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Kato Lab
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The lab measures the safety and efficiency of human activities on site and works to improve them.
AboutAbout the lab
Making life safer by measuring on site
The Kato Lab studies how to measure safety and efficiency in human activities using ergonomics methods.
The lab identifies issues in real-world settings such as road traffic, aviation, factories, parks, and housing, then measures and evaluates them quantitatively.
In addition to ergonomics and industrial engineering, the lab conducts many studies related to cognitive psychology and social psychology.
The lab focuses on small everyday errors and aims to improve quality of life by reducing them.
Key terms
- Ergonomics
- The study of designing tools and environments to be easy to use and safe, fitting the workings of the human body and mind
- Industrial engineering
- A field of engineering that analyzes the flow of people, materials, and time to build work processes efficiently
- Cognitive psychology
- A field that studies mental processes such as seeing, remembering, thinking, and making judgments
ResearchResearch themes
The lab focuses on errors that occur in human activities, identifies issues from real-world settings, and measures and evaluates them using ergonomics methods. It links the results to improvements, aiming to raise quality of life.
*Illustrative imageRoad Traffic Safety
The lab studies how pedestrians and drivers make decisions and move at crosswalks without traffic signals, and considers mechanisms that give priority to pedestrians. It also works on bicycle traffic safety education for children.
*Illustrative imageErrors in Everyday Life
Small accidents that happen in daily life can sometimes lead to serious trouble. The lab focuses on errors that occur at home and in the workplace, and works to improve them through measurement and evaluation.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Kato Lab are faculty, visiting researchers and e-school education coaches, master's students, and undergraduate students.As of 2025
- ProfessorMaki Kato
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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: “Pedestrian Crossing in Front of the Station - panoramio” heri / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Road Traffic Safety: “Quantiasstaße bike lane” 1998alexkane / CC0 (cropped)
- Errors in Everyday Life: “Sumiyoshitaisha Station, stairs” ほっきー / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Kurakata Lab): “Headphones 1” PJ / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Hida Lab): “Factory interiors” Friedrich Haag / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Momose Lab): “BA17 Primary visual cortex - lateral view” Polygon data were generated by Database Center for Life Science(DBCLS)[2]. / CC BY-SA 2.1 jp (cropped)
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