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Urata Lab
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A lab that designs local communities with ICT, IoT, and AI.
AboutAbout the lab
Designing better local communities with ICT, IoT, and AI
The Urata Lab conducts research on solving local social issues using digital technologies such as ICT, IoT, AI, and open data.
Under the banner of "information society design," the lab focuses on regional digital transformation (DX), tourism, support for older adults, and local communities.
Using Takayama City, Shirakawa Village, Nagoya City, and Komaki City as its fields, the lab conducts demonstration studies in collaboration with local governments, companies, and residents.
The lab places importance on connecting the knowledge and systems gained there to real society.
Key terms
- Open data
- Data that is made publicly available so that anyone can use it freely.
- People-flow data
- Data that measures the flow of people (how many people are where).
- Social implementation
- Turning technologies and systems developed through research into forms that can be used and adopted in real society.
NewsLab news
Won the Excellence Award at the 29th Research Presentation Meeting of the Society for Tourism Informatics for research on predicting pedestrian numbers
Received a commendation from the Director-General of the Tokai Bureau of Telecommunications for its work on measuring people flow with AI
Won the Society Award from the Society for Information and Culture for research on the use of unified formats in local governments
ResearchResearch themes
Rather than focusing on technology itself, the lab asks what value technology brings to society and tackles local issues in a practical way. Targeting tourism, support for older adults, and community development, it aims for social implementation through demonstration studies.
*Illustrative imageInformation Society Design
The lab aims not at using digital technology for its own sake, but at realizing a better society for people and communities. With a focus on the user's perspective, it designs new social systems that make use of ICT, IoT, AI, and data.
*Illustrative imageRegional DX and Digital Implementation
In collaboration with local governments, companies, and residents, the lab applies digital technology to solving the problems that communities face. Working in the fields of tourism, local communities, public administration, and education, it moves toward social implementation through field experiments.
*Illustrative imageHuman-Centered AI and Data Use
The lab researches how AI, IoT, open data, and people-flow data can be used to improve people's lives and solve local issues. Targeting support for older adults, tourism, and community development, it explores a better relationship between technology and people.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorMayu Urata
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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: “Békéscsaba, Shuffle with smart items” Bolondkamion / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Information Society Design: “SmartTotem” Bolondkamion / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Regional DX and Digital Implementation: “Ogi Shirakawa-gō, Gifu, Japan” 663highland / CC BY 2.5 (cropped)
- Human-Centered AI and Data Use: “Clean mobility instead of dirty traffic” Bartz/Stockmar / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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- Related lab (Social Cognitive Science Lab): “Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center )” U.S. Army CERDEC / Public domain (cropped)
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