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Human Assistive Engineering Lab
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The lab develops technologies that support people's daily lives by assisting, substituting for, and augmenting physical and mental functions.
AboutAbout the lab
Building technology that assists, substitutes for, and augments physical and mental functions
The Human Assistive Engineering Lab (Ino-Yoshimoto Lab) conducts interdisciplinary research in health and assistive technology, using science and technology to support the daily lives of diverse people.
Aiming to create QOL (Quality of Life) technologies that assist, substitute for, and augment physical and mental functions, the lab takes as its guiding principle to learn about humans and build machines.
In basic research, the lab works on human measurement. In applied research, it addresses sensory substitution, rehabilitation, lifestyle-related disease prevention, and frailty prevention.
The lab also studies human-machine systems, such as virtual reality that expands people's potential.
Key terms
- QOL
- Short for Quality of Life. A term describing the quality of daily life
- Nursing care food
- Meals in which the hardness and size of the food are adjusted to prevent aspiration
- Myoelectric chewing sound feedback
- A technology that plays chewing sounds in sync with the movement of the chewing muscles, creating the illusion of a particular food texture
NewsLab news
A master's student received an Outstanding Poster Award at the Bioengineering Conference of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
A master's student received the WIT Student Research Encouragement Award at the IEICE Technical Committee on Welfare Information Technology
A master's student received an Excellence Award at the MEI Interdisciplinary Student Exchange Meeting of the Osaka University Global Center for Medical Engineering and Informatics
ResearchResearch themes
The lab researches and develops technologies that support people's daily lives and maintain the QOL of older adults and people with disabilities. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to basic research (human measurement) and applied research (sensory substitution, rehabilitation, lifestyle-related disease prevention, and frailty prevention) in health and assistive technology and related fields.
*Illustrative imageCompensating for, supporting, and augmenting bodily functions
The lab develops assistive system technologies that assist, substitute for, and augment physical and mental functions. One example is support for people with weak chewing or swallowing ability who eat nursing care food, aimed at preventing the loss of appetite caused by its poor texture.
*Illustrative imageResearch and development together with the people who use the technology
The lab designs devices with the cooperation of people in medicine, dentistry, and special needs education, the users and their families, and staff at medical and nursing care facilities. Evaluation tests in which users try the devices reveal problems, which are then used to improve the devices.
*Illustrative imageSound interfaces that change food texture
Using auditory AR (augmented reality), myoelectric chewing sound feedback plays sounds such as a crunchy "zaku-zaku" in time with the movement of the cheek and temporalis muscles during chewing, creating the illusion of a particular food texture. The lab is advancing applied research such as improving the texture of nursing care food.
*Illustrative imageElectrical interfaces that change the sense of touch
Passing a weak electric current through the body to stimulate tactile nerves can convey artificial tactile sensations. The lab conducts basic research to uncover the mechanisms of this intriguing perception, such as the modulation of perceived roughness through electrical stimulation of the finger, as well as applied research related to skills in the medical field.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Human Assistive Engineering Lab (Ino-Yoshimoto Lab) are faculty, administrative assistants, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorShuichi Ino
- Associate ProfessorShunsuke Yoshimoto
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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: “InclusiveGameLab Person-Playing-Virtual-Reality 10 CC-BY-SA” InclusiveGameLab / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Compensating for, supporting, and augmenting bodily functions: “Assistive keyboard and Joystick” Humanblocks / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Research and development together with the people who use the technology: “Assistive devices ( )” Oregon Department of Transportation / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Sound interfaces that change food texture: “Muscle Whistler with EMG surface electrodes (1971)” Cromemco / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Electrical interfaces that change the sense of touch: “Unisim dental training haptics and VR” Tim Sheerman-Chase / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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