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Akihiro Kiuchi

Co-founder and CTO of ENIAQ Inc.

I am the co-founder and CTO of ENIAQ Inc. and a Ph.D. student (currently on leave) in the User Interface Research Group at the University of Tokyo, advised by Prof. Takeo Igarashi.
My interests lie in tools, systems, and standards that support creative activities across fields such as engineering, design, and research.

ENIAQ


ENIAQ

ENIAQ

Co-founder & CTO

Publications


MiniMates: Miniature Avatars for AR Remote Meetings within Limited Physical Spaces

MiniMates: Miniature Avatars for AR Remote Meetings within Limited Physical Spaces

Akihiro Kiuchi, Jonathan Wieland, Takeo Igarashi, and David Lindlbauer.
In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Push2AR: Enhancing Mobile List Interactions Using Augmented Reality

Push2AR: Enhancing Mobile List Interactions Using Augmented Reality

Jonathan Wieland, Hyunsung Cho, Sebastian Hubenschmid, Akihiro Kiuchi, Harald Reiterer, and David Lindlbauer.
In IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) 2024.

PerfectFit: Custom-Fit Garment Design in Augmented Reality

PerfectFit: Custom-Fit Garment Design in Augmented Reality

Akihiro Kiuchi, Anran Qi, Eve Mingxiao Li, Dávid Maruscsák, Christian Sandor, and Takeo Igarashi.
In SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 XR (Demo).
People's Choice Demo

ZIGEN: A Windowing System Enabling Multitasking Among 3D and 2D Applications in Immersive Environments

ZIGEN: A Windowing System Enabling Multitasking Among 3D and 2D Applications in Immersive Environments

Akihiro Kiuchi, Taishi Eguchi, Jun Rekimoto, Manabu Tsukada, and Hiroshi Esaki.
In ACM SIGGRAPH 2022 Posters.

OSS Project


Zwin: XR Windowing System

Zwin: XR Windowing System

Zwin is a Linux windowing system for XR. It allows you to use multiple 3D applications side by side, just like on 2D desktops. Adopted by IPA MITOU IT Program (2021) and MITOU Advanced Program (2022). Development is currently inactive.
Talks: MITOU'21 (Japanese), MITOU Advanced'22 (Japanese).

Jenkins Remoting Monitoring (Google Summer of Code'21)

Jenkins Remoting Monitoring (Google Summer of Code'21)

This project supports monitoring and troubleshooting of Jenkins remoting system with OpenTelemetry.
Talks: DevOpsWorld'21, Jenkins Day Japan (No public archive).