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The core of the human intelligence lies in the fact that people learn and behave in a "situated" manner, dependent on the situation they are in. However, how human intelligence possesses that "situatedness" is still a mystery. Past researches on AI have not yet obtained any answers, even hypotheses.
Although the technology about deep learning is expected to bring huge impact on changes of the world, it theoretically will not give any answers to this problem at all.
This is the PROBLEM the current AI is faced with.
It is a high and hard obstacle. As long as the researchers do not get some ideas to go over it, the AI researches will not get a new future.
Having provided about this problem of AI, this lecture aims to encourage students think of their own intelligence.
How do people choose words or expressions to communicate with others successfully? Further, what difficulties are experienced if such acts are done in a second language(L2)? This lecture will survey how adult learners acquire L2. Students will learn theories of L2 acquisition and study issues involving communications from theoretical and practical positions. I welcome students who are interested in cross-cultural communication and pragmatics as well as second language acquisition (SLA) research.
The course aims to introduce students to basic concepts of semantics and methods for practical analysis of linguistic data. We will put particular focus on the analysis of lexical meaning from a cognitive linguistic perspective. What is the mechanism behind our understanding of lexical meaning? How are our concepts structured via metaphors other conceptual operations? What might we be able to learn from the analysis of culturally significant lexical items? These are basic research questions of this course. Graduate students who have already taken this course are expected to enhance their skill further and to tackle on a research question which will result in a professional presentation.
This course will address the basic knowledge, theoretical models and perspectives of Chinese domestic politics and foreign policy. Especially, this course will shed some light on the black box of Chinese domestic/foreign policy decision-making process.
Recent advance in brain science has revealed some mechanisms of knowledge processing in the human brain. We study the knowledge processing about how the visual and auditory systems acquire and process knowledge derived from the external environment, how the memory system retains such knowledge, how the multimodal knowledge processing is achieved, and so on, from a neuroscience point of view. In parallel, they learn anatomical brain structures and pathways, and experience peripheral and central illusions to understand knowledge processing phenomenologically.
The purpose of this class is to understand the perceptual-motor skills in human motor behavior like a sports considering relationships between human, task, and environment from the field of the sports psychology.
The purpose of the course is to approach human (in)security by examining the role of the state in its services to the people, the services that the state can provide, and the extent to which the state services can reach out for its people. Examining risks presented to the individuals due to the lack of services and/or the limited coverage of existing services are also another focus of the course. The role of the government (acting in the name of the state), theoretically speaking, is to design policies and offer services to its people and in return, people pay taxes in order to enjoy the services provided, that is, public goods. Depending on the extension of services it can provide can one state be considered either a night watchman state or a welfare state. How do the people carry out their daily life given the presence/absence of the protection from its state in a certain area? Even where the state is involved, there is no assurance that such policies and/or services are comprehensive enough to cover everyone, or even effective for many. Furthermore, even with these problems, these policies and services may either give so little autonomy to their beneficiaries (people). The course will use examples of health, police, education, etc as illustrations to examine how different types of states deal with each issue and how their approach influences the living of its people.
Computers and artifacts around us are getting complicated, and human-computer interface technologies for those machines are becoming very important. When a user feels that a system is too complicated and difficult to use, it is usually not because the user is not trained enough, but the human interface of the system is not well-designed.
In this lecture, we learn various aspects of human-computer interaction and discover how we can design user-friendly systems. We first learn the basic concepts of human-computer interface, and view the usability issues from the viewpoint of cognitive science. We learn the difference between a good interface design and a bad one by investigating many existing systems. We learn various new technologies for improving user experiences, and finally we'll get the whole knowledge for designing better interactive systems.
(This class will be taught on-line. Students are required to actively participate with their cameras on.)
This postgraduate HC program course focuses on the interrelationships between language and society. Emphasising the linguistic-social-cultural diversity and the accompanying issues of language inequality, we will focus on linguistic policy, language education, heritage language, indigenous language, oral narratives, language revitalisation, among others, to explore the intersecting realms of multilingualism and multiculturalism. We will approach these research areas from the disciplinary bases of sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, especially the critical theory strand within these disciplines. There will be a core reading assigned with accompanying reference materials, and the course will consist of reading seminars of the core text, followed by student research presentations around the topics covered in the reading material.
（この授業はオンラインで行います。受講する学生はカメラをオンにして積極的に参加することが必要になります。）
この大学院HCプログラム科目においては、言語と社会のかかわりにおいて、特に多様性とそこで生じる言語不平等の問題を重視しつつ、言語政策、言語教育、継承言語、先住民言語、口承文学、言語復興などの側面から、多言語主義と多文化主義の交差する問題領域を探求します。社会言語学や言語人類学からのアプローチを土台とし、批判理論（クリティカル・セオリー）にもとづくアプローチを重視します。具体的には、特定の主題の下に、輪読文献と関連参考文献を設定し、輪読と担当教員らによる解説をベースに議論を行い、そこで学んだ内容を元に学生自らが関連テーマでリサーチをし、発表をします。
With the impressive developments of ICT, a new field of research on learning called Learning Environment Theory is gaining popularity. In addition, the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing institutions that promote education to make major structural changes. As a result, traditional ideas about the meaning of learning environments, in which formal learning in the classroom and informal learning outside the classroom work together, efforts to create autonomous learning environments are now going through a major transformation.
Learning Environment Theory has connections with a variety of disciplines, including cognitive science, neuroscience, culture, and communication.
In addition to Learning Environment Theory, research on education is exploring the possibility of bringing in new perspectives, such as globalization and education, integrated education/individualized autonomous learning, and situated learning. Consequently, the idea of Environmental Design is gaining importance as well.
In these lectures, four faculty members will discuss ICT-based learning environments based on research in their respective fields at this important time, with the aim of producing human resources with a broad range of knowledge and practical skills: promoting collaboration between those involved in education and those in technology, considering the needs of learners, and developing contents that reflect new learning styles, with emphasis on awareness of the existence of new trends. Students will be invited to articulate proposals for developing learning environments that exploit their creativity in building a new learning environment through theory and practice.
Mobile network becomes an indispensable communication infrastructure not only for 5G/4G service but also for private network such as WiFi, BLE, LPWA and smart grid. The understanding of mobile network requires the fundamental wireless communication technology, international standardization and radio regulations. In this course, we learn those topics with concrete case studies.
"Human Movement Analysis", the students will learn how to observe human behavior and its methodology through the workshop. Fundamentally, the students will learn the physiological and biomechanical methodology in the semester. Heart rate, oxygen uptake, EMG are the topics in the physio. Motion capturte, high speed video analysis are the topics in the biomechanics.
We need knowledge of post process of the observed data set.
The students will learn both the experimental and analytical methodology through the workshop.
This course covers building construction methods as the basis for architecture.
This class is organized by researchers from not only inside cyber-informatics division in SFC, but also outside SFC. All the speakers are at the top class. The topics include human-computer interaction, signal processing, medical informatics, data system.
Recently, the output of life sciences has been applied to industrial fields such as medial, environmental and food areas. To learn cutting-edge researches, this class will invite scientists and PhD students from various bioscience areas, including bioinformatics, systems biology, genome biology, RNA science, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, molecular evolution, embryology, microbiology, gut microbiota, structural biology, protein engineering, metabolism, genome design, biology, entomology and infectious disease, and present the latest research findings.
Sequence analysis is a broad field, covering any kinds of analyses of textual sequences; e.g. those representing genomes (DNA) and proteins (amino acids). The biological sequence analyses include determining genome structures, identifying protein-coding regions (genes), predicting gene function, inferring phylogenetic relationships, and ancestral reconstruction (Coghlan, 2011; Hall, 2017). Recent studies showed that genomics and phylogenetics can track spread and evolution of novel coronavirus ([https://nextstrain.org/]). The sequence analysis methods have been used not only in the field of biology, but also in genealogy of manuscripts (Barbrook et al., 1998) and quantitative evaluation of melodic similarity (Savage et al., 2018). Thus, text-processing skills necessary to analyze sequence data can be applied to the analysis of data in other fields.
This course will provide the introduction to the main tools and databases used in the analysis of sequence data and explains how these can be used together to answer biological questions. Examples of analysis include retrieving DNA and protein sequences from public databases, DNA sequence statistics (length, GC content, DNA words, and local variation in base composition), pairwise sequence alignment (dotplot, global sequence alignment, and local sequence alignment), multiple sequence alignment, and phylogenetic inference, etc.
Students from all disciplines will use the sequence analysis methods to tackle problems in their fields (biology, language, manuscript, music, etc.).
This class introduces theories and methods of international relations and area studies researches. A key word at the class is "global governance." This class is recommended to students who have come to SFC from other universities and overseas. Students at GR program is envisaged, but students of other programs are permitted. Lectures and discussions are mainly in Japanese.
Engineering is behind our sports activity. A facilities, equipments, sports wears and shoes are necessary for the sports. Its development is mainly based on the engineering. The aim of the engineering for sports is performance enhancement, injury prevention and comfort. This lecture will introduce these engineering aspect on the sports.
In addition, this lecture will also introduce the science and engineering aspect on the athletes' performance. Fluid dynamics, impact engineering, material sciences, etc. This lecture ensure that your insight of the sports must be changed after the semester.
Sports biomechanics focuses on the human movement in our sports activity from the view point of the mechanics. Sports biomechanics has mainly two approaches, Kinematics and Kinetics. Kinematics is focusing on the displacement, velocity, acceleration and their angular alternatives, namely the result of the movement. Kinetics is focusing on the force/ moment, power and energy, namely, the source of the movement. I addition to these approaches, since our human motion is caused by the signal from our brain. A neuro physical approach is necessary for sports biomechanics. In this lecture, we will study how sports biomechanics enhance the athletes performance and prevent injury.
Since the 1990s, while the world has experienced the wave of globalism, it has simultaneously been haunted by the rise of regional conflicts that had erupted subsequent to the end of the Cold War. Concurrently, the international community has been facing threats emanating from the so-called failed states, mainly due to the former's inability to stabilize the situation. Furthermore, counter measures introduced by individual states to deal with challenges represented by global warming and contagious diseases like Ebola will remain less effective if not conducted comprehensively and collectively through international and/or regional institutions or forums. This class will consider a variety of issues that require multilateral mechanism of governance.
本授業は英語で開講されますThis course is jointly conducted with Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea and Fudan University in Shanghai, China through Distance Learning (DL), simultaneously connected via web conference.
This course will examine comparative governance and foreign policies in East Asia. The main objective of this course is to analyze Japan's domestic politics, institutions and legal structures that relates to the foreign policy. This course also covers the comparative perspectives of governance and foreign policies of China, Korea, and ASEAN member states.
This course previously offered chances for students from Keio, Yonsei and Fudan university to interact together face-to-face. However, amid the spread of COVID-19, we are unable to let students to travel to visit universities at least in Fall Semester 2021.
In stead, we are providing all programs online. There will be 1) individual lectures, 2) joint lectures (Keio-Yonsei-Fudan), 3) online students workshop and presentations.
This class deals with issues concerning “learning” in a very broad sense, which includes almost all knowledge and skill that is acquired through one’s own experience or instructions. For example it includes learning of native and non-native language, literacy, everyday concepts and scientific concepts. It also includes various types of skills, such as sports, playing musical instruments, performing art, and fine arts. The goal of the class is to gain understanding of cognitive mechanisms through which learners acquire knowledge and skills. Based on this understanding, the class discusses ideal forms of learning and education in and outside classrooms.
- How do we view the size the color, and the depth of objects?
- How do we accumulate experiences and learning?
- How do we feel Kansei (aisthesis) and Shitsukan (material perception)?
These questions are contained in the question of how do we perceive and cognize the inside and outside of the body. This lecture will approach the laws of perception and cognition.
Students can know some aspects of formulating the mysteries represented by concepts and formulas and predicting the phenomenon of perception and cognition by using the model* to take the lecture.
Based on the mental model dealt in the course of Personality Development, we will discuss how inner psychic world is evolve from infancy, childhood, adolescence to adulthood through active interaction with environment. From modern psychoanalytic perspectives, I pick up topics such as family, narcissism, identity, PTSD, and object loss. Using materials from drama, novel, non-fiction, and guest lectures' talk, this course aims at students' deep understanding of mental environment.