Study on information technology to promote Wellbeing

Abstract

We started a research project to develop technology guidelines for promoting wellbeing, with focus on value systems seen in collectivist cultures such as Japan (i.e., the values generated from human relationships vis-à-vis the group one belongs to or one processes as objective). We will establish and disseminate information technology guidelines with an emphasis on how we can charge such cultural perception of wellbeing into information technology, and how information technology can approach problems in collectivist cultures.