Industrial Designand Human-Centered Design

Design that connects people, machines and the environment

Designing industrial products is complicated because it inevitably involves mechanisms and software. What if you have to place many small buttons in a small space? If the buttons are too small you may not be able to push them or even find the right one. Our laboratory analyzes the relationships between humans and ever more complex industrial products, and uses the results to reconfigure these relations into systems for creating optimal designs.

College of Systems Engineering and Science Department of Machinery and Control Systems / Graduate School of Engineering and Science（Master's Program） Systems Engineering and Science / Graduate School of Engineering and Science（Doctor's Program） Functional Control Systems Course

Faculty Name

TANAKA, Minami

Keyword

Product design,Human-friendly technology,Universal design,Human interface,Human-centric design,UCD (user-centric design)

This lab is for this SDG activity:

STUDY FIELDS

Mechanical engineering
Engineering and design

FOR SOCIETY

Our research has been useful in designing machines and interfaces, to consider ways to make it easer for humans to manipulate machines, and in studying the compatibility of machines with the human body, various lifestyles and the environment.

RESEARCH THEMES

Research on human-machine interfaces
Promotion of traditional craftworks
Research on media design