Research Interest

Human-Computer Interaction, Haptics, Wearable Computing, Cybernetics, Electrical Muscle Stimulation

Selected Papers

Arinobu Niijima and Shoichiro Takeda. 2025. Improving Putting Accuracy with Electrical Muscle Stimulation Feedback Guided by Muscle Synergy Analysis. In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 362, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713605
Arinobu Niijima, Masato Shindo, and Ryosuke Aoki. 2025. Invisible Light Touch: Standing Balance Improvement by Mid-Air Haptic Feedback. In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 502, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713396
Arinobu Niijima and Yuki Kubo. 2023. Assisting with Fingertip Force Control by Active Bio-Acoustic Sensing and Electrical Muscle Stimulation. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 743, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581192
Arinobu Niijima, Toki Takeda, Ryosuke Aoki, and Shinji Miyahara. 2022. Muscle Synergies Learning with Electrical Muscle Stimulation for Playing the Piano. In Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 54, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1145/3526113.3545666
Arinobu Niijima, Toki Takeda, Kentaro Tanaka, Ryosuke Aoki, and Yukio Koike. 2021. Reducing Muscle Activity when Playing Tremolo by Using Electrical Muscle Stimulation to Learn Efficient Motor Skills. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 5, 3, Article 123 (Sept 2021), 17 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3478110
Arinobu Niijima, Takashi Isezaki, Ryosuke Aoki, Tomoki Watanabe, and Tomohiro Yamada. 2018. Controlling Maximal Voluntary Contraction of the Upper Limb Muscles by Facial Electrical Stimulation. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Paper 394, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173968

Selected Reseach Projects

Assisting with Fingertip Force Control by Active Bio-Acoustic Sensing and Electrical Muscle Stimulation [CHI 2023]

Muscle Synergies Learning with Electrical Muscle Stimulation for Playing the Piano [UIST 2022]

Reducing Muscle Activity when Playing Tremolo by Using Electrical Muscle Stimulation to Learn Efficient Motor Skills [IMWUT 2021]

Controlling Maximal Voluntary Contraction of the Upper Limb Muscles by Facial Electrical Stimulation [CHI 2018]

Virtual Food Texture by Electrical Muscle Stimulation [ISWC 2016]

Smart Bottle Cap [IEICE Trans. 2017]

ThermalBitDisplay [CHI 2020 LBW]

Assisting with Voluntary Pinch Force Control by Using Electrical Muscle Stimulation and Active Bio-Acoustic Sensing [UIST 2021 poster]

A Study of Gait Analysis with a Smartphone for Measurement of Hip Joint Angle [APSIPA 2014]

Awards

2023 ACCブロンズ, ACC TOKYO CREATIVITY AWARDS クリエイティブイノベーション部門

2022 サイバースペース研究賞, 日本バーチャルリアリティ学会サイバースペースと仮想都市研究会

2021 Best Poster Award, AugmentedHumans

2021 サイバースペース研究賞, 日本バーチャルリアリティ学会サイバースペースと仮想都市研究会

2020 論文賞, 情報処理学会

2018 インタラクティブ発表賞, 情報処理学会インタラクション

2017 MVE賞, 電子情報通信学会

2016 Best Paper Award, Workshop on Multimedia for Cooking and Eating Activities

2016 ヒューマンコミュニケーション賞, 電子情報通信学会

2016 MVE賞, 電子情報通信学会

2015 LOIS若手研究賞, 電子情報通信学会ライフインテリジェンスとオフィス情報システム研究会

2012 サイバースペース研究賞, 日本バーチャルリアリティ学会サイバースペースと仮想都市研究会

2011 優秀発表賞, 日本バーチャルリアリティ学会サイバースペースと仮想都市研究会

2010 情報処理学会推奨卒業論文認定, 情報処理学会