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Iwabuchi Lab
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The lab studies assistive technology for daily living, using technology to support people facing difficulties due to disability or aging.
AboutAbout the lab
Bringing assistive technology closer to people, and to the world
The Iwabuchi Lab studies technology that helps people facing a wide range of difficulties, such as people with disabilities and older adults.
It aims to expand the use of such technology and, through it, to realize a society that embraces diversity.
The lab works on advancing information network technologies that connect people with people and people with things, and on supporting communication.
In development, it builds on mainstream technologies such as smartphones, tablets, and the cloud, and proposes ways to promote adoption that keep cost and time low.
Key terms
- Assistive technology
- Technology that uses tools or software to compensate for things that have become difficult because of disability or aging
- Reasonable accommodation
- Adjusting how things are done according to the situation so that people with disabilities can participate on an equal basis
- Involuntary movement
- Movement of the limbs or other body parts that occurs regardless of a person's will
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The lab studies assistive technology that helps people facing various barriers, including people with disabilities and older adults. Its themes range widely, from support for reading and writing and the use of technology in entrance exams, to device operation by people with severe disabilities and the spread of assistive technology in developing countries.
*Illustrative imageSupporting children with reading and writing difficulties
The lab developed an assistive technology for tablet PCs that reads aloud the text at the position a child touches. In a field trial at an elementary school, children who used it made progress in learning reading tasks, and their test scores also rose.
*Illustrative imageReasonable accommodation in entrance exams
Some students can take part in educational activities only with information technology, such as students who cannot hold a pencil and write on a computer, or students who read text using text-to-speech software. The lab aims to make such technology usable in entrance exams as well.
*Illustrative imageSupporting children with severe and multiple disabilities
The lab is developing a system that applies sensors reading body movement, for people who until now could not use devices because of various involuntary movements, such as tremors of the limbs accompanying muscle tension.
*Illustrative imageAssistive technology for developing countries
Rather than building specialized technology from scratch, the lab proposes methods that adapt existing assistive technologies and widely adopted technologies, so that solutions can be developed in a short time at low cost. Developing text-to-speech software for minority languages is one example.
MembersFaculty
The Iwabuchi Lab's members consist of faculty, research assistants, visiting researchers, and master's students.As of 2026
- ProfessorMamoru Iwabuchi
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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: “Tactile paving in China 3” Mx. Granger / CC0 (cropped)
- Supporting children with reading and writing difficulties: “Classroom2” Darklanlan / CC0 (cropped)
- Reasonable accommodation in entrance exams: “Mark sheets” Genppy / Public domain (cropped)
- Supporting children with severe and multiple disabilities: “Single switch onscreen keyboard” vtsaran / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Assistive technology for developing countries: “Multilingual sign at Ainu Museum (Shiraoi)” Abasaa / Public domain (cropped)
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