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Intelligent Systems Lab
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The lab explores better relationships between people and computers through robots and agents.
AboutAbout the lab
Building better relationships between people and computers
The Ogawa Lab studies human-computer interaction.
In addition to information engineering, robotics, and artificial intelligence, the lab draws on perspectives from psychology, cognitive science, entertainment, and art to develop interactive systems that support people.
The lab does not stop at building systems. It verifies their effects through psychological experiments in the laboratory and field experiments in real society.
Depending on the theme, students can also take part in joint research with companies and in large-scale projects.
Key terms
- Interactive system
- A system in which a computer interacts with a person by responding to the person's actions and reactions
- Cognitive science
- The field that studies mental processes such as seeing, thinking, and remembering, drawing on psychology, information science, and other disciplines
- Embodiment
- Having a body. Here, it refers to what kind of body, such as a robot, an agent has
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies human-computer interaction (HCI). It pursues how computers can support people from two sides: developing convenient, easy-to-use systems, and verifying them and understanding people through psychological experiments and other methods.
*Illustrative imageAvatars that make work enjoyable
For avatars, through which a person works by operating a robot or CG character from a remote location, the lab designs mechanisms that reduce the burden on the person without taking away their sense of agency, such as operation screens that incorporate game elements. It also studies avatars operated at close range, in which a person controls a robot beside them and works together with it.
*Illustrative imageAgents that move between devices
The lab develops ITACO agents, which move between everyday devices such as smartphones, robots, and wearable devices to support daily life without interruption. Through experiments, it investigates the role that embodiment plays in the trust between people and agents.
*Illustrative imageSystems that create new experiences
From the perspectives of entertainment and art, the lab develops systems that use information technology to create enjoyment and new experiences. Examples include Manzai Karaoke, which lets even people with no experience perform manzai comedy, and the lab studies them through both system development and psychological evaluation.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Ogawa Lab are faculty, researchers, administrative staff, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.
- Associate ProfessorKohei Ogawa
- Assistant ProfessorTomonori Kubota
- Project LecturerMasaya Iwasaki
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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: “Quori socially interactive robot platform IMG” Mary Mark Ockerbloom / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Avatars that make work enjoyable: “Telepresence robot BotEyes in demo-room 02” BotEyes.com / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Agents that move between devices: “Aéroport de Prague Ruzyně, Pepper (robot)” Benoît Prieur / CC0 (cropped)
- Systems that create new experiences: “Virtual reality headset” FloppaIngénieur / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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