Mako Miyatake (M1), Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems,and other researchers received Best Demo Honorable Mention Award from CHI 21

Mako Miyatake (M1), Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, Project Lecturer Koya Narumi, Professor Yuji Sekiya, and Professor Yoshihiro Kawahara (Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems) received Best Demo Honorable Mention Award from The 2021 ACM CHI Virtual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’21).

〈Name of award and short explanation about the award〉
CHI’21 People’s Choice Best Demo Honorable Mention Award

CHI, one of the top conferences on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), was held online during May 8 - 13, 2021. Best Demo Honorable Mention Award was given to the second best demonstration in the demo session of the conference. The awarded demo was on the paper “Flower Jelly Printer: Slit Injection Printing for Parametrically Designed Flower Jelly.”

〈About awarded research〉
Mako Miyatake, Koya Narumi, Yuji Sekiya, and Yoshihiro Kawahara. 2021. Demonstrating Flower Jelly Printer for Parametrically Designed Flower Jelly. In Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 166, 1–4. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3411763.3451541

〈Your impression & future plan〉
We, the co-authors of Flower Jelly Printer, are all very proud of this award. Considering a better way to demonstrate our work for CHI that took place online due to the COVID-19 pandemic led to the award. We believe our research will enhance the freedom of food and help achieve an inclusive society where diverse people can join cultural and economic activities. We will keep on working on proof-of-concept experiments for improvement and commercialization of our technology.