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Miyazaki Lab
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The lab recreates the human body and its movements on computers and applies this to injury prevention.
AboutAbout the lab
Measuring humans and recreating them in cyber-physical space
The Miyazaki Lab studies "human modeling": measuring human structure, motion, sensation, and sensibility, and turning them into computer models.
Its approach is centered on methods from mechanical and systems engineering, combined with methods from medicine and informatics.
The human models are used to evaluate the relationships among people, objects, and environments, extending into research on designing safe and comfortable products, environments, and services.
Current work covers injury biomechanics, which investigates how injuries occur, as well as sports engineering, biomechanics of daily activities, and Kansei engineering.
Key terms
- Finite element model
- A model that divides an object into small elements so that a computer can calculate deformation and other responses when forces are applied
- Concussion
- A condition in which a strong blow to the head temporarily disrupts brain function
- Markerless motion capture
- A technology that measures human movement with cameras or similar devices, without attaching markers to the body
ResearchResearch themes
Centered on methods from mechanical and systems engineering and combined with methods from medicine and informatics, the lab measures human structure, motion, sensation, and sensibility and turns them into computer models. In collaboration with medical institutions, it builds detailed models that reproduce the inside of the human body in 3D from CT and MRI images, and combines them with measurements of movement in daily life and sports settings and with machine learning.
*Illustrative imageUncovering how injuries occur
The lab investigates the mechanisms of head injury using large-scale data on traffic accidents and on everyday accidents involving children and older adults, measurements during competition with mouthguard-type impact sensors, and head physical models and finite element models that reproduce the inside of the head.
*Illustrative imageSports engineering and sports injuries
Working with sports federations and team doctors, the lab uses measurements taken in competition settings and human body models to study performance improvement and injury prevention. Examples include measuring the propulsion force in wheelchair racing and concussion research conducted jointly with Loughborough University in the UK.
*Illustrative imageMeasuring everyday movements of children and older adults
The lab measures the everyday behavior and product use of children and older adults "as they naturally are" using markerless motion capture, classifies the characteristics of their movements, and creates skill maps that allow skill to be assessed at a glance.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Miyazaki Lab consist of faculty members and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.
- Associate ProfessorYusuke Miyazaki
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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: “Crash test dummies” National Institute of Standards and Technology / Public domain (cropped)
- Uncovering how injuries occur: “MRI brain sagittal section” everyone's idle / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Sports engineering and sports injuries: “Wheelchair Racing Parapan 2007” Marcello Casal Jr/ABr / CC BY 3.0 br (cropped)
- Measuring everyday movements of children and older adults: “Biomechanics human model in MOCAP system” El gato Tito / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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