Naoki KIMURA

Ph.D. in CS, HCI. Chief Research Scientist @LY Research.

ex phd-fellow @GoogleAI and @MSFTResearch, From UTokyo and GeorgiaTech. 未踏アドバンスト24
XP2600

[Naoki KIMURA @kiiim_]

@k_y___4 小山さん
お世話になっております。理フィニッシュをお願いしている木村です。ラインの方のご確認のほど、よろしくお願いいたします。

[Naoki KIMURA @kiiim_]

I'm conducting in-depth readings of all CHI 2026 papers.

So far, I've completed through the Awarded Papers.
https://t.co/3zKkmdjMyo

#CHI2026

[Naoki KIMURA @kiiim_]

"An Experience That Could Not be Found Anywhere Else": Resonance as an Explanatory Concept for Player Experience Research and Game Design

<Canon before>
In HCI games research, resonance has predominantly been invoked as a loosely defined, everyday notion without conceptual clarity, often attributed by researchers rather than players themselves, limiting understanding and design for resonating player experiences.

<Departure from common sense>
Players use resonance not just as vague emotional impact but as a spectrum of experience involving deep emotional investment, personal connection, real-life transformative outcomes, and uniquely interactive game qualities; resonance includes both immediate 'clicking' experiences and lingering, reflective meaning-making that departs from the usual assumption that meaning is predominantly reflective and rational.

<Actual novelty>
The paper introduces resonance as an explanatory concept for player experience that synthesizes psychological and information science theories with empirical player narratives, defining resonance as a spectrum of emotionally evocative, personally relevant, and interactively unique gameplay encounters that can lead to long-lasting cognitive and behavioral impacts, providing a nuanced framework and design implications not previously articulated at this depth in HCI games research.

<Method limits>
The qualitative survey sample was predominantly men from Western countries with substantial gaming experience, limiting cultural and demographic generalizability; reliance on retrospective self-reports raises typical recall biases in player experience research.

<Deployment limits>
Findings primarily reflect adult players engaged in online communities, limiting applicability to non-English speakers, lesser-experienced players, or those outside Western cultural contexts.

<Boundary conditions>
Resonance as defined may be limited in its application to games, contexts, or populations that do not elicit or prioritize reflection, personal connection, or emotional engagement in similar ways; the concept may vary by cultural and individual factors affecting personal relevance and emotional alignment.

<Position in field>
This work advances HCI games research by operationalizing a previously vague notion into a nuanced, empirically grounded explanatory concept that bridges psychological theory and game design practice, addressing calls for deeper theory in player experience and reflection-focused game research.

Research: https://t.co/Njw8r9cRPN

Full Review Here:
https://t.co/Ki4MdLaWt4

#CHI2026

[Naoki KIMURA @kiiim_]

プレゼンテーション仕方も完全一致してる

[Naoki KIMURA @kiiim_]

暦本先生と俺、このアイデアについて一切話してないのに、完全にパラレルで同じことやってる・・・

#CHI2026

[Naoki KIMURA @kiiim_]

Interspeech, ICASSPにピボットしてから２年もかかっちゃったね

[Naoki KIMURA @kiiim_]

俺はCHIを目指さない

[Naoki KIMURA @kiiim_]

My paper has been accepted to #ICASSP2026

単著です

[Xin Eric Wang @xwang_lk]

A working demo is worth a thousand papers.

[Naoki KIMURA @kiiim_]

https://t.co/36yCJXBJBg

[Naoki KIMURA @kiiim_]

user independentなlip readingのために、画像ではなくlandmarkを使用したLip Readingの試み

[Yudai Tanaka @_yudaitanaka]

Dear #CHI2024 attendees,

@AngelaVujic, @plopesresearch and I invite you to NeuroCHI 🧠, a panel discussion at the intersection of Neuroscience & HCI.

Mark your calendars for May14 (Tue) 4:00-5:20 pm (HST) @ Kalakaua Ballroom

Together with amazing panelists—@PattieMaes, @OlafBlankeLab, Rob Jacob, and Sho Nakagome (@gomessdegomess)—

we will discuss the opportunities, challenges, & ethical implications of neurotech and how we, as HCI researchers, can accelerate this exciting domain!

[Naoki KIMURA @kiiim_]

@od_nq めっちゃクローズドなディナーイベントと考えれば破格に安いかもしれない

[Naoki KIMURA @kiiim_]

"MONA LISA reduces the state-of-the-art word error rate (WER) from 28.8% to 12.2% in the Gaddy (2020)

肝は、結局のところサイレントスピーチデータセットは音声のように十分になることはないから、いかにfew-shotの問題にアプローチできるかということ。
https://t.co/d1KexCcEwu

[Yusuke ZENNYO @xyzennyo]

「英語で論文を書くなんて日本人の厳しい目から逃れるためだ、けしからん！」という名言を思い出した。

逃げられるなよ…

[Naoki Tokunaga @ntoku66]

ご報告です。

一昨年アルピーヌF1を離れて以来、アンドレッティのF1プロジェクトに上級戦略顧問として参画しています。

まだ承認手続きは完了していませんが、新チームの立ち上げは一生に一度の機会。今後の展開をお楽しみに！

#f1jp https://t.co/CDPY1HTIYo

[Naoki KIMURA @kiiim_]

みんなの栄転に焼かれてます

[Ryo Shigeta @shige_compit]

【予告】 Google PhD Fellowshipの募集が3月28日から始まります。連休明け5月8日締切とややタイトですので、新D1/D2でご興味のある方は、応募する研究プロジェクトのアイデアなどを考え始めていただくとよいかと思います。
要項等は下記をご確認ください。
https://t.co/kyLPic4BWI

[Shunichi Kasahara @shn_kasa]

大事なお知らせになります。是非、キャリアの選択肢としてご検討頂ければ幸いです。

[Kotaro Hara @kotarohara]

今学期大学院生向けに、HCIの基礎を教えてます。テーマは、「僕が大学院一年のときにざっとカバーして欲しかった、HCIの論文で見かける計算機科学的手法諸々」です。まだ書き終わってないですがシェア：https://t.co/kD18agl7Ip

[Sauvik Das @scyrusk]

Looking at these prospective Ph.D. applications gives me a lot of hope for the future of HCI!

(also, just a reminder to other folks reviewing: prior publication success is *a* signal but not *the* signal!)