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Ohkawara Lab
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A lab that combines health science and informatics, aiming for research that can be put to use in local communities.
AboutAbout the lab
A lab aiming to nurture people who combine health science and informatics to contribute to people's happiness.
The Ohkawara Lab takes health and quality of life as its themes, and conducts research that can be put to practical use in communities and society.
From the perspectives of biomedical engineering and public health, the lab invites people interested in building healthy lifestyles and healthy towns to learn together.
The lab values not only research results but also learning, through research, about connections with society and the community and about working together with peers.
It also carries out community-oriented activities, such as a wheat-growing project and children's cafeterias (kodomo shokudo).
Key terms
- IADL
- Instrumental activities of daily living. Training for them is mainly done at rehabilitation facilities
- Digital divide
- The gap in knowledge, opportunity, wealth, and more between people who can benefit from information and communication technology and those who cannot
- NIRS
- Near-infrared spectroscopy. A method for measuring cerebral blood flow, used in this research to measure brain activity
NewsLab news
The lab took part in Giving Campaign 2024 and won the Sales Marker Award
A doctoral student's paper was published in Healthcare
ResearchResearch themes
To improve health and quality of life, the lab investigates exercise, daily living movements, and brain activity, then proposes training programs and health classes and verifies their effects. The research introduction page presents undergraduate and master's student research from FY2021 to FY2024, year by year.
*Illustrative imageTraining Household Daily Activities with Mixed Reality
Training in instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) is mainly done at rehabilitation facilities, and there are no tools for continuing it after leaving the facility. The lab proposes a training program that uses mixed reality technology and verifies with a questionnaire whether people can keep it up.
*Illustrative imageCharacteristics of Daily Movements in People with Down Syndrome
The lab compares the daily movements of people with Down syndrome and people without Down syndrome to identify the characteristics of people with Down syndrome. Movement data are collected by video recording during experiments and analyzing the footage with skeletal pose estimation AI.
*Illustrative imageA Hybrid Health Class for Older Adults
The lab combines in-person practice of tablet operation with an online health class that participants join from home via Zoom. It examines whether this is effective in reducing the digital divide among older adults and improving their well-being.
*Illustrative imageCommunication During Exercise and Brain Activity
Synchronization of brain activity between people is said to be related to closeness and prosociality. The lab measures cerebral blood flow with NIRS to examine how communication during exercise affects the synchronization of brain activity during a subsequent cooperative task.
MembersFaculty
- Laboratory HeadKazunori Ohkawara
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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: “Functional Fitness for Senior Leaders (7032769)” U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Agustin Montanez / Public domain (cropped)
- Training Household Daily Activities with Mixed Reality: “Samsung- -XR-Project-Moohan-Android-XR-platform-Google main1” SsSeanChoi / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Characteristics of Daily Movements in People with Down Syndrome: “Kitchen at Alcatraz” Slyronit / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- A Hybrid Health Class for Older Adults: “Senior Citizen Exercise Machines not in use in Singapore” Exec8 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Communication During Exercise and Brain Activity: “Alexander Refsum Jensenius with fNIRS” Alexarje / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Yokogawa Lab): “Coin cells being tested” UCL Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Nakayama Lab): “Geekcorps computer training class, Bamako, Mali” Robin Taylor / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Ueno Lab): “Bayesian network” Sachs K, Gifford D, Jaakkola T, Sorger P, Lauffenburger DA. / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Miyawaki Lab): “Control drone by eeg” Qwert5 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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