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Human Environment Informatics Lab
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The lab supports people's health and peace of mind with wearable sensors and robots that watch over them.
AboutAbout the lab
Supporting people's health and peace of mind through sensing
The Human Environment Informatics Lab researches advanced technologies that support people's health, safety, and peace of mind.
The lab develops small sensors that can be built into wearable devices, as well as robot systems that watch over people and their surroundings.
It also works on technologies for measuring information from the body, monitoring people's behavior and condition, and extending human senses.
The lab aims to build systems that blend unobtrusively into daily life and work settings, collecting and analyzing data about people and their environments.
Key terms
- Wearable devices
- Information devices that are used while worn on the body, such as wristwatches or clothing
- Virtual reality (VR)
- Technology that lets people experience a computer-generated world as if they were actually there
- Haptic feedback
- Technology that uses devices to give a person the sensation of touching an object
NewsLab news
Lab Open House 2026 held at Hongo Campus
Students win the INTERACTION 2026 Interactive Presentation Award
A student wins the Best Poster Award at the Next-Generation Initiative Decommissioning Technology Conference
Paper by Associate Professor Fukui and colleagues published in an IEEE journal
A student wins the Best Student Paper Award at SMC2025
ResearchResearch themes
Through advanced technologies that support people's health, safety, and peace of mind, the lab aims to build good relationships among people, artifacts, and nature, and to create enriching environments. On the hardware side, it studies nano- and micro-scale sensing devices and robot systems; on the software side, it studies the measurement of biological information and the extension of human senses, among other topics.
*Illustrative imageSensing to Measure Human Activity
The lab studies how to estimate health status from everyday sensing. It also develops wearable devices that continuously measure blood pressure while worn, and a wristwatch-type device that reads hand shape from the shape of the wrist.
*Illustrative imageRobot Systems That Watch Over People and Environments
This research focuses on robot systems distributed throughout an environment that watch over people and their surroundings using new sensing technologies. The lab builds robots that move along the ceiling to carry heavy objects, and stuffed toys with built-in sensors that watch over young children.
*Illustrative imageSmall Sensors Based on New Principles
This research focuses on nano- and micro-scale sensors with new detection principles that can be built into mobile information terminals and wearable devices. The lab works on ultrafine fabrication technology, breath sensors that analyze exhaled air, and optical measurement devices.
*Illustrative imageExtending Human Senses with VR
This research focuses on extending human senses using virtual reality and related technologies. The lab develops new haptic feedback technologies that make use of how perception works, as well as items designed for relaxation.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Human Environment Informatics Lab consist of faculty, technical assistants and project specialist staff, visiting foreign researchers, secretaries, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and non-degree research students.As of 2026
- ProfessorShinichi WarisawaPublications ↗
- Associate ProfessorRui FukuiPublications ↗
- Associate ProfessorReo KometaniPublications ↗
- Project Associate ProfessorYuki BanPublications ↗
- Project Assistant ProfessorKoki HondaPublications ↗
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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: “Scalable tactile glove, 2019 - MIT Museum - Cambridge, MA - DSC09084” Daderot / CC0 (cropped)
- Sensing to Measure Human Activity: “Simulated photoplethysmogram pulse waves” Peterhcharlton / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Robot Systems That Watch Over People and Environments: “E-puck- -robot-photo” Stéphane Magnenat / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Small Sensors Based on New Principles: “Semiconductor ribbons” Energy.gov / Public domain (cropped)
- Extending Human Senses with VR: “Braille Glove” Profile Editor 12 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Nagato Lab): “FZU 3Dprinting 1” René Volfík / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Intelligent Mobility Lab): “Zoox Toyota Highlander Test Vehicle - Sensor Closeup - San Francisco, May 2025 07” 9yz / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (GV Lab (Venture Lab)): “Robot Arm (NIH BioArt 457)” Courtesy of NIAID Ryan Kissinger / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Yamakawa Lab): “Prototype robot parallèle PAR4” FrancoisPierrot34 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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