Augmented Societies

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

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

[Video] Beyond Boundaries

"If you want to accomplish in your life, one thing that would contribute to the future of humanity - what is that?" How do researchers at Sony CSL reflect on these questions and engage with their own research? And what kind of place is Sony Computer Science Laboratories, shaped by such individuals? Through the words of the researchers themselves, we hope to share part of that perspective.

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

News & Articles

[INFO] Jun Rekimoto has been named Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo

2026年7月2日

[Event Report] Exploring Biodiversity, Circularity and Digital Agriculture at the University of Helsinki

2026年6月26日

[Conference] A paper by Jun Rekimoto and Shinichi Furuya et al. has been presented at ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 2026)

Interpretable Visualization of Expertise-Dependent Motor Skills Toward Supporting Piano Practice

2026年6月22日

[INFO] A Synecoculture-based green tea product by Sony China was announced and Masatoshi Funabashi spoke at the event

2026年6月18日

[Event 06/23] Jun Rekimoto, Senior Fellow, will deliver a keynote at SIGCHI Korea Local Chapter Summer Event

Human-AI Integration

2026年6月12日

[INFO] “Flat Earth Food,” for which Masatoshi Funabashi wrote the foreword, has been released

2026年6月9日

[Article] A paper by Masatoshi Funabashi, Research Director, et al. has been published in Ecological Complexity

Integrated stock and flow system dynamics and optimized sampling for comprehensive carbon offset evaluation of natural and farming ecosystems

2026年5月21日

[INFO] A Video Introducing Tomonami for KKAA Has Been Released

2026年4月23日

Publications

Kawamura, Kazuki and Nakamura, Fujiki and Nishioka, Hayato and Shioki, Momoko and Furuya, Shinichi and Rekimoto, Jun

Interpretable visualization of expertise-dependent motor skills toward supporting piano practice

Proceedings of the 2026 Designing Interactive Systems Conference | pages 2868--2885, jun, 2026

Payao: a community platform for SBML pathway model curation

Ryota Sakayama and Tatsuya Kawaoka and Masatoshi Funabashi

Toward Breaking the Recovery Plateau in Chronic Rehabilitation: An Integrative Framework of Biodiversity Exposure, Lifestyle Intervention, and ICT-Based Monitoring

Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - ICT4AWE | INSTICC | pages 72-83, 2026