Focusing on interaction design, Akabane researches creations made using technology. He develops workshops that deal with media creation, and is researching archive methods for sharing the content of those workshops. His main activities are “Pina” (Ag Ltd.), “ex-Workshop”（Agency for Cultural Affairs Project to Support the Nurturing of Media Art Creators) and “Spatiotemporal archive for interactive art that uses 3D scanning technology” (Grant-in-Aid for challenging Exploratory Research).