We developed an interactive program “Let’s stand up and draw art in the sky!” that connects rehabilitation exercises with the changes images of virtual reality device. The level of rehabilitation exercise achieved in the outcome of the resulting artwork is reflected as feedback to encourage patients to perform their movements of rehabilitation exercises. When inpatients at a recovery-phase rehabilitation hospital performed sitting-down and standing-up exercises as part of our proposed rehabilitation program, their ratings of “Enjoyment” of their rehabilitation improved after the exercises compared with before the exercises. The average number of movements performed by patients who used the program showed that the number of movements increased. The exercises also added enjoyment to the inpatients’ long-term rehabilitation.

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It is said that "Complexity" and "Order" greatly influence the "Beauty" of a curved shape, and in this research we attempted to quantify the "Order". First, the studies of "Order" are organized and "Order" in the curved shape is defined as the degree of reduction of the shape information. Then, the symmetry which seems to be the most important factor of the degree of reduction is expressed from the group theory by using the curvature autocorrelation function and the fuzzy set. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed index was confirmed by cognitive experiments.

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This study aims to confirm the relevance between the colors of the light (red, blue, green, white) and the brain activity of the person who watches the light. To investigate the effect of light colors, this study conducted the examinations including subjective evaluation and brain activity measurement using the NIRS (near-infrared spectroscopy). Our finding suggests that the subjects’ preference and arousal degree of the light environment can be objectively evaluated via frontal lobe brain activity measurement.

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This research describes the results of sensibility evaluation about tactile elements perceived by a fingertip when a button is pressed. I investigated with SD method four tactile elements from among many tactile elements that constitute pressing. Four tactile elements were "pressing force", "stroke", "area" and "temperature". Investigated results were analyzed with a factor analysis. As a result, bias was found in impressions for each tactile element.

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While we live everyday, besides the basic taste of personal favorite color, dislike color, there are times when this color encounters scenes that are intrigued very intuitively. Also, recently I liked this color very much, there are many things I feel like having clothes and belongings of the same color only.Therefore, in this research, research on the relation between color selection of clothing and physical condition was conducted, and a certain color selection tendency was observed.

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The art of face is a kind of behavior that people decorate the face. art of face is still the most impressive of Peking Opera .In the role of Peking Opera, Whether it is graphics or color design can have a cultural background with the story of the place. In the early face art use three colors (black, white, red) to explain the role of the story of positioning and change. With a few three colors of the graphics change highlights the characteristics of the role and more magnified graphics design space, so that the development of facial art more extensive. Therefore, this study will be the three colors of the face of the graphics on the area of the proportion of changes and visual feelings as a research direction. Research methods on the questionnaire asked subjects in the color area on the face after the change in the visual experience of the effect.

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In this survey, We clarify the real problem that the site holds based on structured problems in nursing care facilities. And explore the factors of the effective method in the recording system. As a result, we found it important to care with common recognition for users' independence. Through observation, it was found that the structure of the facility building greatly affected the efficiency of work and recording. For these reasons, we believe that it is necessary to develop a system that makes use of records for care and for education in developing the recording system. And it can be thought that it can be made more efficient by the location of equipment installation.

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We aim to refine reviews on the Internet and improve the reliability as a source of information on reviews. We have mede a questionnaire survey and a customer journey map to grasp the usage situation of reviews and motivation, awareness, emotion. This time, we did text mining reviews. We examined what is being written and how to act as an information source. The subject of the review was Tsukurepo of the cook pad. As a result, it was thought that examples of improvement of recipes and reviews written with applications are received as useful information for the next user. Also, differences in consciousness and difference in how to receive reviews were born. Therefore, unification of consciousness was required.

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The aged society is becoming an issue all over the world, causing the middle age nowadays not only have occupational stress to deal with, but also need to be taking care of the elders at home. However, IoT and the development of smarthome control system may be the solution to this problem. This research consists of two open-ended interviews which explore the life style and needs of the senior citizens in Taiwan and concludes what aspects do the caregivers consider the most important in daily life. The result will be used as the core in future smarthome control system designs, hoping to reduce the stress of the middle age caregivers and also improve senior citizens’ ability of taking care of themselves.

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In this study, measurement experiment of physical properties of textures was conducted. To clarify the relation between the “deep” and physical characteristics, correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis were performed by using the data of past study. As a result, it turned out that the angle of 15° with respect to specular reflection light is related to “deep” when the viewpoint is static. Also, the dynamic viewpoint has more influence than the static viewpoint.

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Abstract : In this research, acoustic measurements were carried out to investigate performance of the ear pieces about sound collecting. The ear piece has a paraboloidal reflector focusing on the ear canal. The influences of area and position of the reflector and of the distance between the ear canal and the reflector on the performance were investigated.
The results are as follows; 1) Sound collecting performance increased as the area of reflector became wider. 2) The performance decreased as the distance between the ear canal and the reflector increased. 3) The performance was not affected by positions of the reflector.

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In this study, we applied painting technology to the preparation of color product-model made from
stereolithography(SLA) type prototyping model. Painting procedures such as pretreatment, under coating, intermediate coat and top coat were optimized for the better appearance of color model. It was concluded that coating of white primer and sanding after spraying putty were important procedures to paint the transparent SLA prototyping model. The painted model obtained color appearance equivalent to general painted product.

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Additive manufacturing technology generates a product model rapidly and directly from three dimensional CAD data. Metal product model is required for the purpose of giving a design to product model. In this study, we applied plating technology to the preparation of metal product model made from material Jetting type as additive manufacturing model. Material Jetting type model treated by plating technique gives its surface smoothing and design.

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Pendulum Pattern, which was one of the non-graphics way, was well-developed in art, design and phototechnical area. The forms of Pendulum Pattern, which is defferent from the general expression in graphics. Today, the study of Pendulum Pattern itself is not developed as it is difficult to describe the basic rule. In this study, I describe Pendulum Pattern generated rules by mathematical principle modeling based on theories of non-linear dynamical systems. As a result I comfirmed the following. (1)A generation system is the cause of the instability of generating process. (2)Synchronization and branch are the important function for securing stability of form generation systems.(3)Necessity of a form study based on non-linear dynamic systems exist.

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In order to reduction of burden the caregiver's body, we are researching and developing wearable auxiliary tool for behavior assistance. We have reported at our society. In this study, we compare using EMG and motion images under three conditions: "Do not use tools", "Use assist belt", "Use wearable auxiliary tool for behavior assistance ". As a result, the assistance method using the wearable auxiliary tool for behavior assistance was found to have the effect of reducing the burden on the trunk.

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Hair straighteners are necessary tools for hairdressers; however, extensive use of such tools can cause damage to the hand. This study explored the handle shape and gripping comfort of hair straighteners. The handle was improved in terms of its diameter, width, and grip angle, and ergonomic experiments were conducted to compare the improved handle with those of commonly used straightener products. The results verified that the aforementioned improvement effectively alleviated problems concerning hair straightener use and enhanced the convenience and comfort of users. Therefore, the study results can serve as a reference for proposing new design that addresses the gripping comfort of hair straighteners.

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Information on printed matter can be roughly divided into text information and image information. And the text typeface also has a culturally significant significance. The National Printing Bureau has long used a special typeface that plays the role of promulgating laws and regulations. Its typeface has played an important role as official typeface which conveys messages to citizens. In this research, we describe the history of the official typeface of the "Official Gazette".

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Rutherford Alcock (1809-1897), the first British Ambassador to Japan, formed a large-scale Japanese art collection for the London 1862 Exhibition, which triggered the Japanism in England. For a better understanding of Victorian artists’ perceptions and interpretation of Japanese aesthetics, this presentation identifies some of the contents of the collection. It also explores cases of designs by a prolific designer, Christopher Dresser (1834-1904), to demonstrate how the Alcock Collection inspired the art industry in Victorian England.

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This article regards Nomin-bijutsu (peasant art movement mainly in 1920s) in Ueda (Nagano prefecture) as a layer of modernization of the city thereby clarifies its originality and difference from Mingei theory. That also points out a matrix of the industry-university cooperation between the movement and Ueda-jiyu-daigaku (Ueda liberal university). The Nomin-bijutsu movement was active for about twenty years before influences of Great Depression and World War 2. The movement revived in post-war era, developed then, and active even now.

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Taking sample drawers, sample display drawers and cases, and single pedestal desks, from among Kyushu University Historical Wooden Furniture Collection, this paper examines features of "Culture of Equivalent Products" seen among those furniture pieces. Outlines, sizes and surface materials of those similar furniture pieces are almost the same, but minute details are different. Behind the scene, there has been an attitude that only outward appearance matters, and manufactures have been able to make such equivalent products. The culture of equivalent products, which was born under pressure between homogenization of educational environment and validity of cost through bidding, has been inherited to date.

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The objective of this study is to clarify a psychological territory and a movement area. This study is comprised of sitting position survey in dining, psychological territory survey, act observation survey in noninterpersonal situation and interpersonal situation and impression evaluation. We grasped the tables shape, size and sitting place in each household dining by sitting position survey. Subjects evaluated interpersonal distance at three sitting positions. In act observation survey, we clarified motion areas in non- interpersonal situation and interpersonal situation using motion capture.

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The objective of this study is to find the tendency of young children's behavior on consensus building by analyzing behavior including conversation and body acts, targeting building blocks. We conducted a behavior observation survey to clarify young children's behaviors. In additon, we conducted an attitude survey for homeroom teacher to grasp consensus building of young children. From the relationship of two surveys' results, we grasped the young children's behaviors in relation to consensus building. In additon, from the distribution of the six behaviors in relation to consensus buildingin time transaction, we grasped the relationship of age and behaviors.

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The "Placemaking" is one of a concept for creating personal places and life in built environment. This study considers a concept of “Place-Based Components” for setting places and designing of special elements and frameworks of those places in public spaces. The concept is abstracted from a sense of security and a sense of livability and an aesthetic of landscape design with people to use in casual conditions of the Bryant Park. As conclusion, this article shows eight casual basic conceptual items of place components for people who start visioning and making places in their towns.

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The objective of this study is to clarify the spatial characteristics by grasping visitor's consciousness and behavior as an example of events in urban park.We conducted an attitude survey on the event space. In addition, We investigated walking speed and staying time of visitors by GPS follow-up survey.From the attitude survey, we grasp the characteristics of the event space that visitors feel. In addition, From GPS follow-up survey, we grasp the behavior of visitors and clarified features of the space where visitors stayed. From the three viewpoints of psychological, quantitative and spatial, the spatial characteristics of the event in the behavior of visitors was clarified.

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A preliminary report on the “Vehicle wrap advertising subcommittee” of Hiroshima City Landscape Council; the establishment of the committee, how it operates, and findings on specific issues. Current design trends in vehicle wrap, in five fields 1) city design, 2) car design, 3) graphic design, 4) color, 5) outdoor advertising, are discussed by experts in each field and the relevant city department. The report details the achievements of the vehicle wrap advertising, clarifying future issues.

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This study extracts the soundscape as the element constituting “Kaiwai” and is intended to analyze it.

In this report, we report the results of collecting and analyzing sounds in the Iwamoto and Otaki districts of Echizen city, and the Asakusa district of Tokyo.

In the Iwamoto area and the Otaki area, we analyzed the difference depending on the presence or absence of snow, and analyzed the difference between day and night in the Asakusa area.
There is a difference in any district, which may lead to the appeal of a new space.

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Recently, we can see many sorts of confection’s package designs at not only the mom-and-pop candy stores but also the modern commercial facility like convenience store or supermarket. The package design of confections is “updating” day by day, however, some confections save original design from when it was on sale. Wondering why they can keep selling the products longtime, I made a hypothesis there are any design methods to be long-seller products in the package design. Taking an example “Bontaname” and calculated its ratios of the color areas of background color and the color of motif. As a result, it keeps same ratio in its each standard.

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There are many traditional patterns in Japan. However, modern people are not familiar with these patterns and do not frequently use them in daily life. The purpose of this study is to make new Japanese patterns for modern Japanese people and to establish its method. Historically, traditional patterns had been developed to use the familiar things as motives. Making samples one after another, we decided to use family names as the motif of the new patterns. Seven traditional patterns were dissolved to each unit of figure in which each character of 30 well-known family names was plugged. In total, over 140 kinds of new Japanese pattern were made.

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It is said that modern people just love new things and change their mind a lot. To show how interesting getting involved in one thing, this study aimed to visualize the circle ratio that we know but have a difficulty for clear description. Making samples one after another, two dimensions, which of characters of the circle ratio should be focused on and how to express them, were established. Moreover, three assessment standards were defined: originality, pi-ness, and meaningfulness. The final product was animation to show that the circle ratio is proportion of circumference to diameter.

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The basic technique for implementation of the projection mapping is to project the image by deforming the image according to the surface shape of the projection target. It is necessary to understand and deal with devices with high technical hurdles for advanced image expressions such as projecting onto curved surfaces and interactivity. This is a problem for video content creators. In this paper, we report the projection mapping system to solve this problem.

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When painting a townscape with watercolor, we first make a line drawing of townscape and paint it with transparent watercolor on it. In this case, if the line drawing is created by perfect lines, it becomes work like coloring, the consciousness to draw a picture is hard to born, and it is difficult to become a unique expression as well. Instead of extraction technology, we created a line drawing with SIC(Synergistic Image Creator). As a result, it was possible to create a sketch with incomplete outlines like human handwriting. We also proposed a method of teaching watercolor painting which uses this line drawing functionally.

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In this paper, we make a report on contents and a method of implementation of “Examination of assessment method for quality improvement in project based learning (PBL) “, which was implemented at our school this year. With “Personal growth” and “Improvement of design skill” set as objectives of PBL, assessments from multidimensional perspective were summarized in order to identify what kinds of problems exist for the objectives.
As a result, it has been revealed to be important for teachers to design PBL without being affected by superficial outcomes.

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Paul Klee's "The Thinking Eye" published while he was teaching at the Bauhaus and the Dusseldorf Art School, contains summary's and descriptions of many of his thoughts on modeling. In this paper, I focus on the mechanical sketches described in "The Thinking Eye" and reflect on their meaning. I also consider how they fit into the architectural structure design model.

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A report on the collaboration between the Fukuoka･Okawa Furniture Manufacturers Association and the Departments of Design, and Housing and Development, which focused on education that teaches the process of furniture development and sharing it through exhibitions. Student developed their capacity for communication and planning, and learned the sequence of steps in the process of product design. Students were also tasked with planning the exhibitions, and the groups worked together in implementing their ideas, helping to develop their cooperation and leadership skills.

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This study aims to investigate and compare the influence of multimedia teaching materials on the learning motivation of students in the industrial design modelling hands-on course. Taking the first-grade students of the Department of Industrial Design at Tatung University in Taiwan, with no prior knowledge of model-making hands-on course, randomly assigned a group of experimental groups for multimedia teaching, and the other class as a control group for traditional teaching. As a result, students receiving multimedia teaching become more able to accept challenges in the hands-on course and believe that they are capable to achieve the goal of skill acquisition in modeling making classes. Furthermore, students of the experimental group are willing to set higher goals, make more efforts and behave more aggressively and persistently in learning new concepts and solving problems when facing obstacles during skill learning.

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This research aimed to examine the effects on learning of using circular stickers of equal steps in grey scales for drawing assignments.
Beginners to drawing tend to see the shape of objects in terms of its contours or outlines, and struggle to understand the relationship between light and dark across a continuum from white to black.
The research seemed to suggest that when drawing by using circular stickers stepped across 11 intervals of gradation from white to black, subjects obtained the ability to apprehend the brightness of an object and visualize it with realistic solid feeling.

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In this study, we devise a teaching method to support improvement of proficiency of using cutter knife. We focus on children who start using cutter knife. The purpose of this study was to clarify the teaching requirement for improving the using cutter knife proficiency of the children. In this study, it was make hypothesis on teaching the link between the movement of the cutter blade and the movement of the body leads to an improvement in proficiency in using cutter knife. Here we described progress report of research. As a result of the current survey, it was found that future surveys need to pay attention to differences in physical characteristics between children and adults.

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In this paper,a shape optimization analyses by BESO (Bidirectional Evolutionary Structural Optimization) method were carried out to obtain the shape of handle that reduces stress for the visually impaired with guide dogs.The design domain has curved surface consisted by the shape of "y"shaped curved handle and the backline of dogs.In analysis,BESO parameters were evolutionary volume ratio ER=0.06%,maximum volume addition ratio AR_max=0.12% and radius of influence r_min=14.0mm.
The evolution histories of compliance showed that the solutions converged stably.

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For the development of a new system that supports of travelling by recording steps, gradients and obstacles that can not be covered by the conventional navigation for pedestrians, we used proactive utilization of a continuous recording type drive recorder to make it possible for wheelchair users and healthy people compare performance of actions and objective typing obstacles.

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Humans are born equally. Furthermore, Human Centered Design (HCD) is a series of activity processes that accurately grasp the user's characteristics and utilization conditions, provide products and services that are more effective and easy to use, and satisfied. Recently, I injured my foot. So this experience let me understand the feeling about behavioral disorder, because that I have a proposal of wheel chair barrier-free information guide application development based on HCD to contribute to our health and welfare.

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Authors are planning to develop tools to self-diagnose design utilization level and gain knowledge on more effective efforts for regional SMEs already in the design utilization stage. In this study a cardsorting survey including interview was conducted for experienced design business professional in supporting SMEs to evaluate the component of the framework”4×4 design management activity model” that is the precedent hypothesis of this study. This paper provides findings of the card-sorting survey.

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Service Design, a design approach to develop services, has been commonly applied to both private and public sectors in recent years. Since service design is not just a user-centered design, but a design of the service ecosystem, it requires considering the sustainability of the service and to build consensus with stakeholders. In this presentation, we propose a service design sprint approach to address these issues. We will illustrate the overview of this approach, and insights from our past cases.

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The purpose of this research is to verify the scale for measuring "differentiation" and "integration" of group work by college students and to clarify factors that have effect on occurring conflicts. College students participating in ongoing group works evaluated the degree of accomplishment of their team’s “differentiation” and “integration”. Analysis of these results revealed subscales of the two scales. In addition, based on the results of analysis, a tool (check sheet) that enables effective coping was constructed. A verification experiment of the check sheet was conducted, and effectiveness of the check sheet was confirmed.

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We began the project education for design in 2006. This is because a change was demanded for design education, because the correspondence to the diversification of the intention of the student and the upbringing of the practice ability were demanded. In this study, we placed 2006 through 2008 with the introduction period of the project education for design, so that 2008 is a year after starting Hakata-Ori Promotion.We clarified the methodolo gical features of the Project Education for Design by the results of the cooperation activities for these three years.

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These days, coordination of clothes is a major theme of design, but there is no way to analyze it. In this research, we conducted a questionnaire survey on what kind of tops and bottoms design would look good on the case of coordination of young women's clothes. As a result of performing correspondence analysis and cluster analysis, we found four types of coordination. In addition, the design elements of these types were also clarified using rough sets. We think that these types of coordination will be valuable knowledge when considering new coordination.

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In the recent days, small and medium-sized enterprises are faced on the severe competitive environment at home and abroad. In order to survive the global competition, not only the technology but also the design powers are required when creating a new product or service. In this paper, we propose a new method of design development using positioning map for a niche market at which is aimed by such small and medium-sized enterprises. In this new method, we define the design concept of a new product or service by both intension and extension. And we also give an approach to identify the elements which are included in both of the intension and extension corresponding to the targeted niche market.

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We have been making some industry-university joint researches in the field of new business and urban development for several years.We confirmed that the deliverable from the point of view of young generation is a useful to customer co-creation by the redefining young people's views against a time backgrounds and technology trends.We also researched a method of participation that young people have mind of service beneficiary and operator in open innovation project and broaden the utilization opportunities in various fields related to the social.

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In recent years, there has been an increase in the number of urban development projects by private-public initiative and growing importance of planning a short-middle term business project from both points of view of solving the current problems and creating the future opportunities.We made an image of project planning model in the society/urban/local business development that can capture whole project and can share a common view among the project members.As a result, we were able to establish an execution process that any members can proceed by collaborating with each other for short-middle term business.

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In regional revitalization, cooperative creation process utilizing the characteristics of regional industry is required. For cities with technologies and research bases, it is possible to discuss problem solving by regional collaboration and technical demonstration for future solution development. As a result, the effort not only has an effect on regional activity but also technology development can be evolved at the same time in the cross sector. In this report, we propose the Society Technology Map and introduce the efforts of the cooperation creation project in the community about our R&D-driven solution.

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Many consumer products adopted IoT and AI technology, especially in home appliances. Customized product and service for each user’s lifestyle have increased, which means it's required in the product development that any developers get to pay attention to user's context of activities, and find what they really want. However, there is not many methods to structurally understand the context of use, not surprisingly for novices . In this study, we clear the problem that novices face in Contextual Design, and find a way to make the method easier to use.

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