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Humanomics Lab
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A lab that studies human characteristics and creates equipment and environments suited to people.
AboutAbout the lab
Understanding people: the starting point of design
The Humanomics Lab studies a wide range of human characteristics physiologically, psychologically, and morphologically, from the perspectives of ergonomics and physiological anthropology.
Human life engineering (Humanomics) builds equipment and environments suited to people, based on what is learned from this research.
The lab takes the position that understanding people is indispensable when designing.
It conducts both basic and applied research, and uses the results to propose better designs.
Key terms
- Physiological anthropology
- A field that uses the functioning of the human body as a clue to how people and their environments should interact
- Ergonomics
- An approach to designing tools and environments to fit human size, movement, and perception
- Morphology
- A field that examines the shape, size, and structure of the body to identify its characteristics
NewsLab news
A paper on robot-assisted surgery was published in Surgical Endoscopy, and an English press release was issued.
A paper on motor learning and muscle activity was published in the Journal of Physiological Anthropology.
A paper on attention during visual search was published in the society journal Japanese Journal of Ergonomics (Ningen Kogaku).
Professor Shimomura received the Excellent Poster Award at the Japan Society of Physiological Anthropology Frontier Meeting 2025.
A paper by a doctoral student was published in the Journal of Physiological Anthropology.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies human characteristics from physiological, psychological, and morphological aspects, and feeds the results back into the design of equipment and environments suited to people. Its research covers a wide range of areas, mainly the musculoskeletal system, the lighting environment, and measurement methods.
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MembersFaculty
The lab's members are faculty, secretaries, project researchers, doctoral students, master's students, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorYoshihiro Shimomura
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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: “Pulse oximeter” ALFRM / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Research on equipment and environments suited to people: “Prototype ergonomic office chair, V&A London” 14GTR / CC0 (cropped)
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