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Wesugi Lab
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A lab that designs the “between” of people, tools, and nature.
AboutAbout the lab
Designing the “between” of people, nature, and machines.
Wesugi Lab studies the design of the “between” connecting people, tools, and the world.
It focuses on the new bodily movements, sensations, and expanded experiences that arise from using tools.
Its research targets familiar tools, such as devices that help improve athletic skills.
Key terms
- Embodiment of tools
- The phenomenon in which a well-used tool comes to feel like a part of one's own body
- Human augmentation
- Technology that uses machines or tools to enable people to do things they normally cannot
- Bodily sensitivity
- The ability to perceive one's own body movements and sensations in fine detail
NewsLab news
A master's student received the Best Student Paper Award at the international conference ICDES2025
An undergraduate student received the Hatakeyama Award from the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
ResearchResearch themes
Wesugi Lab studies the design of the “between” connecting people, tools, and the world. It explores ways to expand the possibilities of human experience through interaction with tools, in areas such as movement, cognition, imagery, expression, and communication.
*Illustrative imageConsidering the weaknesses tools bring
While people extend their abilities by adapting to machines, weaknesses and risks also arise. The lab pays attention to these and explores ways to design tools and technologies.
*Illustrative imageCreating new movements and sensations
The lab supports the emergence of new bodily movements and new ways of using the senses through tools, and also explores new possibilities in conventional, well-established tools.
*Illustrative imageConnecting with the body's functions
The lab studies how tools can awaken bodily functions we usually do not notice, leading people to rethink how they use their bodies and how they relate to others and to nature.
*Illustrative imageCommunicating sensations and experiences
The lab designs ways to use tools to convey and share sensations, imagery, and experiences that are hard to measure in numbers.
MembersFaculty
The members of Wesugi Lab consist of faculty members and students.
- ProfessorShigeru Wesugi
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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: “Shōfū-an the view of the roji from the nijiriguchi of the koma Chūō-ku Fukuoka” Hirho / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Considering the weaknesses tools bring: “Frayed rope (Unsplash)” Wynand van Poortvliet / CC0 (cropped)
- Creating new movements and sensations: “Russian ballet pointe shoes, 1997, silk - Bata Shoe Museum - DSC00244” Daderot / CC0 (cropped)
- Connecting with the body's functions: “Kayano Shrine wind chime close-up” Sago350 / CC0 (cropped)
- Communicating sensations and experiences: “Tin Can phones TMW.agr” ArnoldReinhold / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (菅野研究室): “Servo-electric 5-Finger gripping hand - Schunk SVH” NearEMPTiness / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (高西研究室): “Atlas frontview 2013” DARPA / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (石村研究室): “The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station’s starboard truss structure (iss075e0068625)” NASA Johnson Space Center / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (宮下研究室): “Leaf skeleton in Foreste Casentinesi” Mmma98 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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