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Kanno Lab
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The lab designs human-centered mechanisms for disaster-resilient societies and teams.
AboutAbout the lab
A safe and resilient society, centered on people.
Kanno Lab studies safe and resilient sociotechnical systems from a human-centered perspective.
The lab investigates how teams and organizations cooperate, using models and computer simulations.
It also develops business continuity plans (BCPs) for disaster-resilient societies.
The lab combines a range of methods, including field observation, experiments with participants, and software development.
Key terms
- Resilience
- The ability to respond well and recover to the original state even after being greatly affected by a disaster or similar event
- BCP (Business Continuity Plan)
- A plan for continuing critical operations, or resuming them quickly, even when a disaster or similar event occurs
- Disaster Base Hospital
- A hospital designated to serve as a center for receiving and treating seriously injured and ill patients during a disaster
NewsLab news
Doctoral students received an award at an Asian international conference on ergonomics and design
Associate Professor Kanno and colleagues received the Best Poster Award at AHFE2026
A paper analyzing the movement of patients and documents during a hospital disaster drill was accepted by the journal of the Japan Society of Disaster Nursing
A master's student received a presentation award at an international workshop of REA-A
Lab visits ahead of graduate school entrance exams are accepted at any time
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies how to design, operate, and manage safe and resilient sociotechnical systems in a human-centered way. Its work includes modeling team coordination and organizational collaboration, developing BCPs for disaster-resilient societies, and simulating systems in which society, technology, and policy are intertwined.
*Illustrative imageHow Teams Work Together
The lab proposes a model of team cognition that layers a person's own thoughts, others' thoughts, and what others think of that person, and examines it through experiments and simulations.
*Illustrative imageSocietal Recovery from Disasters
The lab builds models of the complex interdependencies among lifelines, services and economic activity, and people's daily lives, and uses them to simulate recovery from disasters.
*Illustrative imageDisaster-Resilient Hospitals
The lab records and analyzes drills for receiving large numbers of casualties at disaster base hospitals. It is also developing computer simulations that reproduce the flow of patient intake.
*Illustrative imageResource-Centered BCP
From the perspective of how to protect resources such as people, materials, information, and money, and how to make up for them when they run short, the lab develops a BCP framework and methods to support BCP creation.
MembersFaculty
Kanno Lab's members consist of faculty, visiting researchers, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorTaro KannoPublications ↗
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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: “Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant - Control Room of Unit 5” Yovko Lambrev / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- How Teams Work Together: “Air Traffic Control Plays a Key Role at MCAS Iwakuni (9602424)” U.S. Marines MCAS-I by Lance Cpl. Donald Dugger / Public domain (cropped)
- Societal Recovery from Disasters: “Marines clear roads to repair damaged areas ( )” U.S. Marines / Public domain (cropped)
- Disaster-Resilient Hospitals: “Gurney” Royak77 / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Resource-Centered BCP: “Disaster Prevention Warehouse of Nishicyokai, Tokyo” Theodore Xu / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Toriumi Lab): “Social Network Visualization” Martin Grandjean / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Fujii Lab): “Tokyo by night 2011” Nalilord / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Nishino Lab): “Go” Dietmar Rabich / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Fujii-Komiyama Lab): “Liverpool Transmission Substation, New South Wales 04” Chris.sherlock2 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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