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Nishida Lab
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The lab designs the daily lives of children and older adults to be safe and easy to participate in.
AboutAbout the lab
Turning 'unmanageable' into 'manageable.'
The Nishida Lab studies 'Life-Centric Design,' which designs the lives of diverse people, including children and older adults, to be safe and easy to participate in.
Using IoT and robotics, artificial intelligence, big data, and more, the lab aims to develop science and technology that takes constantly changing people and their lives as a given.
The lab has an experimental room that simulates living environments, where it collects basic data by recreating the settings of partner nursery schools and home environments.
The lab carries out its research in collaboration with research institutions, government bodies, on-site living labs, and local communities.
Key terms
- Life-Centric Design
- An academic field that designs safe, easy-to-participate-in, and sustainable living, on the premise that people and living situations keep changing
- Living lab
- An approach in which products and services are tried out and created together with users and local people, in actual living settings or in places that recreate them
- Injury prevention
- An effort to prevent injuries from accidents by investigating their causes in terms of behavior, environment, products, and institutions
NewsLab news
A researcher received the Excellent Interdisciplinary Research Award from the Robotics and Mechatronics Division of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Students received the ESD Course Outstanding Student Award and the Hakuseikai Outstanding Presentation Award for Mechanical Engineering
A master's student received the UDX Award at the UDX Workshop of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers
A master's student received the T2KN Best Presentation Award
The University of Wales and the Institute of Science Tokyo concluded a partnership agreement on safe and active living
ResearchResearch themes
Focusing on life support and injury prevention for children and older adults, the lab understands the difficulties and risks that arise in daily life as a 'system of living situations' in which behavior, environment, products, and institutions interact. It also works on regional projects in partnership with local governments, such as a child safety project with the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and others, and 'Kawasaki Welltech,' a program with Kawasaki City that supports the development of assistive devices for daily living.
*Illustrative imagePreventing Children from Tripping and Falling
Furniture and steps inside the home can lead to unexpected injuries in young children. The lab explores ways to prevent accidents through analysis of accident data, evaluation of the force with which furniture tips over when a child climbs on it, and a simulator that shows the time until a fall.
*Illustrative imageSmall Shapes That Support Older Adults' Bodies
So that frail older adults can stand up and sit down on their own, the lab devises small shape modifications that can be added later to furniture and handrails. It measures and visualizes the force that supports the body in daily life, and verifies the effects.
*Illustrative imageStick-On Measurement of Core Body Temperature
To detect health deterioration caused by heat early, the lab is building a sensor that measures the temperature deep inside the body simply by being attached to the skin. It also studies ways to make the sensor light and small, measurement methods unaffected by ambient temperature, and simultaneous measurement of heart rate and sweat.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Nishida Lab consist of faculty, researchers, research fellows, technical support staff, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and externally affiliated members.As of 2026
- ProfessorYoshifumi NishidaPublications ↗
- Assistant ProfessorYuki HashimotoPublications ↗
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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: “Grabbar” Oneweekendwebsite / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Preventing Children from Tripping and Falling: “Stair gate” Penguinpappa / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Small Shapes That Support Older Adults' Bodies: “Grab bar” Gramody / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Stick-On Measurement of Core Body Temperature: “SmartCare wrist-worn pulse oximeter” Peter H Charlton / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (小竹・吉武研究室): “Whill auto” Hanabishi / CC0 (cropped)
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（リコー次世代デジタルプリンティング技術共同研究講座） ): “Inkjet-printed Neschen Filmoflex PVC Mesh L” Smokeonthewater / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped) - Related lab (山本研究室): “CSIRO ScienceImage 3567 Examining an agar dish for bacterial colonies as part of the bioremediation project” David McClenaghan, CSIRO / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (河本研究室): “Debris-GEO1280” NASA image / Public domain (cropped)
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