Field Informatics Core
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Summary
■Objective
Field informatics core aims to establish methodologies of field informatics. To this end, we collaborate with and support various field oriented projects as pilot projects to gather actual research experience. In parallel, we select and apply existing field oriented methodologies to the pilot projects to understand their strength and weakness, and gradually shape the new methodologies of field informatics.
■Research Plan
Field here is defined as “a spatio-temporal area that is hard to govern with any analytical and/or engineering approach due to unexpected happenings or accidental events generated by the coexistence of various individuals and entities; this necessitates our continuing commitment and caring.”
Field oriented methodologies we have started with are as follows.
- Description stage: Biotelemetry and bio-logging for natural fields, and ethnography as well as statistical analyses for social fields.
- Prediction stage: Participatory modeling of agents and interactions for multi-agent simulation in natural and social environments.
- Design stage: Participatory design methods, including inclusive design for users having special needs.
- Transfer stage: Case writing and scenario study in contrast to academic papers in science and technology.
We plan to publish a textbook in two years and will run open seminars in universities and also in various fields. The core is unique because there has never been a strong sense of fields in the computer science discipline. Research activity in the field informatics core is always undertaken through field workers.
Open Seminar
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Service Computing Symposium 2009
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