A happy new year !

A happy new year!

Last year, I enjoyed with my students, friends and family very much.

I am enjoying to teach design,  think design and create design at Chiba Institute of Technology.

I am leading User Experience Design Laboratory with our student.  Now 5 master students and 17 graduate students in our laboratory. 

And also, I am enjyoing to collaborate several companies and organaziation.

Following is the summary of my activities in 2008;

Academy activities
・User Experience Lab. activities,  Winter Camp,  Summer Camp、Party
・User Experience Lab. studies, Open Lab. in Spring,   Open Lab. in Winter
・Lecture for Information Design Theory and Practice 1
・Lecture for Information Design Theory and Practice 2
・Special Lecture
・Special Lecture for Human Centered Design for Master program
・Special Lecture for Information Design for Master program（in Kyoto）

・Project with Companies（Willcom core module forum, Kyocera, TOYOTA）

・Summary of the relation with University and Companies

Goverment and Community activities
・Jury for Good Design Award
・Member for IT goverment
・Strategic design school for Chiba

・Japan Industrial Design Association
・Information Design Forum
・Human Centered Design Network
・Japan Society for Science of Design
・Japan Ergonomics Society

Publishing activities

・Design selection book（March in 2009）
・Text book for Product design（July in 2009）

・Text book for Information design（End of 2009）
・HCD-Net Library（End of 2009）

Personal activities

・Consulting activities（Several companies）

・Invited speakers（Waseda  , AOTS, Art forum）

・Creative activities（Lighting exhibition、TRY NEW SKIN、Eco design exhibition）

・Playing music

I hope  you and your family will have good year.

Love and best wishes to all,