Associate Professor Hideyoshi Yanagisawa recieved Achievement Award of Design Engineering/Systems Division, Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers

On 20th September 2023, Associate Professor Hideyoshi Yanagisawa, Department of Mechanical Engineering, recieved Achievement Award of Design Engineering/Systems Division, Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Achievement Award of Design Engineering/Systems Division
This award is given to an individual or group that has made outstanding research or technological development achievements in the relevant field.

About awarded research
Hideyoshi Yanagisawa, Associate Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, was highly praised for his series of research achievements in Kansei Design studies. In particular, his pioneering research results in the investigation of the mathematical principles of cognitions (including perceptions and emotions) and their design application research have received numerous awards both domestically and internationally. In order to enable the extrapolation necessary for new designs, he is the first in the world to propose a new methodology that deductively formulates human cognitions from the principles of brain function. He has developed a theory and computational model that uniformly explains and predicts various cognitions such as perception, emotion, and sense of agency using dynamic mathematics. This series of outstanding results is expected to form a foundation that will widely contribute to the development of the field of design engineering, as well as the fields of engineering and science that deal with humans.

Your impression & future plan

Kansei design is a new research field originating in Japan that aims to create an academic system for engineering emotive value (or Kansei value). As an academic foundation for Kansei Design, we aim to establish a Principia of Kansei (a mathematical principle) that mathematically elucidates the mechanism of emotions from mechanical principles. Using this academic foundation, I would like to engage in applied engineering research that can broadly benefit society.

https://www.design.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/people/yanagisawa/