Committee

Committee

General Chairs 

Mark Billinghurst

Adelaide University

Yoshifumi Kitamura

Tohoku University

Shuichi Sakamoto

Tohoku University

Program Chairs

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Kazuyuki Fujita

Tohoku University

Tham Piumsomboon

University of Canterbury

Kangsoo Kim

University of Calgary

Takefumi Hiraki

University of Tsukuba / Cluster Metaverse Lab

Posters Chairs

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Yumi Hamamoto

Tohoku University

Seungwon Kim

Chonnam University

Andrew Cunningham

Adelaide University

Demonstration Chairs

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Guanghan Zhao

Tohoku University

Yuki Onishi

The University of Bergen

Accessibility Chairs

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Xiyue Wang

Miraikan – The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation

Makoto Kobayashi

Tsukuba University of Technology

Diversity Equity Inclusion Chairs

Chia-Huei Tseng

Tohoku University

Kunihiro Kato

Tokyo University of Technology

Proceeding Chair

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Stephen Spencer

University of Washington

Web & SNS Chairs

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Shio Miyafuji

Institute of Science Tokyo

Ayaka Ishii

Meiji University

International Liaison

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Victoria Interrante

University of Minnesota

Gabriel Zachmann

University of Bremen

Local Arrangement Chairs

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Eunhee Chang

Tohoku University

Miao Cheng

Tohoku University

Godai Saito

Tohoku University

Victor Schneider

Tohoku University

Student Volunteer Chairs

 

Ryo Ooka

Tohoku University

Xiaodan Hu

Shibaura Institute of Technology

AI Experience Chair

Lin Gu

Tohoku University