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Ken Nakagaki

Former Research Assistant
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(Dis)Appearables

by Ken Nakagaki, Jordan L Tappa, Yi Zheng*, Joanne Leong, Jack Forman, Sven Koenig*, and Hiroshi Ishii*Collaborators at the Unive…
Project Research

OmniFiber: Strain-tunable Fluidic Fiber Actuators for Soft Robotic Textiles and Autonomous Garments

OmniFiber is a reconfigurable fiber technology for movement-based interactions based on thin fluidic fiber actuators with closed-loop strai…
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HERMITS: Mechanical Shells for Robotic TUIs (Ars Electronica 2020)

'Shells, often found on seashores, exemplifies the absence of existed lives. What if a presence dwells in to animate them?'Projec…
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Venous Materials: Towards interactive, fluidic mechanisms

By Hila Mor, Yu Tianyu, Ken Nakagaki, Benjamin Harvey Miller, Yichen Jia, Hiroshi IshiiThe Venous Materials project envisions a new way to …
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Tangible Telepresence: Reinventing Distancing with Tele-Tangibles

"Telepresence'" is raising a fundamental question about our existence. "I can see you, I can hear you, but where are you?"The Covid-19 pand…
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HERMITS: ‘Mechanical Shells’ for Robotic Tangible UIs

By Ken Nakagaki, Joanne Leong, Jordan L Tappa, Joao Wilbert, and Hiroshi IshiiOverviewProject HERMITS explores a way to greatly a…
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HydroMorph

HydroMorph is an interactive display based on shapes formed by a stream of water. Inspired by the membrane formed when a water stream hits …
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Materiable

Shape-changing interfaces give physical shape to digital data so that users can feel and manipulate data with their hands and body. Combini…
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TRANSFORM: Adaptive and dynamic furniture

Introducing TRANSFORM, a shape-changing desk. TRANSFORM is an exploration of how shape display technology can be integrated into our everyd…