Mamoru Watanabe
My work is associated with BIG::Culture & BIG::Diverse. My research themes and interests include audiovisual culture, cross-sensory interaction & synaesthesia.
Mamoru Watanabe is a PhD candidate under the supervision of Prof. Atau Tanaka and Dr. Oussama Metatla. His research focuses on how interactive technology can support the articulation of synaesthetic experiences for both synaesthetes and non-(potential) synaesthetes.
Collaborators
Faculty
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Oussama Metatla
Associate Professor of HCI and co-director of BIG -
Atau Tanaka
Visiting Professor of Sonic Interaction
Recent Publications
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"I Feel It Like I Actually Feel It": How HCI Can Support the Experiences of Synaesthesia
Mamoru Watanabe, Oussama Metatla & Atau Tanaka
ACM CHI Conference on Human Computer Interaction, 2025. -
Lost in Translation: A Cross-Cultural Examination of Linguistic Inaccessibility in HCI
Eszter Vigh, Ellen Weir, Grace Stangroome, Alex Tcherdakoff, Yelu Gu, Oussama Metatla, Mamoru Watanabe, René Schäfer, Sophie Hahn, Konrad Mikolaj Krawczyk, Marcela Godoy, Rodolfo Cossovich, Randy Morin, Kristine Dreaver-Charles, Marguerite Koole & Frank Lewis
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25), 2025.