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KADOKURA, Hiroyuki Associate Professor

| degree |
Doctor of Engineering (Tokyo Institute of Technology, March 2016) |
| Specialty |
Architectural ergonomics (evacuation safety), construction informatics |
| Affiliated academic societies |
The Japan Fire Science Society, The Architectural Institute of Japan, Information Processing Society of Japan |
| Subjects Taught |
Civil Engineering Informatics, i-construction |
Career
| 1991年 |
Tokyu Construction Co., Ltd. |
| 2002年 |
Tokyu Research Institute, Inc. |
| 2017年 |
Lecturer, Department of Information Technology Faculty of Engineering Tohoku Gakuin University |
| 2020年 |
Associate Professor, Department of Information Technology Faculty of Engineering Tohoku Gakuin University |
| 2026年 |
Associate Professor, Department Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty of Engineering Tohoku Gakuin University |
performance
List of peer-reviewed papers
- Osamu Kiyomiya, Toshiaki Miyagi, Masami Ishikawa, Hiroyuki Kadokura: Evaluation of Dynamic Analysis Methods for Port Structures - A Case Study of Collision Analysis between Ships and Buffer Structures -, Transactions of the Japan Society of Civil Engineers, No. 540, VI-31, pp. 49-57, Japan Society of Civil Engineers, 1996.6
- Hiroyuki Kadokura, Ai Sekizawa, Wataru Takahashi: Study on availability and issues of evacuation using stopped escalators in a subway station, Fire and Materials, Volume 36 Issue 5-6, pp.416–428, 2012.8
- Masanori Yajima, Yuki Sano, Hiroyuki Kadokura, and Ai Sekizawa: Relationship between evacuation density and walking speed and confluence ratio in stairwells as seen from actual high-rise building evacuation drills, Journal of Environmental Engineering, Architectural Institute of Japan, No. 710, pp. 315-323, 2015.4
- Hiroyuki Kadokura, Ai Sekizawa, Yuki Sano, and Kosuke Fujii: A Study on the Occurrence of Stairwell Congestion During Sequential Evacuation in High-Rise Buildings—Analysis and Considerations Based on Observations of Actual Behavior During Whole-Building Evacuation Drills—, Journal of Environmental Engineering, Architectural Institute of Japan, No. 716, pp. 849-856, 2015.10
- Tomonori Sano, Masanori Yajima, Hiroyuki Kadokura, Ai Sekizawa : Human behavior in a staircase during a total evacuation drill in a high-rise building, Fire and Materials, Volume 41, Issue 4, pp.375–386, 2017.6
- Kosuke Fujii, Masayuki Mizuno, Hiroyuki Kadokura, Tomonori Sano, Ai Sekizawa : Influence of Congestion in Upper Floor on Pedestrian Flow in Staircase Based on Observational Survey of Evacuation Drill in a High-Rise Building, The Proceedings of 11th Asia-Oceania Symposium on Fire Science and Technology, pp.269-282, 2019.9
- Shun Hiratsuka, Daisuke Hayasaka, Kazuo Kato, Hiroyuki Kadokura: Identification method of independent components related to artifacts in electroencephalogram, IEEJ TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING, pp.1836-1841, 2019.12
- Hiroyuki Kadokura, Ai Sekizawa, Yuki Sano, Masayuki Mizuno, and Kosuke Fujii: A Study on the Causes and Propagation Conditions of Stairwell Stagnation During Building-Wide Evacuation Drills in High-Rise Office Buildings, Transactions of the Fire Science Society of Japan, Vol. 69, No. 3, pp. 27-36, 2019.12
- Park Sung-Kyung, Mizuno Masayuki, Fujii Kosuke, Kadokura Hiroyuki, Sano Yuki, Tanaka Toshinari, Sekizawa Ai: Improvement of sequential evacuation based on staircase evacuation flow analysis during evacuation drills in high-rise office buildings: Potential of real-time technology to facilitate whole-building evacuation from high-rise buildings, Life Support 32(4), Life Support Society, pp.118-125, 2020.12
- Park Sung-Kyung, Mizuno Masayuki, Fujii Kosuke, Oh Kwan-Won, Kadokura Hiroyuki, Sano Yuki, Tinnakonstivd Nishari, Sekizawa Ai: Comparative analysis of stairwell evacuation flow using SimTread, an evacuation simulation that reproduces evacuation drills in high-rise office buildings, Life Support 33(3), Life Support Society, pp.87-93, 2021.8
- Haruki Sato, Hiroyuki Kadokura, and Yoshizumi Tsunematsu: A study on disaster countermeasures based on a questionnaire survey of public libraries in 17 prefectures, Architectural Institute of Japan, Regional Facilities Planning Research 40, pp. 317-322, 2022.7
- Ren Onodera, Hiroyuki Kadokura, Maho Oe, and Yoshizumi Tsunematsu: A Study on Damage Survey and Earthquake Countermeasures for Library Closed Stacks in the Fukushima Offshore Earthquake (2021), Architectural Institute of Japan, Regional Facilities Planning Research 40, pp. 323-328, 2022.7
- Yoshizumi Tsunematsu, Haruki Sato, and Hiroyuki Kadokura: A Survey on Damage to Libraries and Efforts Towards Restoration in the Great East Japan Earthquake, Architectural Institute of Japan, Regional Facilities Planning Research 40, pp. 329-336, 2022.7
- Takuya Shibata, Yuki Sano, Kosuke Fujii, Masayuki Mizuno, Hiroyuki Kadokura, Ai Sekizawa: The effect of pedestrian forward distance on dwelling and propagation behavior in a single crowd without confluence. Evaluation of stairwell dwelling behavior using the SAG-EB model in high-rise buildings. Journal of Environmental Engineering, Architectural Institute of Japan, Vol. 89, No. 816, pp. 24-35, 2024.2
- Keigo Konno, Kazuo Kato, Hiroyuki Kadokura, and Atsuo Ishikawa: Gaze response during visual search for a moving target with spatial frequency characteristics, Transactions of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (Electronics, Information and Systems Division), Vol. 144 No. 10, pp. 978-984, 2024.10
- K. Kato, T. Suzuki, H. Kadokura, A. Ishikawa: Influence of Spatial Frequency on Human Subconscious and Related Neural Activity Using the Implicit Association Test, International Journal of Affective Engineering, 2024.11
- Shota Ara, Kazuo Kato, Hiroyuki Kadokura, Atsuo Ishikawa: Study on improving the accuracy of BMI based on error-related potentials - Consideration of methods for expanding training data -, Transactions of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan, Vol. 145 No. 1, pp. 52-58, 2025.1
- Kogure, K., Tsunematsu, Y., and Kadokura, H.: A Study on Evacuation Behavior in Closed Stacks of University Libraries - Considerations Regarding Behavior During Power Outages -, Journal of Regional Facility Planning, Architectural Institute of Japan, Vol. 43, pp. 207-212, 2025.7
- Hiroyuki Kadokura, Yoshizumi Tsunematsu: Examination of a model of route selection behavior during evacuation in a library's closed stacks, Transactions of the Fire Science Society of Japan, Vol. 75, No. 2, pp. 19-27, 2025.8
International conference paper
- Ai Sekizawa, Daisuke Oiwa, Tomonori Sano, Hiroyuki Kadokura : Study on Phased Evacuation through the Analysis of Total Evacuation Drill in a High-rise Office Building, Proceedings of the twelve international fire science and engineering conference, 2010.6
- Hiroyuki Kadokura, Ai Sekizawa, Tomonori Sano, Masanori Yajima, Satomi Masuda : Study On Congestion In Stairs During Phased Evacuation In A High-Rise Building, Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Human Behavior in Fire, 2012.9
- Masayuki Mizuno, Hidetaka Sendo, Noriyuki Tanaka, Hiroyuki Kadokura, Kousuke Fujii, Tomonori Sano, Ai Sekizawa : Development of Flow Model in Staircase by considering Mechanism of Flow Stop by Congestion with People, Proceedings of the fourteenth international fire science and engineering conference (INTERFLAM 2016), 2016.7
- Kazuo Kato, Hiroyuki Kadokura, Tomohiro Kuroki, Atsuo Ishikawa : Event-related synchronization/desynchronization in neural oscillatory changes caused by implicit biases of spatial frequency in electroencephalography, IFMBE Proceedings, Volume 68/2, pp.175-178, 2018.6
- Tomonori Sano, Enrico Ronchi, Ai Sekizawa, Masayuki Mizuno, Kosuke Fujii, Hiroyuki Kadokura : Descending Evacuation on Staircases: How Accurate are Models in Representing Movement Without Merging?, Conference Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Interflam Conference, pp.751-762, 2019.7
- K. Kato, K. Suzuki, T. Suzuki, H. Kadokura: Rejecting Artifacts Based on Identification of Optimal Independent Components in an Electroencephalogram During Cognitive Tasks, ICBME 2019, pp.73-80, 2021.1
- A. Tsuruoka, H. Kadokura, T. Shimizu, K. Aihara: The Impact of Road and Urban Infrastructure Variances on Electric Kick Scooter Travel, HCII 2024, pp.324–338, 2024.6
Overview articles, commentaries, etc.
- Hiroyuki Kadokura: Journal of the Japan Fire Science Society "Fire," Report on Participation in the 5th International Symposium on Human Behavior During Fires, Vol. 62, No. 6, Serial No. 321, 2012.12
- Hiroyuki Kadokura, Masayuki Mizuno, and Ai Sekizawa: Journal of the Japan Fire Science Society "Fire", Special Feature: Recent Examples of Evacuation Behavior Research Targeting Real Spaces: A Field Survey of Whole-Building Evacuation Drills in High-Rise Office Buildings, Vol. 68, No. 1, Serial No. 352, pp. 2-7, 2018.2
- Hiroyuki Kadokura, Masayuki Mizuno, and Ai Sekizawa: Journal of the Japan Fire Science Society "Fire," Special Feature: Rethinking Evacuation Drills: Evacuation Drills Based on Sequential Evacuation Plans for High-Rise Office Buildings, Vol. 72, No. 1, Serial No. 376, pp. 9-14, 2022.2
Award
- Outstanding Poster Award, Masayuki Mizuno, Kosuke Fujii, Hiroyuki Kadokura, Fuqiu Wang, Tomonori Sano, Ai Sekizawa : Development of Mathematical Model of Evacuation Flow in a Staircase Based on a Survey Result of a Real Evacuation Drill in a High-Rise Office Building, The 12th International Symposium on Fire Safety Science, 2017.6
- Best Paper Award, Kosuke Fujii, Masayuki Mizuno, Hiroyuki Kadokura, Tomonori Sano, Ai Sekizawa : Influence of congestion in upper floor on pedestrian flow in staircase based on observational survey of evacuation drill in a high-rise building, The 11th Asia-Oceania Symposium on Fire Science and Technology, 2018.10
- Reiwa 7th Japan Institute of Fire Research Achievement Award, Japan Society of Fire Engineers, 2025.5
Extracurricular activities, etc.
- Member of the Project Evaluation and Monitoring Committee, Tohoku Regional Development Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (April 2025 - present)