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This class will approach the Chinese language from a sociolinguistic angle. Sociolinguistics is a field that attempts to elucidate language in terms of its relationship with society, and its research targets range from familiar linguistic phenomena to language variation, multilingual use, language inheritance, language policy, language services, and more.

My own research topics that I have worked on/am working on include language policy for ethnic minorities, language evaluation attitudes, language use attitudes, attitudes toward the use of nominal terms for women, language services in Nagano Prefecture, and strategies for "refusal" in Chinese. In addition, the acquisition of sociolinguistic competence has become one of the most important topics in foreign language education. Therefore, this study group will also treat research on Chinese language education as one important issue.

The workshop will operate in the following sequence
(1) Students will read and critically analyze the literature related to the theme that they (or their team) will address in their project.
(2) Divide into projects, formulate themes, and derive hypotheses.
(3) Design and conduct effective research to substantiate hypotheses.
(4) Summarize the results of the investigation and report the findings.

The main research theme is research and development of information systems related to the Internet.
We will carry out research activities that research and development of protocols, such as IPv6-related, computer systems, security, and distributed systems, which are the next-generation core protocols, and the global expansion of research results developed through international standardization.

Apply the knowledge of clinical psychology and psychoanalysis to various psychological themes and work on them in a practical and experiential manner.

This study group is based on the psychoanalytic worldview discovered by Sigmund Freud. Although psychoanalysis is essentially a method of clinical practice, the SFC's curriculum does not aim to train for clinicians. For this reason, this study group aims at 'psychoanalysis as a liberal arts'. Through research presentations and group discussions by students on themes related to individual or group/organization in which students are interested, we are going to explore the nature of human beings.

The area covered by this seminar is general administrative law. It covers not only the problems related to administrative case litigation and the theory of administrative law, but also the latest problems related to administrative systems and policy making.
If necessary, we may invite an expert as a guest speaker. And if the conditions are met, we are also considering making policies regarding local governments in Japan at this seminar.
Depending on your wishes, you can select a wide range of research subjects in general law, so please consult with me.

Mission: In Search of Future of Organizations

Organizations increasingly rely on technologies to operate, organize, and innovate in this AI/big data era. Also, radical changes in the society such as issues related to diversity, inclusion, equity, sustainability, environment, and governance have huge impacts on how we (should) manage organizations. We collectively explore the future of organizations, which is a frontier of management studies and practice. Topics include future of work, new organizational forms, digital organizational culture, decentralized autonomous organizations, diversity and inclusion management, people analytics, collective intelligence and open innovation. We approach these themes from various perspectives and methods including (but not limited to) qualitative case studies and data science, and project works with business partners in the real world.

You learn the basis of Meteorology and Climate science and discuss their application to various industrial fields in our laboratory. You determine your research theme by yourself.

The Kenkyukai to explore the applied practice of "landscape thinking" advocated by Hajime Ishikawa.

Basically this course is a continuation of Kanie-lab which was held during Spring 2021 semester.

Marketing Communication / Regional Design
This research group explores communication strategies for consumers and organizations on various themes, mainly in [Marketing Communication] and [Regional Design]. Our activities include (1) research projects based on the students' problem consciousness and (2) original business contests in collaboration with companies and organizations. In addition, we conduct the following types of research.

(1) Research projects based on the students' awareness of problems
We continue to develop projects that use cutting-edge, large-scale marketing data provided by companies and organizations with which we have partnerships.
Marketing and Communication
a) Marketing at SFC
b) Digital marketing
c) Corporate branding
d) Diffusion of innovation
d) SNS marketing
e) Social listening and mining

Regional Design
a) Regional development
b) Tourism business
c) Advertising business

Students will be assigned to one of the above projects and spend a significant amount of time designing plans, conducting and managing surveys, and struggling with data. Students are expected to take an active role in the management of the research group and are expected to speak and act proactively.

(2) Unique business contests in collaboration with companies and organizations
We will hold our business contest in collaboration with companies and organizations and propose measures to address the issues.
Examples of past contests
a) Marketing strategy for a museum
b) Product sales strategy for a chemical manufacturer
c) Marketing strategy for a cosmetics manufacturer
d) Growth strategy for a beverage manufacturer
e) New route development for an airline company
f) Proposal for local development measures utilizing local resources
(2)Unique business competitions in partnership with companies and organizations
We will conduct our business competitions to address actual problems in collaboration with companies and organizations. During the business competition, we propose new ideas to solve the problem.
Examples of past practice:
(a) Marketing strategies for the museum
(b) Product marketing strategies of chemical manufacturers.
(c) Sales strategies of cosmetic manufacturers
(d) Growth strategies for beverage manufacturers.
(e) New route development for airline companies

Research topic include Visual media, UAV(Drone), VR/AR/XR, Web technologies and application of advanced technologies.

Visual Media
Goal: application of visual media in various field and develop new methods of visual representations.
Topic: analysis of visual representation and methods, visual media with new technologies and marketing with visual contents etc.

UAV(Drone)Development and Application
Goal: Conduct research on control over physical devices by developing racing drone, drone flight test, flight characteristics analysis, operation practice, software development for flight controller/ESC/OSD etc., attending competition such as FPV drone racing or FPV freestyle, video processing with low latency, development automated flight system and flight support system.

VR/AR/XR
Goal: Develop applications of VR
Topic: Utilization of VR chat to education, integration of VR to UAV, integration of VR to the Web.

Web Application
Goal: This group conduct research on advanced web application and related technologies.
Topic: web marketing, web design, data analysis, Web UI/UX, disaster information system, advanced web application (e.g. SFC Hack)

Students who join the seminar for the first time are given new student assignments. By completing the assignments those new students are allowed to enroll actual research projects. Completion of the assignments is mandatory to continue enrolling this seminar after 2nd semester.
Assignments for visual media, VR/AR/XR and Web application are creation of some content.
Students in UAV Development would be required to pass official examination for Amateur Fourth-Class Radio Operator and basic operation of UAV.

In this seminar, students will discuss and explore the process of second language learning and teaching through studying textbooks and research articles. Students will learn how to conduct research such as how to develop research themes and research questions, how to design research, and data analysis, as well as how to write a research paper. Students will work on their individual studies, giving each other feedback in weekly discussions. This lab has 20-25 students including graduate students, and most of them have had experience living or studying abroad and are proficient speakers of English.
Discussions can be conducted in both English and Japanese, and I am hopeful that both Japanese and international students can improve English and Japanese proficiency respectively by being in this seminar. We have guest speakers and lectures have been given in English most of the time.
Reference books will be recommended for the new students.

We are living in the Internet age using PCs and smartphones, but we are looking forward to using the net everywhere, with advanced computers, networks, and devices. In this seminar, we try to find various new interaction techniques for the coming age, where everybody can use Web resources everywhere without learning special techniques for handling computers.

In recent years, we have not only read in detail textbooks dealing with the social choice theory and the application of game theory to public choice, but also examined the decision analysis beyond "rational choice", for example, the Gilboa's decision theory. In this semester, we will read a research book on social choice theory.

I hope to encourage competition among the participants of my seminar and build a tense relationship to work hard together.

How to Realize Social Transformation Based on Collaboration and Sustainable Relationship with Locality in the Field of Education

The purpose of this seminar is to analyze the human behavior and performance from the field of ergonomics and sports psychology by using various experimental methods from psychological and physiological aspects.

This research group designs new experiences using technology as an element. Our research fields are HCI (Human Computer Interaction) and UI/UX (User Interface/User Experience). Let's create new experiences with prototyping.