Labs in Kyushu University

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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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The lab explores design using narrative as its starting point.

Assistant Professor Shunta Tomimatsu studies design in the Strategic Design Division of the Faculty of Design, with narrative and storytelling as keywords. His researcher profile lists narrative design, telemedicine education, and UX as research themes. His research fields are "Life, health and medical informatics" and design studies.

#Narratives #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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〈感性科学〉 (introduction coming soon)

Kansei science and physiological psychology

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〈人間工学〉 (introduction coming soon)

Ergonomics, environmental ergonomics, physiological anthropology, industrial engineering

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A design research lab that co-creates public spaces, starting from the perspectives of social minorities.

Associate Professor Satoshi Hano specializes in civil engineering design and social inclusion design, and works on the co-creation of public spaces, starting from social minorities. The listed research themes are minority-centered co-creation design, the design of inclusive public spaces, public spaces that carry on local memory, and the philosophy of civil engineering design. Except for the philosophy of civil engineering design, the themes are presented as "practice-based research."

#Social inclusion #Public space #Co-creation

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〈生物リズム〉 (introduction coming soon)

Biological rhythms and mathematical biology

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〈認知心理学〉 (introduction coming soon)

Cognitive psychology, texture and tactile perception, affective touch