A social experiment conducted between 2010 and 2013 found ICT (Internet and Communication Technology) to be quite effective in creating and expanding informal social networks among the elderly for preventing social isolation and death in isolation. It shows that ICT can serve not only as a conduit for active social interaction but also helps the middle aged who realize that it is a communication tool for the elderly with a high risk of isolation. The experiment showed that elderly people were supported according to the strength of an area and indicated the feasibility for practical use of ICT in community-based care systems that provided high quality assisted living for elderly people.

Great East Japan Earthquake and the following accident at Fukushima Nuclear Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power Company have revealed many issues and studies to us. It was not only a energy source issue but entire system issue over energy network in Japan. This paper identifies what is required to solve these issues from business model, regulation,some technical perspectives, and make proposal of intelligent information infrastructure in order to build more sustainable community.The proposed infrastructure includes highspeed messaging network, bigdata storage and analisys functions that will give easier approach to new coming energy servicer to create tolerable and flexible infrastructure with less initial and running investment for information infrastructure.

Precise and fundamental data on color cognition are necessary to evaluate accessibility for elderly people and people with color-deficient vision. This research has been undertaken in order to develop the "Three dimensional color accessibility simulator", which is capable to virtually realize our surroundings in the lab as natural as possible by using stereoscopy or stereoscopic 3D images. This paper describes cases and "S3D color space simulator" to evaluate color spaces under controlled conditions.

In this paper, we will discuss Internet user’s self-responsibility（ziko-sekinin）. A main purpose is to clear the reason why we need self-responsibility in Internet. We survey some articles about responsibility in Internet on newspapers from 2003 to 2012 and analyze them from a content analysis.

In conclusion, responsibility in Internet is needed as fundamental premise to guarantee security of the Internet in social responsibility rather than as norm consciousness that someone who created disadvantages in Internet should take over them.

This paper analyses Twitter messages of a leading anti-nuke activist, Misao Redwolf, from a perspective of narrative approach. Based on text mining analysis of the messages, the author found her personal narrative was connected to anti-nuke protest as public issue. This scheme is sharable by the protest pariticpants who also have reasons to participate in the action in their personal experiences and self-narratives.

We examined the impact of the London Olympic Games on images of national people. Seven-hundred and eight Japanese participated in web survey before and after the Olympic Games. Participants rated images of nine national people, the degree of exposure to media reports, and the degree of media usage from opening of the London Olympic Games to the time of web survey. Images of most national people changed in positive direction, but a few images changed in negative direction. Exposure to the media reports on the nation and the national people made the images of some national people positive. The newspapers and television usage made the images of some national people positive. However, the Internet usage made the images of some national people negative.

This study was designed to theorize the action ’Looking at Mobile phone displays’ as a form of non-verbal behavior and non-verbal communication. The motive to pick one’s mobile phone up were categorized and aligned in the formula of non-verbal behavior and communication. Each motive was explained by the considerations about the obtained investigations for non-verbal behavior and communication. This formula can be expected as the basis for cross-cultural comparison.

The ‘Paradox of Informatization', in Takenori Inoki's suggestion (2005), means that we have built a society where people had a narrow and short view of things and lost their faith in each other, while human has been using his ingenuity, augmenting knowledge, and collecting and dispersing information, thereby had created wealth. This paper points out several factors of the Paradox, including spotting in trade, which are inherent in Informatization as well as Market Mechanism by using ‘framing effect' in the behavioral economics. Thereby, we reconsider the instability and traps of socio-economic system brought on by the emergence of the Internet and the problems on rating and ranking in decision-making under the uncertainty and the bounded rationality in a market system.

This paper illustrates the siginificance of studying the history of the U.S. radio broadcasting from 1910 to 1940, and a reason why it is relevant to conduct a comparative study of the media history between Japan and the U.S. for a further analaysis on the role of media in the Internet age today. The result thus far suggests that an underlying problem of media industries today was formed in the era when the commercial radio broadcasting emerged in the U.S; therefore validating its history will build common analytical perspective on today's media in Japan and beyond.

In this paper, we compare four types of semantic differential data (SD data), same layout data (SLD) and three types of different layout data (DLD). SLD were obtained by using same layout of paired adjectives for all objects to be evaluated and DLD were obtained by using different layout of paired adjectives for each every object. Analysis of these data clarified that the ratios of responses to third category in 5-points response scale increased according to the order of adjectives in questionnaire form, and therefore , these order effects gave stronger response bias to SLD.

Moving process lay person becoming to non lay person.It shows us some possibility citizen create every scientific field whatever too difficult to description by experts of own field. Mass corroborate to create new scientific world make by human body’s sense to catch object directory. All of sense is important as Technology and all of citizen have own sense. Many citizen have interest about science, however people do not action easily. And also many government officer and academician hope to know real voice of citizen, however it is difficult to talk each other. Both non lay person and lay person do not enough believe lay person’s intellectual ability. Research goal is to create new field what made by a lot of elements, depend on lay persons, promote integrated academic disciplines.

The expanded use of OSS, and the expansion of the market caused by this adoption has led to a corresponding increase in the number of businesses acting as stakeholders in the field. This paper analyzes how OSS effects Japanese IT companies’ business growth both through simple use and by deeper engagement as a stakeholder in OSS community. This is the first time that such a link between the utilization of OSS and economic growth has been explored in the context of Japan, and it can hopefully lay a foundation for further study regarding the real economic value of this approach to software.

The DPC system now spread throughout public hospitals in the country. But, is this good for public hospital management? So, I compared fluctuations between management indexes of the hospitals that introduced DPC in 2009 and the ones that did not introduce it in 2008 and in 2010. The result is that the hospitals that introduced it are better and more improved that the hospitals that did not introduce the system. The major factor of the difference is that the income from the impatient per day is increaseing more in the hospitals with the DPC system.

This paper studies on consumer behavior by using the online-household-account-book “cocomane”. We try to classify cocomane-users into three types. The Black household, the Silver household and the Green household. The Black household is lending from consumer finance. The Silver household is over 70 ages. The Green household is act thinking “global environment”. By analyzing three type's households' account book, we propose more data-oriented consumer policy.

Information can be consumed without limit unlike material resources. Asking ourselves about what may appear as an issue, we plan on questioning the way we consume information that benefits the indeterminateness from an ethical point of view. Simply recommending the prodigality of information or introducing groundlessly corporeality in communication does not seem to be the best way to act. We intend to expose a new manner of spending information, clarifying the meaning of corporeality and its relationship with communication.

In this paper, by system theory and information theory of Gilbert Simondon, questioning the theory of information until now. It is intended to overcome the dualism teleological and mechanistic theory, and events that entity.Then, by considering the life of disharmony as I raise something to do with the real challenge of informatics.

In the present information society, we can experience various matters. Then, it is possible to experience what we could not experienced in past times. Transmission format of experience is also changed by changing of the times and technology. Therefore, in this paper, focusing on the concept of experience in Walter Benjamin, we would like to consider the concept in terms of translation and creation. Now that the poverty of experience (particularly in cyberspace) is feared, it is an important strategic preparation in order to consider the experience in cyberspace.

This paper examines the possibility of online-based deliberative forums using video-chat technology such as Skype or Facetime. Deliberative forums using face-to-face communication have some problems, which need too much money and time. These problems prevent these forums from being in widespread use. Then online-based deliberative forums can make them easier to organize and consequently increase the amount of them. These merits lead deliberative forums to be more relative and reflexive, because by making them easier, it become possible that much kind of organizers who have a variety of positions can reconfirm through deliberative forum itself whether the deliberative forum was distorted or not, therefore the richness of amount prepares possibilities required to reflect deliberative forums by themselves.

With the spread of Smartphone, the present conditions of the Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD) among adolescents attract social attention. Using the child-parent questionnaire survey investigated by our group in 2012, we analyzed the relations between the IAD and 1)Smartphone usage and 2)child-parent relationship. Consequently, conflict of child-parent relationship is the important related factor of the IAD.

This paper summarizes the results of a study on how mobile phones and smartphones are used among high school students in Japan, and have what are their impacts on human relations. It is estimated that the use of mobile phones and smartphones exerts major effect of interpersonal relationship among them, and the following results was reached that use of it differs from by region and generation.

In this study, semi-structured interviews were carried out to twenty high school students to clarify how they use LINE, an IM application which is nowadays extremely common among teenagers in Japan. As the result, we found three points. Firstly, most of the students use LINE to communicate with close friends. However, they were tired of communicating with friends because they had to keep responding to messages from their friends to keep good relationships. Secondly, some students had episodes to get to know strangers on LINE. Although they could make new friends and acquaintances through it, some of them got into troubles to realize online dating. Thirdly, most students mentioned its usefulness to communicate with others rapidly and smoothly. On the other hand, some of them sent messages without caring about others and had troubles because of messages.

This paper aims to analyse the possibility of volunteer activities after its “end” by analyzing relief activities regaiding private photos flooded by the tsunami of the 2011 East Japan Earthquake. After 3.11, photograph relief activities occurred spontaneously, multiply and simultaneously in the vast disaster-stricken areas, and in a short period of time the activities spread all over Japan. This case study shows us the possibility of volunteer activities based on differences between groups.

We think research how local governments if they were evaluating the business use of social media is almost non-existent. We believe that in the use of social media by local government is expected to perform the analysis with a perspective of project evaluation is to be useful.In light of this background, to clarify the current state of social media use of local government, in particular, we, it is an object of the differences in the purpose, we propose if it were possible what kind of project evaluation..

This paper aims to investigate the utility of Local SNSs and how they are managed by local governments. Recently, local SNSs have decreased. According to GLOCOM's research, the number of local SNSs was about 500 as of 2010, but as of 2013 the number of Local SNSs is about 300. In this research, the author carried out interviews with 13 local government employees. An analysis of these results shows that most of local governments did not participate in the administration of their SNSs.

The efforts for the utilization ICT in local communities increases year by year. However it has a problem with continuity its. In this study, we insist that it is important that citizens conduct contnual of ICT utilization in local communities by themselves. In this pepar, we attempt three proposal and practice. First, IT introduction of local operation by a self-governing body. Second, information sharing between the officers of the self-governing body by cloud service. Third, transmition of local information by citizens. Concurrenay with find the way to utilization methods for themselves.

This paper aims to analyse a structure of relation among social media use, community participation and social capital. The author conducts quantitative empirical analysis based on Japanese two cities in year 2011 and 2012. The results suggest that social media use might affect community participatin by means of two paths. The first is indirect path that goes through online bridging social capital and then general trust. The second is direct path that goes beyond social capital factors or general trust.

Since the latter part of the 20th century, CSR(Corporate Social Responsibility) has been evolved gradually. At the beginning, CSR evolved as countermeasure for corporate criticism. In 21^st century, as public awareness of CSR is rising, CSR has been adopted into business management as an action to improve corporate value through the contribution to society. This paper aims at showing the importance of the citizen-consumer-involving CSR, and the problems for the practice.

This paper shows brief history of product code standardization and its barcode symbol especially in medical device industry in Japan. It may clarify the direction of the area and help the relevant people and organization.

The main purpose of this study is to compare the risk exposure of a techno-centered tendency in the informational environment to depression and new type depression tendency. It was investigated and analyzed by the structural equation model based on questionnaire surveys of university students in the information sciences. The result verified that the deteriorating techno-centered tendency causes the increase more in the new type depression tendency, in comparison with depression. We also proved that the influence depend on the purpose of the internet use. As a preventive measure against the depression tendency in the information society, we concluded that it is essential to prevent techno-centered and refrain from using the internet for escaping from reality.

Our precedent study has been made on comparative study of the self-development effect by enlightening internet usage and reading of good books. This study newly added the information gathering about a life and gratitude to the study, and re-verified the effect by enlightening internet usage and reading of good books. It was investigated and analyzed by the structural equation model based on questionnaire surveys of university students in the information sciences. As a result, an analysis result that was similar to the precedent study was obtained. Moreover, it was suggested that gratitude may reinforce the effect.

There are previous studies that analyzed the influence on communication skills in face-to-face situation by the use of the Internet tool. Then, we add a new construct (degree of good relationship and interpersonal stress, emotional stress tolerance) to the analysis model, and revised the survey items of communication skills in face-to-face and non-face-to-face situation, and made the causal relationship clearer, analyzed a detailed influence. And, we conducted a cross-survey information university students, and analyzed by the structural equation model. As a result, we obtained the same results as previous studies.

The attempting in this paper, it is to show a possibility to consider the information from the viewpoint of framing in the cinema. Consideration to the information from the point of view of system theory, including cybernetics, there is a danger of falling into reductionism. It is necessary to explore the generation of information from the side of the duration and spirit, not the material, and indispensable to multiply the origin of the information by the various types of framing.

This paper is a comparison research of characteristic of between Twitter and Facebook that are major social media in Japan. This research has set Lawson, which is the second largest convenience stores in Japan. The company posts valuable marketing information to customers periodically from Facebook and Twitter. In this paper, author conducted statical research by comparing the difference of customers’ social engagement way such as Like or tweeting. Especially by observing the response differences against the same information, author had tried to identify the different feature between those medias.

This paper shows actual use of Social Media and its motives of information-sharing. Now there are over 50 millions social media users in Japan, and they share their feelings, opinions, tips and other things every day. What make them to write and upload so much information? The desire of friendship, expression, or recognition? In this paper, we focused especially reciprocity and tried to show the relationship between information-sharing and reciprocitical motive. Our analysis are based on the internet survey whose research object are Facebook or Twitter users.

Social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, has been popularized. In the social media times, personal branding is very important strategy in order to use individual strong points, and contributes to self-actualization. Existence of mentors supports to find own strong points for self-actualization. In this paper, we propose a personal branding support service "Mentors". The concept is "Everyone has face of both mentor and mentee". The featuring function is to share components of self-analysis in human life design, that is, value, mission, and strategy. Mentors aims at promotion of human life by understanding their strong points and using social media effectively.

For assuring information security of SNS, the paper proposes introducing the SNS membership qualification system which uses 3 types of licenses and certifications; SNS membership license, security inspection certificate and access visa. It further describes related organization and operating image of the proposed system, and finally discusses effects and issues on the proposal from technical and sociological viewpoints.

This paper shows the proposal and development of the new web system with social media for sightseeing, and design how to use information of tourism. We enable a tourist him/herself to send information in place of a public relations depertment or tourism office. This system consists of a smartphone application used for submit some information in tourism area and a web system used for seeing it. This paper is focused on the application for tourists to take some pictures. We prove the value of it by an experiment.

Recently, In regional activation,Used Open Data attract attention and provide for Various information. Moreover, Sightseeing expected to use to regional activation. In this study, We propose a regional PR model by providing tourist information as Open API. As the result, we made it clear that this model is useful to provision of information and discussed issues of them.

In this paper, we present an approach of developement of a digital archive system for social education by project-based learning under cooperation of regional communities. A digital archive for fishes which live in Hokkaido prefecture was built by using the system. We assume to use this digital archive in a elementary school of the regional community. The details and the subject of the approach are shown.

After the Great East Japan Earthquake, disaster recovery assistance activities have been carried out extensively than ever. But we lacked efficient and effective techniques and equipment to leverage the aid for the disaster victims. Then lots of supplies for the victims resulted havoc in the disaster-affected municipalities . Now, the administration and local governments have a policy not to accept any donated goods from the private sector at least officially. But I think that is wrong.

In this paper, I discuss better logistics for disaster recovery assistance activities by stage of recovery. Then, I present how to use the stockpiled supplies in local governments and donated goods from the private sector efficiently and effectively, as well as present an overview of the information system to support the process from the view-point of community network.

The aim of this paper is to examine create an open data item list of advanced local government and considered these issues order to promote open data published widely in local government.As a result, to discuss the propulsion of open data, it became clear that Cooperative work at local government and citizens, NPO, distribution is required.

A purpose of this article is to argue about possibility to plan expansion of the political participation by utilization of ICT.

The Open Governmennt movement is becoming even Japan. For example, the residents and companies create applications to improve the convenience of the residents by The Open Data held by the Government. Governments shoud develop and maintenance only core competence Information system. But core competence change in the Open Gov. This paper shows the goal of local governments' core competence information systems in the Open Gov.

In this paper, I analyse and estimate our activity as a disaster information volunteer after East Japan Great Earthquake. We entered into suffered area after 311 East Japan Great Earthquake, and we tried to rescue many photos suffered by Tsunami. Through this analysis, compared with the activity of traditional disaster information volunteer before 311, I present new style and new thought on Disaster information volunteer well fitted to this information society. Disaster information volunteer nowadays becomes to be able to treat information which is filled with dense private and wide social meaning.

In this paper, I provide technical analysis of The Project “Salvage Memories”. The project developed an archive system to return photo albums lost during the earthquake and massive tsunami on the day of March 11th 2011. The system has a great potential to hand regional memories, which have been fading in the disaster area, on to the next generation. I discuss the benefits and problems of the archive system.

This paper shows information communication technology can work as a Tool for “Story” of people and communities through disaster relief activities of The Society of Social-Informatics young resercher's group “SSI-BJK”. The contents of activity are as follows. Applications of information technology to return photo albums Lost in disaster area, cooperation activities with people of the area using the application, a blog by community FM.