Masahiro Hamasaki, Kouchiro Eto, Sri Kurniawan, Tom Hope, Hideaki Takeda, and Takuichi Nishimura

Book chapter in Panayiotis Zaphiris and Chee Siang Ang (Eds.) (2010) Social Computing and Virtual Communities, Taylor & Francis.

This chapter discusses, using two case studies, some issues of user-generated content and intellectual property, and argues for the development of technological infrastructure to support original authors' rights.

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Recently I was a facilitator at the Tokyo Tech "Creative Flow" Science and Culture cafe.

The guest speaker was Frank Schwalba-Hoth, visiting from Brussels, who spoke about European policy, the environment, and the importance of international experience for students. We had a discussion with participants in the audience about relationships between science and art, whether scientists should strive to have "general" views or be focused only on their research topics etc.

It was a great opportunity personally to hear some of the thoughts of young scientists, and encouraging in relation to the possibilities of science cafes held in English in Japan.

Download a pdf of the poster (Japanese)

Tokyo Institute of Technology - New Position

Since September 2009 I have a new position as associate professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology. The contact form on the contact pages of this site still works as a way to get in touch with me. I will update with more details soon.

博物館ガイドシステムとそこに見られる家族内協調の分析

JSAI 2009 Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan, June 17-19, 2009

中村 嘉志、Tom Hope、高橋 徹、野林 厚志、福岡 正太、濱崎 雅弘、西村 拓一

概要

博物館におけるインタラクティブシステムの在り方に関する研究は重要性を増しているが、システムが家族内に与える影響について、ユーザの活動分析はあまり行われていない。本発表では、実際の博物館にガイドシステムを設置した我々の取り組みと、それを利用する家族内インタラクションについて会話分析手法により得られた知見について述べる

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