Major R&D Achievements funded by RISTEX

• indicates a risk of rollover (i.e., while going around curves) and tells the driver not to exceed a certain speed
• based on the technologies of rollover speed-limit calculations and 3D gravity detection
• to be commercialized by automobile manufacturers in autumn of 2008

Project Director: Yutaka WATANABE, Professor, Logistics Engineering, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology

• indicates all or part of a patient’s case record and care plan, developed and used by a multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals
• for the team to follow its content and thus to manage their task forces while reducing medical accidents
• in use at Kyushu University Hospital

Project Director: Hiroshi NOGUCHI, Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kyushu University

• examines the effectiveness of disaster prevention plans for tsunami by visualizing economic/human losses
• factors in various elements (e.g., timing) of evacuation orders as well as the data for a particular local area (e.g., population, geography, history of tsunami damage)
• is under development or already in use by a number of cities as a planning and educational tool

Project Director: Hiroshi NOGUCHI, Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kyushu University

• rates efforts in environmentally-aware management work
• visualizes levels of [1], management, [2], environmental protection and [3], social responsibility in a tree diagram
• utilized by Sustainable Management Forum of Japan as well as many private and public organizations

Project Director: Tetsuro FUKUSHIMA, Adviser, Japan Audit and Certification Organization for Environment and Quality (JACO)

• treats dementia and improves social communication skills of elderly patients
• revitalizes prefrontal functions of patient brains through recitation and simple-arithmetic exercises
• adopted by 712 facilities with approx. 9,000 users nationwide (as of March 2008)

Project Director: Ryuta KAWASHIMA, Professor, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University

• based on comprehensive evaluations of the level and specifics of individual learning disabilities of children (i.e., through systematic medical examinations)
• helps CLD through consistent use of e-learning materials at multiple locations
• fosters collaboration among the families, schools and communities of CLDs
• currently being implemented in Nagoya and Kyoto cities.

Project Director: Nobuo MASATAKA, Professor, Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University

• consists of an optimization engine (computing part) and a negotiation infrastructure (opinion exchange tool among stakeholders and specialists)
• helps to build consensus among decision-makers by drawing the optimal combination of measures based on information regarding various risks and costs in information security as provided by stakeholders and specialists
• officially adopted by 95 elementary and junior high schools in Setagaya-ku Tokyo

Project Director: Ryuta KAWASHIMA, Professor, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University

• involved 3 parties: [1], stakeholders (i.e., local government, private sector), [2], experts, and [3], citizens, in a new framework for a decision-making method which was formally adopted by the city
• the framework’s policy recommendation (on the directions and ideas for the city as a recycling oriented society) was implemented as Nagoya’s waste management policy

Project Director: Masaharu YAGISHITA, Professor, Institute for Studies of the Global Environment, Sophia University