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HO HSIN-NI(ほー しんにー) データ更新日:2024.03.21

准教授 /  芸術工学研究院 メディアデザイン部門 インタラクションデザイン講座


主な研究テーマ
デジタルタッチおよびハプティックディスプレイの研究
キーワード:ハプティクス 、触覚、温度感覚、多感覚
2002.04~2025.04.
従事しているプロジェクト研究
Toward the holistic digital touch experience: Revealing Spatio-temporal processing for multisensory feedback in Cutaneous Displays
2021.12, 代表者:Hsin-Ni Ho, Kyushu Univeristy, Kyushu University, Japan.
Shitsukan perception analysis using a data-driven approach
2021.12, 代表者:Hsin-Ni Ho, Kyushu Univeristy, Japan.
研究業績
主要著書
主要原著論文
1. Hsin-Ni Ho, Temperature as an exteroceptive sense: Challenges remain in thermal modeling of skin–object interactions, Temperature, 10.1080/23328940.2019.1617624, 1-2, 2019.04.
2. Jas Brooks, Alireza Bahremand, Pedro Lopes, Christy Spackman, Judith Amores Fernandez, Hsin-Ni Ho, Masahiko Inami, Simon Niedenthal, Sharing and Experiencing Hardware and Methods to Advance Smell, Taste, and Temperature Interfaces, 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 10.1145/3544549.3573828, 2023.04.
3. Takuya Jodai, Masahiko Terao, Lynette A. Jones, Hsin-Ni Ho, Determination of the Thermal-tactile Simultaneity Window for Multisensory Cutaneous Displays, World Haptics 2023, 2023.07.
4. Jones, L.A, Ho, H.-N, Incorporating Thermal Feedback in Cutaneous Displays: Reconciling Temporal and Spatial Disparities, Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Haptic & Audio Interaction Design, 2022.08.
5. Yizhen Zhou, Hsin-Ni Ho, Junji Watanabe, Perceptual-Semantic Congruency Facilitates Semantic Discrimination of Thermal Qualities, FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY, 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02113, 8, 2113, 2017.12, The ability to sense temperature is vital to our life. It signals the environmental condition, reflects the physiological conditions of our own body, and generates feelings of pleasantness or unpleasantness. Moreover, recent studies have demonstrated implicit associations between physical temperature and social/emotional concepts, suggesting the processing of temperature may even influence cognition. In this work, we examined the effect of physical warmth and coldness on semantic cognition. Participants performed speeded target categorization for thermal descriptors in the form of semantic words or illustrative figures representing the thermal qualities "warm" or "cold" while physical thermal stimulation was presented. We compared the average reaction time (RT) for the congruent and incongruent conditions managed by response key assignments. In the congruent condition, the response key for the symbol associated with warmth (coldness) was assigned to the hand with warm (cold) thermal stimulation, and in the incongruent condition the key assignment was reversed. Our results demonstrate that the average RT in the congruent condition was faster than in the incongruent one for both forms of thermal descriptors, suggesting that the experience of physical temperature facilitates the internal processing of the meaning of thermal quality..
6. Hsin-Ni Ho, Katsunari Sato, Scinob Kuroki, Junji Watanabe, Takashi Maeno, Shin'ya Nishida, Physical-Perceptual Correspondence for Dynamic Thermal Stimulation, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON HAPTICS, 10.1109/TOH.2016.2583424, 10, 1, 84-93, 2017.01, Thermal displays have been applied in various haptic applications, from material simulation to interpersonal communication; however, there is insufficient knowledge about the temporal processing in human thermal sense to provide a knowledge basis for thermal display design. In this study, we investigated the physical-perceptual correspondence for dynamic thermal stimulation to shed a light on the temporal processing of human thermal sense. In the experiments, participants reported subjective timings of the temperature onset and temperature peak of continuous temperature changes applied to the thenar eminence. We found that the physical-perceptual correspondence was not consistent for warm and cold stimulations. For warm stimulation, the subjective experience always came after the corresponding physical event. On the other hand, for cold stimulation, while the subjective onset always lagged the physical onset, the subjective temperature peak preceded the physical temperature peak. We analyzed these results in the framework of linear systems theory. The results suggest that the senses of warmth and cold have distinct temporal filtering properties, with the sense of cold being more transient than the sense of warmth. These findings advance our knowledge regarding temporal processing in human thermal sense and serve as a basis for thermal display design..
7. Penny Bergman, Hsin-Ni Ho, Ai Koizumi, Ana Tajadura-Jimenez, Norimichi Kitagawa, The pleasant heat? Evidence for thermal-emotional implicit associations occurring with semantic and physical thermal stimulation, COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE, 10.1080/17588928.2014.988132, 6, 1, 24-30, 2015.01, The association between thermal and emotional experiences in interpersonal relations is intuitively apparent and has been confirmed by previous studies. However, research has not yet elucidated whether such an association is grounded in mental processes occurring at an intrapersonal (internal) level. In two experiments we examined whether the thermal-emotional associations can be observed at an intrapersonal level. We looked at the speed and accuracy of stimuli categorization. Experiment 1 examined the implicit semantic association between temperature (warm versus cold) and emotional valence (positive versus negative). Experiment 2 examined the association between experience of physical temperature and emotional valence. In both experiments warm-positive/cold-negative associations were demonstrated. These results suggest a conceptual and perceptual mapping in the mental representation of emotion and temperature, which occurs at an intrapersonal level, and which might serve as the ground to the interpersonal thermal-emotional interactions..
8. Hsin-Ni Ho, Daisuke Iwai, Yuki Yoshikawa, Junji Watanabe, Shin'ya Nishida, Combining colour and temperature: A blue object is more likely to be judged as warm than a red object, SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 10.1038/srep05527, 4, 5527, 2014.07, It is commonly believed that reddish colour induces warm feelings while bluish colour induces cold feelings. We, however, demonstrate an opposite effect when the temperature information is acquired by direct touch. Experiment 1 found that a red object, relative to a blue object, raises the lowest temperature required for an object to feel warm, indicating that a blue object is more likely to be judged as warm than a red object of the same physical temperature. Experiment 2 showed that hand colour also affects temperature judgment, with the direction of the effect opposite to object colours. This study provides the first demonstration that colour can modulate temperature judgments when the temperature information is acquired by direct touch. The effects apparently oppose the common conception of red-hot/blue-cold association. We interpret this phenomenon in terms of ''Anti-Bayesian'' integration, which suggests that the brain integrates direct temperature input with prior expectations about temperature relationship between object and hand in a way that emphasizes the contrast between the two..
9. Hsin-Ni Ho, Junji Watanabe, Hideyuki Ando, Makio Kashino, Mechanisms Underlying Referral of Thermal Sensations to Sites of Tactile Stimulation, JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE, 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2640-10.2011, 31, 1, 208-213, 2011.01, When three stimulators are simultaneously touched with the middle three fingers of one hand but only the outer two stimulators are cooled or heated, the central (neutral) stimulator is also perceived to be cold or warm. This phenomenon is known as thermal referral and it shares phenomenological similarities with filling-in, in which the discontinuity in the signals of interest can be compensated perceptually on the basis of the spatially adjacent context. Although the mechanisms underlying filling-in have been well substantiated, those underlying thermal referral are still poorly understood. In the present study, we examined the intensity perception of the sensation resulting from thermal referral with human participants. We found that the sensation was uniform among the three fingers, but its apparent intensity was always lower than the physical intensity applied to the outer two fingers. These results indicate that the thermal uniformity perceived under thermal referral is not created by the brain's interpolating the thermal changes applied to the outer two fingers, as one would expect for those induced by typical filling-in. Instead, the thermal changes applied to the outer two fingers are summated and redistributed to all the fingers in contact. Our findings suggest that thermal referral is mediated by two separate processes. One determines the apparent intensity from the physical intensity and the areal extent of the thermal stimulation; the other determines the localization of the resulting sensation from the apparent sites of tactile stimulation..
主要総説, 論評, 解説, 書評, 報告書等
主要学会発表等
1. Hsin-Ni Ho, Facilitating Interpersonal Communication with Mediated Social Touch, Mediated Social Touch - Interdisciplinary Exploration of Digital Touch to Connect Humans Workshop, 2023.11.
2. Jones, L.A, Ho, H.-N, Thermal and tactile sensing and the development of multisensory cutaneous displays, RoboTac 2021: New Advances in Tactile Sensation, Interactive Perception, Control, and Learning, 2021.09.
3. Hsin-Ni Ho, Importance of relaying warmth in this pandemic time, Smell, Taste, and Temperature Interfaces Workshop at CHI 2021, 2021.05.
4. Ho, H.-N, Tactile influence on temperature perception, Japan-UK bilateral meeting: New Directions in Somatosensation, 2017.09.
5. Hsin-Ni Ho, Is the hand trustworthy? Multimodal influence in haptic object perception, International Workshop on Multimodal Virtual & Augmented Reality (MVAR 2016), in conjunction with ACM ICMI 2016, 2016.11.
6. Hsin-Ni Ho, Thermo-tactile interactions in object temperature perception, ERC Computational Touch workshop, 2016.09.
7. Ho, H.-N, Color-temperature correspondence and its impact on object temperature perception, Powerful Young Researchers' Presentations, International Symposium on Foundations of Visual Information, 2015.09.
特許出願・取得
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特許登録件数  2件
学会活動
所属学会名
日本感性工学会
IEEE
日本基礎心理学会
日本バーチャルリアリティ学会
The Society for Neuroscience
Haptics Committee in the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Japan
学会大会・会議・シンポジウム等における役割
2024.02.03~2024.07.05, Program committee member (Associate editor) for the EuroHaptics Conference 2024, Review, evaluation, Peer review.
2023.08.19~2023.08.20, Program committee member for The 9th Annual Conference of Taiwan Association of Computer-Human Interaction, 審査・評価, 査読.
2016.07.04~2016.07.07, Organizer for "Thermal Perception and Thermal Displays" Workshop at Eurohaptics 2016, Planning, management, etc., Panel moderator, session chair, etc..
2022.10.20~2023.04.28, Organizer for Smell, Taste, and Temperature Interfaces Workshop at CHI 2023, Planning, management, etc., Panel moderator, session chair, etc., Review, evaluation.
2023.02.01~2023.07.13, Program committee member (Associate editor) for the IEEE World Haptics Conference 2023, Planning, management, etc., Review, evaluation.
2019.07~2019.07, World Haptics 2019, 論文賞審議会委員.
2019.09~2019.09.18, 第24回日本バーチャルリアリティ学会大会, 技術芸術展示学術奨励賞審査委員.
学会誌・雑誌・著書の編集への参加状況
2023.08~2024.02, VR学会論文誌, 国内, 編集委員.
2023.10~2023.12, IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 国際, 編集委員.
2015.05~2021.06, Temperature, 国際, 編集委員.
学術論文等の審査
年度 外国語雑誌査読論文数 日本語雑誌査読論文数 国際会議録査読論文数 国内会議録査読論文数 合計
2021年度    
受賞
Best Associate Editors Award, World Haptics 2023, 2023.07.
Second prize of 9th National Taiwan University Engineering Technology Contest, National Taiwan University, 2000.03.
Outstanding Students Conference Travel Grant, Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship, 2000.09.
Outstanding Engineering Student Award, Chinese Institute of Engineers, 2000.06.
Outstanding Engineering Graduate Student Award, CTCI Foundation, 2001.11.
Proclamation of Technical Excellence, International Conference InfraMation 2007, 2007.11.
所長表彰研究開発賞, NTTコミュニケーション科学基礎研究所, 2015.04.
所長表彰研究開発賞 , NTTコミュニケーション科学基礎研究所 , 2015.04.
研究資金
科学研究費補助金の採択状況(文部科学省、日本学術振興会)
2022年度~2023年度, 基盤研究(C), 代表, Toward the holistic digital touch experience.
2010年度~2014年度, 新学術領域研究, 質感認知に関わる視聴触覚情報の心理物理的分析.
2022年度~2026年度, 基盤研究(B), World in your hand: Investigating the underlying mechanism of thermal material recognition and its interaction with multisensory information.
競争的資金(受託研究を含む)の採択状況
2024年度~2025年度, 公益財団法人電気通信普及財団 2023年度 研究調査助成, 代表, マルチモーダル皮膚感覚提示技術開発のための感覚統合解析.
2022年度~2024年度, MIT, Hayashi-ULVAC MISTI Seed Fund, 代表, Toward the holistic digital touch experience: Revealing spatio-temporal processing for multisensory feedback in cutaneous displays.
学内資金・基金等への採択状況
2023年度~2023年度, 数理・データサイエンスに関する教育・研究支援プログラム, 代表, Seeing Touch - Predicting Tactile Experience from Visual Information.
2023年度~2023年度, 令和5年度 秋「研究補助者雇用支援(短期)」, 代表, NA.
2024年度~2024年度, 令和6年度「研究補助者雇用支援」(春期), 代表, NA.

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