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"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.
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.
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.
"Gut microbiota control our behavior! "
"It's actually the bacteria in our gut that makes us fat!"
The truth is that all of this sounds like a lie. It is estimated that there are as many, if not more, intestinal bacteria living in our intestinal tract, than there are cells in our entire body. Gut microbiota has various effects on our body by crosstalk with host intestinal neurons, endocrine cells, and immune cells. In this lecture, the functions of the gut microbiota that contribute to the maintenance and promotion of host health will be outlined. In addition, the roles of the gut microbiota in the development of the intestinal immune system, various diseases caused by imbalances in the gut microbiota, and methods of disease prevention and treatment through appropriate control of gut microbiota will be explained, including the latest findings.
Genome science is one of the leading subjects in the 21st century. For students who major in life science, the filed of genome science is very necessary to understand the modern biology. By taking this class (Genome Molecular Biology 1) as well as Genome Molecular Biology 2 class (autumn semester), you can understand the genome biology from basics to frontiers. The required book for this class is the 4th edition textbook called Genome 4 (ed. by T. A. Brown).
This lecture introduces the functions of UNIX operating system. UNIX is common and basic operating system of Linux, MacOS and many servicer side operating systems. Understanding the UNIX operating system helps for current computer system. The functions of the operating system are File System, Device I/O, Process management, Memory management, Inter Process Communications, Signaling/Interrupt handling and Network functions (includes TCP/IP protocol stack).
In this lecture, understanding those operating system functions by writing system programs in language C.
Smart devices, such as smart phones and tablets, have experienced rapid growth in the past few years, and has opened various possibilities of innovation in fields of research and development.
This course will focus on application development through Unity engine for both ios and Android systems. Students will first learn about the fundamentals of Unity engine, then learn how to utilize features available on smart devices such as touch sensor,accelerometer, GPS, network, etc. Each student is expected to create a smart device application by him/herself at the end of this course as a final project.
Using Processing, a programming language and development environment, we will think about design through programming. In addition, students will practice and create works while actually coding. Aimed mainly at beginners in programming, the course will start with the basics of programming (control structure, repetition) through visual expressions, and eventually aim to acquire advanced expressions using 3D expressions, image processing, and data analysis.
Computer architecture is the field of designing (and studying) how computer systems are constructed, by dividing a system into subsystems and defining the interfaces between them.
The class will focus heavily on how the combination of hardware and software achieves performance through parallelism:
pipelining, multicore CPUs in shared-memory systems, data parallel programming as exemplified by GPU programming, and distributed-memory,
message-passing systems such as supercomputers exemplified by MPI.
An operating system is the most basic software system which manages CPU, memory, device, etc. of a computer and provides an environment in which an application program runs. Specific operating systems include Windows 10 provided by Microsoft Corporation, Mac OS X provided by Apple, and Unix.
In this class, lectures on functions and concepts of the operating system.
The basic software of a computer is called its operating system (OS). The operating system loads other programs to create processes. Programs use the file system, network, and other services provided by the OS. There are many operating systems, including Windows and MacOS, but in this class we will focus on Unix and Linux. The basic concepts of processes, system calls, memory management and virtual
memory, file systems, networking, security and other subsystems will be presented. Because concurrency and parallelism are fundamental, and are becoming increasingly important at the application level, students will write at least one concurrent program.
A purpose of this course is to master an IT skill for the large-scale analysis that is one of the skills necessary for data scientist. If it is small data, analysis can be done by the spreadsheets software such as Excel. However, in case that the size of data is big such as GB or million records, Spreadsheets software, such as Excel, cannot handle the data. In this course, students learn frameworks to process such large-scale data.
In this course students consider various ethical issues related to information with view point of architect or implementer of "info-ethic" rather than just studying so called "information ethic" or "information morale." Topics covered include ongoing issues in society and discuss with viewpoints of Norm, Architecture, Market, and Law. Through this process students acquire skills to identify optimal solution to problems that do not have defined right answer with their own ethical view.
Examples of cases to be discussed include "copyright and innovation", "security and privacy", "traceability and freedom of expression." These issues usually have conflicting requirement from various stakeholders and require harmonious design of technology and systems.
Through this process students will learn concept and architecture behind solutions and acquire knowledge and skills to be used by user, developer, corporate executives, government officials.
Expected students for the course include developer or designer of information technology, media, or security, consultant, and policy maker in the government.
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.
Mobile network becomes an indispensable communication infrastructure not only for cellar phone service but also for emerging machine to machine communications including smart grid system. The understanding of mobile network requires the fundamental wireless communication technology, international standardization and radio regulations. This course covers fundamental theory and techniques, which supports the modern mobile network.
The Web is an indispensable foundation for providing information on the Internet. In this course, we will introduce Web technologies: Web page description languages such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, Web server inclusing handling form interaction, foundation technologies such as XML and RDF.
Digital Fabrication is the technology which enables us to directly making things from digital data. 3D Printer, Laser cutter, CNC milling machine and Digital sewing machines are available here in SFC Media center. In this lecture, we talk about advanced use of Laser cutter based on geometric "ORIGAMI" theory. Through this class, you will be able to fabricate morphing objects for any design fields.
Will Artificial Intelligence (AI) make it possible for us to live more meaningful and creative lives? Have personal computers and the internet really contributed to our happiness? As our daily lives are getting more and more dependent on various computer systems, the internet, and AI technologies, we are facing these questions.
At the same time, the rapid progress of AI technologies has made it possible for machines to do tasks we had deemed only humans can do (playing the game of Go / making music/writing haikus). It poses serious and essential questions: What is the difference between humans and machines. Which attributes make human so special (or not so special). Can computers be creative?
In this lecture, we will examine the impact of the interaction with AI technologies in our everyday life and try to envision the preferable design of "Machine-Human Interaction" and "AI-Human Interaction".
We'll use an easy-to-use AI platform to try out and examine the effectiveness/limitation of various methods of Deep Learning and Machine Learning.
The students are expected to make an interactive website using AI and write an article - for instance, an essay on the positive/negative impact of AI, a fictional story of an AI artist in 2045 - and present it at the end of the semester.
We'll publish an online gallery of the articles.
Music is ubiquitous in our environment. A question in this course is how music is processed in our brain and how we can design the environment and change our brain functions with music. Recently, an emerging research field of Music and Neuroscience (“Neuromusic”) has been elucidating the neural correlates of music perception, cognition, and performance. In this course, I will overview what has been known so far in the Neuromusic research from the integrated point of view of Neuroscience, Evolutional Biology, Developmental Brain Science, Human Movement Science, and Cognitive Science.
This class focuses on sense of touch. Even though we touch something in daily basis, it is rare for us to pay attentions to somatosensory feedback itself. Recent scientific reserach in embodied cognition suggests that our decision makings are substantially influenced by haptic feedback experienced in our daily life. I expect that looking through the daily life in terms of "touch". It would provide an opportunity to find hidden values that are not consciously realized.
Forest Science and Engineering covers forests/timberland, forestry, lumber production and wooden architecture. The subject of this course focuses on forests/timberland and forestry operations situated upstream, and the other subject focuses on lumber production and wooden architecture located downstream. This course teaches specialized knowledge and examines the current overall situation together with the technologies and social systems that are associated with the existing issues and problems. Students are expected to gain specialized knowledge, deepen their understanding of the subject matter, and develop their own views and opinions.
The forests/timberland which account for 67% of Japan’s total land and all the related industries are closely tied to our daily life. The currently observed issues associated with forests/timberland, lumber production and wooden architecture are serving as a mirror that clearly reflects those aspects that Japan’s technology development and social system designing have lost sight of.
In the future, the students taking this course may not choose a profession that requires the knowledge covered in this course, but it is intended to equip them with expansive and deep thinking needed for each crucial decision making.
Forest Science and Engineering covers forests/timberland, forestry, lumber production and wooden architecture. The subject of this course focuses on lumber production and wooden architecture located downstream, and the other subject focuses on forests/timberland and forestry operations situated upstream. This course teaches specialized knowledge and examines the current overall situation together with the technologies and social systems that are associated with the existing issues and problems. Students are expected to gain specialized knowledge, deepen their understanding of the subject matter, and develop their own views and opinions.
The forests/timberland which account for 67% of Japan’s total land and all the related industries are closely tied to our daily life. The currently observed issues associated with forests/timberland, lumber production and wooden architecture are serving as a mirror that clearly reflects those aspects that Japan’s technology development and social system designing have lost sight of.
In the future, the students taking this course may not choose a profession that requires the knowledge covered in this course, but it is intended to equip them with expansive and deep thinking needed for each crucial decision making.
Imagine you have an ant in your hand. The ant does not know you are moving forward, nor you can crush it anytime. The ant is us human beings living on the Earth's surface. This course provides an introduction to learning how the Earth's dynamics works from the point of view of solid earth science. You will briefly learn the history of the Earth and its creations, and the consequent change in the environment. You will also learn the mechanism of an earthquake, a tsunami, and a volcanic eruption. You will feel the difference between time and space scales from your everyday life. (You can learn about fluid earth science in the class "Earth System B" held by Dr. Y. Miyamoto.)
The class aims to provide the basic understanding of the Earth’s atmosphere and ocean. By omitting equations as much as possible, the history of the atmosphere and ocean, mechanism on wind and rain, will be introduced. Using the basic understanding, environmental issues such as global warming, air pollution, and heat island will be discussed in the class.