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Narrative Lab
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The lab explores design using narrative as its starting point.

AboutAbout the lab
Researching design with narrative at its core
Assistant Professor Shunta Tomimatsu studies design in the Strategic Design Division of the Faculty of Design, with narrative and storytelling as keywords.
His researcher profile lists narrative design, telemedicine education, and UX as research themes.
His research fields are "Life, health and medical informatics" and design studies.
Key terms
- Narrative
- A story or act of telling, and the way of thinking that understands and conveys things through it
- Storytelling
- A method of conveying something to others by telling a story
- UX
- The experience users have when using a product or service (user experience)
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies design with narrative and storytelling as keywords. The researcher profile lists narrative design, telemedicine education, and UX as research themes.
Narrative design
One of the research themes is "narrative design." Its keywords are narrative and storytelling, and it is registered as research from October 2023 to the present.
*Illustrative imageTelemedicine education
"Telemedicine education" is registered as a research theme from April 2016 to the present. Its keyword is remote meetings.
*Illustrative imageUX
"UX" is registered as a research theme. The research period is 2025, and the keyword is also UX.
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- Assistant ProfessorShunta Tomimatsu
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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: “Enhancing the Narrative of DC Public Schools A Wikipedia Editing Workshop 7661” Avery Jensen / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Telemedicine education: “Hope Family Health High Speed Broadband to Patients (20180927-RD-LSC-0093)” USDAgov / Public domain (cropped)
- UX: “Project User Experience Testing ( )” Samuel Mann from Dunedin, New Zealand / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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(富松 俊太) ): “Storyboard - Iván López Fuente” Iván López Fuente / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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