Faculty of Information Science and Technology Faculty of Information Science and Technology

The Media Experience Project is a project activity that creates experiential content that combines media technologies (images, xR, sound) and other technologies with electronics such as IoT. Initially, we aimed to participate in events such as the IVRC held within the VR Society, but we are now researching and developing systems on a daily basis, aiming for various contests such as SICHI, academic conferences focusing on demo experiences, and exhibitions for companies.
URL: https://mix-lab.net/mex_projects/

We participated in the malware analysis contest MWSCup (2024.10.23: Kobe International Conference Center) organized by the Computer Security Study Group of the Information Processing Society of Japan. At MWSCup, security technologies are competed in four categories: Hackathon, Malware Static Analysis, Surface Analysis, and DFIR (Digital Forensic Incident Response). This year, 19 teams participated, and Team SakanaCushion won the overall runner-up! Team BirdStone (undergraduate 2nd and 3rd year students) also placed 7th despite being a first-time participant, gaining confidence in their performance at the national level. Through participating in the contest, we realized the fun of working together as a team and the improvement of our technical skills. It was also a valuable opportunity to learn about various activities and trends in the security field, as well as human connections. We expect to see further growth in the future.

This is a student project to develop bots to be used in a "programming contest that even first-year students can participate in using commercially available games" (Minecraft BOT Contest). As an attempt at edutainment (a fusion of entertainment and education) in university education, the Minecraft BOT Contest will involve students using the C programming skills they learned in their first year to create a bot (automatic execution) program that searches for and defeats enemies using the commercially available Minecraft Education Edition. In this project, students will work together to create a library for programming beginners to use in this programming contest, utilizing image processing, learning, etc.

In this project, student groups are tasked with designing their own processors within a set period of time, and competing in a contest to determine their performance. Each group is made up of around four members, and aims to design a processor that can execute instructions more efficiently, based on a given instruction set. This project takes the form of a PBL approach, and aims to have students acquire practical problem-solving skills in groups, as well as acquire advanced design techniques, by enthusiastically working to solve specific problems.

The aim is to acquire practical system development skills through smartphone app development. We will hold regular study sessions on campus and develop apps. The developed apps will be exhibited on campus and evaluated by many people. At the same time, we will also aim to enter them in external contests.

In the Tsukuba Robot Zone, teams will create autonomous mobile robots that can clear designated courses and challenges in a space where pedestrians, bicycles, and cars coexist. The actual run will be in November, but until then, the teams will participate in two or three test runs to develop 3D sensor configuration technology, map creation technology, and other areas.

The development of this lifestyle support robot was divided into four systems - running, grasping, vision, voice, and overall control - and was carried out by a student team. The team won their third consecutive victory at the 2017 RoboCup Japan Open in May, and won the @Home League Special Judges Award at the World Championship RoboCup in July.
Since 2018, we have also been challenging a simulation league called SigVerse, where we are conducting competitions and research on interaction/communication with robots in VR space. In 2018, we won third place and the WRS Executive Committee Chairman's Award at the World Robot Summit 2018, and in 2019, we won second place at the RoboCup Japan Open, in 2020, we won the Breastfeeding Award at Robocup Asia-Pacifi in 2021, and won the Open Challenge from 2023 to 2024. In 2025, we were able to earn a higher score than in 2024, but we came in fourth place. We will continue to work hard to win prizes!

For more information, please see the project page .

Groups will use information technology to solve familiar social issues such as declining birth rates, childcare, measures to deal with people living alone, and waste disposal. Groups will be made up of members with different talents in applications, design, interfaces, etc., and will build prototypes, create services based on those prototypes, and propose them to users. User evaluations will be fed back into service development and improvements will be made. In order to develop the skills to produce such services effectively and in a short period of time, there will be an opportunity to receive guidance from active producers. Specifically, the program aims to hone marketing skills, design skills, short-term development skills, and team-building skills. To confirm the improvement of these skills, students will actively participate in ideathons and hackathons.