It is our conjecture that Environmental User Interface, leveraging contextually appropriate environmental data in design, can enrich the interactivity between a user and technology. Further, this enriched interaction can enhance human situational awareness and thus, supports decision making.

In this research, the primary goal is to change conventional user interfaces to embodied multimodal augmented user interfaces. Two projects below show an example that the human body is a medium that tightly coupled with the context of an application and influencing interactivity.

One of my interests is in the area of networked interactive spaces for augmented learning. An example of distributed interaction frameowrk called the AR-CAVE (Augmented Reality coupled CAVE) is represented in the picture below. In the example, a user in an immersive virtual environment is interactiong with another user being placed outside of the immersive virtual environment, an augmented reality environmen.

Cyber human characters play an important role in today's interactive applications. For instance, it plays a fundamental role in instructional systems such as game-based learning. A 3D human character has been developmed by me which consists of 33 degrees of freedom and 19 links. The human character can generate human motions such as walking and running. A 2.5D chatacter being called Live Avatar is introduced. Lice Avatar is a human character which can display itself as a 3D on the 2D plane without any plug-in modules.