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Functional Engineering Lab
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This functional engineering lab designs tools and devices for infants, older adults, and disaster situations.
AboutAbout the lab
Designing tools and devices to fit everyday situations
The Functional Engineering Lab studies the design and development of tools and devices, using childcare support, facilities for older adults, and disaster situations as its settings.
In childcare support, the lab has developed an electric baby crib for infants, and it examines how motion and sound soothe infants through behavioral observation and heart rate measurement.
For facilities for older adults, the lab researches a system that automatically measures food intake. For disaster situations, it researches a human-powered back-carrying device for disaster preparedness.
In the researcher profile, its research fields are listed as design engineering and design studies.
Key terms
- Swaying stimulation
- Stimulation by motion given to infants. It may be produced by rocking with a machine or by a mother holding and rocking the infant.
- Brown noise
- A type of noise. In this research, it is used as the sound stimulation played to infants.
- Back-carrying device
- A device for carrying people who have difficulty walking, among others, on one's back during a disaster. The lab designs and develops it for disaster preparedness.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab designs and develops tools and devices for specific situations: childcare, facilities for older adults, and disasters. The faculty's staff directory describes its specialties as functional engineering and design engineering.
*Illustrative imageAn Electric Baby Crib That Soothes Infants
The lab examines the soothing effects of swaying stimulation given to infants and of sound stimulation such as brown noise, using behavioral observation and heart rate. It is working on developing an electric baby crib for childcare support.
*Illustrative imageAutomatic Measurement of Food Intake in Facilities for Older Adults
The lab is developing a system that automatically measures food intake for facilities for older adults. This research theme has been ongoing since April 2021.
*Illustrative imageA Back-Carrying Device for Disaster Preparedness
The lab designs and develops a disaster-preparedness device for carrying people who have difficulty walking on one's back during a disaster. It is studying the design of the frame's strength and of features that make the carrying motion easier.
*Illustrative imageAn Information Platform for Disasters
The lab is building a disaster resilience information platform for evacuation shelters during disasters. The platform supports tasks such as grasping evacuees' information and 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: “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)
- An Electric Baby Crib That Soothes Infants: “Child's rocking cradle 2” Science Museum Group Studio / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Automatic Measurement of Food Intake in Facilities for Older Adults: “SZ Shenzhen Shenzhen Futian Futian Fumin Fumin Shuiwei Village ShuiweiCun Village Hele Fu Supermarket Hele Fu food Supermarket electronic scale weighing scale January 2024 R12S 01” Tsuenwbaysei Fenzea / CC0 (cropped)
- A Back-Carrying Device for Disaster Preparedness: “Stretcher Box at Styhead - geograph.org.uk - 730830” Steve Partridge / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- An Information Platform for Disasters: “Emergency Information board, Gortin Glens Forest park - geograph.org.uk - 7761694” Kenneth Allen / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Functional Engineering Lab): “Babywearing, Baby sling, Moscow, Russia” Vyacheslav Argenberg / CC BY 4.0 (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)
- Related lab (Acoustic Engineering Lab): “Violins, Museum of Making Music” doryfour / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
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