Introduction of the Speaker

Prof. Shin’ichi Warisawa

Professor and Vice Dean of Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Special Advisor to the President of The University of Tokyo.

Dr. Shin’ichi Warisawa is a full professor of the Department of Human and Engineered Environmental Studies and also the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Tokyo, where he heads the “Human and Environment Informatics Group.”  

His current research interests include wearable/ambient health monitoring. In particular, he is working on information technology applications based on sensing, data analysis, and cognitive understanding for human behavior recognition, stress monitoring, human productivity monitoring, and sleep quality assessment. He is also working on intervention techniques that utilize cross-modal sensory illusions to promote physical and mental health.

Title

Human sensing and cross-modal sensation for sustainable well-being 

Abstract

In order to realize sustainable wellbeing, a combination of sensing technologies to monitor human physical and mental health and intervention technologies to promote physical and mental health is effective. Here, the speaker will introduce the concept of combining monitoring and intervention technologies and examples of each technology that the speakers have recently worked on. Sensing technologies focus on the relationship between sensing information and the daily assessment of stress and productivity. Intervention technologies focus on the use of cross-modal sensory illusions in order to effectively work in the limited environment of daily life.