It was held on June 15, 2022 at the Kashiwazaki City Cultural Hall Alforet in Kashiwazaki City, Niigata Prefecture.
＃024U Innovation Day 2022 in Kashiwazaki is hosted by Dr. Ishikita, Director of Medical Device Innovation Laboratory, Clinical Research Department, National Hospital Organization Niigata Hospital.
Dr. Ishikita invented and won the Grand Prix at an international competition, “a ventilator that can be manufactured with a 3D printer”.
In addition to exhibiting a number of products, including those from the 1980s, the results of research by groups and individuals engaged in innovative activities in various fields were presented.

We held an online training session on gesture interfaces from the Welfare Equipment Department of the Tokyo Metropolitan Association!
Saturday, March 21, 2022, 13:00-16:00
Sponsored by the Welfare Equipment Department of the Tokyo Occupational Therapists Association
“Training session for dissemination of gesture interfaces for persons with severe motor impairment” was held.
It was scheduled to be held for two days, but the corona disaster did not end, and it was held online in one day.
Nearly 50 occupational therapists from Tokyo participated.
Thank you all.

Our paper has been accepted to ICCHP-AAAATE 2022!
International Conference on Computer Assistance for Persons with Disabilities:
“Joint International Conference on Digital Inclusion, Assistive Technology & Accessibility – ICCHP-AAAATE 2022”
The following paper was accepted as a “Science Track Contribution” of the conference!
“Extended Mouth/Tongue Gesture Recognition Module for People with Severe Motor Dysfunction”
It will be held in Lecco, northern Italy, where the event was canceled two years ago.
I would like to inform you again when the details of participation are decide

On March 5th, an online training session for Toshikai’s Welfare Equipment Department will be held.

March 5, 2022 (Saturday) for the Tokyo Occupational Therapists Association Welfare Equipment Department
“Workshop for dissemination of gesture interfaces for persons with severe motor impairment” will be held.

This time, it is for the welfare equipment department, but on May 21st (Sat) and 28th (Sat),
a hybrid workshop for occupational therapists working in Tokyo is scheduled!
We will announce it soon, so please look forward to it.

We gave a presentation at the 115th Welfare Information Engineering Workshop!
On December 8, 2021, we made a presentation at the 115th (4th in 2021) Welfare Information Engineering Study Group!
“Effects of Introducing Gesture Interfaces for People with Severe Motor Dysfunction”
It was an announcement at a research meeting that was completely online.

The SDGs project site visit was held in Tsukuba.

A site visit was conducted for JST/RISTEX’s “Co-creative R&D Program for Achieving SDGs”, which is being implemented from April 2020 to March 2022.

A total of 5 project advisors and JST staff visited the AIST Tsukuba laboratory.

and the Tateishi Foundation Research Grant S “Harmony between Humans and Machines”
The presentation, demonstration, and Q&A session were held in two hours, and I believe that the research was sufficiently communicated.

An interim follow-up was carried out for “research and development on the sophistication of basic technology for gesture interfaces and clinical evaluation”.
This has been adopted for the Tateishi Foundation Research Grant S “Harmony between Humans and Machines”, which is being implemented from April 2020 to March 2023.

Four people from the Kyoto area and two people from Tokyo visited our laboratory in Tsukuba.
As a project, he encouraged me not only to make academic progress, but also to cherish the parts that are useful to the world.

I gave a poster presentation at the 75th National Hospital General Medical Association held on October 23-30, 2021!
“Usage examples and future prospects of gesture interfaces to support employment, education, and leisure activities of persons with severe motor dysfunction”
This is an online poster presentation. The abstract can be downloaded from the HP, so please take a look.

The SDGs project strategy meeting was held online.
JST/RISTEX Strategic Creative Research Promotion Project (Social Technology Research and Development) “Co-creative R&D Program for Achieving SDGs” strategy meeting was held online.
We explained the progress to the project for supervisor and project advisors, and we discussed about future developments.

LIFE 2020-2021 has been announced online!
On September 18, 2021, we made an online presentation at LIFE2020-2021!
“Study on Adaptive Gesture Interface for People with Severe Motor Dysfunction -Fourth Report-”
Including last year’s postponement, it was held completely online, but we received multiple questions.