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This document describes the case study that the concept of Value Growth Design based on Timeaxis Design Theory is applied to the feature development of next generation mobility. As one of the feature of the next generation mobility, Emerging Control System which is gradually adopt to the driver by means of leaning and accumulation of the field condition of the trip, will be considered. Emerging Control System was developed as a vehicle installation system, and the verification test of the effect was conducted on the driving simulator as an actual case of the improvement of the fuel efficiency and the battery duration of life. The result and the prospect of the Emerging Control System are mentioned.

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We discuss an interactivity of the character. The element that can decide the interactive degree of the character shows the relation to the story that the character has. Interest appears as a result of interactivity.

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An ontology formalization provides an effective way to describe precise and subtle meaning of words in an explicit manner. Kawaii (cutism) is one of the words that require careful analysis because of its omnipresent appearance in modern Japanese life. We employed a comparative analysis of Japanese and Chinese kawaii to determine the universal and idiosyncratic components of the word meaning.

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"What is true wealth, and what is real human life? In the past, human activity was done on subsistence level, thus always in harmony with nature. Nowadays, however, we've been indulged with the all the capitalistic luxuries, and as a result, endogenous and vernacular activities are now increasingly lost. The "Asobi-shigoto" is regarded as an example of such subsistence activities, and is an attempt to re-examine its original meaning. Asobi-shigoto or 'minor subsistence', as its name suggests, encompasses activities such as catching wild games (fish, octopus, rabbit, or even wild boar) by using primitive and traditional way. The author believe that this Asobi-shigoto is an important activity in creating mutual symbiosis between man and nature."

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The development of computer networks and display devices has been significantly changing as a means of communication such as in advertising. In this day and age, communication design has become necessary for considering the content of such structured information from design centered on the representation of information. In addition, diversified media, devices and systems are also required. Therefore, we focus on the digital signage that is currently developing, and discuss the realization of the content design and education needed.

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This paper reported our communication design projects in public spaces supported by media technology. Firstly, we showed experimental promotion event supported by a sensor, interactive contents and twitter contents. Secondly, participation based digital signage with Kinect sensor and web contents was reported.

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This paper overviews interdisciplinary studies that the author has been carrying out till now. The studies are classified into mathematical statistics, applied mathematics, information engineering, and medicine, etc. The utility of liaison type studies is mentioned, and a proposal for making them is given.

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In recent years, many road stations have build the farmer's market. The farmers' markets are used as places of communication of a agricultural producers and users. In this research, we carried out the questionnaire about agricultural products to producers and users.

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Superindustrialization is a business model that surpasses the industrialization that raises added value and provides services through the processing and manufacturing of materials by making use of them. In agriculture, it is about not only growing produce but also processing and manufacturing it and raising its added value as food. Furthermore, it is about conducting service-industry business operations such as running restaurants, offering farm experience, and promoting tourism.

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This sociological study intends to inquiry into social phenomena such as cooperative voluntary participation and civic engagement. The common principle of these phenomena can be unveiled by artificial social simulation. I will show both simulated and analyzed results, and discuss the relatives at the presentation.

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After the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, some agricultural products have been found to be contaminated with radioactive cesium in a wide range of eastern Japan. It is important to reduce the amount of radioactivity in farm products. The most desirable solution is to cease production in the radiation contaminated areas. However, this is not a realistic choice. The fact is that the agricultural production has been continued. The government has developed a plan to detect radiation in agricultural products. Due to a severe shortage of radiation detection equipment, only a small percentage of farm products get checked. Consequently, food contaminated with radioactive cesium over the regulation values was distributed in the retail market. In this paper, we would like to discuss the issues and an effective detection system of radioactive contaminated food.

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This study intends to inquiry into citizens' attitude, opinion, mental feeling, and cognition to safety on daily life and Japanese foods after the tragedy of Tohoku Earthquake. I will show the analyzed results using Key-graph tool and Web data analysis tool, and discuss the relatives at the presentation.

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The fundamental problems of local communities lie in business management and, thus, business administration can assist them in solving those problems. This paper will look at Japan's local communities and the role of business management, and analyze them using the concept of snob effect, bandwagon effect, veblen effect, and story-telling effect which help establish the regional brand name.

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This paper describes a new language education service system which can co-create users' experience value. Recently, service science has been discussed intensively, and various new concepts have been proposed. SDL(Service Dominant Logic)is one of such concepts. Language education services should co-create service value with customers based on SDL, however, no approach using SDL has been proposed so far. A new approach for co-creating users' experience value in Korean language education is proposed based on SDL, where shops or restaurants are used for training Korean language in real situations. This proposal seems to be effective for customers' satisfaction due to their desired real experience.

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Root cause investigation of product accidents plays the important role for the recall decision making, emergency plan, and preventive action. To visualize a process to product accidents by reappearance test brings us useful information for the root cause investigation.

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The power of invention, creativity, and expression are required for construction of a novel VR system. This research focused on dilatant effect of slurry made from water and starch and proposed a new haptic device by controlling viscosity of fluids. We achieved the idea with control of density of the solute by using a suction tube and a filter. Starting from "Dilatanocy" demonstrated in IVRC, this paper describe the processes of the exploration of a new application and the training for the required abilities.

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"mushi-How?"(Ants in the Pants) is a tactile interaction system presenting senses that ants move around on human skin. The tactile display is different with existing display such as vibrlotactile display. Our display presents walking ants that have high speed and low torque hitting nylon line to the skin using compact mortor.

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"Kobito -Virtual Brownies-", the 2nd prize winner of IVRC 2004, is a mixed reality artwork which enables virtual characters exist virtually in real world. The creation of the artwork necessitated attractive characters with physically realistic interaction, which is cutting edge research topic in game technologies. We introduce our researchs on characters for physical interactions started with "Kobito".

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JAIST MOT Course was established in October 2003 in Tokyo. It is dedicated to working professionals who intend to strengthen their skills of innovation management for technology-oriented organizations. It has been conducted by the concepts of offering technology management based on knowledge science with methods of combining theory and practice. To achieve this, the course is featured by many unique operations including emphasis on the importance of networking through interactive lectures combined by group works and offering opportunities for each student to discuss with three or more professors at one time.

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Management Education is now changing from conventional style of field oriented control into strategic oriented management. The progress of Information Technology has construct situations easy to get information we want. On the other hand, the obsolescence of knowledge comes faster than before. So, the effectiveness of learning from some best practices decreases. On the contrary, learning and experience from failure by simulation methods is expected to derive good effects for management. education.

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In this report, I show some suggestion about fostering the competencies of decision-making based on mathematics. For this purpose, I analyze the teaching material "Bowland Maths." that was developed in England. Finally, I report about "Bowland Japan" that I have established.

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This paper discusses the curriculum of SQM (statistical quality management) education by paper helicopter for engineers. The twin rotor paper helicopter and the curriculum which uses it are proposed by Takahashi. The twin rotor paper helicopter has more than 15 design factors and it has two parts (upper rotor and lower rotor), then various kinds of educational programs for SQM are available.

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The presentation shows analyzed results of international mathematics and science literacy surveys for students such as TIMSS and PISA, the worldwide university quality ranking and the science literacy surveys for adults. Based on these results, the author proposes educational concept toward sustainable competency development.

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The purpose of this paper is to introduce the education program at the Graduate School of System Design and Management, Keio University (SDM). The author is a Ph.D student at SDM and has graduated from its master course in 2010. The paper describes the characteristic points of the course and its positive effects on her carrer.

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This paper explains about the interdisciplinary human resource development and career improvement in the Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology (AIIT). It includes education systems, acquisition of competencies and study experiences of one of the alumni at AIIT.

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Knowledge science is a problem-oriented interdisciplinary field that takes as its subject the modeling of the knowledge creation process and its application, and carries out research in such disciplines as knowledge management, management of technology, support for the discovery, synthesis and creation of knowledge, and innovation theory with the aim of constructing a better knowledge-based society. After considering the important concepts in knowledge science such as knowledge technology, knowledge management, knowledge discovery, knowledge synthesis, knowledge justification, and knowledge construction, etc., this presentation will try to rethink knowledge science from the perspective of systems science, and introduce a theory under development related to knowledge construction.

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Organizational knowledge-creating processes rely on tacit powers of organization members. This paper proposes a soft systems approach as a tool to cultivate and disseminate such powers among organization members. For the purpose we first introduce an ideal type of organizational knowledge-creating processes. Then the soft systems methodology is revised by comparing it with the ideal type, and hence an application process of the revised systems methodology can be formally regarded as an organizational knowledge-creating process. Introducing the social systems theory, we can further discuss the mechanism and communication media of our soft systems approach.

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In order to educate undergraduates sustainability issues on society, energy and ourselves, Osaka Prefecture university has proposed four colleges instead of the traditional seven schools. Especially, one of them, college of sustainable system sciences, is established for cross disciplinary and intra disciplinary. The college consists of three schools of: (1) knowledge and information systems, (2) environmental system sciences and (3) management. This paper describes the concept and overview.

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Analysis of a broad Web-based survey confirms thatn naive respondents with a higher degree of declining impatience have larger debts, whereas sophisticates display only insignificant positive association between declining impatience and debt holding. The incidence of the sign effect is negatively associated with debt holding. Declining impatience relates to overborrowing inclination that is revealed by high debt/income ratios, borrowing on credit cards, borrowing of unsecured consumer loans, and/or the experiences of engaging in debt-restructuring and/or of declaring personal bankruptcy.

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In reaction to the serious shortage in electricity supply caused by the 3.11 earthquake in Tohoku, Japanese society have chosen not the increase in the price of electricity, but the rationing that force the users to decrease their use of electricity. A hypothesis based on behavioral economics is given to explain why people preferred the rationing to the price adjustment.

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This paper presents empirical evidence concerning effects of cultural differences on parents' attitudes toward children from unique U.S. and Japanese survey data. These data sets have been collected by Osaka University, and contain questions concerning worldviews and religions, hypothetical questions about parental behavior, and questions about socioeconomic variables. The data show that U.S. parents tend to be tougher than Japanese parents toward young children. Our evidence suggests that contents of worldview beliefs held by parents affect parents' attitudes toward children. Our empirical evidence also indicates that people who are confident about issues related to worldviews tend to show tough attitudes toward their children. Because U.S. parents are much more confident than Japanese parents in worldview issues on the average, this cultural difference helps explain a substantial portion of the difference in parental attitudes between U.S. and Japanese parents.

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The purpose of this paper is to propose management processes of "product strategy", integrated with "product platform strategy" and "technology platform strategy", "product lines" within overall "product lineup", and product architecture strategy and modular design.

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In current production environment in Japan, it is difficult to introduce and maintain a manufacturing factory composed of many workers. From a view point of strategy for merchandising, the following considerations are required to maintain business in the environment: understanding of customer needs and shipping new products to the market earlier than the other companies. Therefore, based on a strategy for international environments, multi-commodity and varying quantity production system should be managed between a stage of product design and a stage of manufacturing process. The production process should be separated into manufacturing process and marketing process to manage effectively. In addition, technologies of different manufacturing processes are commonalized as well as parts and modules and specific technologies should be hidden to prevent the other companies from catching up with our technologies. In this presentation, a framework of PLM is discussed considering a strategy for international production environment. Concretely, production information is separated into data for structure of products and data of process for manufacture of products to maintain business management in international production environments. Specific data structure is developed to store these separated data. In addition, The structure is developed to manage the data for maintenance of technologies and design products in a long period.

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