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Shota Yamanaka Senior Chief Researcher, LY Research
Shota Yamanaka is a Senior Chief Researcher at LY Research. He received the Ph.D. degree in engineering from Meiji University in 2016. His general research interests include human-computer interaction, graphical user interfaces, and human performance modeling. Starting from 2022, he is also the manager of the Human-Computer Interaction team.
Awards
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2025.2.15Information Processing Society of Japan Specially Selected Paper
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2024.2.15Information Processing Society of Japan Specially Selected Paper
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2023.11.8The 2023 ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces Conference Best Paper Honorable Mention Award
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2019.9.28The 27th Workshop on Interactive Systems and Software best presentation award
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2019.3.15The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Best Paper Honorable Mention Award
Publications
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- JOURNAL (DOMESTIC)
- Spatial Variability Models for Straight Pen-stroking Tasks with Temporal Constraints
- Shota Yamanaka, Homei Miyashita (Meiji University)
- Journal of Information Processing
- February 15, 2025
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- OTHERS (DOMESTIC)
- 実質的に無限大サイズを持つターゲットのポインティング:2025年大学入学共通テスト「情報I」問題の一考察
- 山中 祥太
- OSF Preprints
- February 04, 2025
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- OTHERS (INTERNATIONAL)
- Tappy Plugin for Figma: Predicting Tap Success Rates of User-Interface Elements under Development for Smartphones
- Shota Yamanaka, Hiroki Usuba, Junichi Sato, Naomi Sasaya, Fumiya Yamashita, Shuji Yamaguchi
- arXiv.org
- November 04, 2024
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- CONFERENCE (INTERNATIONAL)
- 0.2-mm-Step Verification of the Dual Gaussian Distribution Model with Large Sample Size for Predicting Tap Success Rates
- Shota Yamanaka, Hiroki Usuba
- The 2024 ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces Conference
- October 24, 2024
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- JOURNAL (INTERNATIONAL)
- Deciding to Stop Early or Continue the Experiment After Checking p-Values at Interim Points: Introducing Group Sequential Designs to UI-Based Comparative Studies
- Shota Yamanaka
- International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction
- October 09, 2024
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- CONFERENCE (INTERNATIONAL)
- Verifying Finger-Fitts Models for Normalizing Subjective Speed-Accuracy Biases
- Shota Yamanaka, Hiroki Usuba, Yosuke Oba (Meiji University), Taiki Kinoshita (Meiji University), Ryuto Tomihari (Meiji University), Nobuhito Kasahara (Meiji University), Homei Miyashita (Meiji University)
- The ACM International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction
- October 01, 2024
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- CONFERENCE (INTERNATIONAL)
- Behavioral Differences between Tap and Swipe: Observations on Time, Error, Touch-point Distribution, and Trajectory for Tap-and-swipe Enabled Targets
- Shota Yamanaka, Hiroki Usuba, Junichi Sato
- The ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
- May 11, 2024
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- CONFERENCE (INTERNATIONAL)
- Better Definition and Calculation of Throughput and Effective Parameters for Steering to Account for Subjective Speed-accuracy Tradeoffs
- Nobuhito Kasahara (Meiji University), Yosuke Oba (Meiji University), Shota Yamanaka, Anil Ufuk Batmaz (Concordia University), Wolfgang Stuerzlinger (Simon Fraser University), Homei Miyashita (Meiji University)
- The ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
- May 11, 2024
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- CONFERENCE (INTERNATIONAL)
- The Effect of Latency on Movement Time in Path-steering
- Shota Yamanaka, Wolfgang Stuerzlinger (Simon Fraser University)
- The ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
- May 11, 2024
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- CONFERENCE (INTERNATIONAL)
- Evaluating the Applicability of GUI-based Steering Laws to Virtual Reality Car Driving: A Case of Width-Changing Paths
- Masahiro Fukui (Meiji University), Takumi Takaku (Meiji University), Satoshi Nakamura (Meiji University), Shota Yamanaka
- Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2023
- May 10, 2024