Beyond Omakase: Designing Shared Control for Navigation Robots with Blind People
- Rie Kamikubo
- Seita Kayukawa
- et al.
- 2025
- CHI 2025
Seita Kayukawa
Title
Research Scientist
Bio
Seita Kayukawa is a Research Scientist of the Accessibility Research team at IBM Research – Tokyo.
He is working on robotics and smartphone-based assistive systems for people with visual impairments.
Research Area and Interests:
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Accessibility
Education:
- 2022, Ph.D. of Engineering, Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University
- 2020, Master of Engineering, Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University
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Publications
Field Trials of Autonomous Navigation Robot for Visually Impaired People
- Hironobu Takagi
- Kakuya Naito
- et al.
- 2025
- CHI 2025
ChitChatGuide: How Can A Guidance System with Large Language Models Impact Shopping Mall Experiences for People with Visual Impairments?
- Yuka Kaniwa
- Masaki Kuribayashi
- et al.
- 2024
- MobileHCI 2024
Snap&Nav: Smartphone-based Indoor Navigation System For Blind People via Floor Map Analysis and Intersection Detection
- Masaya Kubota
- Masaki Kuribayashi
- et al.
- 2024
- MobileHCI 2024
Guiding Blind Pedestrians in Public Spaces by Understanding Walking Behavior of Nearby Pedestrians
- 2020
- ACM IMWUT
Projects
Helping visually-impaired users to independently walk around and self-navigate
Top collaborators
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Hironobu Takagi
Accessibility Research, STSM, IBM Research - Tokyo
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Chieko Asakawa
IBM Fellow
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Tatsuya Ishihara
Researcher
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Masayuki Murata
Staff Research Scientist, Accessibility Research, IBM Research - Tokyo