Our research aims to understand the neural basis of human augmentation technologies that share and augment social signals, and to elucidate how these technologies can augment people’s communication of intentions, help them understand others, and support empathic behaviour through empirical research. We are also conducting this research to pioneer the field of interactive neuroscience.

・Supporting empathetic behaviour by sharing and extending social signals
This research is a CREST adopted project.
Principal Investigator: Kenji Suzuki, Professor, University of Tsukuba
Summary of Research : To model people’s social interactions as a series of action chains, to deepen our understanding of the information processing process of social signals in people, and to create the basis for empathetic AI that generates empathetic behavioural responses.

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Principal Investigator: Kenji Suzuki, Professor, University of Tsukuba
CREST

・Evaluation and creation of collaborative fields using synchronised brains Pioneering research in interdirectional neuroscience
This research is a Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research (Budding Researchers).
Principal Investigator : Professor Norihisa Miki, Keio University
Summary of Research : The aim of this research is to pioneer a new academic field called interactive neuroscience, which covers everything from the elucidation of the mechanisms of synchronous brain activity that occurs for the first time in human collaboration to its application to the design and evaluation of collaborative workplaces. To this end, we have formed a unique research group consisting of experts in ICT and micro/nano engineering to support brain activity measurement, experts in cognitive neuroscience and psychology, and experts in media art and experimental music to create collaborative fields through music and art.

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Principal researcher Norihisa Miki, Professor at Keio University
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI)