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Keynote Speaker Introduction

Professor /

Kwan Myung Kim

(TBA)

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Deputy Manager

Fusako Ishimura

Ms. Fusako Ishimura is an acoustic engineer and Kansei research specialist with more than 15 years of experience in the development of digital pianos and electronic keyboards. Her background spans mechanical design, acoustic system design, and perceptual/emotional evaluation, enabling her to bridge industrial product development and research. Since March 2025, she has been collaborating with National Taipei University of Technology on a project titled “Research on UI Improvements for Digital Piano and Electronic Keyboard Interfaces,” focusing on interaction design and user experience optimization, particularly control/operation design and usability. Since 2019, Ms. Ishimura has served as an Assistant Manager at Yamaha Corporation in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan, where she has been engaged in acoustic development and Kansei research. She has led acoustic development teams, overseeing end-to-end development and scheduling, as well as cross-departmental coordination. She has served as the acoustic development team leader for the following products: P-S500, CSP-295GP, ELA-1, and ELS-03. She has also conducted Kansei evaluation experiments to support product development decisions, established latency guidelines for digital piano performance based on perceptual thresholds, identified physical parameters related to spatial impression, and proposed the use of phase entropy to describe the temporal complexity of binaural phase differences.

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Chun-Cheng Hsu

Professor Chun-Cheng Hsu is a professor at the Institute of Applied Arts, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. He previously served as Director of the Institute of Applied Arts and was a visiting scholar at Harvard University and MIT. He received the 2026 Outstanding Research Award from the National Science and Technology Council and the 2024 Future Tech Award. His research and creative practice focus on Interaction Design, Technological Art, and Cultural Technology. He has recently led interdisciplinary projects such as the “Future Glove Puppetry Theatre,” which integrates Virtual Reality (VR), real-time interactive systems, and traditional puppet theatre culture to rethink how technology intervenes in and reshapes the relationships among performance, the body, and ritual experience. He has also directed a project exploring slime-based dynamic materials as interfaces, investigating how unstable materials can serve as media for interactive interfaces and sensory extension. In addition, he has promoted nostalgic VR projects that combine immersive experiences with generative narratives. Through a research-through-design approach, Professor Hsu continues to develop theoretical frameworks that integrate technological art and humanistic design. His works have been exhibited and presented at major international venues and conferences, including Ars Electronica, SXSW, ACM CHI, and SIGGRAPH.

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Assistant Manager /

Fusako Ishimura

Ms. Fusako Ishimura is an acoustic engineer and Kansei research specialist with more than 15 years of experience in the development of digital pianos and electronic keyboards. Her background spans mechanical design, acoustic system design, and perceptual/emotional evaluation, enabling her to bridge industrial product development and research. Since March 2025, she has been collaborating with National Taipei University of Technology on a project titled “Research on UI Improvements for Digital Piano and Electronic Keyboard Interfaces,” focusing on interaction design and user experience optimization, particularly control/operation design and usability. Since 2019, Ms. Ishimura has served as an Assistant Manager at Yamaha Corporation in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan, where she has been engaged in acoustic development and Kansei research. She has led acoustic development teams, overseeing end-to-end development and scheduling, as well as cross-departmental coordination. She has served as the acoustic development team leader for the following products: P-S500, CSP-295GP, ELA-1, and ELS-03. She has also conducted Kansei evaluation experiments to support product development decisions, established latency guidelines for digital piano performance based on perceptual thresholds, identified physical parameters related to spatial impression, and proposed the use of phase entropy to describe the temporal complexity of binaural phase differences.

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Professor /

Chun-Cheng Hsu

Professor Chun-Cheng Hsu is a professor at the Institute of Applied Arts, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. He previously served as Director of the Institute of Applied Arts and was a visiting scholar at Harvard University and MIT. He received the 2026 Outstanding Research Award from the National Science and Technology Council and the 2024 Future Tech Award. His research and creative practice focus on Interaction Design, Technological Art, and Cultural Technology. He has recently led interdisciplinary projects such as the “Future Glove Puppetry Theatre,” which integrates Virtual Reality (VR), real-time interactive systems, and traditional puppet theatre culture to rethink how technology intervenes in and reshapes the relationships among performance, the body, and ritual experience. He has also directed a project exploring slime-based dynamic materials as interfaces, investigating how unstable materials can serve as media for interactive interfaces and sensory extension. In addition, he has promoted nostalgic VR projects that combine immersive experiences with generative narratives. Through a research-through-design approach, Professor Hsu continues to develop theoretical frameworks that integrate technological art and humanistic design. His works have been exhibited and presented at major international venues and conferences, including Ars Electronica, SXSW, ACM CHI, and SIGGRAPH.

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