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Ken Nakagaki selected as one of MIT Technology Review's "Innovators Under 35: Asia Pacific" for 2021

Ken Nakagaki

by Sarah Beckmann

Oct. 28, 2021

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Tangible Media alum Ken Nakagaki has been chosen as one of MIT Technology Review's "Innovators Under 35: Asia Pacific" for 2021.

Nakagaki is an incoming assistant professor at the University of Chicago, where he's launching his own lab, the Actuated Experience Lab, to investigate future research on Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs)—an area he has been studying since 2014, with special attention towards the integration of dynamic actuation and transformation capabilities, or Actuated Tangible User Interfaces (A-TUIs).

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Ken Nakagaki, Jordan L Tappa, Yi Zheng, Jack Forman, Joanne Leong, Sven Koenig, and Hiroshi Ishii. 2022. (Dis)Appearables: A Concept and Method for Actuated Tangible UIs to Appear and Disappear based on Stages. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’22), April 29-May 5, 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 13 pages.