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Shino-Yoshitake Lab
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The lab measures people's behavior, body, and mind to develop devices and mobility technologies that support daily life.
AboutAbout the lab
Technology for safe, secure, and comfortable living.
Shino-Yoshitake Lab studies life-support engineering, the field that creates devices and systems that support people's daily lives.
Drawing on mechanical dynamics, control engineering, and ergonomics, the lab uses sensors to measure the behavior, psychology, and physiology of people as they move around or use objects.
Based on these results, the lab designs assistive devices and systems that lead to safe, secure, and comfortable lives.
Through joint research with industry, local governments, and hospitals, the lab aims to gain not only academic knowledge but also practical experience and know-how.
Key terms
- Ergonomics
- The study of designing tools, machines, and environments so that they are easy to use, based on the characteristics of the human body and mind
- Interface
- A point of contact or mechanism through which information and operations are exchanged between different things, such as a person and a machine
- Autonomous navigation
- A mechanism by which a vehicle or robot perceives its surroundings, makes its own decisions, and moves on its own without human operation
NewsLab news
Received the Excellent Interdisciplinary Research Award at the Robotics and Mechatronics Conference
The lab held a campus visit
Held a lab information session for graduate school entrance exam applicants
A master's student received the Outstanding Presentation Award at the SICE System Integration Division Annual Conference
Held a lab information session for incoming fourth-year undergraduates
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies life-support engineering technologies that aim to build a safe, secure, and comfortable society from the perspective of interfaces between people and things, and between people and activities. It measures human behavior and the workings of the body and mind, and applies the results to the design of devices and products that support mobility.
*Illustrative imageTechnology to Support Independence of Older Adults and People with Disabilities
To make mobility safer and more comfortable for older adults and people with disabilities, the lab develops interfaces that capture the characteristics of their remaining physical functions. Through repeated prototyping and field testing, it builds safe cooperative control systems.
*Illustrative imageAutonomous Navigation That Adapts to the Environment
The lab builds systems that navigate autonomously using camera-based image recognition, without relying on high-precision maps. It is extending them to autonomous wheelchairs and delivery robots that operate inside large facilities, and to last-mile vehicles in rural areas.
*Illustrative imageSupport Based on Age-Related Changes
The lab organizes how physical and cognitive functions change with age, along with the experience and knowledge that compensate for those changes, and investigates the factors that lead to risky behavior. It builds support systems for passing on the skills of expert operators and for preventing accidents among older drivers.
*Illustrative imageDesigning Comfortable Products with Biological and Behavioral Data
The lab develops indicators and systems that objectively evaluate the physical and mental states of people using a product. It expresses the physical load during operation and biometric information in numerical form, and develops systems that support comfortable product design.
MembersFaculty
Members of Shino-Yoshitake Lab consist of faculty, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, researchers, technical staff, administrative staff, and joint research collaborators.As of 2026
- ProfessorMotoki ShinoPublications ↗
- Project Associate ProfessorHiroshi YoshitakePublications ↗
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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: “Whill auto” Hanabishi / CC0 (cropped)
- Technology to Support Independence of Older Adults and People with Disabilities: “MecanumWheelchair” Euchiasmus at English Wikipedia / Public domain (cropped)
- Autonomous Navigation That Adapts to the Environment: “WcI” Dibs / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Support Based on Age-Related Changes: “Symulatory MotoShow Szczecin 2015” Travelarz / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Designing Comfortable Products with Biological and Behavioral Data: “EMG muscle deltmed - milling” StruskaM / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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