📅Date and time: February 10, 2026, 13:30-16:30
📍Location: Sanjo Conference Hall 2F, Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (Doors open at 13:20) / Online streaming available
The 1st Animāre Seminar invites three researchers (Jingyi Li, Jane L. E, Shm G. Almeda) from overseas and welcomes Kumiyo Nakakoji (Future University Hakodate) as a moderator to discuss research on creativity support tools. Learn more about Animāre here.
Jingyi Li is an assistant professor of computer science at Pomona College, where they direct the Doodle Lab. Their research in understanding and building creativity support tools pushes how they can be designed towards more equitable power dynamics.
Recently, Jingyi has been working on "artistic support tools", which are tools for supporting artistic goals and as art practice. Jingyi is so excited to be in community with creative practitioners and hopeful to make new connections and collaborations!
Jane E is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at National University of Singapore, where she leads the Palette Lab. Her work broadly looks at how to design computational tools that can support users in developing their own domain expertise, asking “what should — and shouldn’t — tools be doing to support human creativity?”
With her mentees, she has recently been expanding to explorations in accessibility & plurality, education, healthcare, and nature conservation. Jane is incredibly excited and honored to have this opportunity to meet and learn from everyone!
Shm Garanganao Almeda is a PhD Candidate at the University of California, Berkeley. They are an artist and computer scientist researching Creativity Supportive Ecosystems: they develop novel design probe systems, and use them to research how creative communities function within broader social, cultural, and economic contexts.
Their recent work focuses on using historical and cultural art data and learning from traces of creative activity. One of Shm's favorite creativity support systems is Hatsune Miku. They are so excited to expand their creative community, and for all that we can learn from one another!
This seminar is a continuation (equivalent to the seventh session) of the "AIST Creative HCI Seminar" series held in 2023. We plan to continue providing opportunities for researchers, engineers, and creators from Japan and abroad to gather and work towards realizing a reciprocal anime co-creation environment.
| Time | Content |
|---|---|
| 13:20 | Doors open |
| 13:30 | Jun's introduction to the seminar |
| 13:45 | Invited talks by Jingyi, Jane, and Shm |
| 15:15 | Kumiyo's introduction to the panel session |
| 15:30 | Panel session (Jingyi, Jane, Shm, Jun, and Kumiyo) |
| 16:20 | Closing |
Please find the squared "2" icon in the campus map that points to Sanjo Conference Hall.
Upon arriving at Sanjo Conference Hall, please proceed to the large conference room on the 2nd floor.
