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Engineering Design Lab (Yanagisawa Lab)
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A design engineering lab that brings human sensibility and users' experiences into the making of products.
AboutAbout the lab
Design by humans, and design for humans.
The Design Engineering Lab studies design engineering, humanware engineering, and Kansei design.
The lab aims to enable designers to produce excellent designs by making use of their originality and diversity.
Another goal is to create products with new value that match the needs, sensibilities, and diversity of the people who use them.
Its work ranges from technologies that support design ideation to building mathematical models that represent human sensibility.
Key terms
- Kansei design
- A discipline for quantitatively handling requirements related to human sensibility, such as perception, emotion, and cognition, in design
- User experience
- Everything a person feels and experiences when using a product or service
- CAD
- A design tool for creating the shapes and drawings of products on a computer screen
NewsLab news
Professor Murakami, Professor Yanagisawa, and colleagues received the Japan Society for Design Engineering Award for Contribution to Internationalization
A paper by Professor Yanagisawa and colleagues was published in CIRP Annals
Professor Yanagisawa published a paper on the value generation model TVM
A doctoral student received an Excellence Award at the Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
An internationally co-authored paper by Professor Yanagisawa and colleagues received an award at the annual conference of the Japan Society of Kansei Engineering
ResearchResearch themes
The lab conducts research on how designers can exercise originality to produce excellent designs (design by human), and how to create products that fit users' needs and sensibilities (design for human). Professor Murakami studies design methodologies that deal with design ideation and user experience, and Professor Yanagisawa studies Kansei design for making products that enrich people's minds.
*Illustrative imagePhysical Models for Digitizing Upstream Design
The lab studies techniques that use physical mockups to digitize the earliest stage of product design (the upstream stage).
*Illustrative imageGame Design That Reduces Negative Experiences
The lab studies game design methodologies that reduce negative user experiences without undermining the positive user experiences that games provide.
*Illustrative imageAugmenting Memory to Spark Design Ideas
This research uses information technology to extend human memory and make it easier to recall, thereby generating new ideas for design.
*Illustrative imageMeasuring the Learning Effects of CAD Education
The lab studies techniques that analyze CAD operation histories to evaluate how much students learned in CAD classes.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Design Engineering Lab include faculty, staff, secretaries, researchers, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorTamotsu MurakamiPublications ↗
- ProfessorHideyoshi YanagisawaPublications ↗
- Assistant ProfessorKoji KoizumiPublications ↗
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Renault clay model - back” DineshAdv / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Physical Models for Digitizing Upstream Design: “Opel 50 Jahre Design ( )” Robert Basic from Germany / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Game Design That Reduces Negative Experiences: “Gamepad Joel” Mzacha / Public domain (cropped)
- Augmenting Memory to Spark Design Ideas: “Stickies to brainstorm Edit.2014.” victorgrigas / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Measuring the Learning Effects of CAD Education: “Engineer working on CAD workstation with light pen Hughes Aircraft Company” Hughes Aircraft Company / Public domain (cropped)
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- Related lab (吉川研究室): “Carbon fibre weave” Christine Twigg / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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