本研究では、シニアIT 初心者を支援する方法を提案する。IT ボランティアの協力により、シニアIT初心者のサポートニーズを調査し、既存リモートコントロール機能によるＩＴサポート方法とその利用効果を検証する。実験結果から機能面、コスト、ユーザビリティ、信頼性、ネットワーク環境、サポートの質等の面で考察した。

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In this paper, we report about result of the speed that 6 seniors inputed the letter by a keyboard before and after using teaching matelials. It is difficult for seniors to learn using keyboard with the number of keys on a keyboard. These materials that support the learning about inputing, are composed of an emphasized stickers on a letter of necessary keys , textbook written inputing way and exercise of inputing.

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Five elderly users managed the online consultation service provided by the support software for PCs "ALAKAI Net". We analyzed the writing on the community site and studied question papers for the period from December 2007 to May 2008. Our examination revealed that the past experience of users was considered beneficial and that it increased their self-satisfaction. However, the inability to fulfill the mission of providing a user with support caused dissatisfaction.

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In this study, we argued differences of the birthrate by the economical factors of each area. It is necessary that the local industries employ parents' generation to rise the birthrate. We researched the industries of the high birthrate areas.

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In this paper, we discussed the characteristics of the areas in the shift of the industrial structure. We analyzed the industrial structure of each prefecture and each city by using the data of the census. Some characteristics were extracted the shift of the industrial structure.

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This research showed the way of being of the approach that promoted the information industry in Japan. We investigated university-industry cooperation in the information system. As a result, the pattern of the IT education was arranged by university-industry cooperation. And, we proposed the strategy of the information industry promotion in the region.

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Alan Kay created a slogan for development of user interfaces: Doing with Images makes Symbols. This reveals the essence of the Graphical User Interface (GUI) which millions of people now use all over the world. This paper examines how GUI, based on Kay's slogan, has changed our communication with the computer. In order to explore this topic, I focus on Azuma and Turkle's argument of "interface value" intuit for thinking about the relationship between our action and new sign surfaces. Next, Kay's slogan is considered from the viewpoint of its formation process. Finally, I refer to Sperber and Wilson's Relevance theory. I conclude that GUI demands that we, along with computers, act for ostensive-inferential communication in a mutual cognitive environment.

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On this paper I define function of information as making order into chaos. We can understand chaos on two sides. First side is chaos in outer world. It means that information makes it easy to understand outer world. Second is chaos in inner world. It means that information makes it easy to express ones inner world, and communicate with someone. Communication enables us to make our own field of interpretations. Society is to keep communication among its members. And continuous communication keeps society. Information brings stability into communication.

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This paper reconsiders two famous paradoxes found in works of art by philosophers in the 17th and 18th centuries. The first is that a work of art is an artificial product but at the same time it seems to be a product of nature. The other is that a work of art evokes a feeling of pleasure in each individual but at the same time the feeling opens their eyes to the existence of something universal. Because of its paradoxical nature, a work of art was thought to possess the power to enlighten people and to make them aware of the relationship between nature and technology. My question, based on this consideration is; in our contemporary information society can we still expect a work of art to retain its paradoxical nature? And, if so, can these pradoxes play the same role that they did in the 18th century? To answer this question I re-examine the essence of information technologies.

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Measuring digital divide has become one of the most discussed topics on the global level. Organizations, such as ITU, have introduced their own ways of evaluating and analyzing it. However, a more detailed research into the methodology of constructing digital divide indices is needed. This paper aims to analyze global digital indices basing on the choice of indicators, methodology, terminology and general framework. With illustrative intent, indices of Laspeyres, Paasche, Fischer, Lowe, Walsch, etc., as well as DOI and ICT-OI (ITU), DDI (Orbicom), DDIX and DIDIX (Empirica), will be examined in this paper.

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Disasters have potential for social disruption and public health problems like infectious disease among internally displaced persons (IDPs). Whether the social factors will influence infection in disaster has not been investigated. Number of typhoid cases were noted n=42 tsunami Aceh, n=39 earthquakes Yogyakarta and n=70 normal situation Bandung. For three district with lower proportion of well educated people would become risk factors for complicated cases. The contact with other typhoid should be avoided in the earthquakes Yogyakarta. We also found that drugs availability, clean water in tsunami Aceh and education level, contact with other typhoid patients in earthquakes were significant predictors. For normal situation hand washing is one of the risk factors.

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This paper aims to study the role of fragmentation among ICT industries in East Asia, using the trade and economic data obtained from UN Comtrade Database and IMF. The authors focus on the correlation between fragmentation and trade patterns of ICT industries over the period from 1990 to 2005. The empirical results show that there is a positive relationship between international production fragmentation and ICT exports. Fragmentation may drive growth of ICT industries in East Asia and deepen the region's economic interdependence.

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It is getting difficult to make hit music because consumers' tastes are diversifying. Basically, music is a product which we can't foresee the commercial success in advance. In this research, one of the successes in the music business will be shown through the case study on FUNKY MONKY BABYS. And it will suggest the possibilities for the success strategy for the music business by using new technology such as IT and marketing.

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This paper shows that industrial organization of content industries have successive pattern of evolution and considerations for CGM in internet from the view of this evolutionlly pattern. The pattern has 3 stages. First, hardware makers which invent new technologies to be used as media find content and start up distribution of content and sell hardwares. Second, start to puroduce new content for the media, and vertically integrate content producing rayer and distribution rayer and intermediate rayer. Thrid, each rayer is separated. The CGM in internet are located on first stage.

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The use of the video-sharing site has increased in number worldwide since the launch of YouTube in 2005. Although there are social scientific studies on the two typical video-sharing sites in Japan: YouTube and NICO NICO DOUGA, there are yet only a handful of studies that compare them. Therefore, in this study the authors compared YouTube and NICO NICO DOUGA quantitatively in terms of their business model using the following evaluation measures. The authors focused on the number of the comments and attached tags, which are added to each video and on the number of views each video gets, on both YouTube and NICO NICO DOUGA. The author evaluated these 3 attributes of the top 20 most viewed videos from either site.

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Multicultural coexistence has become one of the biggest issues for Japanese public administrations with the increase of population of international residents in Japan. Every local government has its own web pages for them. This research aims to consider the contribution of ICT to multicultural coexistence through investigation and the simple evaluation of those web pages and their usability.

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The aim of this research is to investigate the web use in public hearing. This research focuses on Japanese local governments' web sites and points out issues and present situation of web use in public hearing. In this research, it selects some key words concerning public hearing and verifies top pages of local governments' web sites to check whether those key words are used in those pages. As a result of analyses, it is shown that the web use in public hearing spread in Kanto region and in populated cities.

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As expanding e-Local Governments, development of information systems is extending. But, whether IT investment to develop and maintain information systems generate effects corresponds to IT investment is hardly verified. As the cause of that, how long period we should evaluate the effects generated from IT investment is difficult to suppose. This period is called life-cycle and a solution of the period from planning, development and maintenance of information systems until abolition or reconstruction has not established. Based on the survey of information systems in local governments this paper offers the period of life-cycle and framework to evaluate information technology investment considering life-cycle.

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Bearing in mind the UN strategic project "Education for Sustainable Development(EDS)", in this thesis, the way how to collaborate with ICT and local community in building a vigourous society is being discussed. Especcially the relations with low birthrate circumstances and community power are paid attention to. In this report, the potential possibility of local centres such as libraries, schools, and social educational facilities are analysed, based on empirical data gathered through a questionnaire.

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This paper focuses on the CATV Community Channels that networking each other and widening the areas. The purposes of this paper are as follows: one is to clarify the backgrounds, aims and intentions with which CATV enterprises promote such actions; the other is to examine the meanings, merits, demerits, and problems of such approaches. Furthermore, I propose the ideal ways of networking and area-widening of CATV community channel.

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Recently, the number of senders in community media increase gradually. This report is about sender education in community media. The purpose of this report are to classify sender in it from their features, to reveal the actual state and issues in sender education, and to consider it in the future. This report is mainly based on questionnaire survey to CATV in Nagano prefecture.

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Recent many communication systems like SNS tend to not guarantee users' anonymity completely and the design helps to keep users interactions ordered. However, in the point of view of decision making or judgement, this aspect can be problematic in making communication rich enough as some users can refrain from making a critical comment for being afraid of provoking unfriendly reactions by others. This paper shows a design of document evaluation system that encourages users to submit critical messages to make communication more informative, and that also works for keeping interactions ordered.

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The spoken documents such as lecture, talk, speech are valuable knowledge resources for us. This paper describes a speech archiving technique for effectively accumulate and utilize spoken documents. The technique converts the spoken text into the one that is appropriate to be inspected and retrieved by making good use of the language technologies such as paraphrase, division, and structurizing. Moreover, the spoken documents can be shared on the Web as reusable knowledge contents by introducing automatic speech recognition and synthesis.

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In real space, we receive information not only from the attention area, but also from the ambience. In our past research We applied these findings regarding information acquisition through the ambience to the computer display, and proposed a system for providing information utilizing the ambient change of graphics on the desktop. In this research is proposed a system for text making considering the ambient information.

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This study aims to suggest the improvement measures for display of environmental information about main household electrical appliances such as refrigerator, washing machine, air-conditioner and television in online shops, by conducting questionnaires to companies and consumers to grasp the present conditions and problems. It is indispensable to propose the improvement measures to companies which have online shops to show that the offer of environmental information to consumers should become useful.

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This paper describes an experimental study on town development or MACHIDUKURI employing a regional SNS (Social Networking Service) at Keihanna-area, the Science City in Kansai. With the advent of knowledge-based society the present study aims at analyses on the results of the operational process of the SNS, presuming its social capital in and aroud the science city. We discuss the design concept, setup of SNS servers, operational rules, results from access logs, and some preliminary analyses on the SNS operation for about one year.

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This paper aims to investigate the changes of friends network in regional Social networking services SNSs. The authers empirically analize 1) whole friends' network changed, 2) establishments of new user's networks. Findings of the paper are "rich get richer" phenomenon, and "rich" users tendency to connect "poor" users in regional SNSs.

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The focus for this paper is an exploration of the potential for electronic democracy and local community tools, such as the SNS, to contribute to local democracy strengthened collaboration between citizens and government.

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This paper shows the present situation of IT usage by citizens' groups and the availability of webbased tools for them. At first, their web sites in the Kanto area were investigated from the viewpoints of information provision, information sharing and communication. And we interviewed several groups which are using IT actively to confirm how they were using web and managing the sites, and the benefits and problems of using IT. We recognized that contents management system, map information service, and online tool for group were useful for them. All these web-based tools are free or open source.

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This study examines how Korean independent broadcasting production sector has undergone significant changes in labor process shifting towards flexible production over recent decades. It considers in particular those accounts in which flexible production regime in independent sector is represented as the interrelation of numerical and functional flexibility in explanations of core-periphery model. With the analysis of labor process, it attends to answer the question whether the labor process driving flexible production could be a sustainable reproduction structure not only from the view of the industry but also from the view point of workers

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With the rapid development of the mobile market in the world, China occupies a huge market. However, as a pioneer for i-mode, Japan operates 3G mobile phones but performs poor in China's market. Based on the analysis of the handset industrial structure both in China and Japan, the trend investigation of mobile communication and the handset revolution due to mobile-internet, the research is focusing on the possibility of operating handset business for Japan's enterprises.

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Mobile payment cannot be popularized to end users by only technological innovation in convenience. This study compared economic and social requisites of Japan with those of Korea, which had not been mentioned by preceding studies for the diffusion of mobile payment. The purpose of the present study was to emphasize the importance of platform strategy allowing complementors to participate and cooperate freely as well as partnership of companies for mobile payment to be a sustainable business model in Korea.

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In precedent studies in the U.S., an increase in the level of copyright protection has negative effects, such as the increase in the price of works and in the "cost of expression". However, in the U.S. and Japan, the same argument is not true because of the differences in law and industrial structure. This paper shows that the argument that the copyright protection increase certainly leads to negative consequences is not suitable for the music and recording industry of Japan based on the analysis model of Landes and Posner.

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This paper studies about the Private Copying Levy System in Japan. First, I review the current system using statistic data, questionnaire results, and debates in the Private Music and Video Recording Subcommittee of Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs. Second, I analyze the present status and abstract advantages and disadvantages of the system. Finally, I assess the validity of the current system and offer some suggestions for improvements of the system from the viewpoint of magnitude of social benefits.

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I have been researching the moderator's legal responsibility and accountability through several typical civil suits of Japan and the United States of America. The decisions of these trials clarified that not only the moderator would be requested to delete all of the improper data but also s/he would be demanded to maintain all of those as evidence. Here, I discuss the criminal charge as well as the civil liability of the moderator, especially in the case where s/he did delete all of the data that never had seemed so appropriate beforehand before the trouble would be well known.

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We researched the effectiveness of introducing a social networking service(SNS) into an enterprise. In early research, network analysis revealed the existence of personal and community networks. In addition, the SNS user's psychology was revealed. However, the research did not reveal the effectiveness of introducing an SNS. Therefore, there is no understanding of the effectiveness of introducing a SNS, some enterprises hesitate to introduce one, and some people are embarrassed to use one. We researched the effectiveness of introducing an SNS into an enterprise from introduction case into enterprise.

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The knowledge for the supporting of businesses such as work adjustment and negotiations will be better future and general intellectual property in a company compared with the direct type of knowledge such as the technological know-how. Existence of the spot would be always required in order to transfer such knowledge. Six business model cases are established by considering the daily and general business performing. The spot's important component has been clarified by using the Conjoint Analysis method. In order to get the results, the actual data of Fujitsu related company has been used for the analyses.

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This paper describes an improvement scheme of in-house meetings based on ethnography. The scheme including fieldwork and participatory design, had been applied to ten or more cases of three major meeting-types. This paper shows a fieldwork-process of Kaizen-meetings in a software development division as one sample. After observation and analysis of this case, major four points for improvement had been obtained and some of those points had been adopted as hints for improvement of meeting process.

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The community is paid to attention to solve various problems of happening because of working of the market-oriented economic system. However, in present age Japan, the ground that does the cooperation of labor in the community is not made. Then, only a geographic, time restriction is not removed, and it is important with the experience of the discussion first of all by giving the sense of security of being defended by anonymity according to an online community.

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This paper reviews recent researches on the relationship between internet and social capital. The author will divide previous studies into two types: the ones which stress the function of internet as a media, and the others which focus on the content of communication taken place in specific online communities. By so doing, the author will survey the trend of these researches which are carried approximately in the ten years. In conclusion, this paper will look over the future of the fast-growing area which tries to analyze the effect of internet on social capital.

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This paper discuss about the effect of anonymity on social order. The anonymity is devided into 2types: pseudonimity and noname-anonymity. This paper is based on the researches of virtual communities built on internet. The defference of the effect of anonymity is shown by the comparison of the 2types virtual communities. Finally, it is shown that the orderes of virtual communities are possible even under anonymity.

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Cyberspace has the possibility to build new relations, different from those in communities restricted by border, region, profession, social status, culture, etc. the space where we meet the anonymous others. We must examine the problem of the type of relationship we can have, especially the nature of social bonds we can have with them. That is exactly the question of ethics in cyberspace. We explore ethics particular to cyberspace, where anyone can join and discuss, not an ethics of obligation from a transcendent dimension.

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In recent years, quality of life (QOL) is becoming an important concept. However, the research of QOL in the information society is very few and it is a current state to lack for information-related QOL item almost in main QOL index. Then, in this research, we developed revised information-related QOL index to grasp the current situation of QOL in information society and improve QOL by use of multivariate analysis. After reliability and validity of the index were verified, we verified the effectiveness of the revised edition index.

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Now, to enrich citizen's life, we need to think about some problems in local community. And Local Informatization is one of the measures to solve them. But, ICT is often used aimed at our enjoying "consummatory communication" in our daily life. We can enjoy the use of ICT itself. In this study, to promote Civic Engagement in local community, we are about to apply the enjoyment, fun, or experience of using ICT. If this study is well tackled, we will get some possibility that the people who were not interested in Civic Engagement change to be favor of it.

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This paper shows that the patterns of the Internet uses bear certain relations with social personalities associated with interpersonal trust. The relationship between trust and the Internet use has drawn much attention of researchers and many studies have been conducted. In this paper, we argue that UAI, uncertainty avoidance index, (Hofstede 1991, 2004) should be of as much significance to study the Internet use and social personalities. We set forth an analytical framework to investigate the relationship and distinguish different patterns of the Internet uses, combining general trust (Yamagishi 1998) and UAI. Then we provide empirical examination of the validity of our framework.

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This paper shows the result of the questionnaire survey concerning about use of electronic game machine, television, and other media iquipments in home. The theory is instituted that influencing the brain wave harmfully when playing electronic game machine for a long time. It is said that endurance is lost from the child by using the game machine, as a result, the child absorbed in the game says that it will become violence. However, there are research results in which the hypothesis is not supported either. Then, I decided to execute the questionnaire survey to verify those theories and to examine it.

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This paper focuses its research on how community-type websites are transforming into important learning resources, by taking advantage of technologies that provide a flexible and effective means of generating and managing restricted information for a broad user base. Adopting the case study of immigrant children support networks in Japan, the author highlights the benefits of contemporary Internet information management systems in exposing the limitations of the modern Japanese education system, as well as demonstrating the potential for building a flexible and appropriate learning environment in the future.

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This paper summarizes the result of a study on how Fusion of School and Social Education is done in Japan, and has what is the problem. Previous arguments show idea about cooperation among school, home and Region. So, we research activities by using local government's data. In this research, we try to consider possibility to make cooperation supported by Information and Communication Technology.

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In the cyber society, our current activities depend on the virtually organized real-world-like systems. These activities enable to be independent of the physical distances between providers and clients, the time-limited service period, etc. E-Learning has been investigated as the typical research subject for a perspectice point of view between computer/communication and learning/education. In this paper, we discuss our framework to design effectual learning environment from a viewpoint of functionality. Our basic idea is to design various types of functions under the layered structure, using six sharing notions such as space sharing, field sharing, target sharing, knowledge sharing, process sharing and context sharing notions.

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This paper shows one attempt of the management of a Web site that supply teaching material that is used for science education. We construct it by html and management for about six years. The management became complex as contents increased Then, we restructured this Web site by CMS. We were able to improve user's convenience. Moreover, we were able to decrease the manager's work. Additionally, we considered the contents management of the university.

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