Labs in Kyushu University, School of Design

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A lab that investigates how sound is heard, starting from vibrations in the peripheral auditory system.

Assistant Professor Yasuki Murakami mainly studies the mechanical vibrations of the peripheral auditory system caused by sound waves. Because these vibrations correlate with the perception of sound, the research aims to clarify how people hear sound from the standpoint of the peripheral auditory system. The research methods include numerical simulation, noninvasive physiological experiments, and perception experiments. The lab is also interested in applying the findings from this research in engineering.

#Peripheral auditory system #Numerical simulation #Nonlinear phenomena

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A speech science lab that studies how voices are produced and how they are heard.

In the field of speech science, Assistant Professor Kohei Wakamiya studies how people produce speech and how that sound is perceived. The research measures the movements of the articulators inside the mouth with a 3D magnetic sensor system, and develops methods for collecting the basic data needed to build speech production models that imitate the mechanisms of human speech. The lab also works on the intelligibility of degraded speech, the evaluation of hoarse voices, and research on determining infectious disease infection from cough sounds. Assistant Professor Wakamiya is a faculty member of the Acoustic Design Course in the School of Design.

#Articulatory movement #Hoarseness #Cough sounds

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The lab specializes in information visualization and educational technology.

The lab of Associate Professor Wei Shi specializes in information visualization, software engineering, e-learning, and educational technology. Associate Professor Shi belongs to the Department of Design in the School of Design, and to the Department of Design in the Graduate School of Design.

#Information visualization #Software engineering #Educational technology

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The lab moves between arts practice in the field and research to explore co-creative practice and its evaluation.

Assistant Professor Saya Makihara specializes in arts management and cultural policy, and also studies collaborative/participatory evaluation of cultural projects. Currently, her main focus is how co-creative arts practice with people who have mental illness or disabilities changes the awareness of people who are not themselves living with those conditions. In community-partnership arts projects and the Hall Management Engineer training program, she is also in charge of operations, student supervision, and evaluation.

#Arts management #Co-creative art practice #Cultural policy

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Educational design, applied linguistics, foreign language education

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The lab explores ways to protect and nurture green spaces in urban fringe areas and in farming and mountain villages.

The Green Space Conservation Lab studies the conservation and restoration of the natural environment, focusing on green spaces in urban fringe areas and in farming and mountain villages. Through the conservation and management carried out by people, green space environments support public-benefit functions such as biodiversity, scenic beauty, the production of agricultural and forestry products, and disaster prevention. The lab's research goal is to put into practice in society conservation planning and design that benefit the relationship between people and nature, in collaboration with citizens, government, and experts. As a higher-level goal, the lab aims to educate people who can sense the beauty of the environment and communicate it.

#Satoyama #Urban green spaces #Agricultural volunteering

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The lab approaches architectural and urban design from both theory and practice.

The Architectural Design Lab works on architectural design and urban design through both theoretical research and practice. Prof. Ukai has received awards such as top prizes in proposal competitions and the Good Design Award for redevelopment urban planning proposals and architectural designs. On the research side, the lab takes up the relationship between university campuses and the surrounding towns.

#Architectural design #Urban design #University campuses

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A lab that evaluates urban and architectural environments from the perspective of human psychology.

The lab of Prof. Oi studies how to evaluate urban and architectural environments from the standpoint of human psychology. Covering everything from individual well-being to the global environment, the lab investigates the psychophysiological relationship between people and their environments. Its areas of expertise are urban and architectural environmental engineering and environmental psychology. At Kyushu University, the professor is listed as faculty of the Environmental Design Course in the School of Design and of the Environmental Design Course in the Graduate School of Design.

#Architectural environmental psychology #Lighting and visual environment #Spatial cognition

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A lab that plans and designs architecture supporting daily life, from housing to public facilities.

The architectural planning and design lab of Prof. Tanoe specializes in design planning for buildings essential to daily life, starting with housing and including educational, cultural, and medical facilities. Taking the user's perspective, the lab considers how to realize distinctive, attractive spaces in which people and environments mutually permeate each other. Its goal is to train professionals involved in architectural and community design (surveying, programming, planning, and design).

#Housing design #Participatory planning #Reconstruction of aging housing complexes

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A building structures lab that explores technologies for protecting buildings from earthquakes, including friction dampers.

The building structures lab develops new technologies and construction methods to improve the seismic safety of buildings. It works on increasing friction in friction joints, developing new friction dampers, and developing new construction methods that use friction dampers to reduce earthquake damage. In education, the lab is in charge of lectures and exercises in structural mechanics of buildings, seismic structures, structural design of buildings, and earthquake disaster prevention. Student research supervision centers on developing technologies that contribute to building safety, proposing new design methods, and seismic performance evaluation and seismic retrofitting of existing buildings.

#Friction dampers #Reinforced concrete structures #Vibration control