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A future
you can
feel.
We explore what technology can become when the whole body is part of the experience.
EXPERIENCES THAT
REACH THE WHOLE BODY
REACH THE WHOLE BODY
触覚から、未来をつくる。HAPTICS · PERCEPTION · HUMAN CONNECTIONKEIO MEDIA DESIGN / JAPAN
01A DIFFERENT KIND OF INTERFACE
What if touch
changed everything?
A message you feel. A skill shared through the hands. Music experienced with your whole body.
At Team Haptics, we design and study experiences through touch. We bring together prototyping, human perception, and creative practice to explore how technology can connect people.
Our roots in Porous HapticsPart of the Embodied Media Project at Keio KMD. Building on a research tradition of making the boundaries between physical and digital, self and others, more permeable.
02WHERE WE'RE GOING
Three directions.
So many possibilities.
These are the questions we're opening up now. Find the one you can't stop thinking about.
NEXT QUESTIONS / 01
Wear your
Wear your
next sense.
What if a ring, a wristband, or a piece of clothing could give you a new way to feel? We explore haptic interfaces that move with the body and belong in everyday life.
ASK YOURSELF
Explore FEEL TECH Wear
How can we make touch technology as natural to wear as your favourite clothes?
NEXT QUESTIONS / 02
What could
What could
intelligence feel like?
How could AI help us design sensations, understand the body, or create new ways to interact? This direction brings AI wearables and haptic experiences into the same conversation.
ASK YOURSELF
Read AudioHapticDiffusion
What would you create if you could begin with a description and explore how it feels?
NEXT QUESTIONS / 03
Make everyday
Make everyday
feel different.
What if the things around us could respond through touch? We want to explore haptics in furniture, rooms, and shared experiences—not just in the devices we carry.
ASK YOURSELF
Explore HaptoRoom
How could a room become part of an experience, rather than just the place it happens?
03SELECTED PROJECTS
Ideas you can
experience.
Real prototypes. Shared experiences.
Research that takes shape in the world.
04FOLLOW THE QUESTIONS
A few things
to get you thinking.
Research from Embodied Media and its collaborators — from whole-body experiences to emerging tools for AI and touch.
Explore the EM publication archive2026EUROHAPTICS
AudioHapticDiffusion
Generating synchronised sound and vibration from a text description.
Arata Kotani & Arata Horie · commissure
AI for Haptics
2025ACM CHI
Haptic Empathy
Investigating how people create and interpret emotional messages through touch.
Yulan Ju and collaborators, including Kouta Minamizawa
Communication
2025ACM TEI
HaptoRoom
Exploring reconfigurable haptic experiences through a vibrotactile floor interface.
Kiryu Tsujita and collaborators · Embodied Media
Lifestyle Haptics
2025ACM CHI
“It's Like Being On Stage”
Exploring how haptic wristbands can convey the expressiveness of a contemporary dance performance.
Ximing Shen and collaborators · Boiling Mind
Immersive experience
05THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE FEELING
Different minds.
A shared curiosity.
Our team brings together PhD and master's students, researchers, faculty, and engineering expertise within the Embodied Media Project.
Kouta Minamizawa
Professor · Dean of KMD
Embodied Media director
Arata Horie
Project Senior Assistant Professor
CTO, commissure
Nobuhisa Hanamitsu
Project Senior Assistant Professor
Synesthesia Lab, Enhance
Youichi Kamiyama
Research Engineer
Embodied MediaStudents & researchers
The people exploring what comes next.
Sadaatsu Kato
加藤 禎篤AI-Generated Haptics
Adam Kadmani
Universal Haptics for XR
Masaki Mizohashi
溝橋 正輝
Danyang "Phoebe" Peng
彭 丹陽Haptic VR for mental well-being
Yufan "Shu" Zhu
朱 宇凡Tactile Interaction & AudioVisual Design
Leighton David Aaron
Sleep Haptics
Hsiao-Chin "Bella" Yu
Live Performance & Haptics
TEAM HAPTICS
Small enough to know each other.
Curious enough to go somewhere new.
05PhD student(s)
01Researcher(s)
01Master's student(s)
OCTOBER 2026
Led by Kouta Minamizawa, director of Embodied Media and Dean of KMD. His wider work spans haptic design, human augmentation, and the Cybernetic being project.
06YOUR NEXT CHAPTER
Curiosity looks
good on you.
Bring a question.
Start making something.
You should join if you're interested in
01Functional fashion
Wristbands, rings, headphones, glasses — things you want to wear, with new ways to feel.
02AI wearables
Smart watches and rings, AI glasses, data gloves, and interfaces that learn with us.
03Next-gen immersive experiences
Game development, storytelling, VR and AR that reach beyond the screen.
04Smart furniture
Haptic blankets, mattresses, and everyday objects that respond to the body.
05Communication beyond vision and audio
New ways to express presence, share sensations, and connect through touch.
What you'll experience here
Make it tangible
3D printing, basic electronics, and AI-assisted coding for hardware and software. Turn an idea into something you can put in someone's hands.
Think together
Interactive team meetings to try things out, share progress, and develop questions together.
Meet the wider world
Haptics events throughout the year, with connections across industry and academia.
START WITH A CONVERSATION
Let's see if we're
Contact Us
akadmani@keio.jp
Let's see if we're
a good fit.
Interested in Team Haptics? Reach out with a little about yourself and what you'd love to explore. We can talk about how your interests might fit with the team.
Adam KadmaniYour first contact at Team Haptics
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