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December 31, 2018: ■ Horiuchi, a first-generation master's student, won the YNU App Contest he recently participated in!
The prize was 300,000 yen. Amazing! Congratulations!

Taiki Horiuchi
Winner of the 5th Yokohama National University App Contest (Team TH)
November 18, 2018; ■ Today is the last day of 2018. It has been a quick year.
Thank you very much to everyone who supported me this year.
I look forward to your continued support in 2019.
December 25, 2018: ■ The paper that had been in press has finally been published in Early Access. I'm glad it has been successfully issued.

Keisuke Shima, Toshio Tsuji, Akihiko Kandori, Masaru Yokoe, and Saburo Sakoda
Quantitative Evaluation of Human Finger Tapping Movements Through Magnetic Measurements
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, November 12, 2018 (Early Access)
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2018.2881002; ■ A joint research outcome with Professor Satoshi Tanaka from Prefectural University of Hiroshima was published.

Kenichiro Shishido, Satoshi Tanaka, Koji Shimatani, Shusaku Kanai, Keisuke Shima, Tomoyuki Ouchida, Mika Okubo
Walking Characteristics in Turning Tasks for Stroke Hemiplegic Patients — Analysis Using Accelerometers
Physical Therapy Science, Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 229-234, April 27, 2018
DOI: 10.1589/rika.33.229
December 21, 2018: ■ Organized by Professor Kurita from Hiroshima University, I gave an invited lecture on fall prevention technology at the 14th Aging Society Design Research Meeting.

Keisuke Shima
StA²BLE: Standing Function Support and Evaluation Technology for Fall Prevention in the Elderly
14th Aging Society Design (ASD) Research Meeting, LIFULL Hub, 2nd floor, LIFULL Corporation Headquarters, December 21, 2018
December 13-15, 2018: ■ I participated in SI2018 at Osaka Institute of Technology, where I gave four presentations:

Riku Daiki, Keisuke Shima, Koji Shimatani
Direct Rehabilitation Using Functional Electrical Stimulation and EMG Signals - Joint Impedance Transmission Method for Motion Skill Learning Support
19th Systems Integration Division Lecture Conference Proceedings, pp. 952-954, Osaka Institute of Technology Umeda Campus, December 13, 2018

Shingo Hotta, Mami Sakata, Keisuke Shima, Satoshi Saka, Hiroyuki Izumi, Koji Shimatani
An Exercise Function Evaluation System Based on a One-Legged Standing Test for Fall Prevention in Workers
19th Systems Integration Division Lecture Conference Proceedings, pp. 1491-1492, Osaka Institute of Technology Umeda Campus, December 14, 2018

Keisuke Shima, Mami Sakata, Koji Shimatani
Human Inverted Pendulum-Type Standing Control Model Based on the Light Touch Effect
19th Systems Integration Division Lecture Conference Proceedings, pp. 1530-1532, Osaka Institute of Technology Umeda Campus, December 14, 2018

Keisuke Watanabe, Keisuke Shima
Approximate CD-HMM Aiming for FPGA Acceleration in Time Series Bio-Signal Identification
19th Systems Integration Division Lecture Conference Proceedings, pp. 2339-2341, Osaka Institute of Technology Umeda Campus, December 15, 2018
November 23, 2018: ■ Organized by Professor Tanaka from Waseda University and Professor Tsuji from Saitama University, I gave an invited lecture at the 1st Regenerative Medicine and Rehabilitation Society Academic Conference.

Keisuke Shima
Direct Rehabilitation Between Humans Based on Functional Electrical Stimulation and Motion Estimation
1st Regenerative Medicine and Rehabilitation Society Academic Conference Symposium: Contribution of Robotic Technology to Rehabilitation, Hiroshima University Kasumi Campus, November 23, 2018
September 26, 2018: ■ Takayuki Mukaeda, a first-generation doctoral student, presented at the 28th Intelligent Systems Symposium (FAN2018) held at our university. Well done!
Takayuki Mukaeda, Keisuke Shima, Saori Miyajima, Hiroki Hashimoto, Takayuki Tanaka, Naomichi Tani, Hiroyuki Izumi
Time Series Pattern Analysis Using a Hidden Semi-Markov Model Considering Unclassified States
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Research Group Materials, ST 2018 (39-54, 56-78, 80-84), pp. 89-93, Yokohama National University, September 26, 2018
July 18-21, 2018: ■ At EMBC2018 held in Honolulu, Mami Sakata presented her paper.
The day before, I gave a lecture on rehabilitation support at the workshop.

Mami Sakata, Dai Kawahara, Keisuke Shima, Hiroyuki Izumi, Tomoyuki Nagara, Koji Shimatani
A Standing Function Evaluation System Based on Virtual Light Touch Contact and Factor Analysis
Proceedings of the 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, pp. 4077-4080, Honolulu, HI, USA, July 17-21, 2018
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2018.8513311

Keisuke Shima
Motor Skill Training Through EMG-Based Human-Human Interface
The 2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2017) Half-day Workshop on Advances in Embodied-Brain Systems Science and Rehabilitation, Honolulu, HI, USA, July 17, 2018
May 23, 2018: ■ Organized by Professor Izumi from University of Occupational and Environmental Health, I gave an invited lecture at the 91st Industrial Health Conference.

Keisuke Shima
Fall Risk Assessment for Safe and Secure Labor: StABLE
91st Industrial Health Society Symposium 7: Older Workers and Disabled Workers in Occupational Health—Sensing and Assistive Technologies for Labor Support, Industrial Health Journal, Vol. 60, p. 139, Kumamoto Prefectural Civic Exchange Center Parea, 10th Floor, Parea Hall, May 18, 2018
April 20, 2018: ■ The member page has been updated for the 2018 academic year.
April 12, 2018: ■ M2 student Prasetia presented at an international conference held in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Prasetia Utama Putra, Keisuke Shima, Koji Shimatani
Markerless Human Activity Recognition Method Based on Deep Neural Network Model Using Multiple Cameras
Proceedings of the 2018 5th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT), pp. 13-18, Thessaloniki, Greece, April 10-13, 2018
April 8, 2018: ■ The following international conference paper was accepted:

Mami Sakata, Dai Kawahara, Keisuke Shima, Hiroyuki Izumi, Tomoyuki Nagara, Koji Shimatani
A Standing Function Evaluation System Based on Virtual Light Touch Contact and Factor Analysis
40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC'18), Honolulu, HI, USA, July 17-21, 2018 (accepted)
March 30, 2018: ■ As members of the 5th generation, 4th-generation students Ito, Kamijo, Sekiguchi, and Terui, along with Horii and Watanabe from our lab, and Iizawa from the University of Electro-Communications, and for the first time, professionals Dr. Kamiya and Mitani joined our lab. We held our annual welcome party with a cherry blossom viewing. Looking forward to working with you all!
March 23, 2018: ■ The 3rd-generation students Okamoto, Hanai, Mukaeda, and Yamashita, as well as 4th-generation students Uchiyama, Shimizu, Seo, Hachiya, and Seto, graduated or completed their degrees.
Please feel free to visit anytime after graduation. Congratulations!
March 1, 2018: ■ 4th-generation student Hachiya presented his research at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Growth and Development.
It was great to receive feedback from specialists in developmental disabilities!

Sayaka Hachiya, Prasetia Utama Putra, Mami Sakata, Keisuke Shima, Koji Shimatani
Infant Behavior Monitoring System for Developmental Disability Screening
Abstracts of the 16th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Growth and Development, Vol. 16, p. 144, Meiji University Surugadai Campus, March 10, 2018
February 23, 2018: ■ 2nd-generation student Sakata received the Academic Encouragement Award (Research Encouragement Award) from the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers!
This prestigious award is given to young researchers under 30 for their presentations. Wonderful job! Congratulations!

Society of Instrument and Control Engineers Academic Encouragement Award - Research Encouragement Award
Mami Sakata, "Evaluation System for Standing Function Using Virtual Walls: Study on Standing Age Model" (Presented at the 17th System Integration Division Conference)
February 23, 2018
February 16, 2018: ■ M2 students Okamoto and Hanai received the Excellent Presentation Award at the 18th System Integration Division Conference of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, held last December!
Congratulations!

SI2017 Excellent Presentation Award
Junpei Okamoto, Keisuke Shima, Hideki Nakano, Koji Shimatani, "Multisensory Feedback Movement Recall Training System for Motor Function Reconstruction"
December 13, 2017

SI2017 Excellent Presentation Award
Hiroaki Hanai, Keisuke Shima, Koji Shimatani, "Functional Electrical Stimulation and Myoelectric-Muscle Acoustics-Based Interaction Transmission Method for Motor Learning Training"
December 13, 2017
January 7, 2018: ■ We held our New Year's party for 2018.
January 6, 2018: ■ Happy New Year!
I am delighted that we have successfully welcomed our 6th New Year since the lab was established.
I look forward to working with you this year as well.

■ I have neglected updating for a while, but I have now caught up and posted all the information. This year, I aim to update regularly!

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