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Komatsubara Lab
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The lab designs systems that involve people so that they are safe and comfortable.
AboutAbout the lab
Designing human living systems that are secure, safe, and comfortable
The Komatsubara Lab studies how to make sociotechnical systems that involve people safer and more comfortable.
It targets settings where people play important roles, such as manufacturing, transportation and logistics, information and communications, healthcare, and services.
Specializing in human life engineering, safety ergonomics, and system safety, the lab draws on the human sciences, including psychology, ergonomics, and behavioral science.
Its work includes preventing human error, improving product usability, and proposing ways of living suited to an aging society and an information society.
Key terms
- Ergonomics
- The study of how people interact with machines and their environment, aimed at improving usability and safety
- Human error
- Mistakes in work or operation that people make unintentionally
- System safety
- The study of how to build safe systems in which accidents are unlikely to occur
NewsLab news
Prof. Komatsubara received the Distinguished Service Award (Kenko Sho) from the Japan Industrial Safety and Health Association
An undergraduate student received the Excellence Award at the 30th Undergraduate Thesis Presentation Meeting of the Kanto Branch, Japan Ergonomics Society
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies sociotechnical systems that involve people in industry and daily life. It researches safety management techniques for preventing accidents, as well as methodologies for creating comfortable, easy-to-use products and ways of living.
*Illustrative imagePreventing human error
The lab studies methodologies for preventing human error in industrial workplaces, drawing on the human sciences such as psychology and ergonomics.
*Illustrative imageDeveloping safety management techniques
The lab works on developing safety management techniques for building safe, accident-free systems.
*Illustrative imageImproving product usability
The lab researches how to improve usability by designing and developing products and systems used in daily life from the user's perspective.
*Illustrative imageProposing ways of living in an aging society and an information society
The lab studies methodologies for proposing ways of living that help people live better in an aging society and an information society.
MembersFaculty
The Komatsubara Lab consists of faculty members and students.
- ProfessorAkinori Komatsubara
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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: “Desire path ( )” Metro Centric / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Preventing human error: “Signal box lever frame - geograph.org.uk - 2998668” Roger Jones / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Developing safety management techniques: “White onion cross section” Amada44 / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Improving product usability: “20230214 Triangular Door Handle” Flocci Nivis / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Proposing ways of living in an aging society and an information society: “Old House Veranda at Fudoki-no-Oka - panoramio” Toshihiro Matsui / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Kishi Lab): “Java code demonstrating source-code abilities” Ilyaaaaa / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Nonaka Lab): “Kitchen ( )” cage.okada / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Tanimizu Lab): “Factory Automation Robotics Palettizing Bread” KUKA Roboter GmbH, Bachmann / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Goto Lab): “Mylar Punched tape” Wtshymanski / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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