Human Centered Space Design for Well-being

As human value sets diversify and awareness of Well-Being^*1 increases throughout the world, a demand has arisen for human centric product and service design. For example, we believe it is important to create comfortable mobility spaces, and living and office spaces that enable people to maintain their health and maximize their creativity. In future workspaces where humans and robots will collaborate, we aim to create opportunities for a diverse range of people of different ages and physical abilities to work with safety and job satisfaction.

We have been developed a digital human model that can estimate human motions, physical condition and emotions based on cranial nervous system, sensory organs and biomechanics model (THUMS^®)^*2 that reproduces different human behaviors accumulated over many years. Specifically, this model can be applied to various human-centric spatial designs and product designs. We will also work to develop technologies that improve innovative work productivity by designing “nudges" for people in a way that promotes communication.

*1: Well-Being: A state in which individuals are better off mentally, physically, and socially
*2: Jointly developed with Toyota Motor Corporation