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Welfare Ergonomics Lab
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The lab studies the products, environments, and health of people with physical impairments from the perspective of ergonomics.
AboutAbout the lab
A scientific look at the products, environments, and health of people with physical impairments.
The Welfare Ergonomics Lab studies the products, environments, and health of people with physical impairments (especially those with limited mobility) from the perspectives of ergonomics and exercise physiology.
Its subjects include not only older adults and people with physical disabilities but also people whose physical activity is temporarily limited by injury, illness, fatigue, pregnancy, or child-rearing.
The lab is committed to scientifically investigating assistive devices, universal design, barrier-free design, living environments, and prevention of the need for long-term care, and to making evidence-based proposals.
In recent years, it has been studying human adaptability to assistive technology.
Key terms
- Ergonomics
- An academic field that considers how to fit tools and environments to the characteristics of the human body and movement
- Exercise physiology
- An academic field that examines how the body functions during exercise
- Assistive technology
- Technology that helps bodily movement. In this lab, it is studied in terms of how people adapt to it
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies the products people with physical impairments use, the environments they live in, and their health, from the perspectives of ergonomics and exercise physiology. It is committed to proposals based on scientific evidence, and in recent years has been investigating human adaptability to assistive technology.
*Illustrative imageHuman Adaptation to Assistive Technology
The lab studies how people adapt to technologies that extend the capacity for bodily movement, and how that understanding can be applied. The keywords listed are assist, muscle activity, older adults, and techno-adaptability.
*Illustrative imageLiving Environments and Equipment for Older Adults and People with Physical Impairments
The lab studies living environments and equipment based on the movement characteristics of older adults and people with physical impairments. It addresses assistive devices, wheelchairs, independence, comfort, and more from an ergonomics perspective.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorSatoshi Muraki
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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: “Walker. frame” The original uploader was High Plains Drifter at English Wikipedia. / Public domain (cropped)
- Human Adaptation to Assistive Technology: “Hybrid Assistive Limb, Cyberdyne” Yuichiro C. Katsumoto from Shonan, Japan / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Living Environments and Equipment for Older Adults and People with Physical Impairments: “Cane, Walker Cane Hybrid, Walker” KDPetersen / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Welfare Ergonomics Lab): “InclusiveGameLab Person-Using-Hori-Flex-Controller 01 CC-BY-SA” InclusiveGameLab / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Ergonomics Lab): “Prototype ergonomic office chair, V&A London” 14GTR / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Ergonomics (LOH Ping Yeap) Lab): “Physiotherapy and occupational therapy” Ashashyou / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Physiological Anthropology Lab (Takafumi Maeda)): “Thermal image of Bronze Spring (morning, 11 June 2016)” James St. John / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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