News, blogs, tech insights
news
2025/05/09
R4D Director Makoto Tago Presents at the EAA Symposium Sponsored by Daikin-UTokyo Lab., Held by the East Asian Academy for New Liberal Arts, UTokyo on March 26
R4D Director Makoto Tago presented at the EAA Symposium Sponsored by Daikin-UTokyo Lab.: A Collaboration Between Industry Initiatives…
blog
2025/04/23
“Personal Design” for a Circular Economy—Report on Mercari R4D and Yamaguchi University’s Design Project for Value Co-Creation (Part 2)
In October and November 2024, Mercari R4D (“R4D”) and Yamaguchi University worked together on the “Design Project for Value Co-Creation to…
news
2025/04/15
Event on Apr 26–May 1: Mercari R4D Researchers Ryskeldiev, Teramoto, Tsutsui, and Yu Present Research at CHI 2025
Mercari R4D (“R4D”) researchers will present at CHI 2025, an event held by ACM SIGCHI at Pacifico Yokohama from 26 April to 1 May 2025. For…
blog
2025/04/14
“Personal Design” for a Circular Economy—Report on Mercari R4D and Yamaguchi University’s Design Project for Value Co-Creation (Part 1)
Mercari R4D (“R4D”) and Yamaguchi University worked together on the “Design Project for Value Co-Creation to Encourage Environment-Aware…
blog
2025/03/24
“The Person Who Connects the Research” Part 2: A Conversation About Intentional Serendipity
Hi! This is Shoichi Fujimoto (@sho-1) from Mercari R4D’s Research Acceleration Team. I joined R4D as a research administrator in April of…