About
I’m interested in building products that make people’s habits and lives better. I bridge the whole path from product planning through design to implementation.
I earned a B.E. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology and an M.E. in Information Technology at Tokyo Institute of Technology. I then spent five years and nine months at Panasonic, working on embedded software for an automated dish-serving system for restaurants and on UI design and development for semiconductor manufacturing equipment. After working as a freelance full-stack engineer, I am now in the master’s programme in design at the Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC) in France.
My interests lie in combining AR/VR technologies, electrical engineering, cognitive psychology, and human-centered design to augment human capabilities and support habit formation.
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Updated June 2026
What I’m after
Augmenting what a body can do.
For my master’s research I built a rehabilitation system using HoloLens. What can we do to augment human abilities and live better? I work on that question through design and engineering.
Engineering first, design on purpose.
Five years and nine months of building embedded software and equipment UI gave me a feel for what can actually be built. To bring “why build it?” and “what problem does it solve?” into the product as well, I’m studying design again at UTC.
What kind of system makes a life better?
Does every system really enrich people’s lives? Might the power of design and engineering be breeding dependence on technology, or taking away the richness we already had? I keep these questions in mind as I make things.
Make it in public.
I publish DIY electronics projects for a general audience, have exhibited at Maker Faire Japan three times, and write up what I build and read on GitHub. Finished is less interesting than shown.
Skills
Programming
Python
C#
TypeScript
Vue.js
Unity
R
Arduino
PLC / TwinCAT
OpenCV
Design
Figma
Adobe XD
Fusion 360
UI design
UX design
Experiment design
Process & qualifications
Git
Jira
UML / OOD
Linux
LaTeX
Applied Information Technology Engineer Examination · Fundamental Information Technology Engineer Examination
Work experience
Full-stack Engineer
Freelance · Tokyo
Backend for a Tesla car-rental service: Cloud Function APIs on GCP behind a Swift app. Planned and built a web app to improve study habits for middle-school students and their parents, concept through implementation.
Semiconductor Equipment Software Engineer
Panasonic Connect · Osaka
Designed and developed equipment UI in VB.NET and WPF with Adobe XD, wrote the control programs in TwinCAT, and improved team development efficiency with Jira, Markdown and Subversion.
Embedded Software Engineer
Panasonic Connect · Osaka
Developed an automated dish-serving system for a Chinese restaurant and programmed industrial robots for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
Research
Increasing walking stride and speed by synchronization with an avatar in mixed reality
A HoloLens system presented a 3D avatar synchronised to the user’s own walking rhythm. Where earlier work used auditory or timing cues, this presented the gait itself — in two versions, normal and with exaggerated arm and leg movement. Users viewing the exaggerated avatar showed significant increases in both walking speed and stride length.
Analysis methods for temporal signal changes in moving object detection
Motion detection from luminance time-series at specific coordinates in video, clustered with DTW, RealAdaboost and SVM. Splitting the signal into monotonic rise and fall waveforms gave finer detection than single Gaussian distribution methods.
Publications
Spatiotemporal Gait Guidance Using Audiovisual Cues of Synchronized Walking Avatar in Augmented Reality
D. A. L. Miller, T. Ogata, G. Sasabe, L. Shan, N. Tsumura, Y. Miyake — IEEE Access 10 (2022), pp. 90498–90506.
Development of a device that automatically adjusts the gain of specific keywords that appear in speech
S. Amano, G. Sasabe — SICE System Integration Division Lecture (SI 2022), Chiba, Japan.
Walking assist system utilizing the mirroring effect of visual information by mixed reality
Y. Miyake, G. Sasabe — 30th SICE Symposium on Decentralized Autonomous Systems, 2018, Aichi, Japan.
Awards
2019
Sponsor Award — GUGEN 2019, hardware contest, Japan
2018
CNS Golden Award — Panasonic Connect Co., Ltd., Japan
Education
Master of Design, User Experience Design
Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France
Master of Engineering, Information Technology
School of Computing, Tokyo Institute of Technology — supervised by Prof. Dr. Yoshihiro Miyake
Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology — supervised by Prof. Dr. Hitoshi Kitazawa
Off the clock
Maker. I publish DIY electronics projects for a general audience and have exhibited at Maker Faire Japan three times.
Technical writing. I write descriptive blogs about my creations and research on GitHub.
Reading. Body extension research, philosophy and art.
Research interests. Human augmentation, HCI, cognitive psychology, ghost engineering, embodied cognition, AR/VR/MR.
Photos — Maker Faire booth, workbench, 3D printer