<History>

We had been carrying researches, Prof. Ando played the leading role, at Graduate school of science and technology, Kobe university untill March 2003.
After he retired and became the professor emeritus at Kobe university, we continue research activities based at this web site.



<Purpose>

To exchange imformation among graduates of this research group and people concerned.
To contribute to society with our achivemnet obtained so far and will be obtain from now on.



<Research>

To design superior environment for human sensibilities, it is first necessary to find the relationship between physical attributes of the environment and human psychological responses. That is, the theory of environmental design can be found by defining physical factors that determine psychological evaluation in the environment and an optimum condition of each factor. Besides, the environment which surrounds us is perceived and transferred to our brain as physiological signals which deeply related to subjective preference due to the primitive response. Therefore, physiological responses can be grasped as objective parameters of the psychological responses.

The visual and auditory environments are the main subjects of the research activities in this research group aiming at the creation of superior environment to develop human sensibilities by approaching them from both phases of psychological and physiological responses. What is important here is that satisfying each individual sensibilities leads to the whole satisfaction. However, the converse is not true. From this point, this laboratory also promotes the study of the individual difference of subjective evaluation.



Contact to: mcha@andolab.org