Emi Tamaki is researching to interact haptic sensation and physical sensation between computer and human. Her goal is to realize BodySharing which is systems to share rich body experiences by facilitating information exchange between humans and computers. She received her Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Informatics from the University of Tokyo in 2012. She also received President’s Award of the University of Tokyo.Her research and development of PossessedHand controls human hands from computers, which was selected as one of the 50 Best Inventions by TIME Magazine. In 2012, she co-founded H2L, Inc. H2L developed a product UnlimitedHand that is a version of PossessedHand for sales. UnlimitedHand allows users input and output their hand gestures to computers. At Tech Crunch SF 2016, a virtual reality controller, “UnlimitedHand” is published. On a Kickstarter that is a crowdfunding site, UnlimitedHand reached the campaign goal in only 22 hours. She was selected for 2016 WIRED Audi Innovation Award, Nikkei Business 100 people making next generation Award. She was appointed Ambassador to WINDS (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan) 2017 and STEM Girls Ambassador (Cabinet Office of Japan). New product “FirstVR” ,which corroborates with NTT docomo 5G, is released in 2019. ACM, Augmented Human 2020 Special Recognition Award. In 2021, BodySharing is known to have been portrayed in the animated film "BELLE".

人間とコンピュータの間の情報交換を促進することによって，豊かな身体経験を共有するBodySharingとHCI研究とその普及を目指す研究者兼起業家．2011年に手の動作を制御する装置PossessedHandを発表しTime誌が選ぶ50の発明に選出される．2012年にH2L,Inc.を創業し，UnlimitedHand, FirstVRなどの製品を発表しサービスへと展開． 2020年国際会議AugmentedHumanにて，近年で最も推奨される研究論文として表彰．