Assistant Professor
The Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto University

Contact: kshoko@siggraph.org

Shoko Kimura is an Assistant Professor at the Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto University. She received her Doctor of Engineering degree from the Department of Architecture Design, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan, in 2024. She received her B. Eng. from Nihon University in 2009 and her M.S. degree from the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in 2021, respectively. Her current interests are Mental/Autism/Developmental Disability Support, Calm Down, Inclusive, Digital Rehabilitation, Digital Fabrication, Media art, and Interaction. Before she worked at Yamagata University as a researcher from 2015 to 2016, and as an Academic Specialist and Technician at The University of Tokyo from 2021 to 2023, Assistant Professor from 2023 to 2025, at the Department of Intelligent Information Technology at Aoyama Gakuin University. She was also previously interested in HCI, affective engineering, and facial emotion. These studies are connected to the realization of an inclusive society that she is aiming for.