Takumi Kuhara

Doctoral Student, Nagoya Institute of Technology

Takumi Kuhara

Studying how the body perceives vibration and touch — vibrotactile perception, haptics, and multisensory experience.

Takumi Kuhara

Projects

  • Vibration Perceptual Mechanisms

    Psychophysics · 2024–

    Vibration Perceptual Mechanisms

    Amplitude is not directly linked to intensity. A series of studies on how temporal factors such as, duration, damping and phase spectra change how strong a vibration feels.

  • SOVS — Single Overlapped Vibrotactile Stimulation

    Whole-body haptics · 2022–

    SOVS — Single Overlapped Vibrotactile Stimulation

    An overlapped vibration signal composing different information is delivered to several body sites at once. In the pseudo-dribbling case it makes you feel a ball that isn't there — and the same principle is where the work continues.

  • Becoming-player Sports Viewing

    Remote sports viewing · 2021

    Becoming-player Sports Viewing

    Third-person video, the spectator's own imitative movement, and vibration at several body sites — so a remote fencing spectator perceives the athlete's movements as their own.

  • Palpation Feedback

    Clinical haptics · 2019–2020

    Palpation Feedback

    Vibration picked up at the fingertip, replayed at the temples — clinicians perceive contracture during palpation more clearly.

About & Interests

I'm a doctoral student in the Graduate School of Engineering at Nagoya Institute of Technology, researching how humans perceive vibrotactile stimuli and how that perception can be used to design richer haptic experiences under Prof. Tanaka's supervision. My work sits at the intersection of psychophysics, human-computer interaction, and haptic engineering. Outside the lab I'm interested in sound, signal processing, and building tools that make research easier to run and share. Off the clock, I'm usually out with a camera or trying out new gadgets, like keyboards, headphones, and more.

  • Vibrotactile Perception
  • Haptics
  • Tactile Sensation
  • Psychophysics
  • Multisensory Integration
  • Signal Processing

Research

Publications

Presentations — International conferences

Presentations — Domestic conferences (Japan)

Education

  • Jul 2026 – Sep 2026

    Non-Degree Visiting Student (NDVS), Human Computer Integration Lab (Prof. Pedro Lopes), University of Chicago

  • 2023 – Present

    Doctoral Program, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology

  • 2021 – 2023

    Master's Program, Creative Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology

  • 2017 – 2021

    B.Eng., Creative Engineering Course, Nagoya Institute of Technology

Full profile on researchmap

CV

The full record, as a PDF. Download CV (PDF)

Recommendations

  • researchmap

    The academic profile platform I use to keep my publication list current.

  • Zotero

    Zotero is a free and open-source reference management software that allows you to collect, organize, and cite research papers. Currently, it is integrated with Claude in my system to search for a wide range of papers and help with surveys. It also allows you to create a bibliography file for each paper.

  • Semantic Scholar

    How I trace citations and find the papers around a paper — the reference graph is far easier to walk than a keyword search.

The diary

Notes on gadgets, papers and things I found interesting. Looser than this page. Open the diary

Contact

The fastest way to reach me is email.

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