Maria Larsson, PhD

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Maria

Project Assistant Professor

User Interface Research Group
Department of Creative Informatics
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology
The University of Tokyo

E-mail: ma.ka.larsson@gmail.com





I am a Project Assistant Professor the Department of Creative Informatics at the University of Tokyo, supported by VXE. My research aims at developing computational design systems for sustainable manufacturing, focusing on rule-based modeling of 3D geometries and material textures, subtractive manufacturing, and user interface design. I received a Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology from the University of Tokyo in 2023, advised by Takeo Igarashi, and have presented technical papers at international conferences including SIGGRAPH and UIST.

I have an interdisciplinary background spanning technology, design, and humanities. I worked as an architectural designer with Pool Architekten in Switzerland and the Digital Design Lab of Nikken Sekkei in Japan. I hold an M.Eng. in Architecture from the University of Tokyo and a B.A. in History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University.

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Publications

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Conference Paper

🆕 XR-penter: Material-Aware, Improvisational Woodwork Design In-Situ

Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2025
Ramya Iyer, Mustafa Doga Dogan, Maria Larsson, and Takeo Igarashi
[Preprint PDF] [Video]

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Conference Paper

🆕 Draw2Cut: Direct On-Material Annotations for CNC Milling

Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2025
Xinyue Gui, Ding Xia, Wang Gao, Mustafa Doga Dogan, Maria Larsson, and Takeo Igarashi
[Preprint PDF] [Video]

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Short paper

🆕 Designing Reconfigurable Joints

SIGGRAPH Asia 2024, 🏆 Honorable Mention
Atsushi Maruyama, Maria Larsson, I-Chao Shen, and Takeo Igarashi
[PDF] [Video] [DOI]

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Short paper

A Design and Fabrication Workflow for Upcycling Leftover Fabrics

International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC) 2024
Musashi Shinjo, Maria Larsson, and Hironori Yoshida
[PDF]

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Journal Paper

Learned Inference of Annual Ring Patterns of Solid Wood

Computer Graphics Forum (CGF) 2024
Maria Larsson,* Takashi Ijiri,* I-Chao Shen, Hironori Yoshida, Ariel Shamir, and Takeo Igarashi
[PDF] [DOI]

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Ph.D. Thesis

Computational Carpentry: Material- and Fabrication-aware Design Systems

The University of Tokyo, 2023
Adviser: Takeo Igarashi
[Abstract PDF] [Abstract PDF (JP)]

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Journal Paper

Procedural Texturing of Solid Wood with Knots

Transactions on Graphics (TOG) / SIGGRAPH 2022
Maria Larsson, Takashi Ijiri, Hironori Yoshida, Johannes Huber, Magnus Fredriksson, Olof Broman, and Takeo Igarashi
[PDF] [Video] [DOI] [Project page]

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Conference Paper

Tsugite: Interactive Design and Fabrication of Wood Joints

User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) 2020
Maria Larsson, Hironori Yoshida, Nobuyuki Umetani, and Takeo Igarashi
[PDF] [Video] [DOI] [Project page] [Code] ☆ 400+ stars on GitHub

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Conference Paper

Human-in-the-loop Fabrication of 3D Surfaces with Natural Tree Branches

Symposium on Computational Fabrication (SCF) 2019
Maria Larsson, Hironori Yoshida, and Takeo Igarashi
[PDF] [Video] [DOI]

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Short paper

Upcycling Tree Branches as Architectural Elements

Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI) 2019
Hironori Yoshida, Maria Larsson, and Takeo Igarashi
[PDF] [Video] [DOI]

Other (non-peer-reviewed) writing:

Blog post

🆕 Updating the art of joinery for the 21st century

Medium, 2020-10-10 [Link]

Invited article

🆕 中銀カプセルタワーに住んでいた留学生から見た日本の生活 (JP)

English title: Life in Japan as seen from a student from overseas who lived in the Nakagin Capsule Tower Building Maintenance and Management Center (BMMC), 2014-10-01

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