My research focuses on multi-party interaction with technology, using an ethnomethodology-inspired approach to analyse real-world interaction. These studies cross the fields of HCI, ubiquitous and pervasive computing, and science and technology studies.
A constant thread in my work is the emphasis on the "doing" of a "sense of community" and the way in which this type of action may be reflective of contemporary times. I use qualitative approaches to explore this.
In addition to the above, I research and teach on the topic of science engagement. I was a key member in introducing the "science cafe" (cafe scientifique) concept into Japan.
Based on interviews with nurses, this paper explores the place of nursing actions (events) with e... more Based on interviews with nurses, this paper explores the place of nursing actions (events) with electronic medical records in the 'recognition' of patient and caring-of-patient relationships.
Page 168. 7 Chapter online Content Sharing Masahiro Hamasaki, Kouchiro Eto, Sri Kurniawan, Tom Ho... more Page 168. 7 Chapter online Content Sharing Masahiro Hamasaki, Kouchiro Eto, Sri Kurniawan, Tom Hope, Hideaki Takeda, and Takuichi Nishimura Contents 7.1 Introduction ... We begin by defining online content shar-ing and exploring some of the intellectual property (IP) issues ...
Networked sensing technologies are at the heart of revolutionary advances in the relationship bet... more Networked sensing technologies are at the heart of revolutionary advances in the relationship between humans and their environment. The complementary development of research fields such as pervasive or ubiquitous computing [12] builds on this technology to create worlds ...
Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems - CHI EA '11, 2011
Abstract This paper explores potential uses of publicly created behavioral data for spatial (re)d... more Abstract This paper explores potential uses of publicly created behavioral data for spatial (re)design. The widespread use of mobile devices and access to the Internet has made spontaneous sharing of information about one's life increasingly common. These emerging trends of ...
The Web technology enables numerous people to collaborate in creation. We designate it as massive... more The Web technology enables numerous people to collaborate in creation. We designate it as massively collaborative cre-ation via the Web. It is becoming an important activity such as Wikipedia and Yahoo! QA. As an example of massively collaborative creation, we particularly examine video devel-opment on Nico Nico Douga, which is a video sharing web-site that is popular in Japan. We specifically examine videos on Hatsune Miku, a version of a singing synthesizer appli-cation software that has inspired not only song creation but also songwriting, illustration, and video editing. As described herein, creators of interact to create new contents though their social network. We analyzed the process of developing thou-sands of videos based on creators ’ social networks. The so-cial network reveals interesting features. Different categories of creators serve different roles in evolving the network. We also extracted communities from the network and observed different community structures and ...
Music therapy is utilized worldwide to connect communities, strengthen mental and physiological w... more Music therapy is utilized worldwide to connect communities, strengthen mental and physiological wellbeing, and provide new means of communication for individuals with phonological, social, language, and other communication disorders. The incorporation of technology into music therapy has many potential benefits. Existing research has been done in creating user-friendly devices for music therapy clients, but these technologies have not been utilized due to complications in use by the music therapists themselves. This paper reports the iterative prototype design of a compact and intuitive device designed in close collaboration with music therapists across the globe to promote the usefulness and usability of prototypes. The device features interchangeable interfaces for work with diverse populations. It is portable and hand-held. A device which incorporates these features does not yet exist. The outlined design specifications for this device were found using human centered design techn...
The Web technology enables numerous people to collaborate in creation. We designate it as massive... more The Web technology enables numerous people to collaborate in creation. We designate it as massively collaborative creation via the Web. It is becoming an important activity such as Wikipedia and Yahoo! QA. As an example of massively collaborative creation, we particularly examine video development on Nico Nico Douga, which is a video sharing website that is popular in Japan. We specifically examine videos on Hatsune Miku, a version of a singing synthesizer application software that has inspired not only song creation but also songwriting, illustration, and video editing. As described herein, creators of interact to create new contents though their social network. We analyzed the process of developing thousands of videos based on creators’ social networks. The social network reveals interesting features. Different categories of creators serve different roles in evolving the network. We also extracted communities from the network and observed different community structures and investi...
This chapter explores digitalization and services from the perspective of care, focusing on profe... more This chapter explores digitalization and services from the perspective of care, focusing on professional care in hospitals. After an overview of digitalization of healthcare, a project to develop a digital information system for nurses in a Japanese hospital is introduced. It serves as a case study of the challenges of digitalization in the context of caring practices where the emotional needs of those receiving and, significantly, providing care are central. The chapter argues that current Electronic Medical Records do not sufficiently allow for nurses to express their “caring mind”; thus, this should be a focus of further research.
Healthcare in Japan is changing due to an impending crisis of of a severely aging population, wit... more Healthcare in Japan is changing due to an impending crisis of of a severely aging population, with an associated expected increase in people with chronic illnesses (notably the ‘old-old’), along with a lack of specialized carers [Arai 2015]. ICTs and robotics are seen as one solution to this crisis. While the current Japanese government supports the digitization of medical and healthcare environments, aiming to accelerate ICT use in healthcare and create an integrated healthcare system [Cabinet Office 2013, MHLW 2015], actually digitization has to some extent been growing in Japanese healthcare for some time, with over 50% of large hospitals already using Electronic Medical Records [Yoshida 2013]. With technologies such as online or mobile applications for tracking one’s own medical information a growing body of data will be available on patients and treatments in Japanese healthcare. The interactions between carers and patients and the creation of data comprise a series of ‘events’...
This paper describes issues related to 'real-world' users using the interface of a comm... more This paper describes issues related to 'real-world' users using the interface of a community support system. The system, which is designed to enable users to join a community and build that community through interaction with each other, relies on users understanding and utilizing its ...
Information Technology Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and ... more Information Technology Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Aomi 2416, Koto-ku, Tokyo, 1350064 Japan Email: taku@ni.aist.go.jp ... The Graduate University for Advanced Studies Hiroshi Nagata, Osamu Nakagawa, Eiji ...
Based on interviews with nurses, this paper explores the place of nursing actions (events) with e... more Based on interviews with nurses, this paper explores the place of nursing actions (events) with electronic medical records in the 'recognition' of patient and caring-of-patient relationships.
Page 168. 7 Chapter online Content Sharing Masahiro Hamasaki, Kouchiro Eto, Sri Kurniawan, Tom Ho... more Page 168. 7 Chapter online Content Sharing Masahiro Hamasaki, Kouchiro Eto, Sri Kurniawan, Tom Hope, Hideaki Takeda, and Takuichi Nishimura Contents 7.1 Introduction ... We begin by defining online content shar-ing and exploring some of the intellectual property (IP) issues ...
Networked sensing technologies are at the heart of revolutionary advances in the relationship bet... more Networked sensing technologies are at the heart of revolutionary advances in the relationship between humans and their environment. The complementary development of research fields such as pervasive or ubiquitous computing [12] builds on this technology to create worlds ...
Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems - CHI EA '11, 2011
Abstract This paper explores potential uses of publicly created behavioral data for spatial (re)d... more Abstract This paper explores potential uses of publicly created behavioral data for spatial (re)design. The widespread use of mobile devices and access to the Internet has made spontaneous sharing of information about one's life increasingly common. These emerging trends of ...
The Web technology enables numerous people to collaborate in creation. We designate it as massive... more The Web technology enables numerous people to collaborate in creation. We designate it as massively collaborative cre-ation via the Web. It is becoming an important activity such as Wikipedia and Yahoo! QA. As an example of massively collaborative creation, we particularly examine video devel-opment on Nico Nico Douga, which is a video sharing web-site that is popular in Japan. We specifically examine videos on Hatsune Miku, a version of a singing synthesizer appli-cation software that has inspired not only song creation but also songwriting, illustration, and video editing. As described herein, creators of interact to create new contents though their social network. We analyzed the process of developing thou-sands of videos based on creators ’ social networks. The so-cial network reveals interesting features. Different categories of creators serve different roles in evolving the network. We also extracted communities from the network and observed different community structures and ...
Music therapy is utilized worldwide to connect communities, strengthen mental and physiological w... more Music therapy is utilized worldwide to connect communities, strengthen mental and physiological wellbeing, and provide new means of communication for individuals with phonological, social, language, and other communication disorders. The incorporation of technology into music therapy has many potential benefits. Existing research has been done in creating user-friendly devices for music therapy clients, but these technologies have not been utilized due to complications in use by the music therapists themselves. This paper reports the iterative prototype design of a compact and intuitive device designed in close collaboration with music therapists across the globe to promote the usefulness and usability of prototypes. The device features interchangeable interfaces for work with diverse populations. It is portable and hand-held. A device which incorporates these features does not yet exist. The outlined design specifications for this device were found using human centered design techn...
The Web technology enables numerous people to collaborate in creation. We designate it as massive... more The Web technology enables numerous people to collaborate in creation. We designate it as massively collaborative creation via the Web. It is becoming an important activity such as Wikipedia and Yahoo! QA. As an example of massively collaborative creation, we particularly examine video development on Nico Nico Douga, which is a video sharing website that is popular in Japan. We specifically examine videos on Hatsune Miku, a version of a singing synthesizer application software that has inspired not only song creation but also songwriting, illustration, and video editing. As described herein, creators of interact to create new contents though their social network. We analyzed the process of developing thousands of videos based on creators’ social networks. The social network reveals interesting features. Different categories of creators serve different roles in evolving the network. We also extracted communities from the network and observed different community structures and investi...
This chapter explores digitalization and services from the perspective of care, focusing on profe... more This chapter explores digitalization and services from the perspective of care, focusing on professional care in hospitals. After an overview of digitalization of healthcare, a project to develop a digital information system for nurses in a Japanese hospital is introduced. It serves as a case study of the challenges of digitalization in the context of caring practices where the emotional needs of those receiving and, significantly, providing care are central. The chapter argues that current Electronic Medical Records do not sufficiently allow for nurses to express their “caring mind”; thus, this should be a focus of further research.
Healthcare in Japan is changing due to an impending crisis of of a severely aging population, wit... more Healthcare in Japan is changing due to an impending crisis of of a severely aging population, with an associated expected increase in people with chronic illnesses (notably the ‘old-old’), along with a lack of specialized carers [Arai 2015]. ICTs and robotics are seen as one solution to this crisis. While the current Japanese government supports the digitization of medical and healthcare environments, aiming to accelerate ICT use in healthcare and create an integrated healthcare system [Cabinet Office 2013, MHLW 2015], actually digitization has to some extent been growing in Japanese healthcare for some time, with over 50% of large hospitals already using Electronic Medical Records [Yoshida 2013]. With technologies such as online or mobile applications for tracking one’s own medical information a growing body of data will be available on patients and treatments in Japanese healthcare. The interactions between carers and patients and the creation of data comprise a series of ‘events’...
This paper describes issues related to 'real-world' users using the interface of a comm... more This paper describes issues related to 'real-world' users using the interface of a community support system. The system, which is designed to enable users to join a community and build that community through interaction with each other, relies on users understanding and utilizing its ...
Information Technology Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and ... more Information Technology Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Aomi 2416, Koto-ku, Tokyo, 1350064 Japan Email: taku@ni.aist.go.jp ... The Graduate University for Advanced Studies Hiroshi Nagata, Osamu Nakagawa, Eiji ...
What can we learn about culture from box on the wall of a restroom? How can thinking about this h... more What can we learn about culture from box on the wall of a restroom? How can thinking about this help us prepare our students for global thinking? Tom Hope, a sociologist at Tokyo Tech, talks about this and other technologies and suggests that thinking too big about culture can be problematic. Rather, it can help to make small observations to negotiate culture and use of technology.
This paper is an empirical and theoretical study into constructions and re-constructions of commu... more This paper is an empirical and theoretical study into constructions and re-constructions of community in technologically imbued settings. Beginning with an overview and critique of the difficulties in combining theories of ‘community’ produced inside and outside of Japan, the paper then explores how particular conceptions of group behaviour have become part of current ubiquitous technologies in the country. With a focus on the development and deployment of Social Network Systems (SNS) and Web 2.0, issues are raised over the perceived affordances of the technology and its relationship to ‘real life’. After providing a working definition of ‘ubiquity’, the issue is explored via observations of social action around a conference support system deployed at several international conferences in Japan and overseas. Conclusions are drawn that point to the importance of considering the role of reflexive action and meaning in the future development and production of ubiquitous technologies.
Two things can be seen to have not occurred since the reflexive turn in Sociology and the growth ... more Two things can be seen to have not occurred since the reflexive turn in Sociology and the growth of sociological studies of science and technology. The first is that stable narratives have not disappeared, despite the fact that in STS most understandings of linear scientific development or of all-encompassing answers are seen as erroneous (Deuten and Rip, 2000). Secondly, notions of ‘community’, predicted by critics of the community studies tradition to be in a state of decay, have not decayed but have in fact become more powerful and relevant in understanding how groups interact (Bauman, 2001; Delanty, 2003). The ‘scientific community’ has been shown in multiple studies to have serious difficulties in definition and usage, and, with the ever-pervasive “network” as unit and method of analysis, it may seem to be redundant. In approaching the question of exactly what field or group of people are included in STS work, solutions have ranged from governing norms (Merton, 1942), through discourse communities (Gilbert & Mulkay, 1984), boundary work (Gieryn, 1999) and more. Nevertheless, in these studies, a perception of community can be seen to persist in both the author’s writings and the individual members or actors under study. This paper approaches the study of scientific community by presenting an analysis of “life-story” interviews with individuals working in fields outside of direct scientific knowledge production, but who influence scientific research via their control of funding and policy. From this, an exploration is presented into the methods with which a relatively stable narrative of scientific and non-scientific community is built and maintained, oriented to the interview setting. Conclusions are drawn as to the relevance of ‘community’ in personal narratives of science, suggesting that the science is in the contingent ‘telling’ of the stories. Finally, a note is given about the relevance of this method to STS.
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