Labs in Kyushu University

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A lab exploring how hearing works, starting from the mechanical vibrations of the auditory periphery.

The Auditory Information Processing Lab mainly studies the mechanical vibrations of the auditory periphery that are caused by sound waves. Because these vibrations are correlated with sound perception, the lab aims to clarify how humans hear sound from the perspective of the auditory periphery. Its research methods include numerical simulation, noninvasive physiological experiments, and perceptual 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 exploring how humans produce voice and how it is heard and understood.

The speech science lab of Assistant Professor Kohei Wakamiya aims to understand how humans produce voices with such a wide variety of voice qualities. The lab wants to build a speech production model that imitates the mechanism of human speech, and is currently studying methods for measuring the movements of the articulators inside the mouth. It also works on the intelligibility of interrupted or degraded speech, perceptual evaluation of hoarseness (a husky, rough voice), and detection of infectious diseases from the sound of coughs.

#Speech production #Articulatory movement #Hoarseness

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A lab that conducts research in information visualization and software engineering.

The Information Visualization (Wei Shi) Lab is the lab of Associate Professor Wei Shi at the Faculty of Design, Kyushu University. Its listed research fields are information visualization, software engineering, e-learning, and educational technology. The professor is listed as faculty of the Department of Design in the School of Design, and of the Department of Design in the Graduate School of Design.

#Information visualization #Software engineering #Educational technology

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A lab that explores co-creative arts practice through the management and evaluation of the arts.

Assistant Professor Saya Makihara specializes in arts management, cultural policy, co-creative arts practice, and collaborative/participatory evaluation of cultural projects. Her main current research question is how co-creative arts practice with people who have mental illness or disabilities changes the awareness of people who are not themselves affected. In regional collaboration art projects and the Hall Management Engineer training program, she is in charge of project management, student supervision, and evaluation. Moving between practice in the field and research, she explores the possibilities of co-creative arts practice.

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

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A lab that studies narrative and storytelling from a design perspective.

Assistant Professor Shunta Tomimatsu works in design studies, with narrative design as a research theme. Other listed research themes are telemedicine education (research keyword: remote conferencing) and UX. Assistant Professor Tomimatsu has previously served as Project Assistant Professor and in other roles at the Asia Telemedicine Development Center, Department of International Medical Care, Kyushu University. The professor belongs to the Strategic Design Department of the Faculty of Design, and also holds a concurrent appointment in the Department of Design of the Graduate School of Design.

#Narrative design #Storytelling #Telemedicine education

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建築デザイン（國友 拓郎） (introduction coming soon)

Architectural design

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Research on applying structures that organisms build outside their bodies to the design and construction of architecture.

Prof. Kitajima, an Assistant Professor in the Division of Human Life Design at the Faculty of Design, specializes in architectural design and algorithmic design, and studies design and construction methods for architecture that apply the building principles of structures organisms make outside their bodies. Structures that organisms build autonomously outside their bodies highly integrate materials, structure, and responsiveness to the environment, achieving high functionality with limited resources. Focusing on termite fungus gardens and funnel-web spider webs, the lab observes, analyzes, and models these externally built structures, which are dynamically renewed in response to environmental change. The lab aims to clarify the relationship between form and function and to establish design and construction methods for environmentally adaptive architecture with passive environmental control.

#Architectural design #Extracorporeal structures #Environmentally adaptive architecture

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A lab that uses EEG to explore how the brain distinguishes self from others.

Under Assistant Professor SHIN Nakyeong of the Division of Human Life Design at the Faculty of Design, the lab specializes in Kansei science and physiological psychology. Using EEG, the lab investigates how the ability to distinguish self from others appears in brain activity. The key clue is the mirror system, which is active both when performing an action and when watching one. Recently, the lab has presented findings on how brain activity during self–other discrimination differs between adults and children.

#Kansei science #Physiological psychology #Mirror systems

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人間工学（SEDILLA Keneth Bautista） (introduction coming soon)

Ergonomics, environmental ergonomics, physiological anthropology, industrial engineering

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生理人類学（本井 碧） (introduction coming soon)

Physiological anthropology, Kansei science, and applied psychology