Anime SIG

Researching Japanese Animation From Technical, Cultural, and Industrial Perspectives

About

Japanese animation, or anime for short, has attracted global attention with its immense international growth. Despite its popularity, academic research has been limited to media studies, with grand questions like “what is anime,” i.e., observational and analytical perspectives, and more recently in computer science from the perspective of “how to generate the anime look,” focusing on representing visual characteristics with computer vision and machine learning methods. This Special Interest Group (SIG) aims to deepen this multifaceted cultural phenomenon from multidisciplinary perspectives, including “who” makes anime, “how” creativity support tools can aid the process, and “what” about non-visual aspects like anime voices.

Organized by experts from industry and academia, this SIG invites participants to the emerging area of anime research and aims to open up a new alley for human-computer interaction (HCI) research through collective discussion on potential directions and community fostering of anime-interested researchers.

Anime, creativity support, interaction design, social science, anthropology, psychology

The registration form opens soon.

More details on why and how we are organizing this SIG meeting can be found in the author version of the special interest group proposal.

Organizers

Jun Kato

AIST & Arch Inc.

Yuki Koyama

AIST & Graphinica, Inc.

Akinobu Maejima

OLM Digital, Inc.

Ryotaro Mihara

Keio University & Arch Inc.

Katie Seaborn

Institute of Science Tokyo