Community Impact in Action

SDGs

Collaborative projects with the City of Yokohama Kohoku Ward.

In preparation for GREENxEXPO, an international horticultural exposition to be held in Yokohama in FY2027, activities were developed with the goal of proposing a behavioral change model to reduce the risk of heat stroke in a hot environment. In FY2024, with the cooperation of the Public Works Office of the Kohoku Ward Office, we visualized and analyzed the risk of heat stroke during work for employees doing civil engineering work outdoors in the hot sun, and constructed a hypothesis for risk reduction.
Of the nine employees who worked throughout the day on a sunny day in early September, we obtained heart rate and location data for three employees of different ages, as well as environmental data such as temperature, humidity, and ground surface temperature. As a result, it was confirmed from the increase in heart rate data that the workload of "Collaborative projects with the City of Yokohama Kohoku Ward" was particularly heavy in an environment where the ground surface temperature increased, and at the same time, it was confirmed that a reduction in the load could be achieved by taking breaks at appropriate times.

Applicable regions

Kanagawa Prefecture City of Yokohama Kohoku Ward

Implementation period

June 01, 2017 - present

Community and Regional Affairs category

• Regional collaboration as research targets and implementation sites/research that aims to popularize region-specific issues
• Social collaboration through advanced research
• Education of students/human resource development for the next generation
• Two-way recycling-oriented collaboration with local communities and societies

Related websites

Middle School Students Offer Ideas for Disaster Prevention Solutions: Collaboration Between Yokohama's Kohoku Ward and Keio University Graduate School (Kanagawa Shimbun)

Collaboration with Graduate Schools and Local Government: Discussing Regional Disaster Prevention and Presenting Outcomes (Town News)

A will to learn about the "awareness of being bad at" sports through the power of data: what a Keio University graduate school professor wants to achieve in elementary school PE classes (Huffington Post)

Elementary school students experience online exercise program for top athlete -collabolation project of Keio University Graduate School of System Design and Management and City of Yokohama Kohoku Ward Office

Kohoku Online Radio Gymnastics 2021 Summer

Kohoku Online radio exercises 2020 (released by the City of Yokohama Kohoku Ward)

https://www.kpa.sdm.keio.ac.jp/online-radio-kohoku2020/

https://www.kpa.sdm.keio.ac.jp/online-radio-kohoku2020-archive/

Online sports coaching in the new normal era （FINDERS: Koji Wada, Project Assistant Professor, Keio University Graduate School of System Design and Management）

Related agreements, etc.

Agreement on a collaborative partnership between the Keio University Graduate School of System Design and Management and City of Yokohama Kohoku Ward Office

Campus

Hiyoshi

Person in charge

Graduate School of System Design and Management Professor Naohiko Kotake

Inquiries

sdm@info.keio.ac.jp

Other partnerships and collaborations