Dr. Munehiko Sato is a researcher, engineer, inventor and designer working to redefine the human relationship with the physical and digital worlds. At MIT Media Lab, where he serves as a Camera Culture Group researcher, he explores the concept of person-object/computer interaction to create novel sensing technologies that allow people to experience the world in ways that they had never imagined possible. His most recent work involves creating effective methods of recognizing exotic materials commonly found in daily lives, such as glass and transparent plastic, for ubiquitous and wearable computing. His achievements also include devising schemes for gathering and interpreting information from human bodies and the living environment for ubiquitous computing, personal healthcare, security, and many other applications. Over the years, Dr. Sato has pioneered technologies that can enrich human lives, drawing upon his background in computer science and mechanical and electrical engineering to design mechanisms that are conducive to commercialization. Swept Frequency Capacitive Sensing (Touche), on which he worked as a lab associate at the Interaction Group of Disney Research in Pittsburgh under the leadership of Dr. Ivan Poupyrev, received the best paper award at the Association for Computing Machinery Computer-Human Interaction (ACM CHI) 2012 conference.