Making Things That Make People Laugh, and Then Think, 2019-2020

The Blue Backs Outreach crowdfunding project, with Koji Tsukada

We raised research funds through the crowdfunding project of Kodansha Blue Backs and started the project "Making Things That Make People Laugh, and Then Think".

https://outreach.bluebacks.jp/project/home/1

2019/9/22: about the 2019 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony

As a past laureate I took part in events around the 2019 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. I reported on them to our supporters in the form of a report and a diary. The publicly available links are collected below.

栗原・塚田に関連するところだけさっと見たい方のためのリンク
- An article in the Yomiuri Shimbun
- YouTube の公式授賞式映像中の栗原・塚田の出番箇所（英語）
- YouTubeの公式Ig Informal Lectures映像中の栗原・塚田の出番箇所（英語）
イグノーベル賞について基礎から知るためのリンク
授賞式会場の雰囲気を知りたい方のためのリンク
- YouTube 公式授賞式中継映像（英語）
受賞研究の内容を詳しく知りたい方のためのリンク
- YouTube 公式Ig Informal Lectures映像（英語）
- サイエンスライター小谷太郎さんの記事（すごく詳しい解説です！）
その他リンク
- 授賞式関連twitterまとめ
オリジナルコンテンツ
- 360度カメラによる授賞式映像（ステージ上で体験する「飛行機飛ばし」）
  - If you play it in a smartphone app, you can move the view freely by tilting the phone. On a computer, drag the screen to move the view.

2020/4/1: an interim report on the project

About six months have passed since the project began. I send out a monthly diary of my research stay in the United States, but I would also like to thank our other supporters and give them a brief account of where things stand. Some of the research is not yet published and cannot be described in detail, so please forgive a list of headings.

Activities related to the Ig Nobel Prize

Took part in events around the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony (see the top of this page).
アメリカの由緒ある学術会議AAASでマーク・エイブラハムズ氏とともにイグノーベル賞関係講演 https://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Session/25438

Papers submitted (in which the acknowledgements are expected to appear)

A paper at an IPSJ special interest group (presented)
A paper in the IPSJ Journal (under review)
Applied Mathematical Modelling, a journal (under review)

For papers in which a supporter's name appears in the acknowledgements, we will send that supporter the electronic version at a later date.

Other making

Live Coding Street Fighter 2
- A proposal for playing a fighting game while programming the controls on the spot, using GameControllerizer, a device that turns anything around you into a game controller. One day I would like to hold a tournament with it.
簡易話速度計
- Keep talking for a while and it shows how many kana per second you are speaking. It works on a computer or a smartphone, and is weak against noise. When a threshold is crossed it can notify an external system through a webhook, so feel free to extend it: punish yourself with an electric shock, start the SpeechJammer, whatever you like. As I mentioned briefly in the research diary, this was a small project I used to learn deep learning while in Seattle.
PublicDice
- An online die, using a blockchain, that can be shared even with people you do not fully trust and that cannot be tampered with. It works on a computer or a smartphone. This was a small project I used to learn blockchain technology while in Seattle.
塚田研Webサイト
- Koji Tsukada is making a number of interesting things on his side as well.

There are other projects still under wraps. Please look forward to them.

With thanks to everyone who supported us

Below are the names of those who supported us at the level that includes having their name on the website. Thank you very much. (The names are shown as the supporters themselves chose them, in Japanese.)

morikana 様

黒田悦成様

小倉崇様

始関由里様

山根大地 DAICHI YAMANE 様

志和敏之様

株式会社タルタルビジョン様

Ryo Oshima 様

伊藤昌毅様

岡耕平様

kaorinrin 様

湯村翼様

miwa// 様

家田淳一様

hoshistar81 様

ながおっぴ様

zigen 様

荒井(平)美乃様

ミクミンP 様

takuwan 様

mizuhara 様

長尾恭子様

ユカイ工学株式会社様

丸山泰史様

久池井淳様

△×△×番長様

(The order is arbitrary.)

The names shown were decided by asking each supporter in advance. If there is any problem, please contact Kurihara (kurihara at tsuda.ac.jp).