Technologies that enable users to get along well with information and technologies that can handle information properly on computers and networks are the keys to secure and high-quality information distribution services in a network society. In realizing those technologies, a comprehensive understanding of how human beings, the creators and the recipients of information, process information and novel principles for handling information are indispensable. From this viewpoint, the NTT Human and Information Science Laboratory has been pursuing scientific research in two areas.
　Executive Manager: Dr.Eisaku MAEDA
Associate Manager:
Dr.Shigeto FURUKAWA
To see, hear, and feel -- all seems quite easy. In fact, these can hardly be achieved without highly complex and sophisticated information processing in the brain. The Sensory and Emotion Research Group aims at elucidating the computational principles and neural mechanisms of sensory information and emotion processing by integrating various approaches including psychophysics, neurophysiology, and computational modeling. We believe that a profound understanding of human mechanisms is crucial for developing communication technologies that are high quality and easy to use.
