Information Somatics
Inami Laboratory

Understanding and designing the body schema based on human factors and physiology

In the Information Somatics Lab, our work is built upon a foundation of psychology, cognitive science, and physics to understand the mechanisms of the human body from a systems perspective and to use the insighte we gain to augment its innate sensory, physical, and intellectual capabilities.

Human Augmentation Engineering

Employing VR, XR, robotic, wearable, and telexistence technologies, we augment human abilities to achieve novel forms of embodiment (e.g., superhuman, disembodied, transformed, cloned, fused) to address social issues such as hyperaging.

Experience Transferral

We aim to provide experiential "supplements" which improve the quality of everyday life. These supplements are formed and administered by systems capable of recording, replaying, and transferring first-person audio-visual-haptic bodily and spatial experiences. We are working towards applying our work in the areas of entertainment computing, superhuman sports, and skill transferral.

Experience Design

Building on a foundation of psychology and physiology, we design methods that make use of information technologies to enable the composition of arbitrary perceptual and emotional experiences by transforming a user's self perception as well as their perception of others.

Wireless interaction

We are working towards assisting humans physically and cognitively in a stress-free manner using wireless technology in the broadest sense of the word. Our approach is based on wireless transmission of information, energy, and materials using electromagnetic, acoustic, and fluid systems, aiming for wirelessization of everything.

Member

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• • Professor
    Masahiko INAMI
  Specialized field : Augmented human, Virtual reality, Entertainment computing

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• • Associate Professor
    Yasuaki MONNAI
  Specialized field : Terahertz engineering, Human interface

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