In Human Life Research Domain, we are investigating the research on human mind and body, in order to enhance the well-being of humans and to seek greater lifestyle values for the future.
Through deep understanding of humans and societies, we are aiming to acquire knowledge and methodologies that will contribute to applied research such as humanware research.

In the process of our human life research, we are performing collaborative research interdisciplinarily with researchers in cognitive science, psychology, brain science, medicine, and health science, as well as sociology and philosophy.
Our initial step of collaborative research in house includes 1) the development of a reconfigurable human sensing platform to investigate humans' physiological and psychological responses to visual, auditory, and environmental stimuli, and 2) the preliminary study for psychological experiments of human activities.

By promoting interdisciplinary research projects in human mind and body, we expect to contribute to enhancing the well-being of humans for the future in the sense of both mental and physical healthcare. It is also our objective to acquire scientific evidences of human mind and body for the future, which may lead to the realization of one of our earlier research concepts of "mental scale" proposed in our former research domain of Bioscience.

Science of the mind and body

Akio Kosaka
(Research Coordinator and Chief Research Scientist)

Takayoshi Togino
(Chief Optical Researcher)