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Architectural Ergonomics Lab (Yoshioka Lab)
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A lab that uses VR experiments to test how what people see affects their behavior in space.
AboutAbout the lab
What people see changes how they behave.
The Architectural Ergonomics Lab studies how visual information affects activities in architectural spaces.
Since 2003, the lab has pursued research toward this single goal in the Architecture Course at Chiba University.
Recently, the lab has been running experiments with participants that combine immersive virtual environment technology and eye tracking.
By varying familiar elements such as window shape, floor level differences, lighting layout, and the height of guide signs, it measures how people respond.
Key terms
- Architectural ergonomics
- The field of study concerned with planning and designing building spaces based on how the human body and human perception work
- Immersive virtual environment
- A system, such as one using a head-mounted display, that makes people feel as if they are inside a space
- Eye tracking
- A technology that uses a device to follow where the eyes are looking and records the position and duration of gaze
ResearchResearch themes
The lab investigates how visual information affects activities in architectural spaces. Through repeated experiments with participants that combine immersive virtual environment technology and eye tracking, it examines this relationship.
*Illustrative imagePeripheral vision
The lab investigates how information caught at the edge of the visual field changes the way a space is perceived. By varying window width, the dimensions of vertical lattices in atriums, and the thickness of landmarks, it measures differences in how people gaze and how they sense time.
*Illustrative imageSpatial evaluation
The lab measures how elements such as floor level differences, hanging walls, and lighting layout change the perceived volume of a room and the perceived height of its ceiling. It also studies the sense of safety that bollards give pedestrians, and the relationship between the placement of street lights and psychological stress.
*Illustrative imageWayfinding
The lab investigates what cues people use to find their way as they walk along streets. By varying how far or near landmarks are and the height at which guide signs are displayed, it measures the time it takes to recognize a street and how easy it is to walk.
*Illustrative imageImmersive virtual environments
Using spaces reproduced with head-mounted displays, the lab investigates how perception differs from that in real spaces. In experiments that varied the field of view and posture, it confirmed that spaces look smaller in virtual environments.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Architectural Ergonomics Lab consist of faculty members, graduate students, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorYohsuke Yoshioka
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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: “VR Box (Virtual Reality Glasses), Krimpen aan den IJssel (2020)” Donald Trung Quoc Don (Chữ Hán: 徵國單) - Wikimedia Commons - © CC BY-SA 4.0 International.(Want to use this image?
)Original publication 📤: --Donald Trung 『徵國單』 (No Fake News 💬) (WikiProject Numismatics 💴) (Articles 📚) 13:34, 5 November 2021 (UTC) / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped) - Peripheral vision: “Lloyd's Building - Atrium 11th floor looking at the Walkie-Talkie” Colin / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Spatial evaluation: “Interior Lighting Artificial 22” Stilfehler / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Wayfinding: “Tactile street sign Ann St and Albert St Brisbane P1220648” John Robert McPherson / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Immersive virtual environments: “ISS-50 Shane Kimbrough uses a virtual reality headset in the Destiny lab” NASA / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Munakata Lab): “Bristol Central Library round windows” Rob Brewer from Bristol, England / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Materials Strength Lab (Yamazaki Lab)): “FlameSpraying” Anmart / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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- Related lab (Earthquake Disaster Engineering Lab): “February 2011 Christchurch earthquake 15” Andy Miah / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
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