Ryo Suzuki smiling while wearing a black shirt against a neutral background
Assistant Professor • PhD, Computer Science '20
ATLAS Institute

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Ryo Suzuki is an Assistant Professor at the ATLAS Institute and the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Programmable Reality Lab. Prior to joining Boulder, he served as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Calgary. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Colorado Boulder.

His research mission is to enhance human thought and creativity by transforming the entire living environment into a "dynamic space for thought", where people can think through tangible and spatial exploration with real objects in the real world, not with virtual objects on screens. His research has been published in top human-computer interaction and robotics conferences, including CHI, UIST, IROS, and ICRA, earning multiple awards. He has regularly served as a program committee member for CHI and UIST among others. Previously he also worked as a visiting researcher and research intern at Google, Adobe Research, Microsoft Research, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, the University of Tokyo, and Tohoku University.

Projects

Publications

Panayu Keelawat, Ryo Suzuki. 2024.Transforming Procedural Instructions into In-Situ Augmented Reality Guides with InstructAR. In:Adjunct Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST Adjunct 2024), (Pittsburgh, PA, October 13-16, 2024).

Wanli Qian, Chenfeng Gao, Anup Sathya, Ryo Suzuki, Ken Nakagaki. 2024..:Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2024), (September 10, 2024).

Aditya Gunturu, Yi Wen, Nandi Zhang, Jarin Thundathil, Rubaiat Habib Kazi, Ryo Suzuki. 2024.. In:Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2024), (August 10, 2024).

Suzuki, Ryo & Karim, Adnan & Xia, Tian & Hedayati, Hooman & Marquardt, Nicolai. (2022). Augmented Reality and Robotics: A Survey and Taxonomy for AR-enhanced Human-Robot Interaction and Robotic Interfaces.InProceedings ofCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’22). (New Orleans, LA—April 30-May 5, 2022).

Hooman Hedayati, RyoSuzuki, Wyatt Rees, Daniel Leithinger, and Daniel Szafir. 2022. . Frontiers in Robotics and AI. vol. 9. DOI=10.3389/frobt.2022.719639 (April 11, 2022).

Ryo Suzuki, Eyal Ofek, Mike Sinclair,Daniel Leithinger, and Mar Gonzalez-Franco. 2021.. InThe Adjunct Publication of the 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 131–133. DOI:(Virtual–Oct.10-14, 2021).

Hooman Hedayati, Ryo Suzuki, Daniel Leithinger, Daniel J. Szafir. 2020. PufferBot: Actuated Expandable Structures for Aerial Robots. In Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2020). DOI: . (Las Vegas, Nevada–Oct.25-29, 2020) .

Ryo Suzuki, Rubaiat Habib Kazi, Li-Yi Wei, Stephen DiVerdi, Wilmot Li, andDaniel Leithinger. 2020. RealitySketch: Embedding Responsive Graphics and Visualizations in AR through Dynamic Sketching. InProceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '20). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 16 pages. DOI:(Minneapolis, Minnesota–Oct. 20-23, 2020)[Honorable Mention Paper Award].

Ryo Suzuki,Hooman Hedayati,Clement Zheng, James Bohn,Daniel Szafir,Ellen Yi-Luen Do,Mark D Gross, andDaniel Leithinger. 2020. RoomShift: Room-scale Dynamic Haptics for VR with Furniture-moving Swarm Robots. InProceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 396, 11 pages. DOI: (Honolulu, Hawaii–April 25-30, 2020).

Ryo Suzuki, Ryosuke Nakayama, Dan Liu, Yasuaki Kakehi,Mark D. Gross, andDaniel Leithinger. 2020. LiftTiles: Constructive Building Blocks for Prototyping Room-scale Shape-changing Interfaces. InProceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI '20). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Pages 143–151. DOI:(Sydney, Australia–Feb. 9-12, 2020).

Ryo Suzuki, Ryosuke Nakayama, Dan Liu, Yasuaki Kakehi,Mark D. Gross, andDaniel Leithinger.2019.LiftTiles: Modular and Reconfigurable Room-scale Shape Displays through Retractable Inflatable Actuators.In Adjunct Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '19).ACM, New York, NY, USA,1-3. DOI: (New Orleans, Louisiana – Oct. 20-23, 2019).

Ryo Suzuki,Clement Zheng, Yasuaki Kakehi,Tom Yeh,Ellen Yi-Luen Do,Mark D. Gross,Daniel Leithinger. 2019. ShapeBots: Shape-changing Swarm Robots. In Proceedings of The 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST'19). (New Orleans, Louisiana—Oct. 20-23, 2019).

Ryosuke Nakayama, Ryo Suzuki, Satoshi Nakamaru, Ryuma Niiyama, Yoshihiro Kawahara, and Yasuaki Kakehi. 2019. MorphIO: Entirely Soft Sensing and Actuation Modules for Programming Shape Changes through Tangible Interaction. InProceedings of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference(DIS '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 975-986. DOI: . [Best Paper Award].

Ryo Suzuki, Junichi Yamaoka,Daniel Leithinger,Tom Yeh,Mark D. Gross, Yoshihiro Kawahara, Yasuaki Kakehi. 2018.Dynablock: Dynamic 3D Printing for Instant and Reconstructable Shape Formation. InProceedings of The 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST'18).DOI:(Berlin, Germany—Oct.14-17, 2018).

Ryo Suzuki, Koji Yatani, Mark D. Gross, Tom Yeh. 2018.Explorable Design for 3D Printing Textures. InProceedings of The 26th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics'18).DOI: (Hong Kong–Oct. 8-11, 2018).

Ryo Suzuki,Jun Kato,Mark D. Gross,Tom Yeh.2018..InProceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems(CHI '18). DOI:(Montreal, Canada–April 21-26, 2018).

Hyunjoo Oh, Tung D. Ta,Ryo Suzuki,Mark D. Gross, Yoshihiro Kawahara, and Lining Yao. 2018.. InProceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems(CHI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 441, 12 pages. DOI:(Montreal, Canada–April 21-26, 2018).

Ryo Suzuki, Abigale Stangl, Mark D. Gross, andTom Yeh. 2017.. InProceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility(ASSETS '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 190-199. DOI:(Baltimore, Maryland–Oct.20-Nov.1, 2017).