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Kazuya Saito, Associate Professor
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The Digital Fabrication Lab is the lab of Associate Professor Kazuya Saito, who belongs to the Industrial Design Course in the Department of Design, School of Design. In the School of Design's faculty list, his fields of specialization are given as digital fabrication and mechanical engineering. In the graduate school, he is listed as a faculty member of the Human Living Design Course in the Department of Design, Graduate School of Design.
Toshifumi Saito, Associate Professor
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The Saito Lab studies how communication takes shape and how social meaning and value are formed. In addition to advertising expression, the lab covers a wide range of cultural phenomena, including film and video, contemporary art, museums, photography, literature, and subcultures. Associate Professor Saito has worked as a creative director on advertising, public relations, and cultural projects. The lab is characterized by a method that moves back and forth between practice and theory: it analyzes that practice as a subject of research and consolidates it into theory.
Yanfang Zhang, Associate Professor
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Associate Professor Yanfang Zhang specializes in universal design and social design. After practicing universal design in professional design settings, the professor now conducts research in education. Guided by the principle of "leaving no one behind," the lab studies systems for designing and growing together while respecting diversity, as well as methods for social implementation. The lab also works on building networks for design research and education by collaborating with industry and research institutions in Japan and abroad.
Haruka Sogabe, Associate Professor
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The Design Process Lab (Haruka Sogabe) specializes in the design of places and spaces used by a broad, unspecified public (public design). Besides designing signage and street furniture, the lab works on creating design guidelines for local public relations materials and signage. Amid multiple social issues and technological developments, the lab also works on identifying points of focus and shaping them into forms that many people can understand. The lab focuses on the "gap" (zure) that arises in how the same object or space is perceived depending on one's position, and pursues research using it as a keyword for objectively grasping, analyzing, and examining situations.
Takayuki Nishimura, Associate Professor
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The Physiological Anthropology Lab studies how modern humans adapt to their environments. It examines how physiological diversity in evolution and adaptation relates to genetic factors. The lab also conducts joint research with companies aimed at improving human life and promoting health.
Tomohiro Sakotsubo, Assistant Professor
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Assistant Professor Sakotsubo's lab studies how public transit design is planned and how it is evaluated once it is in use. The lab examines the relationship between the design process and design philosophy at the planning stage and design evaluation based on actual usage after operation begins, and analyzes what design that moves society looks like. Assistant Professor Sakotsubo draws on experience in design practice at a design firm, where he worked on public transit vehicles, consumer devices, and industrial machinery. The lab also puts effort into training people who can put into practice in society the School's educational and research philosophy of the “humanization of technology.”
Kenichi Sawai, Assistant Professor
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Kenichi Sawai's Mathematical Engineering Lab studies how people perceive time and space, using mathematical models. It investigates how time is perceived from visual and auditory information, and how depth is perceived through motion parallax. The lab also develops psychophysical experiment methods for measuring perception, and analyzes “hibikiai” (mutual resonance), which arises during co-creation.
Eigo Nishimura, Assistant Professor
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The Action and Behavior Analysis Lab studies methods for observing and examining how people behave when using tools and devices, using video analysis technology. In design, observing users' behavior is a way to find where a tool can be improved, but carrying out such observation requires an observer's experience and a great deal of effort. To address this, the lab aims to reduce the labor of observation and make it objective by turning behavior in video into numerical data, and it develops applications that support behavioral observation. Through joint development with companies and R&D consulting, the lab has also built up a track record and experience in quantitative behavioral observation.
Yasuyuki Hayama, Assistant Professor
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Assistant Professor Yasuyuki Hayama studies the role of narrative in design and its relationship with innovation. The lab works with the concept of “Design Narrative Worldmaking,” which views design as a practice of creating worlds through narrative. Research keywords include service design, product-service system design, and transition design for sustainability. Assistant Professor Hayama has experience as a management consultant and strategic designer, and conducts research and projects in the interdisciplinary area between design and management.
Yuki Motomura, Assistant Professor
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The lab of Assistant Professor Yuki Motomura conducts research with keywords such as sensibility (kansei), emotion, empathy, and sleep. It investigates when and through what mechanisms various mental functions arise, from the perspectives of Kansei science, physiological anthropology, and neuroscience. From the same perspectives, it also approaches the question of what roles these mental functions have played in human survival. The lab aims to clarify the sensibility and emotional functions of humans, which underlie the essence of human society, and to give back its findings toward realizing a society of well-being.
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