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Mochimaru-Murai-Yoshie Lab
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A human augmentation lab that uses sensors, robots, and VR to enhance human abilities.
AboutAbout the lab
Systems that stay close to people and enhance them
The Human Augmentation Chair studies "human augmentation," which uses sensors, VR/AR, robots, and other technologies to enhance the functions of the human mind and body.
Based on the idea that people change their environment through their own actions and perceive those changes, the chair works on technologies that enhance physical ability, motivation to keep going, and cognitive ability.
The chair is located inside the AIST Kashiwa Center on the Kashiwa II Campus, and researchers from AIST serve as visiting faculty members who supervise students.
In collaboration with companies and medical institutions, the chair researches technologies useful in caregiving, health, and the workplace, and also works on improving performance in sports, music, and games.
Key terms
- Human Augmentation
- A body of technologies that bring sensors, VR/AR, robots, and the like close to people to enhance the functions of the mind and body
- Biomechanics
- The study of body movement using the principles of mechanics. It uses calculation to handle the forces acting on muscles and bones
- Psychophysiology
- The study of the relationship between mental states such as tension and anxiety and bodily responses such as heart rate and muscle and brain activity
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies "systems that stay close to people and enhance them" using technologies such as wearable sensors, robots, and VR, together with models of human sensation, movement, and psychology. Building on the mechanism by which people change their environment through action and perceive the result, it develops technologies that enhance human abilities.
*Illustrative imageHuman Augmentation Based on Action and Perception
Rather than using passive models in which people merely react to stimuli, the lab uses models in which people change their environment through their own actions and perceive the resulting changes, and researches technologies that enhance physical ability, motivation to continue, and cognitive ability.
*Illustrative imageAugmenting Movement Through Measurement, Analysis, and Intervention
By combining motion measurement using image recognition, development of wearable devices, analysis of musculoskeletal models using biomechanics, and real-time intervention by robots, the lab aims to expand human motor and sensory abilities.
*Illustrative imageExploring Performance Under Pressure Through Emotion and Action
Just as performers and athletes become nervous and fail in front of an audience, the lab investigates the psychophysiological mechanisms by which emotions affect action, using questionnaires, physiological measurements, and behavioral measurements.
MembersFaculty
- Visiting ProfessorMasaaki Mochimaru
- Visiting Associate ProfessorAkihiko Murai
- Visiting Associate ProfessorMichiko Yoshie
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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: “Hybrid Assistive Limb, CYBERDYNE” Yuichiro C. Katsumoto from Shonan, Japan / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Human Augmentation Based on Action and Perception: “InclusiveGameLab Person-Playing-Virtual-Reality 11 CC-BY-SA” InclusiveGameLab / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Augmenting Movement Through Measurement, Analysis, and Intervention: “Gait laboratory” D. Gordon E. Robertson / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Exploring Performance Under Pressure Through Emotion and Action: “Metropolitan Opera House, a concert by pianist Josef Hofmann - NARA 541890 - Edit” Unknown or not provided Retouched by Mmxx / Public domain (cropped)
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