Publications
Journal Articles
- Young ah Seong, Design Research of Wearable Soft Avatar Robot for Interactive Social Presence, Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 325-327 (2022).
- Ryuma Niiyama, Young ah Seong, Yoshihiro Kawahara and Yasuo Kuniyoshi, “Blower-Powered Soft Inflatable Joints for Physical Human-Robot Interaction,” Frontiers in Robotics and AI 8:720683 (2021).
- Kazuya Saito, Hiroto Nagai, Kai Suto, Naoki Ogawa, Young ah Seong, Tomohiro Tachi, Ryuma Niiyama and Yoshihiro Kawahara, “Insect wing 3D printing”, Scientific Reports 11, Article No. 18631 (2021).
- Young ah Seong, Tomoko Hashida, Ryoko Ueoka, “rapoptosis: Design of the Autonomous Farewell of Artifacts for Revaluing of itself,” The Transactions of Human Interface Society, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp.251-254 (2021).
- Kazuya Saito, Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente, Koichi Arimoto, Young ah Seong, Hitoshi Aonuma, Ryuma Niiyama and Zhong You, “Earwig fan designing: Biomimetic and evolutionary biology applications.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Vol. 117, No. 30, pp.17622-17626 (2020).
- Koya Narumi, Hiroki Sato, Kenichi Nakahara, Young ah Seong, Kunihiro Morinaga, Yasuaki Kakehi, Ryuma Niiyama and Yoshihiro Kawahara, “Liquid Pouch Motors: Printable Planar Actuators Driven by Liquid-to-Gas Phase Change for Shape-Changing Interfaces.” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 3915-3922 (2020). (Won the Best Paper Award Runner Up)
- Young ah Seong, Hiroshi Sugihara, Ryuma Niiyama, Yasuaki Kakehi and Yoshihiro Kawahara, “Workshop Design for Hands-on Exploration Using Soft Robotics and Onomatopoeia.” IEEE Pervasive Computing, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 52-61 (2020).
International Conferences
- Dominique Chen*, Young ah Seong*, Hiraku Ogura, Kiichi Moriya, Yuto Mitani and Naoto Sekiya, “Nukabot: Design of Care for Human-Microbe Relationships.” In Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factor in Computing Systems (CHI), Late-Breaking Work, (2021.5). (* joint first authors)
- Yuhu Liu, Satoshi Nishikawa, Young ah Seong, Ryuma Niiyama and Yasuo Kuniyoshi, “ThermoCaress: A Wearable Haptic Device with Illusory Moving Thermal Stimulation.” In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI conference on Human Factor in Computing Systems (CHI), (2021.5).
Domestic Conferences
- Mikiko Kato, Young ah Seong, Kozo Sato, “A basic study of a human presence transmitter using the movement of flower blooming as a metaphor,” Interaction 2022, 1D-08 (2022.3) (Won the Interactive Presentation Award (general nomination))
- Yuri Nakahashi, Young ah Seong, “Creating New Sleep Values to Explore with Cats,” Interaction 2022, 1P-04 (2022.3)
- Young ah Seong, Tomoko Hashida, Ryoko, Ueoka, “rapoptosis: Renatusu via Apoptosis Prototyping using Clothes,” Interaction 2018, 3B24 (2018.3). (Won the Interactive Presentation Awards, both general and PC nominations)
Awards
Products & Services
Exhibitions & Workshops
- CHORDxxCODE’s Business Creativity Workshop: Communication design of “a sense of being there” created by soft alter ego robots, Diamond Business Creation Workshop 2022, Tokyo Midtown (2022.10.6, 10.13).
- Dominic Chen & Ferment Media Research’s Creativity Fostering Workshop — How to Design Rich Relationships from the Metaphor of Fermentation, Diamond Business Creation Workshop 2022, Tokyo Midtown. (2022.11.22, 12.6).