About
研究概要
The Interactive Media Lab at Ritsumeikan University (Run by Professor Paul Haimes) explores how aesthetic experience, technology, and human perception intersect across interaction design (IxD)/human-computer interaction (HCI), interactive art, visual design, and design studies. Our projects investigate new forms of interaction through sound, colour, data, and embodied experience, and examine these practices in cultural and theoretical contexts.
立命館大学のインタラクティブメディア研究室（ヘイメズ・ポール教授の研究室）では、美的体験・テクノロジー・人間の知覚の接点を探究します。インタラクション・デザイン（IxD）、ヒューマン・コンピュータ・インタラクション（HCI）、インタラクティブ・アート、ビジュアル・デザイン、デザイン学にまたがりながら、音・色・データ・身体性を通じた新しいインタラクションの形態を探究し、その実践を文化的・理論的文脈の中で考察します。
Textbook: Exploring Japanese Design
Professor Haimes is the author of Exploring Japanese Design, a free open-access textbook covering Japanese aesthetics, craft, and design history.ヘイメズ教授は、日本の美学・工芸・デザイン史を扱った無料のオープンアクセス教科書『Exploring Japanese Design』の著者です。
Research Themes
研究テーマ
Exploring cross-modal relationships between musical structure and visual form.
音楽構造と視覚表現の感覚横断的関係を探究。
Investigating how philosophical aesthetics informs interaction design.
哲学的美学の視点からインタラクションデザインを考察。
Designing calm interfaces communicating information subtly.
繊細な表現で情報を伝えるインターフェースの設計。
Exploring values and cultural contexts in both traditional and emerging design practices.
伝統的・新興的なデザイン実践における価値観と文化的文脈の探究。
Selected Projects
主なプロジェクト
Colour-Music Interface
Exploring visualization of music signals based on colour theory, and generative music based on colour input.
色彩理論に基づく音楽信号の可視化、および色入力に基づく生成音楽システム。
Fuji-chan
An ambient media system for presenting Mount Fuji eruption data and weather information.
富士山の噴火データおよび気象情報を提示するためのアンビエント・メディア・システム。
Aesthetics in HCI
Research that advocates the consideration of aesthetics more deeply in the field of HCI.
HCI分野で、美学をより深く考える重要性を提唱する研究。
Other recent papers
その他の最近の論文
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Haimes, P. (2026). From Edo-Period Gardens to Kankyō Ongaku (Environmental Music): Appreciation of Environmental Sound in Japan. Contemporary Aesthetics, 24.
https://contempaesthetics.org/2026/05/23/from-edo-gardens-to-kankyo-ongaku-environmental-music-appreciation-of-environmental-sound-in-japan/ -
Haimes, P. (2025). Museums, memory, and the Korean legacy in Japanese porcelain pottery. Conflict and Empire in East Asia to 1945 in Heritage, Memory, and Museums, Kyoto, Japan.
https://philpapers.org/archive/HAIMMA-2.pdf -
Haimes, P. (2025). Colour Chordifier: Interactive Colour-Driven Music Generation. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference of the Asia Digital Art and Design Association, Tokyo, Japan.
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/adadapic/2025/0/2025_CP2501/_pdf -
Haimes, P., & Uhde, A. (2025). Virtues in Gamified Systems: Exploring Virtue Ethics in Cross-Cultural Adaptive Gamification. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference of Asia Digital Art and Design Association, Tokyo, Japan.
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/adadapic/2025/0/2025_CP1401/_pdf -
Rousi, R., & Haimes, P. (2024). Social robot design and the aesthetics of imperfection. In R. Rousi, C. von Koskull, & V. Roto (Eds.), Humane Autonomous Technology: Re-thinking Experience with and in Intelligent Systems (pp. 199–232). Springer.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-66528-8_9 -
Vakkuri, V., & Haimes, P. (2024). Bringing human-machine play to the stage. Creative Robotics Theatre Workshop, ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS 2024), Copenhagen, Denmark.
https://hoomansamani.com/creative-robotics/creative-robotic-theatre/creative-robotics-theatre-dis-24/ -
Haimes, P. (2022). Machizukuri (neighborhood making): Collective world-making in traditional Japanese neighborhoods. Contemporary Aesthetics, 20.
https://contempaesthetics.org/2022/11/10/machizukuri-neighborhood-making-collective-world-making-in-traditional-japanese-neighborhoods/
Contact
お問い合わせ
For research collaboration, exhibitions, lectures, or project inquiries,
please get in touch by email.
研究連携、展示、講演、プロジェクトに関するお問い合わせは、
メールにてご連絡ください。
haimes[at]fc.ritsumei.ac.jp
The lab is not currently accepting graduate students.
現在、大学院生の受け入れは行っておりません。