Masaaki Fukumoto

Masaaki Fukumoto (Chinese: 福本 雅朗; Japanese: ふくもと まさあき), Ph.D., is a principal researcher with Microsoft’s Applied Sciences Group (ASG).  He is based in Shenzhen, China, and focuses on innovation in human-interface devices and hardware.

He joined Microsoft Research Asia in 2013, coming over to ASG in 2020.  Before Microsoft he spent 23 years with Japan’s major telecommunication company, NTT, first with the Human Interface Laboratories and then with the research labs of NTT subsidiary DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan.

• SilentVoice: Unnoticeable Voice Input by Ingressive Speech

  UIST 2018 Conference Proceedings October, 2018 Pages 237-246

  By Masaaki Fukumoto
• SpiroSurface: A Repulsive and Attractive Force Display for Interactive Tabletops Using a Pneumatic System

  IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications July, 2018 Vol. 38, No. 4 Pages 54-70

  By Taku Hachisu, Masaaki Fukumoto
• Exploring User Experiences of Active Workstations: A Case Study of Under Desk Elliptical Trainers

  Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing September, 2016

  By Woohyeok Choi, Aejin Song, Darren Edge, Masaaki Fukumoto, Uichin Lee
• Interconnection and Double Layer for Flexible Electronic Circuit with Instant Inkjet Circuits

  UbiComp 2015 Conference Proceedings September, 2015 Pages 181-190

  By Tung Ta Duc, Masaaki Fukumoto, Koya Narumi, Shigeki Shino, Yoshihiro Kawahara, Tohru Asami
• FluxPaper: Reinventing Paper with Dynamic Actuation Powered by Magnetic Flux

  CHI 2015 Conference on Human Factors in Information Systems April, 2015 Pages 29-38

  By Masa Ogata, Masaaki Fukumoto
• VacuumTouch: Attractive Force Feedback Interface for Haptic Interactive Surface using Air Suction

  CHI 2014 Conference on Human Factors in Information Systems April, 2014 Pages 411-420

  By Taku Hachisu, Masaaki Fukumoto
• Hands-free VideoPhone: Eyeglass-based Hands-free Videophone

  ISWC '13: Proceedings of the 2013 International Symposium on Wearable Computers September, 2013 Pages 117-124

  By Shinji Kimura, Masaaki Fukumoto, Tsutomu Horikoshi
• Earphone-shaped EOG Detector: Conductive Rubber Electrodes for Earphone-based Eye Gesture Input Interface

  Proceedings of the 2013 International Symposium on Wearable Computers 2013 Pages 33-40

  By Hiroyuki Manabe, Masaaki Fukumoto, Tohru Yagi
• PuyoSheet and PuyoDots: Simple Techniques for Adding "Button-push" Feeling to Touch Panels

  CHI '09: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April, 2009 Pages 3925-3930

  By Masaaki Fukumoto
• Headphone-shaped EOG Detector: Full-time Wearable Headphone-type Gaze Detector

  Conference: Extended Abstracts Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April, 2006 Pages 1073-1078

  By Hiroyuki Manabe, Masaaki Fukumoto
• CarpetLAN: A Novel Indoor Wireless(-like) Networking and Positioning System

  International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg 2005 Pages 1-18

  By Masaaki Fukumoto, Mitsuru Shinagawa
• Yubi-Wa: A Finger-Ring Shaped Wearable HANDset Based on Bone-Conduction

  Ninth IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC'05) 2005 Pages 10-13

  By Masaaki Fukumoto
• Active Click: Tactile Feedback for Touch Panels

  CHI '01 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems March, 2001 Pages 121-122 ISBN: 1-58113-340-5

  By Masaaki Fukumoto, Toshiaki Sugimura
• UbiButton: A Bracelet Style Fulltime Wearable Commander

  Trans. of IPSJ 1999 Vol. 40, No. 2 Pages 389-398

  By Masaaki Fukumoto, Yoshinobu Tonomura
• Whisper: A Wristwatch Style Wearable Handset

  Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 1999 Pages 112-119

  By Masaaki Fukumoto, Yoshinobu Tonomura
• FingeRing: “Body Coupled FingeRing” Wireless Wearable Keyboard

  Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human factors in computing systems 1997 Pages 147-154

  By Masaaki Fukumoto, Yoshinobu Tonomura