yoshifumi

Tohoku University, Japan

This seminar will be chaired by Asst Prof Yang Jianfei.

Seminar Abstract

In the future of telecommunication, it is expected that people will be able to engage in rich communication by effectively utilizing cyber/virtual spaces while also making use of objects and information in their real/physical surroundings. The successful key to realize such rich telecommunication is to unlock “communication with nonverbal information” by appropriately conveying the subtleties of “non-spoken signals,” which plays an important role in our daily interpersonal understanding. In this talk, I will discuss the future of rich telecommunications, which leverages AI and XR (=VR/AR/MR) technologies to enable the effective transmission and reception of nonverbal information.

 

Speaker's Biography 

Yoshifumi Kitamura is Professor at Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University. From 2023, he also serves as Director of the Interdisciplinary ICT Research Center for Cyber and Real Spaces. His research interests include interactive content design, human computer interactions, 3D user interfaces, virtual reality, and related fields. He has been active in academic and professional communities, and serves in positions such as Japan Liaison for IFIP TC-13 (Human-Computer Interaction) (2012-), the Liaison for Japan and Chair of ACM SIGCHI Asian Development Committee (2015-2021), Chair of Japan ACM SIGCHI Chapter (2016-2021), Steering Committee Chair of ACM VRST, SIGGRAPH Asia 2015 Conference Chair, ACM CHI 2021 General Chair, and so on. His notable awards received include such as the The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Awards for Science and Technology, Research Category (2026), and the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award (2025), and he was inducted into the IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Academy (2024).

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