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Toriya Lab
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A lab that views technology and society as a system and designs what the future should look like.
AboutAbout the lab
Designing technology and society as a system.
The Toriya Lab studies how technology changes people's lives, industries, and society.
Using systems engineering and systems thinking, the lab describes these connections from a bird's-eye view.
On that basis, it considers what services, products, and technologies should be created next, and how to go about creating them.
Its main areas of focus are healthcare and science, technology, and innovation policy.
Key terms
- Systems engineering
- An approach that defines a purpose, organizes the necessary elements and the connections among them, and builds a mechanism that works well as a whole
- Behavior change
- Changing lifestyle habits such as diet, exercise, and rest in a way that the person can keep up
- Healthy life expectancy
- An indicator of the length of time a person can live daily life independently, without needing care
NewsLab news
Joint research wins the Best Paper Award at HEALTHINF/BIOSTEC
A master's student wins the Mitsubishi Chemical Award at the KGRI Project Pitch
ResearchResearch themes
Together with researchers at other universities, the lab carries out research projects that describe the current state and the desired future of policies, industries, businesses, and organizational structures. Rather than looking for the causes of failure in past cases, it places weight on proposing new services and systems to society with a view 5 to 10 years ahead.
*Illustrative imageBehavior change platforms
Behavior change for health requires changes not only in a person's own intentions but also in the people and environment around them. While running demonstration experiments, the lab is developing a mechanism that collects stress data on a platform and shares the results not only with the individual but also with other members of their organization.
*Illustrative imageEstimating the impact on society
The lab investigates how a platform that encourages behavior change would affect the number of patients with lifestyle-related diseases and medical costs across Japan. Using a method called system dynamics, it also calculates how far such a service would spread.
*Illustrative imageViews of health among people with illness or disability
The lab questions whether the current idea of healthy life expectancy unknowingly excludes people with illness or disability. By conducting attitude surveys in Japan and the United Kingdom, it aims to build a new view of health that incorporates the perspectives of the people concerned.
*Illustrative imageBuilding organizations that can respond to crises
Focusing on the temporary testing system that a university's medical school and affiliated hospital set up together during the COVID-19 pandemic, the lab describes how the organizations collaborated, using a systems engineering framework. The goal is to leave clues for designing systems that are prepared for the next crisis.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Toriya Lab consist of faculty and students in the Professional Degree Program in Management of Technology and the Double Degree Program.As of 2025
- Associate ProfessorMasako ToriyaPublications ↗
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Report an errorAbout the images
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: “Greater Tokyo rail network” FML / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Behavior change platforms: “Desire path off Fairmead Road, High Beach, Essex, England 03” Acabashi / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Estimating the impact on society: “Surface waves” Roger McLassus / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Views of health among people with illness or disability: “Tactile paving on the sidewalk, Łódź” Zorro2212 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Building organizations that can respond to crises: “Bailey Bridge La Reunion” MathiasEllpunkt / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (仙石研究室): “Autoklavovatelne-fermentory” Karel Schmiedberger ml / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (木村研究室): “Lettuce in Vertical Farm” Bright Agrotech / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (辻本研究室): “Aerial image of the Bremerhaven container terminal (view from the southeast)” Carsten Steger / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (笹原研究室): “SocialNetworkAnalysis” Martin Grandjean / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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