Global Economy and Labor Force Migration: The Case of Iranian Workers in Japan

Ritsumeikan Journal of Asia Pacific Studies, (2010), pp. 31-52, Ritsumeikan Centre for Asia Pacific Studies (RCAPS)

Asgari, Behrooz; Yokoyama, Orie; Morozumi, Akiko & Hope, Tom

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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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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Pick and Mix: Pervasive Content Creation Processes

 Pervasive 2009, Workshop on content creation activity support (PerCAS), May 11, 2009

Tom Hope

This position paper gives an overview of pervasive content, with an emphasis on the processes of creation rather than consumption. It includes a brief discussion of the development of pervasive content, noting that much of the discussion has focused on infrastructure while ignoring social processes. The paper concludes by presenting a model of the common process of pervasive content.