Atsuo Murata received M.E and Ph.D. degree in industrial engineering in 1985 and 1987, respectively, from University of Osaka Prefecture (Osaka Prefectural University). From 1987 to 1989, he was an Assistant Professor at University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan. From 1989 to 1994, he was an Associate Professor at Fukuoka Institute of Technology. He belonged to Hiroshima City University (Associate Professor: from 1994 to 1997, Professor from 1997 to 2006). From 2006, he is a Professor at Dept. of Intelligent Mechanical Systems, Okayama University. From 2010 to 2014, he was a chair of Chugoku-Shikoku Branch and a director, Japan Ergonomics Society (JES). After 2016, he is also a chair of Chugoku-Shikoku Branch and a director, JES.　From 2015, he is now a scientific advisory member and co-chair of CCDM (Cross-Cultural Decision Making), AHFE.