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Functional Engineering Lab
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A lab that designs and develops tools and systems for childcare, elderly care facilities, and disasters.
AboutAbout the lab
Designing childcare and disaster-preparedness tools through functional engineering.
The lab of Professor Tomoaki Fuji specializes in functional engineering and design engineering, and develops tools and systems for childcare support, elderly care facilities, and disaster situations.
For an electric baby bed for childcare support, the lab investigates, in experiments with infants, what kind of rocking babies find comfortable and the soothing effect of rocking and sound in calming them.
The lab also works on a system that automatically measures food intake in elderly care facilities and on a backpack-type carrier for disaster use.
The professor teaches courses such as Functional Engineering Design and Spatial Expression Practicum I.
Key terms
- Soothing effect
- The effect by which a baby stops crying and calms down when given rocking or sound. It is assessed through behavioral observation, heart rate, and other measures.
- Electric baby bed
- A bed being researched with the aim of making a baby feel comfortable through rocking and leading the baby to sleep.
- Backpack-type carrier
- A device for carrying, on one's back, a person who has difficulty walking in a disaster.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab develops items such as a baby bed for infants, a system that automatically measures food intake, and human-powered transport equipment, targeting childcare support, elderly care facilities, and disaster situations. It also conducts research on human responses, including experiments that clarify infants' soothing responses.
*Illustrative imageElectric Baby Bed for Childcare Support
The lab is developing an electric baby bed that makes a baby feel comfortable through rocking and leads the baby to sleep. In experiments with infants, it investigates what rocking babies find comfortable and the soothing effect of rocking and sound.
*Illustrative imageMeasuring Food Intake in Elderly Care Facilities
Since April 2021, the lab has been developing a system that automatically measures food intake for elderly care facilities.
*Illustrative imageBackpack-Type Carrier for Transporting People in Disasters
The lab designs and develops a backpack-type carrier for disaster use. It is examining the design of the frame's strength and of features that make it easier to put on and carry on the back.
*Illustrative imageDisaster Resilience Information Infrastructure
The lab is working on building a disaster resilience information platform. It is examining topics such as grasping information on affected people at evacuation shelters and systems for delivering relief supplies.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorTomoaki Fuji
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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: “Babywearing, Baby sling, Moscow, Russia” Vyacheslav Argenberg / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Electric Baby Bed for Childcare Support: “Baby bed 2010” קרלוס הגדול / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Measuring Food Intake in Elderly Care Facilities: “HK SKD Tseung Kwan O TKO Po Lam Estate Place indoor market Public weighing scale May 2024 R12S 02” GYSMwo Yao srhoo / CC0 (cropped)
- Backpack-Type Carrier for Transporting People in Disasters: “Korbtrage” Christoph Baumgartinger / CC BY 2.5 (cropped)
- Disaster Resilience Information Infrastructure: “(Hurricane Katrina-Hurricane Rita) Baton Rouge, LA, May 24, 2006 - The command room overlooking the main floor at the Louisiana State Emergency Operations Center is occupied by stat - DPLA - 7478d79ba29873d2f95e908bc415ab18” Department of Homeland Security. Federal Emergency Management Agency. Public Affairs Division. 3/1/2003 / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Functional Engineering Lab): “Evacuation center at the compound of the Old Tanauan City Hall following the eruption of Taal Volcano on January 17, 2020” PNA photo by Joey O. Razon / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Architectural Planning and Design Lab): “Social housing in Ilulissat, Greenland” Vincent van Zeijst / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Architectural Planning and Design Lab (Kenichi Tanoe)): “Looks like Toronto Community Housing is rebuilding this building, south of Church and Carlton, -c ( )” booledozer / CC0 (cropped)
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