Abstract
This paper discusses a research direction that can lead information-and-management research as an academic discipline. Our study is based on two ideas: (1) researchers need to share meanings of a set of basic terms in order to accumulate academic knowledge and (2) with mobile devices and rich web content available, the world has changed from the traditional one into the mixed world which is a mixture of the real world and the cyber world consisting of images perceived from the web content by each individual and/or business. Necessity of a dictionary of basic terms is insisted on, then four research areas are listed and briefly commented.
