Requirements definition that is an important work process for a project and may determine the success or failure of system development project tends to draw an ambiguous conclusion, which will lead directly to the failure of such a system construction. Especially, the ICT (Information and Communication Technology) environmental improvement and a shortfall in human resources have increased the use of requirements definition in the distributed cooperative system managed in a telework environment, so that the extreme difficulty of communication in telework spurs such an ambiguous conclusion. Our proposed trust management is that the stakeholders build trust to solve problems caused in Telework requirements definition with extremely high uncertainty factors such as the existence of tacit requirements and ambiguous consensus building. In this paper, we present a model that the trust management process is integrated into the Telework requirements definition process, as measures to minimize the gap between requirements caused due to a lack or discrepancy in communication that is produced easily in Telework requirements definition and to use a negotiation method for solving problems in the following processes provided by the gap between requirements including tacit ones.

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The energy saving effects of telework comes to be an important issue recently. The effects of energy saving with telework are estimated and reported by a lot of papers including government reports. However, it is not clear the consumption of energy at the telework site (mostly at home). The energy saving effect of PC is little because each teleworker uses PC at home as well as at the office. On the other hand, the energy consumption of air conditioning or lighting may not increase when they telework because these appliances can be shared by the other people who are already in the house. The degree of sharing is an important factor for the estimation of energy saving effects of telework. In the result of the research of teleworkers on their energy use, about 40 percent of teleworkers use air-conditioning alone and about 60 percent of them use lighting alone at home. That is, almost half of the energy restores at home even if the energy use in the office decreases by telework. The energy-saving effect of telework might be a half level for the energy reduction in the office.

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In recent years, crowdsourcing has received attention as a new means of utilizing talented human resources. In the meantime, it is said that there is a lack of highly skilled human resources. Especially there seems to be a lack of "data scientists" who can analyze data for business. We conducted initial researches as to whether talented human resources with skills in data analysis exist in crowdsourceing and what are the points to utilize such talented human resources. In this research, we posted simple data analysis tasks on a crowdsourcing service. Ten crowdworkers participated these tasks and submitted deliverables. As a result, it was confirmed that there are indeed capable human resources in the crowdsourcing who have the skills to do data analysis. We also drew some lessons how to utilize these talents most effectively.

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Recently, crowdsourcing has rapidly become popular in Japan. Since the tasks are ordered to the crowd (unspecified numbers of individuals or corporations), the management method which considers the diversity of the crowd will be needed. It is necessary to understand the diversity of the crowd in order to establish such a management method. In this paper, we have focused on the project type crowdsourcing and surveyed the worker's attribute (gender, age, skill and years of experience, performance at the crowdsourcing, etc.) with the help of CrowdWorks Inc., which is one of the largest crowdsourcing service providers in Japan. Based on the survey data, workers are categorized into clusters. Then differences in the job acceptance frequency and the successful acceptance of high prized job by clusters are analyzed. In addition, characteristics of each cluster are also examined.

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We have expected the telework to be the effect of regional development measures. However outcome of reflux of local business from Metropolitan area is less. Under the Abe administration, government policies for telework have been hammered out one after the other. But the essence of the policy is the realization of a work-life balance for working women support. On the other hand, we expect the arrival of a new telework era beyond the border from the rapid spread of crowdsourcing. Therefore, in our study, we consider the regional development policies through work orders of the use of crowdsourcing. Our keywords are Order of work from the region, Provincial in urban areas and Regional cheering squad. We suggest regional development model of the next generation, which is based on skill reflux.

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People's attitudes toward telework will affect the adoption and implement of this new working style, however there were less researches focus on the attitudes toward telework in China. Therefore, this paper is aim to investigate Chinese people's attitudes toward telework through a succession of surveys. The results show that most of the Chinese people positive to telework and consider that it is more efficient and productive than the conventional office-based work as well. This research may help companies being adopting, making or adjusting suitable policies of telework to recruit or attract to newcomers and avoid or reduce staff turnover. This research also provides the first step for the study on legitimacy and applicability of telework in China.

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With the spread of the Internet, the number of workers in a distributed environment has increased. Methods of communication in a distributed environment are different from a collocated environment. In a distributed environment, a support for communication of workers is needed. Often times, people check the status of other party before they start communicating. We have paid attention to such needs and have developed a web-based system called "C-WORK", which enables workers to check each other's status. In this paper, functions of "C-WORK" and the future research plan to test the efficacy of the C-WORK are described.

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CuMOT program of the Tokyo Institute of Technology supports group discussions of adult students in a distributed environment with Web-based system called Group Memory Support System (GMSS). GMSS realizes the visualization and structuring of the entire discussion by selecting the type of message and the object of message. In this study, GMSS discussion data of adult student groups from two different academic years are used to examine the correctness of message type selections. The effect of differences in teaching scheme by the year and the role of student are also examined.

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In local region from the point of view of regional revitalization, development of SOHO workers and increase are expected. By 6th industrialization with a review of the regional local products and regional tourism and development of ICT, its direct sales and product and service development is proceeding in administrative leadership. ICT workers are committed to the development of products and services of the original with the goal of de-subcontractors. Reality does not proceed easily. The cause are that the ICT workers are less and they do not make a team. Co-working space is expected to solve these problems. This paper has considered the expectation of the co-working space, the role of local government and the possibilities for the establishment of co-working space by local administrative.

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Various studies have been conducted on learning persistence under different environment, such as conventional and distance learning; however, distance learning for leisure education using eLearning hasn't been studied. In this study, we carried out online surveys to subscribers of a musical instrument eLearning service, and factors influencing to persistence decision was analyzed and results were compared with prior studies. We found that internal factors were dominant as prior studies proposed. On the other hand, external factors did not contribute much in leisure education using eLearning contrary to findings of prior studies.

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The government is going to promote a telework as woman utilization. However, it is not felt that a company is going to use a telework to me positively. Three years passed from East Japan great earthquake disaster. And a company does not seem to be going to utilize a telework for BCP. Therefore I checked mention about the telework in CSR reports. As a result, there were many mentions to perform a telework for work-life balance. I will think that there is room for the reclamation as for the telework for BCP in future.

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The selection of an appropriate crowd-worker is one of the most important and difficult task for a client in the use of crowdsourcing. This paper proposes a method of selecting crowd-workers in the category of writing. This category is chosen because the typical offering price in this category is too low to spend additional coordination cost including communication cost. Therefore, the proposed method will be more effective in this category. In this study, a simple writing task is offered for crowd-workers to examine the efficacy of the proposed method. The quality of articles written by the control group is compared with the quality of articles by the selected group by using the proposed method. The articles are evaluated based on the criteria presented to the workers in advance. The analysis results indicate that the quality of articles by the selected group is higher than that of articles by other groups.

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"Fujimi Itten-Ippin movement" is a commercial activation vision for the use of development of merchant and Fujimi city shopping Society. This move started in 2005, Although becoming eighth year in 2013, but the arrangers of the Itten-Ippin movement throughout Japan come to visit at present, it has become a movement high-profile in the country. The part played by "homepage" is large when the announcement of "Fujimi Itten-Ippin movement" and improvement of name identification, and is displayed at the top whenever you search the keyword "Itten-Ippin" on Google. The video content unique appeared in a number of websites, some responsive web design and corresponding effectively to the Smartphone has been made. I will report on the outcome of ingenuity and production order to the homepage of this "Fujimi Itten-Ippin movement".

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This study aims to reveal the telework situation in the United States, EU and Japan, that could not be grasped in the survey. It focused on the news articles those have been featured in newspapers, etc. in the past five years of 2009-2013. First, after extracting the news articles about telework from a news-database, they were classified by frequently keywords. This study was able to clarify the following. The news articles related to scam are often as well as ones related to government and policies in the United States. The news articles related to business continuity and introduction of telework are often as well as ones related to government and policies in Japan. There was no outstanding characteristic about telework situation in EU, but the news articles related to scam in EU as well as in the United States has been increasing.

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This research aims for analysis of trust building through communication in virtual teams. Editors, designers, and coders were recruited via crowdsourcing to design a homepage. The recruited crowd-workers were formed into 14 teams. Communications among members were limited to text only groupware. The half team could use a situation awareness tool that can see another member's situation using by web camera image and short texting. All participated crowd-workers answered the questionnaire about trust, after the design task was completed. This paper describes analysis results of trust building in virtual teams based on questionnaire and log data of groupware and situation awareness tool usage.

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This article describes the background and intent of the session that was launched in the Kansai Branch. The title of the session is a social and organizational challenges of telework. To this end, this paper is organized as follows. First, overview of the planning session is described. Second, the concept of social materiality that is a keyword of the planning session is an overview. Finally, the research agenda of the future is shown.

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The purpose of this paper is to construct three analytical framework of organizational citizenship behavior in telework analyzed by case studies it. The first is to construct a framework from previous studies of organizational citizenship behavior. The second is to construct a framework also with reference the concept of citizenship. The third is to construct a framework also with reference the sociomaterialty. Suggestions obtained are as follows. Organizational citizenship behavior in telework is that it not only framework of previous research, but also from sociomateriality and citizenship, analysis is possible.

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In this paper, based on the example of "WAKAKOKU SNS", it clarified about the generating mechanism of OCB in OC in the case of performing a self-employed type telework. In performing a telework, information exchange at the place of OC is indispensable, and it becomes important how the number of contribution of a there is secured or how active members on that occasion is brought up. As a result of observing a member's OCB in "WAKAKOKU SNS", I suggested that training at the place of on-line with another OCB in the place of OC and each one of experiences became a basis, and OCB in a new place was performed.

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This paper describes the research agenda of the future by examining critically the significance of telework research. Specifically, this paper focuses on the wording of the next listed on the web site of The Japan Telework Society (J@TS). That is, "Telework works to release from the spatial constraints in work arrangement and business activities." and "The modalities of telework to be useful as a tool that would balance the free life and the development of economic and social activities (would be discussed in J@ST)." Through the review of these discourses, agenda of telework research of Kansai would be revealed.

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The aim of this paper is to propose a new workstyle. In recent years, consumer services such as SNS and smartphones have become popular. We tried to use these tool at work. As a result, these tools were effective to enhance teamwork, and will expand the network. In the future, you must take advantage of these tools in the office.

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We developed "Ultra-realistic telework system" and "communication terminal" equipped with viewing notification by the viewer face image to reduce the sense of privacy invaded. By observing the remote communication, we proposed a hybrid notification of the overhead image and the face image, evaluated the impression difference between the overhead image and the face image, and examined the notification method.

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An Ultra- or Meta-Realistic Telework Communication System is one which allows people outside the main office to experience exactly the same emotional environment as those physically present. This system is under development now. In this study, I interviewed students who use Hyper Information Terminal (HIT), using Evaluation Grid Method. This is a method which is based on personal construct theory in mental model approach. They were asked the image and the impression concerning the Hyper Information Terminal. In this method, it was requested them to evaluate good points about system with Laddering (Ladder-up and Ladder-down). As a result, it suggested that users find benefit of "pleasure" and the need of "big display", for example.

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This research aims to examine the role of situation awareness for communication in a virtual team. Fourteen teams of three persons are formed via a crowdsourcing service platform, ordering a web site sample pages in a competition. All communication among members during the task is limited to a text-based messaging tool. In addition, a tool for presenting awareness information such as camera shots, online status of members, and short messages is provided for seven teams. The processes of team building and carrying out the task are reported. Also, usages and effects of the awareness tool are analyzed based on log data and survey results.

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