Vection Laboratory

Research Projects and Initiatives

Recent Studies at Faculty of Design

Department of Media Design, Faculty of Design
SENO Takeharu, Associate Professor

In our laboratory, we focus on research on visually-induced self-motion perception (vection), and aim to express a person's own “heart” (in Japanese language, Cocolo) in some way in psychology, art, and literature, and to understand oneself, “who I am”.
We will introduce research from the efforts and activities of students and alumni of the Laboratory.

“MAHS” has held many solo exhibitions as a painter in various places, e.g. Futsukaichi, our university's Ohashi campus, Kurume, Osaka and other locations, offering his ideas to many people.

Alumnus Kazuki Taguchi-san is actively engaged in a wide range of artistic expressions in Germany, from analog to digital, from thoughts to visuals, with the theme of “here and now” (in Japanese language, “Ima, Koko”). It has also been decided that he will hold some solo exhibitions overseas in 2024.

I think it's no exaggeration to say that “chan” is the best in the world when it comes to understanding the psychological subjectivity of the "touch" of CG expressions.

We are working to cultivate painters like them who have a background in psychology.

Yuri Hata-san has been cooperating with the production of naked-eye 3D images using the Pulfrich effect under the executive production direction of Media Design Course Associate Professor Tatsuro Ishii. The work created by Rio Koyama of Ishii Lab received an award at the 2022 Asia Digital Art Award FUKUOKA. Hata-san is working on adding a story to the visual beauty and further evolving it into an animation work. They have a huge possibility in the next future.

At "MAHS" solo exhibition

Taguchi's graduation installation work

chan's work

Part of the written works by our laboratory

The name of the belief that runs through all of our efforts is "Vection.”

What exactly does “vection” mean to us? We expressed it in a manga. We asked Master Tatsuhiko, a manga artist and graduate student who co-supervised prof. Chihiro Hiramatsu, to write that work. You can also read the Chinese and English versions.

A “Vection” manga work by Tatsuhiko-sensei published on the web media “Emotional Link.” It was completed with the help of lab students Dr. Guo Xuanr-san, Seibun Zhang-san, Qi An-san, and Kagehira-san.

Guo Xuanru-san, our Lab's first Ph.D. He devoted himself to basic psychophysical experiments of vection. He will continue to support human understanding in terms of basic research.

Yukihiro Ikeda-san, an adult master's student and lecturer at Fukuoka Rehabilitation College, is promoting the "Virtual Heidi Project," which focuses on "rehabilitation and medical welfare" as a place of expression and aims to promote recovery through the presentation of vection images.

Media such as advertising and television are the domain of the mind, i.e. Psychology. Kota Tsukamoto-san collaborated with Dentsu Kyushu Inc. on the “Ecycle Project”, which involves making fishing bait from discarded school lunch food. Many graduates work in media such as television production and advertising.

Five students made presentations at the 2023 Annual Conference of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan.

Yuri Hata-san　https://conference.vrsj.org/ac2023/program/doc/3C1-04.pdf

Seibun Zhang-san　https://conference.vrsj.org/ac2023/program/doc/1D1-03.pdf

Riku Oya-san　https://conference.vrsj.org/ac2023/program/doc/1D1-05.pdf

Guo Xuanr-san　https://conference.vrsj.org/ac2023/program/doc/1D1-04.pdf

Takeharu Seno　https://conference.vrsj.org/ac2023/program/3A6.html

In 2023, two overseas scientific papers (peer-reviewed) were published. Color studies and vection research.

Kozaki, T., Seno, T., & Kitaoka, A. (2024). Illusory motion and vection induced by a printed static image under flickering ambient light at rates up to 100 Hz. i-Perception, 15(1), 20416695231223444.

Kozaki T., Seno T., & Kitaoka A. (in press). "Illusory motion and vection induced by a printed static image under flickering ambient light at rates up to 100 Hz.", i-Perception.

The cutting edge of our Lab's research results were announced in the note series “My Psychology.”

This series is always based on long discussions with many students.

In particular, our discussions with Riku Oya-san have greatly inspired our own work, and I believe that we would not have been able to write on a daily basis without him.

We also have some great writers and painters and movie directors on standby who we can't reveal yet. Wait a minute! Wait a minute! You ain't heard nothin' yet!

Thank you for everything…