Undergraduate Courses : Department of Industrial Design : Teaching Staff

UMEDA Hiroki

Professor
UMEDA Hiroki
Research : Generally practicing and studying the design of industrial products and fashion.

OYA Ryuichi

Professor
OYA Ryuichi
Research :Snuggling up to the feeling of the person, and contributing the society. I aim at the making of heart full Mono（ products） & Koto（ experience） with a sense of Japanese beauty and Motenashi mind（ heart of service）.
Vision setting, creating products and service to realize it, and communicating the value. These are the role of the designer. Sometimes led to people’s ‘sympathy’ beyond just ‘perception’ or ‘understanding’, then the value becomes ‘brands’. I want to nurture comprehensive future innovators who can build ‘brands’.

SAKATE Yuji

Professor
SAKATE Yuji
Research : Studying the ideal method for the product design, to create the function and the shape.

SHINOHARA Ryota

HORIE Masahiro

Professor
HORIE Masahiro
Research :It is a critical challenge to design User Experience （UX）in the software development. But the designing of UX is quite a difficult task. Therefore, we have referred to agile software development and structured the design method. There are two features in this design method as follows;
1. UX designer attends the software development from its early stage.
2. Carrying out the Workshop several times, using prototype software

SHIMOUA Yoshinori

Associate Professor
SHIMOUA Yoshinori
Research : After graduated from art university, I worked as a designer in the field of Industrial and Graphic design.
I studied business administration in graduate school,and I am active in the theme of what can we do by combining design and business administration.
For example, I founded RAC, a non-profit organization that I founded with my peers. And at RAC, we are doing social design activities to publicize and raise awareness of the foster care system, as an action that leads to child abuse prevention.
My research field is design and business management,which leads to innovation and branding.

NAGASAKI Tomohiro

Associate Professor
NAGASAKI Tomohiro
Research :My research is in the development of a user interface using the characteristics of the sense of hearing. In our regular, daily activities, humans make use of sound more than we may think. We use the information that we process from our ears to understand that which we cannot see, to aid us in sensing danger, to know the material of things and so on. My research seeks to actively incorporate such a sound system into our design, and develop a user interface that is easy to understand.

FURUKAWA Tetsuya

ABE Hirofumi

Lecturer
ABE Hirofumi
Research :There are characters of various styles in our surroundings. By deeply learning the element of "character" used in the field of most graphic designs, we aim to train human resources capable of realizing richer communication and society.

SAKAGAWA Yuki

Lecturer
SAKAGAWA Yuki
Research :I am focusing on communication that occurs in the design process, and conducting research on the analysis and evaluation of communication. By incorporating the findings of cognitive psychology as a method of analysis and evaluation, I am exploring the future of design from both qualitative and quantitative aspects.