Augmented Societies – Sony CSL

This research area focuses on strengthening social systems through technology to create sustainable and harmonious communities. It addresses a wide range of challenges, including urban design, information sharing, and the optimization of decision-making processes. The goal is to propose new forms of collaboration and sustainable societal models.

Worldviews

Human Augmentation

I want to take humanity to a more natural world - Jun Rekimoto

Reseach Areas	Human Augmentation Augmented Societies
Researchers

Better societies in better environments

Vittorio Loreto

Reseach Areas	Augmented Societies Fundamental Research
Researchers

Brain Science and Mental Barrier-Free

Fitting environments to brains to achieve a mental-barrier-free society - Ai Koizumi

Reseach Areas	Fundamental Research Augmented Societies
Researchers

Projects

JackIn Space

Supporting the Seamless Transition Between First and Third Person View for Effective Telepresence Collaborations

Squama

Programmable physical windows and walls that allow individual control over the visibility of small square tiles.

Syneco Portal

Synecoculture Principles Learning Kit

SynecO, Inc

News & Articles

[Exhibition] Sony CSL - Rome is exhibiting at the Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2025

The Weight of Urban Inequalities

2025年10月10日

[MEDIA] Research Director Furuya’s Interview Published in Science Japan

Brain plasticity opens the future: The challenge of surpassing pianists' limits

2025年9月4日

[INFO] Research Director Shinichi Furuya Featured in the September Issue of the Monthly Magazine "Highlighting JAPAN," Published by the Government of Japan

2025年9月1日

The Associated Press has published an article highlighting the Nishijin weaving initiative at Kyoto Research.

Tradition meets AI in Nishijinori weaving style from Japan’s ancient capital

2025年8月1日

[INFO]A video introducing "Duetto" has been released.

A research project by Sony CSL - Rome, focused on human movement and AI.

2025年7月30日

[Article] A new article by Dr. M. Funabasi et al. has been published in Agriculture.

Data-Efficient Sowing Position Estimation for Agricultural Robots Combining Image Analysis and Expert Knowledge

2025年7月24日

[Article] A new article by Dr. J. Rekimoto et al. has been published in Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Multimodal Silent Speech-based Text Entry with Word-initials Conditioned LLM

2025年7月24日

[MEDIA] Shinichi Furuya, Research Director, will appear on the science program Science View, broadcast by NHK WORLD-JAPAN.

2025年6月12日

Publications

Laura Triglia, Pietro Gravino, Thomas Carette, Francesco Rea, Alessandra Sciutti, and Pablo Barros

Come Together: How Social Agents can Improve Music Discovery

2025

Yokoi, Sotaro and Rekimoto, Jun

MermaidLLM: Dataflow Diagrams for Explainable Skill Formalization and Real-time Support with Multimodal LLMs

Adjunct Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology | 2025

Rossi Mori, Lavinia and Loreto, Vittorio and Di Clemente, Riccardo

Time-space dynamics of income segregation in the city of Milan

PNAS Nexus | sep, 2025