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Fujimoto Lab
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The lab aims to understand human functions and create products that are useful to people.
AboutAbout the lab
Understanding human functions to create products useful to people
The Fujimoto Lab is a assistive technology lab that studies how the human body and senses work and applies this to making products that help in daily life.
It begins by measuring fingertip touch and lower-limb movement and expressing their characteristics quantitatively.
The findings are applied to how to make tactile graphics that people with visual impairments read by touch, and to the design of interfaces that use skin sensation.
The lab also works on developing devices useful for rehabilitation.
Key terms
- Assistive technology
- A field that uses engineering methods to create tools and environments that support the daily lives of people with disabilities and older adults
- Tactile reading
- Reading braille or the shapes of figures by touching them with the fingertips
- Tactile graphics
- Figures and graphs represented by raised dots and lines so that they can be read by touch
ResearchResearch themes
The lab measures human skin sensation and lower-limb motor function to clarify their characteristics. It applies the findings to the design of easy-to-use tools and facilities.
*Illustrative imageInterfaces that make use of skin sensation
The lab experimentally investigates the characteristics of fingertip tactile perception and clarifies how to present information so that tactile graphics and tactile guide maps, which people with visual impairments read by touch, are easier to read. It quantitatively evaluates the relationship between the spacing and thickness of raised elements and ease of reading, using accuracy rates and tactile reading time.
*Illustrative imageFacilities and orthoses based on lower-limb movement
The lab measures and analyzes lower-limb motor function, such as walking, using a three-dimensional motion capture system and force plates, and applies the results to the development of facilities and orthoses.
MembersFaculty
- Hiroshi Fujimoto
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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: “Exo-Skin Soft Haptic exoskeletal interface DSCF2171” Mary Mark Ockerbloom / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Interfaces that make use of skin sensation: “Braille magazine example pages” Econterms / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Facilities and orthoses based on lower-limb movement: “Gait laboratory” D. Gordon E. Robertson / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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