ARKI research group has had the pleasure to welcome Japanese researcher/designer Kazuha Kato as Visiting Researcher from December 2005 to March 2006. Kazuha was especially interested in widening her experience and understanding of co-design.

Kazuha presented us some of the work she had previously done as a designer at the Real World based Interaction Group - RWIG (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology - AIST). We also had the pleasure to meet two of her colleagues: Yasushi Maruyama, Ph.D and Yoshiyuki Nakamura, PhD.

Yoshiyuki Nakamura explaining CoBIT: small and inexpensive information terminals that can provide sound information to user with no plug-in power source.