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Digital Human Informatics Lab (Cooperative Program, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST))
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A cooperative lab that uses human body models on a computer to check whether products and environments fit the body.
AboutAbout the lab
Checking whether a product fits the body at the design stage.
The Digital Human Informatics Lab studies technologies for checking, at the design stage, whether products and everyday environments fit the human body.
The lab measures the shape and movement of the body, analyzes them with statistics and mechanics, and reproduces individual differences in shape and movement on a computer.
It conducts research and development on technologies that compute the interaction between the body and products or environments to evaluate them virtually on a computer, and it also carries out joint research with manufacturers.
The lab is a cooperative program with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), in which AIST researchers serve as visiting faculty.
Key terms
- Digital human
- A model that reproduces the shape and movement of the human body on a computer, used for purposes such as evaluating how easy a product is to use
- Virtual evaluation
- Examining performance and ease of use by computing on a computer, instead of building and testing a physical prototype
- Digital twin
- An approach in which the state of a real person or object is measured and a faithful replica is created on a computer for use in prediction and control
ResearchResearch themes
To make products and artificial environments easier to use and safer, the lab conducts research and development on technologies that check how well they fit the body (body fit) at the design stage. At AIST, the partner institution, researchers also work on using digital humans, which reproduce the human body on a computer, as digital twins of people.
*Illustrative imageBody measurement and virtual evaluation of products
The lab conducts research and development on technologies for measuring the shape and movement of the body, technologies for analyzing them statistically and mechanically to reproduce individual differences on a computer, and technologies for computing the interaction between the body and products or environments to virtually evaluate body fit.
*Illustrative imageDigital twins of people
The lab studies technologies for measuring, predicting, and intervening in people's condition: it measures the physical state of people in daily life with IoT devices and delivers optimal information and physical support based on predictions from body models.
MembersFaculty
- Visiting ProfessorMitsunori Tada
- Visiting ProfessorNatsuki Miyata
- Visiting Associate ProfessorYui Endo
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Report an errorAbout the images
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: “Body Motion Capture” Raíssa Ruschel / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Body measurement and virtual evaluation of products: “Gait laboratory” D. Gordon E. Robertson / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Digital twins of people: “Activemarker2” Hipocrite at English Wikipedia / Public domain (cropped)
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