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Digital Image Design Lab
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The lab designs rehabilitation and health promotion through the power of games.
AboutAbout the lab
Designing human behavior through game mechanisms
The Digital Image Design (Hiroyuki Matsuguma) Lab conducts surveys, research, and education, centered on game design and animation.
Associate Professor Matsuguma has been involved in the design and production of digital content using computer graphics at a private company.
The main research activity is serious game projects, in which the lab designs and produces games for rehabilitation and health promotion.
Gamification, which uses game elements to change people's behavior, is also an object of research.
Key terms
- Serious games
- Games made for purposes other than entertainment, such as rehabilitation training and education.
- Gamification
- A method of incorporating game elements to encourage desirable behavior, such as walking more.
- Computer graphics
- Technology for creating images and video with a computer.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies design using games and computer graphics, and works on producing and validating games for rehabilitation and health promotion. Its research themes are gamification, serious game design, and communication design using three-dimensional computer graphics.
Gamification and Behavior Change
For the purpose of health promotion, the lab adds game elements to a smartphone app that increases step counts, and verifies whether behavior changes. Elements are added step by step, and their effects on step count and the number of days of continued use are examined.
*Illustrative imageSerious Game Design
Aiming to make rehabilitation training enjoyable through the power of games, the lab developed, in joint research with a hospital, a game that supports sit-to-stand training. A 2024 paper describes the development and validation of a game system for training in endoscopic treatment.
*Illustrative imageCommunication Design Using CG
The lab studies design that conveys information using three-dimensional computer graphics. It examines the issues to be solved, such as methods for creating data and how to present information when communicating, and carries them into actual production.
MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorHiroyuki Matsuguma
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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: “Aktor motion capture” Gabriela Cybulska / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Serious Game Design: “5x5x5 Qua Cube Game Board prototype picture6” QuaGamer / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Communication Design Using CG: “Quantel Paintbox (1)” Mel GX / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Digital Video Design Lab): “Gamification techniques 8” Waag Society / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Digital Fabrication Lab): “3D printing demonstration at Libbie Mill Library” Rifleman 82 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Digital Fabrication Lab): “3D printing calibration elephant foot” / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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