Haruo NOMA

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Virtual Reality / Haptic interface / Locomotion interface
• Tactile sensor / MEMS
• Wearable / Ubiquitous Computer

Education:

• 1994: Ph.D. in the Institute of mechanics and Engineering , University of Tsukuba
  Thesis topic:" Haptic Interface for Volume Haptization of scientific data " ; Supervisor: assistant professor Hiroo IWATA (Iwata Lab.)
• 1991: M.Eng. in the Institute of mechanics and Engineering, University of Tsukuba
  
• 1989: B.Eng. in the Institute of mechanics and Engineering, University of Tsukuba
  

Working experience:

• Since April 2006 - Present:

  Group Leader: Smart Tactile Device Lab, ATR Knowledge Science Labs, 2006-Presnt

  Senior Researcher: Knowledge Input & Output Lab, ATR Knowledge Science Labs, 2006-Presnt

• Since October 2001 : Senior Researcher of ATR Media Information Scince Lab.
• Since April 1996 : Researcher of ATR Media Integration & Communications Research Laboratories
• From April 1994 : Researcher of ATR communications research Laboratories , Kyoto, Japan Research Laboratories

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Development of Integrated Multi-Axis Tactile Sensor for Robots using Nano-scale Thin Film Technology, (As project manager, collaborated with Osaka University, Omron Corporation and Nitta Coop oration), NEDO, $ 2,000,000, Oct. 2005 – Sept. 2008.

TEACHING AND STUDENT SUPERVISION

• Guest Associate Professor, Graduate School of Information Science and technology, Multimedia Engineering, Osaka University, April 2002 - Present

Courses Teaching

• Multi Modal Agent for Graduate Level

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Member:  IEEE, ACM, Virtual Reality Society Japan, Human Interface Society, The Robotic Society Japan, The Institute of Electronics Information and Communication Engineers, The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers

Program Chair : ICAT 2007&2005

Publication Chair: World Haptic Conference 2007, ACM VRST 2003

Demo Chair:  IEEE-ISWC2005, ACM-VRST 2008

Program Committee: ICAT2006, IEEE VR2006, 2005 & 2004, IEEE ISWC2005, World Haptic Conference 2007

Reviewer: ACM-CHI2008, IEEE-VR2008&2007, ICOST2007, ACM UbiComp2006&2005, IEEE ISWC2006, ACM VRST2006

Editor: VRSJ Annual Magazine 2003-Present,

Committee member: VRSJ Annual Journal 2004-Present