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Ruichen Cong
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The Cong Lab uses human-computer interaction and artificial intelligence methods to study how to capture human behavior from data. It analyzes health-related data, aiming to lead to health support tailored to each individual. Information technology that supports learning is also a research subject, including building learning environments with the metaverse and VR. Its goal is to improve well-being, that is, to help people live better lives.

Jiateng Pan
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The Pan Lab specializes in agent-based simulation. Agent-based simulation is a method in which many agents that act by simple rules are placed inside a computer, and what happens as a whole is examined. The lab also specializes in cognitive science, which deals with how people receive, remember, and judge information.

Taketoshi Sugisawa
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The Sugisawa Lab brings the methods of data science into education. Its specialties are psychological statistics and educational measurement, and it uses statistical methods to interpret data collected from tests and surveys. The lab works with the idea of estimating, as numerical quantities, things that cannot be measured directly, such as academic ability or attitudes, from the way people respond to questions. The undergraduate specialized lab seminar and the graduate research supervision are offered under the name "Educational Data Science."

Hiroyuki Mishima
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The Mishima Lab is an ecological psychology lab that investigates why people are able to act successfully in everyday situations. People adjust how they move their bodies on the spot, using information obtained from their surrounding environment as cues. The lab takes up actions such as passing through a narrow gap, driving a car, and handling a kendama (a Japanese cup-and-ball toy), and confirms through experiments what information is being used at those moments. It examines the relationship between action and environment based on ideas from ecological psychology, such as affordances and optic flow.

Eriko Sugimori
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The Sugimori Lab is a cognitive psychology lab that investigates how human memory comes to change. Memories of whether we did something ourselves, and of where we saw or heard something, are not as accurate as we think. How easily such memory errors occur varies greatly from person to person, and the lab uses experiments to clarify the mechanisms and the differences. The lab also studies cognitive functions other than memory, such as the analysis of facial expressions.

Kazuki Sekine, Associate Professor
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The Sekine Lab focuses on the fact that people communicate using not only words but also gestures, gaze, facial expressions, and posture. The lab studies the mechanisms of this multimodal communication, along with its development and cultural differences. Focusing in particular on the relationship between gestures and spoken language, the lab clarifies the processes by which they are produced and understood. The lab combines multiple methods, including behavioral experiments, eye tracking, and brain measurement.

Ryota Nomura
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The Nomura Lab is a theater cognitive science lab that measures and studies audiences watching stage performances and video. The lab records audience cognition, emotion, and bodily responses as data over time, clarifying how interaction in the theater unfolds. It captures these responses in multiple layers by combining several indicators, including facial expressions, gaze, blinking, heart rate, electrodermal activity, and posture. By integrating methods from psychology, cognitive science, and information science, the lab aims to quantitatively elucidate the sensibility (kansei) that emerges over time.

Akito Miura
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The Miura Lab investigates the act of human dancing using scientific methods. It takes up situations where people express themselves with their bodies, such as ballet, street dance, and playing musical instruments. Through movement measurement and breathing recordings, the lab clarifies how different parts of the body are coordinated. From there, it explores how human sociality and creativity come about.

Keisuke Kadota
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The Kadota Lab is a cognitive science lab that closely observes and studies interaction between people. The lab looks not only at spoken language but also at bodily movements such as pointing, gaze, and handing over objects. Through experiments, it tests how the choice of demonstratives such as 'kore,' 'sore,' and 'are' (roughly 'this,' 'that,' and 'that over there') changes depending on what is visible to the other person. The lab records conversations and interview situations on video and analyzes in detail how the interaction unfolds.

Yayoi Kawasaki
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The Kawasaki Lab is an experimental psychology lab that investigates the mechanisms of human memory through experiments. Its main focus is false memory, in which people recall something as having happened even though they never actually saw or heard it. The lab tests, while varying conditions, what kinds of word properties make false memories more likely to occur. It also studies memories of one's own past and the memory of people who use multiple languages.
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