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Mishima Lab
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The lab explores the relationship between everyday human actions and the environmental information that supports their success.
AboutAbout the lab
Everyday action and the environmental information that supports it
The Mishima Lab is an ecological psychology lab that investigates why people are able to act successfully in everyday situations.
People adjust how they move their bodies on the spot, using information obtained from their surrounding environment as cues.
The lab takes up actions such as passing through a narrow gap, driving a car, and handling a kendama (a Japanese cup-and-ball toy), and confirms through experiments what information is being used at those moments.
It examines the relationship between action and environment based on ideas from ecological psychology, such as affordances and optic flow.
Key terms
- Ecological psychology
- A psychological approach that understands the actions of people and animals in relation to the information available from the environment
- Affordance
- The relationship between an environment or object and the actions it makes possible for a particular person
- Optic flow
- The change in which the entire visual field appears to flow when one moves. It provides cues about speed and direction of travel
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The lab investigates what information in the environment people use when everyday actions are carried out. It measures the relationship between action and information in both laboratory and everyday settings.
*Illustrative imagePassing through gaps
The lab investigates which visual information people rely on to decide their heading and how to twist their bodies when passing through a gap between walls, pillars, or doorways. Experiments have shown that the way people pass through changes not only with the width of the gap but also with whether a person is standing there.
*Illustrative imageInformation visible while driving
The lab investigates how drivers sense speed from the flow of their visual field. Experiments examine how the perception of speed changes when flow is displayed around video from the driver's viewpoint.
*Illustrative imageSkill and bodily coordination
The lab takes up actions that require coordinating the parts of the body well, such as playing the kendama or a musical instrument. Through motion measurement, it clarifies how local movements of the hands and feet relate to movement of the whole body.
MembersFaculty
- Hiroyuki Mishima
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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: “20230213 Door Handle Steige Mariahilf Passau” Flocci Nivis / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Passing through gaps: “Alley in Gamla Stan, Stockholm” OleNeitzel / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Information visible while driving: “South Devon Expressway Light Trails (1)” Partonez / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Skill and bodily coordination: “Kendama toy” Gallaz63 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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