Jun Rekimoto

ACM SIGCHI Academy member
Professor, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo;
Chief Science Officer (CSO) and Fellow, Research Director of Kyoto research, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.;
Co-founder Koozyt, Inc.

Jun REKIMOTO received his B.A.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. in Information Science from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1984, 1986, and 1996, respectively.  Since 1994 he has worked for Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.(Sony CSL).  In 1999 he formed and directed the Interaction Laboratory within Sony CSL. Since 2007 he has been a professor in the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies at The University of Tokyo. He also has been Deputy Director of Sony CSL since 2011 and Chief Science Officer since 2023. He also heads the lab’s operation in Kyoto. 

Rekimoto’s research interests include human-computer interaction, computer augmented environments and computer augmented human (human-computer integration). He invented various innovative interactive systems and sensing technologies, including NaviCam (a hand-held AR system), Pick-and-Drop (a direct-manipulation technique for inter-appliance computing), CyberCode (the world’s first marker-based AR system), Augmented Surfaces, HoloWall, and SmartSkin (two earliest representations of multi-touch systems). He has published more than a hundreds articles in the area of human-computer interactions, including ACM SIGCHI, and UIST. 

Rekimoto received the Multi-Media Grand Prix Technology Award from the Multi-Media Contents Association Japan in 1998, iF Interaction Design Award in 2000, the Japan Inter-Design Award in 2003, iF Communication Design Award in 2005, Good Design Best 100 Award in 2012, Japan Society for Software Science and Technology Fundamental Research Award in 2012, and ACM UIST Lasting Impact Award in 2013. He was also elected to ACM SIGCHI Academy in 2017. In 2018, he was awarded Asahi Shimbun Award at the National Invention Award.