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Mizuno Lab
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A lab that takes an engineering approach to humans and systems using biological information.
AboutAbout the lab
Understanding humans and systems through biological information
The Mizuno Lab is run jointly with the Itakura Lab as the Itakura-Mizuno Lab, and studies humans and systems from an engineering perspective using biological information.
With the goal of enabling smooth communication between humans and systems, the lab conducts research using information obtained from psychological, physiological, and behavioral measures.
Its work includes estimating autonomic nervous system activity from facial skin temperature and realizing efficient virtual reality.
Key terms
- Autonomic nervous system activity
- Nervous activity that changes according to a person's state and circumstances. It can be evaluated indirectly from skin temperature around the nose.
- Virtual reality
- A field in which information can be conveyed efficiently by presenting it to multiple senses at once and making use of interactions between the senses.
- Multimodal display
- A device that can present information to vision, force sensation, and touch.
ResearchResearch themes
With the goal of enabling smooth communication between humans and systems, the lab conducts research using information obtained from psychological, physiological, and behavioral measures. The Mizuno Lab works on facial skin temperature, information presentation in virtual reality, and measurement of skin potential.
*Illustrative imageEstimating the autonomic nervous system from facial thermal images
The lab studies methods and interfaces for evaluating and estimating autonomic nervous system activity from facial skin temperature. Making use of the fact that skin temperature around the nose indirectly reflects changes in the autonomic nervous system, it aims for more accurate and automatic evaluation.
*Illustrative imageEfficient virtual reality
The lab develops multimodal displays that can present information to vision, force sensation, and touch, and investigates ways to convey information efficiently by presenting it to multiple senses at the same time. It also examines how visual and tactile information presentation affects somatosensation.
*Illustrative imageElectrodermal activity interface
The lab is exploring a system that can measure electrodermal activity more simply than conventional methods. If changes in skin potential accompanying emotional sweating could be measured with electrodes on the palm alone, this could lead to an interface that evaluates a person simply by having them grip it.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Itakura-Mizuno Lab are faculty and students in the doctoral program, the master's program, and the undergraduate program.
- ProfessorNaoaki Itakura
- Associate ProfessorTota Mizuno
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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: “Thermal image - face - 3” Alex and Jarek Tuszyński / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Estimating the autonomic nervous system from facial thermal images: “Thermal image - face - 1” Alex and Jarek Tuszyński / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Efficient virtual reality: “Virtual reality headset and wired gloves, Ames Research Center” National Aeronautics and Space Administration. / Public domain (cropped)
- Electrodermal activity interface: “Max Health Band” Peterhcharlton / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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