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Entertainment Computing Lab
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The lab researches technologies that use entertainment to improve quality of life.

AboutAbout the lab
Practical research on entertainment that improves quality of life
The Entertainment Computing Lab conducts research aimed at creating entertainment that improves quality of life, including human interaction, health, and learning.
Centered on technologies for expressing humans and life, and on interaction design that creates immersion and enjoyment, the lab also evaluates the social impact of what it has built.
Main research themes listed include game systems for maintaining the health of older adults and entertainment robots that support children's learning.
The research overview and main research themes on the lab's website date from around 2016 to 2018.
Key terms
- Interaction design
- An approach to designing how people interact with devices and systems
- Immersion
- The degree to which a person feels absorbed in a video or an experience
ResearchResearch themes
The lab aims to improve quality of life, including human interaction, health, and learning, through entertainment technology. Its research centers on technologies for expressing humans and life, and on interaction design that creates immersion and enjoyment.
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- Associate ProfessorJunichi Hoshino
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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: “InclusiveGameLab Person-Playing-Virtual-Reality 1 CC-BY-SA” InclusiveGameLab / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (自然言語処理研究室): “Server room - Flickr - sylvar” sylvar / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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