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Eureka! Design Lab
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A lab exploring human-centered design through autonomous driving and VR.
AboutAbout the lab
Understanding people to design a future that is kind to them.
Eureka! Design Lab studies design that responds to people's senses and emotions and creates positive moments of discovery.
Targeting digital products, interfaces, mobility, systems, and spaces, the lab explores experiences that anyone can understand intuitively, use without getting lost, and enjoy using.
By interpreting human emotion, cognition, and behavior, the lab aims for a future in which people and machines, people and systems, and people and spaces work together smoothly.
The lab calls the moment when someone feels "this looks doable" or "this looks usable," and then thinks "I get it," "I did it," or "I could use it," a "Eureka!"
Key terms
- eHMI
- An external-facing interface that conveys the intentions of an autonomous driving system to road users
- Handover of driving control
- In Level 3 autonomous driving, the act of returning driving to the occupant when the system finds it hard to continue driving
- Cross-modal effect
- The phenomenon in which perception in a VR space is strengthened, or perceived as natural, by sensations felt in the real space
NewsLab news
Lab information sessions held (Oct 20 and Oct 21)
A paper by Assistant Professor Saeki and co-authors was published in International Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems…
A paper by Assistant Professor Saeki and co-authors was published in Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics
ResearchResearch themes
The lab conducts research focused on people, including studies of humans and information display devices, humans and autonomous vehicles, and humans and systems. It identifies human quirks (characteristics) and feeds them back into design, aiming to improve the interfaces that connect things and people.
*Illustrative imageeHMI for conveying the intentions of autonomous vehicles
The lab believes that for autonomous vehicles to become widespread, road users must be able to trust them. It studies the External Human Machine Interface (eHMI), which conveys a system's intentions, for example when yielding to others.
*Illustrative imageHandover of driving control
In Level 3 autonomous driving, there are situations where the system finds it hard to keep driving and hands control back to the occupant. The lab examines whether drivers can take over correctly, and which situations and HMI designs allow a safe handover.
*Illustrative imageCross-modal effects between VR and reality
This research uses sensations felt in the real space to strengthen perception in a VR space or to make it seem natural. Currently, the lab is investigating the cross-modal effect between wind cues in VR and real wind.
*Illustrative imagePersonal mobility and electric wheelchairs
The lab proposes personal mobility vehicles (PMVs) and electric wheelchairs as easy ways to get around for older adults who have given up their driver's licenses and for people with disabilities. It works on clarifying users' hazard perception characteristics and developing safe-driving assistance devices.
MembersFaculty
- Assistant ProfessorHidehiro Saeki
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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: “Waymo self-driving car side view.gk” Grendelkhan / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- eHMI for conveying the intentions of autonomous vehicles: “Stop line for vehicles on intersection side of crosswalk ( )” Eric Fischer / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Handover of driving control: “Close view of car interior showing steering wheel and dashboard with missing parts in a workshop setting” Shixart1985 / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Cross-modal effects between VR and reality: “VR headset with smartphone and stereoscopy image” Bert Niehaus / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Personal mobility and electric wheelchairs: “Vélomoteur assis 03” GastelEtzwane / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Cognitive Systems Design Lab): “Tesla Autopilot Engaged in Model X” Ian Maddox / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Cognitive Support Systems Lab (LaCSIS)): “Commercial Technology (140214-F-CE345-001)” 作者不詳 / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Interactive Programming Lab): “Basic model of HCI” Dr. Greywolf / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Visualization and Interactive Systems Lab): “Visualization of the world wide web common crawl 2012” Sebastian Schelter / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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