Research fields

Our lab specializes in a wide range of fields including healthcare management, safety engineering, and ergonomics. Human error is commonly known to cause severe accidents, and organizational factors are the latent factors behind it. Our lab encourages such safety/risk management research, especially in healthcare and transportation. Holistic healthcare management, such as healthcare quality and operations management, is our prime field after safety.

Additionally, our lab seeks to address the critical problems of an ageing society. With the rapidly declining birth rate and an increasing aging population, elderly health management has become a global issue. Furthermore, the decrease in youth labour has increased the hiring of the elderly. Thus, designing an effective work environment is another major challenge.

In recent years, online shopping and social networking services (SNS) have been extensively researched as well. Using ergonomics techniques, our lab focuses on topics such as homepage interface design, effective online advertising, and consumer reviews.

Student theses and dissertations

Ph.D. dissertation

• 2021
  Sahar Hamido "A Study on Effective Support of People's Daily and Working Life in Ageing Society"

Master thesis

• 2023
  Ano Abe "Verification of the Promotional Effectiveness of Influencer Marketing on YouTube"
  Mengni Chen "Exploring the Medication Adherence from User Experiences of Smart Pill Boxes: A Qualitative Study"
  Hanshu Wang "Factors Influencing the Intention to Use Telemedicine in the Post-Pandemic Era: A Cross-National Study between Japan and China"
  Siyuan Zhang "Exploring the Well-being and Needs of Healthcare Workers in China During the COVID-19 Surge and Reintegration Stage"
• 2022
  Kodai Aoyama "Factors Forming Usage Habits for Wearable Sensors: A Comparison of Younger and Older Adults
  Keisuke Shinoda "Factors Influencing the Intention to Use Telemedicine"
  Tomohiro Okutsu "Investigating Factors Leading to Japanese Aviation Accidents Using the Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS)"

Bachelor thesis

• 2023
  Ryunoshin Akagawa "Identifying the Current Status and Causes of Presenteeism among Japanese Student Athletes"
  Takeru Takahashi "Factors Influencing Intention to Continue Using X (formerly Twitter) after being Charged"
  Daichi Williams "Elucidating the Effects of Auxiliary Road Traffic Signs and the Influencing Factors"
  Taihei Okuma "Improving the Interface of a Digital Scoring System: A Case Study"
  Liantong Shen "Extension and Application of an Incident Taxonomy Related to Electronic Medical Records"
  Masato Sakai "Effects of Presentation Speed and Subtitle Language on Comprehension of Foreign Language Audio Videos"
• 2022
  Takahiro Ominato "Comparison of Learning Effects Based on the Presentation Speed of Video Instructional Materials"
  Moto Mizuta "Influence of the Background Colour of Images on Food Impression in Online Shopping"
• 2021
  Ano Abe "Factors influencing the effectiveness of product promotion on Instagram by brand and influencer (in Japanese)"
  Naoki Kasuda "Impacts of mask on appearance and its mechanism (in Japanese)""
• 2020
  Atsutoshi Nakai "Exploring Factors Contributing to Railway Crossing Accidents (in Japanese)"