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Human and Sound Informatics Lab
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The lab analyzes and explores the relationship between people and sound and music.
AboutAbout the lab
Using sound and music as clues to explore their relationship with people.
The Human and Sound Informatics Lab researches interdisciplinary areas centered on sound and music, such as sound synthesis, cognition, emotion, and sound environments.
Both research that analyzes music and sound themselves and research on the relationship between people and music and sound are carried out.
The faculty study timbre, singing voice, hearing impairment and music, and instrument performance and knowledge representation.
Students doing graduation research are accepted from the College of Media Arts, Science and Technology, and graduate students from the Degree Program in Informatics of the Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences.
Key terms
- Data sonification
- A method of converting data such as numbers and signals into sound so that they can be read by ear
- Timbre
- The tonal quality that makes sounds of the same pitch and loudness sound different depending on the instrument or voice
- Knowledge representation
- A method of writing down knowledge in the form of symbols and structures that computers can handle
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The Human and Sound Informatics Lab carries out research that analyzes music and sound themselves, as well as research on the relationship between people and music and sound. This research belongs to interdisciplinary areas centered on sound and music, such as sound synthesis, cognition, emotion, and sound environments.
*Illustrative imageResearch on Timbre, Singing Voice, and Musical Emotion
Associate Professor Terasawa researches timbre and music cognition, singing voice analysis, data sonification, hearing impairment and music, and musical emotion.
*Illustrative imageResearch on Instrument Performance, Knowledge, and Symbols
Assistant Professor Iino conducts research that deals with knowledge and symbols, mainly targeting instrument performance. The specialties are music informatics and knowledge representation.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Human and Sound Informatics Lab consist of faculty and staff, graduate students, undergraduate students, and research students.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorHiroko Terasawa
- Assistant ProfessorNami Iino
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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: “Tom-at-Desk” Tom Harpel from Seattle, Washington, United States / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Research on Timbre, Singing Voice, and Musical Emotion: “Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir singing outside at St James's Church Piccadilly 2018” Matt68~enwiki / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Research on Instrument Performance, Knowledge, and Symbols: “Carstian Luyckx - Vanitas Still Life with Musical Instruments, Sheet Music, Books, a Skeleton, Skulls and Armour” Carstian Luyckx / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Perception and Cognitive Psychology Lab): “A computer keyboard and mouse are positioned on a wooden des” Shixart1985 / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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