Yugo Nakamura, Ph.D.
I am an Associate Professor, College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, where I lead the Ubiquitous Intelligence Lab.
My research interest is ubiquitous computing, focusing on behavioral sensing and intervention to redesign and improve habits and behaviors.
E-mail : yugo-na[at]fc.ritsumei.ac.jp
2008–2013
2013–2015
2015–2017
Ubiquitous Computing Systems Laboratory
2017–2020
Doctoral Course of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellowships for Young Scientists, DC1
2018–2019
University of Mannheim, Visiting Researcher
2019–2021
Japan Science and Technology Agency, ACT-I Researcher
2020–2021
2021– 2025
Japan Science and Technology Agency, Prest Researcher
2021–2026
Assistant Professor, Kyushu University
2026–
IPSJ Microsoft Faculty Award 2025
IEEE ICCE 2025: Best Session Presentation Award
37th Ando Incentive Prize for the Study of Electronics
2023 Innovation Generation Award: Field Prize (domestic)
IoT'23: Best Paper Candidate Award
IEEE MDM 2023: Best Demo Award
2022 Funai Information Science Promotion Foundation, Funai Research Encouragement Award (domestic)
ACM WellComp 2022 (ACM UbiComp/ISWC 2022 workshop): Best Paper Award
IPSJ DPSWS 2021: Best Paper Award (domestic)
ACM UbiComp/ISWC 2021: Best Poster Honorable Mention Award
IEEE PerCom 2021: Best Demo Award
IPSJ Interaction 2021: Best Paper Award (domestic)
Nara Institute of Science and Technology: Best Student Award (March 2017: Master's Program, March 2020: Doctoral Program) (domestic)
IPSJ DICOMO 2019: Best Presentation Award (domestic)
ACM Ubicomp/ISWC 2016: Best Demo Award
Mitsuru Arita, Yugo Nakamura, Shigemi Ishida, Yutaka Arakawa, ZEL+: Wearable net-zero-energy lifelogging using heterogeneous energy harvesters for sustainable context sensing, Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 2026. [Q1 Journal]
Ryusei Fujimoto, Musashi Hadano, Yugo Nakamura, and Yutaka Arakawa. 2026. C-AAE: A Compressive Anonymizing AutoEncoder for Privacy-Preserving Activity Recognition on Edge Devices. ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare, 2026. [Q1 Journal]
Yugo Nakamura, "AIoT-Driven Health Behavioral Security: Vision and Challenges," ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare, 2026. [Q1 Journal]
Yugo Nakamura, "Toward HabiComp: Ethical Habit Redesign in UbiComp Through Nonverbal Nudging," IEEE Pervasive Computing, 2025.
Yugo Nakamura, Ryota Takao, Shogo Fukushima, and Yutaka Arakawa. "Ethical Disengagement in Mobile Games: The Effects of Loading Delay and Grayscale on User Engagement." Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies 9, no. 1 (2025): 1-21.2025. [Q1 Journal]
Yugo Nakamura, Yuki Matsuda, and Yutaka Arakawa. "SenStick-Eye: A Sensing Platform to Observe Behavioral Insights from Small Everyday Objects." In 2025 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), 2025.
Shogo Fukushima, Keigo Sakamoto, and Yugo Nakamura. "NariTan: Enhancing Second Language Vocabulary Learning Through Non-Human Avatar Embodiment in Immersive Virtual Reality." Multimodal Technologies and Interaction 8, no. 10 (2024): 93.
Hidayat, Muhammad Ayat, Yugo Nakamura, and Yutaka Arakawa: “Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning With Resource Adaptive Compression for Edge Devices, ” IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J), 2024. [Q1 Journal]
Yugo Nakamura, Rei Nakaoka, Yuki Matsuda, Keiichi Yasumoto: “eat2pic: An Eating-Painting Interactive System to Nudge Users into Making Healthier Diet Choices, ” Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), pp. 1-23, 2023. [Q1 Journal]
Daiki Mayumi, Yugo Nakamura, Yuki Matsuda, Shinya Misaki, Keiichi Yasumoto: “Kaolid: a Lid-type Olfactory Interface to Present Retronasal Smell towards Beverage Flavor Augmentation,” The 13th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT ’23), 2023. [Best Paper Candidate Award]
Mitsuru Arita, Yugo Nakamura, Shigemi Ishida, Yutaka Arakawa, “ZEL: Net-Zero-Energy Lifelogging System using Heterogeneous Energy Harvesters,” IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2022), pp. 172-179, 2022. [CORE A*]
Yugo Nakamura, Hirokazu Tanaka, and Yutaka Arakawa. 2023. “Color-wall: Adaptive Color Filter to Reduce Digital Distractions during PC Work,” In Adjunct Proceedings of the 2022 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the 2022 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (UbiComp/ISWC '22 Adjunct), 2022.
Sopicha Stirapongsasuti, Kundjanasith Thonglek, Shinya Misaki, Yugo Nakamura, Keiichi Yasumoto: “INSHA: Intelligent Nudging System for Hand Hygiene Awareness,” The 21th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA ’21), pp.183–190, 2021.
Yoshinori Umetsu, Yugo Nakamura, Yutaka Arakawa, Manato Fujimoto, and Hirohiko Suwa: “EHAAS: Energy Harvesters As A Sensor for Place Recognition on Wearables,” IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom2019), pp. 222-231, 2019. [CORE A*]
Yugo Nakamura, Yuki Matsuda, Yutaka Arakawa, and Keiichi Yasumoto: “WaistonBelt X: A Belt-Type Wearable Device with Sensing and Intervention Toward Health Behavior Change,” Sensors, vol. 19, no. 20, Article ID 4600, pp. 1-21, 2019. [Q1 Journal]
Yugo Nakamura, Teruhiro Mizumoto, Hirohiko Suwa, Yutaka Arakawa, Hirozumi Yamaguchi, Keiichi Yasumoto: “In-Situ Resource Provisioning with Adaptive Scale-out for Regional IoT Services,” The Third ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC 2018), pp. 203-213, 2018.
Yugo Nakamura, Yutaka Arakawa, Takuya Kanehira, Masashi Fujiwara, and Keiichi Yasumoto: “SenStick: Comprehensive Sensing Platform with an Ultra Tiny All-In-One Sensor Board for IoT Research,” Journal of Sensors, vol. 2017, Article ID 6308302, 16 pages, 2017.
Ubiquitous Computing, Internet of Things, Persuasive Technology, Behavior Change Techniques, Human–Computer Interaction