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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.
LOH Ping Yeap, Assistant Professor
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The Ergonomics (LOH Ping Yeap) Lab is the lab of Assistant Professor LOH Ping Yeap, who specializes in ergonomics and occupational therapy. The professor is listed as a faculty member of the Industrial Design Course in the Department of Design in the School of Design, and of the Human Life Design Course in the Department of Design in the Graduate School of Design. In the Faculty of Design, the professor belongs to the Human Life Design Division.
Yoshito Ogata, Professor
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The Industrial Design (Yoshito Ogata) Lab studies the concepts and methods of design based on the practice of industrial design and product design. The lab designs communication devices, home appliances, furniture, measuring instruments, medical devices, and more in practice, and aims to build from that work the concepts and methods needed for design practice. The lab views the process and techniques of design as "Ka, Kata, Katachi, Kachi," and considers better ways of making things by accumulating designs of "things" for people. In addition, the lab works on future concept design, speculative design, resilience design, and the history of design methods.
Toru Koga, Professor
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Professor Toru Koga studies design from the standpoints of philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics. Specifically, the lab works on research on epistemology, ontology, ethics, and aesthetics in design. In addition, the lab studies, from a philosophical perspective, the problem of reason taking on a violent nature, as well as love and sex. The professor also serves as director of the Research Center for Fundamental Design Studies, which aims to establish the identity of design by thinking about what design is from the ground up.
Mia Nakamura, Professor
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Prof. Nakamura's Cultural Policy Lab takes an interdisciplinary approach to studying the processes and mechanisms through which arts and culture bring change to people and society. The lab is especially interested in the relationship between art and care, facilitation, and evaluation. It has also carried out a great deal of research on gender, sexuality, diversity, and inclusion. The lab considers what can be done to create a society in which different people can go on living as different people.
Chihiro Hiramatsu, Professor
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Prof. Hiramatsu's lab studies color vision diversity. The lab views color vision diversity as the result of interaction between genes and the environment. It investigates the neural mechanisms in the brain that create the subjective experience of color, which is difficult to share with other people. Through this work, the lab aims to understand the meaning of color experience.
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