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2021-02-03
TEDxUTsukuba | JIJIMUGE
TEDxUTsukuba | JIJIMUGE

Lee sensei was invited to give a talk on “Jijimuge” by TEDxUTsukuba on November 29th, 12:00 (JST). You can watch the VOD here!

Events

Recent & Upcoming

TEDxUTsukuba | November 29th
Lee sensei has been invited to give a talk on “Jijimuge” by TEDxUTsukuba on November 29th, 12:00 (JST).
2020-11-29
TEDxUTsukuba | November 29th
Kansei Design and Integrated Science | September 17th
Lee sensei has been invited to give a talk on “Kansei Design and Integrated Science” by the Asia Design Center for Future.
2020-09-17
Kansei Design and Integrated Science | September 17th
24H Worldwide Design Conversation | June 24th
Lee sensei has been invited to give a talk on “Design after COVID-19” by the Politecnico di Milano.
2020-06-25
24H Worldwide Design Conversation | June 24th
Creative Leaders | May 4th - 8th
Lee sensei has been invited to give a talk on “Towards a Global Kansei Definition through Interaction Research” by the Tecnológico de Monterrey Escuela de Arquitectura, Arte y Diseño, Mexico.
2020-05-04
Creative Leaders | May 4th - 8th
ISASE 2020 | March 15th - 16th
The main objective of the symposium is to bring together academics, engineers, manufacturers, and government officials to present and exchange knowledge, experience, results, and information related to the broad aspects of methodologies employed in affective science and engineering.
2020-03-15

Projects

Volunteer Design, Anti-pandemic Together

Volunteer Design, Anti-pandemic Together

The China-Italy Design Innovation Hub propose innovative solutions to the dilemmas of the pandemic with design methods

Experience Sharing System for In-store Shopping

Experience Sharing System for In-store Shopping

Wei’s research topic

Kansei Map

Kansei Map

Ban’s research topic

Slow Robots for Unobtrusive Posture Correction

Slow Robots for Unobtrusive Posture Correction

With slow robots, we make the first step toward using actuated objects for unobtrusive behavioral changes.

Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Mobility Design

Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Mobility Design

Design of a self-driving mobility for the “Last Mile” transportation of people.

Emotional Expressions in Non-Humanoid Robots

Emotional Expressions in Non-Humanoid Robots

Eiji’s research topic

User-Centered Auditory Design

User-Centered Auditory Design

Sammy’s research topic

Interior Design for Self-Driving Cars

Interior Design for Self-Driving Cars

Project done in collaboration with Toyoda Gosei to research the effects of different interior designs on the feeling of excitement in autonomous cars.

Mouthpiece for Breath Control during Exercise

Mouthpiece for Breath Control during Exercise

Design of a mouthpiece for controlling breath during exercise.

Meet the Lab

Principal Investigators

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SeungHee Lee

Associate Professor of Kansei Design

Kansei Design, Creativity, Human Behavior, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction Design

Visiting Professors

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Muneo Kitajima

Professor at Nagaoka UT

Cognitive Modeling, Information Science, Artificial Intelligence

PhD Students

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Ji Wang

PhD Student

Voice User Interface Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Humor Expression of Voice Assistant

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Han "Sammy" Zhang

PhD Student

Human-Automation Interaction, User Experience, Kansei Design, Basketball, Snowboard, Drum

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Eiji Onchi

PhD Student

Human-Robot Interaction, Kansei Design, Emotions, Programming, Cycling

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Zhefan "Marcus" Yu

PhD Student

Kansei Design, Computational Design, Generative Design

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Cen "Ori" Zhang

PhD Student

Voice Assistant, Emotional Expression, VUI, Kansei Design

Master Students

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Pengchen "Ban" Wan

Master Student

Emotional Map, Human Behavior, Bio-data Tracking, Gaming

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Kaihuan Wei

Master Student

Augmented Reality, Kansei Interaction, Shopping Behavior

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Max Hanssen

Master Student

Kansei Design, Environmental Design, Fishing, Electric guitar, Motorcycling, Skateboarding, Football

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RuoTian "Sora" Zhang

Master Student

Kansei Design, Human Behavior, Smart Home, IoT, Human-Devices Interaction, Archery

Research Students

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Yuyang "Toma" Liu

Research Student

Kansei Design, User Experience Design, Digital Media Design, 3D Game Developing

Research Partners

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Daniel Saakes

Professor at KAIST

Ergonomics, Robotics, Augmented Reality

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Alessandro Biamonti

Professor at Polimi

Architecture, Spatial and Interior Design, Alzheimer

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Gustavo Kato

Dean of Engineering at USIL

Inventions, Robotics

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Hisao Shiizuka

Professor Emeritus at Kogakuin U.

Affective Science, Soft Computing, Aging Society, Affective Design Science, Innovation Engineering, Kansei Engineering

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Muneo Kitajima

Professor at Nagaoka UT

Cognitive Modeling, Information Science, Artificial Intelligence

Featured Publications

April 2002 In Pleasure with Products
Design Based on Kansei
Design Based on Kansei

In this chapter, we introduce the basic ideas and the movement of figuring out the structure of Kansei in Japan, and how to apply Kansei to design approaches.
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Recent Publications

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Emotional Meaning of Eyelid Positions on a One-Eyed 2D Avatar
By abstracting the core features in human faces for the emotions described by Ekman, et al., a single-eyed 2D avatar was designed that only moves the upper and lower eyelids.
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Emotional Meaning of Eyelid Positions on a One-Eyed 2D Avatar
A Survey about Nap Habits in Workplace
A survey to know people’s nap habits in daily life including daytime sleepiness, nap posture and nap environment.
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Take-Over Request in Highly Automated Driving: A Survey on Driving Experience and Emergency Operation Accuracy
This research focuses on predicting the effect of human pressure on the operation of autonomous driving TOR mode.
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Design and Evaluation of a Spherical Robot with Emotion-Like Feedback during Human-Robot Training
A single-eyed spherical robot was developed to study how emotion-like feedback using movement affects the training interaction of non-expert users.
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Design and Evaluation of a Spherical Robot with Emotion-Like Feedback during Human-Robot Training
Effects of dimple structure on soccer ball aerodynamics
In the present study, the pattern of the dimple structure of a soccer balls are investigated using wind tunnel experiments to determine its impact on the aerodynamic characteristics of the ball.
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Effects of dimple structure on soccer ball aerodynamics
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Popular Topics

Aerodynamics Augmented Reality Autonomous Car Avatar Bio-data Tracking Breathing Car Conference Creativity Data Collection Design Diary Study Dimple Emotions Ergonomics Human-Automation Interaction Kansei Kansei Design Robots User Experience

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