
Yasuhiro Suzuki, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Nagoya University
Building fields from zero
Vision became content, Sound became content, Touch has not — until us.
Before we built the language for touch, the tactile industry did not exist.
The industry is running — and growing
Deployments
The industry is running.
Across Japan, tactile systems I designed are now embedded in the daily operations of corporate offices, factory floors, sports facilities, and eldercare environments.
Kaga Electronics Group — Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime-listed — serves as the principal industrial anchor. Kyokuto Electric followed, deploying tactile systems across administrative and factory environments. Volvo and Lexus showroom facilities have integrated the framework into their wellness spaces. One of Japan's major eldercare providers will be announced shortly.

In Europe, London Trusted Therapy on Harley Street is the clinical foundation — for both deployment and systematic data acquisition — from which the European tactile industry will be built.
This is what a new industry looks like.
Recognition
In 2024, I received the Health 2.0 Outstanding Leadership Award in Dubai. The work has been covered by Kyodo News, and JST Science JAPAN.
These are not the recognitions of a researcher. They are the recognitions of a field-builder.

Touch exists everywhere in nature. Wind, water, ground vibration — all of it reaches the body as tactile sensation. Until now, none of it could be captured, structured, or designed.
Tactile Score makes that possible. What was once felt but never recorded can now be designed into environments — for healthcare, wellness, and beyond.
New Book
For sight, there is photography. For hearing, there is musical notation. For touch, there was nothing.
Touch has no "language." That means it cannot be recorded or conveyed to others. Tactile notation was born to break through that barrier.
With tactile notation, the pleasant feel of a hit product, the skill of a master craftsman, the subtle texture of a marketplace — all can now be recorded and transmitted as touch.
Touch is, for the first time, becoming a medium.ys Journal
mostly in Japanese
コラボレーションProcess of collaboration
portfolio
・Organic System, Sensibility-AI : 有機AI
Medical&Drug, Automobile (First Section Market in Tokyo Stock Exchange, TSE)
医療・製薬,自動車
・Sensory Communication Technique: 感性通信技術
Sensibility-AI (for major cosmetics companies), Novel Tactile Communication Technique (NTT), Japan-Poland International modern Art exhibition (visual+tactile), Inclusive design (for deafblind people)
感性AI(美容AI・美容業界大手),あたらしい触覚通信技術(NTT), 日本-ポーランド現代芸術展(映像+触覚), インクルーシブデザイン(盲ろう者のための)
・Tactileology Technologies
Home Electronics by Tactileology Tech. International Patent (First Section Market in TSE),
触覚学の技術を用いた家電(国際特許)電子メーカ(東証1部)

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portfolio
・Organic System, Sensibility-AI : 有機AI
Medical&Drug, Automobile (First Section Market in Tokyo Stock Exchange, TSE)
医療・製薬,自動車(東証1部)
・Sensory Communication Technique: 感性通信技術
Sensibility-AI (for major cosmetics companies), Novel Tactile Communication Technique (NTT), Japan-Poland International modern Art exhibition (visual+tactile), Inclusive design (for deafblind people)
感性AI(美容AI・美容業界大手),あたらしい触覚通信技術(NTT), 日本-ポーランド現代芸術展(映像+触覚), インクルーシブデザイン(盲ろう者のための)
・Tactileology Technologies
Home Electronics by Tactileology Tech. International Patent (First Section Market in TSE),
触覚学の技術を用いた家電(国際特許)電子メーカ(東証1部)
ご相談をいただいて,内容に応じて進め方をご一緒に検討します.以下で「ご寄付」が少しわかりにくいかもしれませんが,研究内容,教員名を明示の上でご寄付をいただいて,研究をスタートさせる方法です.
We will consult with you and discuss how to proceed depending on the content. Although "donation" may be a little difficult to understand below, it is a method to start a research by giving a donation after clearly indicating the research content and faculty member's name.

名古屋大学 学術コンサルティング
学術コンサルティングは、企業様などからの委託により、教育、研究及び技術上の専門知識に基づき指導及び助言を行い、委託者の業務又は活動を支援するものす.
(名古屋大学が学術コンサルティング料を申し受けます).
Academic consulting, by entrusting from companies, etc., provides guidance and advice based on specialized knowledge in education, research and technology, and supports the work or activities of the contractor. (Nagoya University accepts academic consulting fees).

学術研究・寄付(名古屋大学)
寄附金は、名古屋大学における学術研究や教育の充実などのために民間企業・団体・個人様から現金や有価証券などをお受けする仕組みです.名古屋大学へのご寄付,コラボレーションのために小研究室をご指名でのご寄付が可能です.
The donation is a mechanism that accepts cash and securities from private companies, organizations, and individuals to enhance academic research and education at Nagoya University. We can accept a donation to Nagoya University or donate it to our lab. for collaboration through Nagoya Universit.

名古屋大学 共同研究・受託研究
共同研究:民間企業様等の研究者と、契約に基づき、対等の立場で共通の課題について研究に取り組み、優れた研究成果を生み出すことを目的とするるものです。
受託研究:民間企業様等からのご委託を受けて、契約に基づき研究を行い、その成果を委託者に報告するものです.
Joint research: With the purpose of contracting with researchers such as private companies, they will work on common issues on an equal footing and produce excellent research results.
Outsourced research: Under contract from a private company, etc., research is conducted based on the contract, and the results are reported to the contractor.

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from past works
これまでの事例から

Tactile Animation
Back Ground "Tactile" not Music. Tactileology is a science&engineering of time-varying tactile sense like a melody; which enable us to use Tactile Sense like a Music. Collaboration with an Tactile Artist & NTT we created an "Tactile Animation; animation + melody of various tactile. (ICC art-museum, 2018, her cushions vibrate the body, while watching the animation).
触覚学は音楽のメロディのように時間変化する触覚を扱います.触覚アーティストとNTTと共同して,アニメーションにメロディのように時間変化する触覚を組み合わせた作品を制作しました(ICC美術館, 2018)
- 触覚学 Tactileology
tactile sense is a universal language in nature

what is Tactileology?
in Japanese (3min)
SUMMARY
In this talk, I introduce Tactile-Sensibility Artificial Intelligence, which processes not logic or language but Informations transformed into Tactile Score,T-bit.
T-bit enables us to processing Tactile and Sensibility of Informations and also easy to combine with ordinal IoT or Information Techniques.
By using T-bit technique, we will able to create a "Draemon" in the near future.
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