Funbrella's Website

About

What is Funbrella?

You may be disappointed with rainy day…
FUNBRELLA is something that makes such depressing rain Fun.

Funbrella is an umbrella-like device that makes you to feel a variety of rain even inside of the building.
This device makes it not only normal rain but also unusual rain such as snakes and BB bullets rain.
Let’s enjoy with a fantastic Funbrella!

Funbrella demo movie

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Publications

International

Oct. 29-31, 2009 We had a presentation at ACE 2009 Paper Session in Athens, Greece.
Kazuyuki Fujita, Yuichi Itoh, Ai Yoshida, Maya Ozaki, Tetsuya Kikukawa, Ryo Fukazawa, Kazuki Takashima, Yoshifumi Kitamura, and Fumio Kishino: Funbrella: Recording and replaying vibrations through an umbrella axis, Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACM ACE2009), pp. 66-71, 2009. [PDF]
Aug. 3-7, 2009 We had some demos at SIGGRAPH 2009 Emerging Technologies in New Orleans, USA.

Ai Yoshida, Yuichi Itoh, Kazuyuki Fujita, Maya Ozaki, Kikukawa Tetsuya, Ryo Fukazawa, Yoshifumi Kitamura, and Fumio Kishino: Funbrella: making rain fun, Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 Emerging Technologies, No. 10, 2009. [Open in ACM portal]

Domestic

Sep. 16-18, 2009 We had a presentation at Entertainment Computing 2009 Organized session in Tokyo University.
Jun. 4, 2009 Funbrella was come up with the corner of Trend Tamago in World Business Satellite
Nov. 7, 2008 Funbrella won the jury’s special award and Kagamihara Citizens award. at Gifu final selection of International Virtual Reality Contest 2008 (IVRC2008).
Sep. 13, 2008 Funbrella won the category of Hands-on at Tokyo selection of IVRC2008.

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Members

Funbrella Members

Ai YOSHIDA
Kazuyuki FUJITA
Maya OZAKI
Tetsuya KIKUKAWA
Ryo FUKAZAWA

Supports

Fumio KISHINO
Yoshifumi KITAMURA
Yuichi ITOH
Kazuki TAKASHIMA

Our Lab.
Osaka University Human Interface Engineering Lab.
2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
E-Mail
hi-funbrella*hi-mail.ise.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp
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