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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

This study group is based on the psychoanalytic worldview discovered by Sigmund Freud. Although psychoanalysis is essentially a clinical practice, the SFC curriculum does not aim to train for clinicians. For this reason, this study group aims at 'psychoanalysis as liberal arts'. Through research presentations and group discussions by student on themes related to human and groups/organizations in which students are interested, I am 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.
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 gender, LGBTQ, diversity, 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, diversity and inclusion, 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.

While ICT's progress is remarkable, we need not only to develop technology, but also need to adopt and properly use it for society and economy.
This seminar discusses digital technology policies with focusing on human beings, aiming at realization of sustainable better life and better culture in the year of 2050, with viewpoints of better and more adoption of technology, and with long-term global vision.

This research project focuses on the technologies and societies based on Cybersecurity & Digital Trust.
Cybersecurity & Digital Trust plays an essential role as a common infrastructure of present society.
This project wil explore Cybersecurity & Digital Trust issues both from technological and social aspects and study ways to resolve them.

From the technology side, we will be studying towards implementing and demonstrating of Symmetric Key and Asymmetric Key Encryption, as well as Public Key Infrastructre (PKI).

From the social side, we will be discussing new rules for Big data and AI era as well as considering "How to create the future society" through Cybersecurity & Digital Trust researches and practicing the ideas.

This research project is cooperating with the class of postgraduate course, various labs in SFC laboratory, global standardization bodies including IETF, ISO, ITU, NIST, ETSI, and companies or other universities both domestic and overseas.
Through these projects we would study ways of creating a world leading scheme in relation to society.

We aim to solve social problems and open up new possibilities for architecture by working on projects such as disaster relief, exhibitions, and actual construction project.

The program is designed for students who are interested in architecture and design, disaster relief, international organizations, curatorship, and various research projects related to architecture.

Students are expected to take the initiative in your projects and participate in group work.

Collaborative process is a necessary to study architecture. You will need to set aside time for activities outside of class hour and work together to produce results. Through study groups, students will acquire the skills necessary as individuals (2D CAD, 3D CAD, model making, etc.).

The class is designed to be on-campus, but we will use on-line meeting mainly.

Lear the theory and practices of wireless communications, signal processing and mechatronics through development. If you don't have a specific topic to work on, a development theme will be provided from the faculty. Weekly seminars will be devoted to group reading and research discussions.

This lab considers sports as a tool for solving social issues, and in addition to issues that exist in sports themselves, there are other fields relating to essential issues such as medical and welfare, education, engineering and management, etc.

The purpose of this project is to develop cross-disciplinary projects, collaborate with relevant people through discussions and group work, and achieve social implementation. This laboratory mainly focuses on fieldwork for the social implementation of social issues relating to sports and diversity.

The Iba Laboratory is looking for people who will work together on research and practice with the aim of shifting to a “natural and creative living” society where “natural deep creativity” occurs every day. The following projects are planned for 2022 (they are current plans and subject to change).
(1) Research on creating a Pattern Language for Generators That Spark Creativity
(2) Research on the creating a Pattern Language for Well-Being in Companies That Produce Results
(3) Research on creating a Pattern Language for Market Creation Marketing
(4) Research on the practical application of Pattern Language in New Development Assistance
(5) Research on narratives of Collective Creative Learning that change from values
(6) Research on creating a Pattern Language for Child-rearing in Nature (deepening and finishing phase)
(7) Practical research on training and workshops for elderly care using Words for Elderly Care and Environment
(8) Practical research on realizing a Creative Learning Community

This Kenkyukai is conducting research activities with the goal of building data-driven smart cities and regions. Data Driven means to make decisions and take actions based on data. In today's data-driven society, more quantitative and rational ways of thinking are required instead of the conventional qualitative decision-making. In light of this social trend, we are researching how to discover, solve, and implement problems using analytical methods that utilize data.
Concretely speaking, we use geographic information systems (GIS) to analyze and map geographic data to discover problems in cities and regions, such as the environment, disaster prevention, transportation, tourism, welfare, and agriculture, to understand the causes of problems and their relationship to the people living there, to propose solutions for an ultra-smart society, and to provide policy support. We also propose solutions for an ultra-smart society and provide policy support. We are a research group that can discover problems, devise solutions, and implement them, which is a characteristic of SFC.

The Algorithmic Design Lab. (ADL), as its name suggests, is a research group that conducts research and practice on the architectural design process called "algorithmic design.



At ADL, we are exploring the computability of architecture by writing down every design process related to architecture into computer algorithms. By doing so thoroughly, we will reveal what only humans can do and what designers should do, in other words, the (in)computability of architecture.



For more specific information about the activities, please see the following two lecture videos.

Algorithmic Design --- Growing architecture like plants ---(00:12:16)

Framework for Algorithmic Design(01:29:47)



If you are at all interested in ADL after watching these videos, please come to our lab.

Even if you are a beginner in architectural design or have no experience in programming, you are welcome. If you are interested but worried, please talk to the current ADL members first. We welcome motivated students who are willing to explore the (in)computability of architecture with us.

The purpose of this seminar is to examine various policy issues from a bottom-up approach known as “case studies”. By looking into each individual within his/her “everyday life” context, one can see how that individual life is constructed in a large whole, a community and/or society, where s/he belongs, which in return helps generate feedbacks to the existing policies. The concepts that the seminar focuses on include “risk,” "choice" and “everyday life”. While “risk” as a concept has received considerable attention from different disciplines, “everyday life” is usually taken for granted and treated more as a descriptive term, rather than an operational concept. However, without understanding what constitutes one’s “everyday life”, we fail to see that people’s thoughts and behaviors are in fact subject to changes, if and when there is a change in their physical and social environment. However, these changes may not necessarily alter the consistency in the way people live, and reflect the values s/he attaches to his/her life, for which s/he may change his/her behaviors upon situations. Case Study, with aides from different tools from cognitive sciences, psychology, behavioral theories, and narratives, would provide a “thick” description of people’s actual living in his/her everyday life in order to understand why s/he behaves the way s/he does and where s/he needs facilitation from the environment in order to act efficiently in the face of risks. Throughout the semester, 1) the students will be provided with “concept” reading materials for discussions on Risks, decision making (behavioral economics) theories, field approaches, and research-problem definition; 2) the students will have opportunities to “get their hand dirty” by participating in two ongoing projects: School Space for Handicapped children in Vietnam and Communities under Volcanic Risk (Fuji-san area, Japan); 3) the students are required to examine their everyday life through "blogging" as an intellectual exercise; and 4) The students are encouraged to develop their own topics on “risks in life.” Given this overall topic, the seminar will draw on advice from Dr. Michio Umegaki, Professor Emeritus, a Political Scientist and the former President of Human Security Association of Japan.
Keywords: Risks, Everyday Life, Policy Analysis, Decision Making theories, Narratives, Case Study

This Project aims advanced research of the Internet technology as information infrastructure. It includes distributed system, web architecture, sensor networks, big data system, IoT(Internet of Things), Future Internet technology.

The lab endeavors to make a critical shift away from the industrial paradigm of Product-in Trash-out (PiTo), to a Data-in Data-out (DiDo) model through digital design and locally-based manufacturing. We embrace strategies in circular systems in economy and supply-chain, and digital innovation in 3D+ design and manufacturing. We foster collaboration between the global fab-city network and many actors, sectors and creators, in Japan and beyond.

http://fab.sfc.keio.ac.jp/
https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lhqC6QQ=/?invite_link_id=586151903718

After the end of the Cold War, it became possible to proceed the real regional studies and the regional studies has been done actively in the academic society, because now we can visit many areas where we could not visit easily during the Cold War period and the ideology and bias have been already declined. However, the position of regional studies has never secured its academic position in the academic society. One of the reasons is that many regional researchers claim that their areas are special and unique; and the regional studies tend to remain unilateral information dissemination. Certainly, the more you study a certain area, the clearer the distinctiveness of the area become, so it is natural that such a tendency has been strengthen. However, it will end with self-satisfaction of the local researchers, and we cannot expect the development of regional studies.

Therefore, this seminar will try to apply regional studies to more general academic context seeking dialogue and fusion of regional studies and academic disciplines. To give an example, in the case of that you choose regional conflict as the research theme, it would be needed study whole problems such as history, political problems, economics, religion, ethnic problem, social problems, geopolitical problems and so on, in the area, because the reasons of conflicts are really complicated. In addition, trying to generalize by comparing with other cases or regions, applying some disciplines, making general theories and so on would be also important. I would like to stress not to complete regional research by regional research alone, but make it available in a wider academic context, enable dialogue with experts from other regions and researchers of other disciplines, and make academic contributions.

For this aim, we will study general theories or discussions by reading books, and hear and discuss about each students’ research. All students must participate to the reading, make presentation and write term paper or graduate thesis on individual research.

Hirose's regional field is the former USSR, so I can make give the good comments on the regional studies on the former USSR or Yugoslavia, however all students who want to study everywhere are welcome.

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 usually has 20-25 students including graduate students, and many 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.

I normally do not accept students who are already in the second semester of the third year since it takes a long time to understand the field of second language acquisition unless students have taken my 'Introduction to SLA and foreign language teaching' lecture.

New students will be expected to find out what they want to investigate by the end of the semester. They need to submit the research proposal including the purpose of the study, research questions and the research design at the end of the semester. Continuing students should submit the paper that includes the results and discussion of their pilot study at the end of the semester.

Previous students' thesis themes include the followings:
* English learning and teaching at primary school level
* CLIL teaching at primary school
* Effectiveness of group work on English learning within the framework of Socio Cultural Theory
*Conversation analysis of Japanese/English bilingual speakers
* Code-switching of bilingual speakers and multilingual speakers
* Pragmatic investigations of failure in making the audience laugh: 'Owarai' in Japanese
* Motivation in English language learning
* Comparative analysis of sarcasm between Japanese and Americans
* Lost in translation? Humour translated in Japanese subtitle in American movie
* Responses to compliment in Japanese
* Differing perspective setting between Japanese and English in storytelling
And many more!

If needed, reference books will be recommended for the new students prior to the beginning of the semester.

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 are creation of a content.
Assignments for Cyber Security, Web Application involves basic knowledge on information technology and their skills. Students in UAV Development would be required to pass official examination for Amateur Fourth-Class Radio Operator and basic operation of UAV.

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.

This research project focuses on Cyber-Law issues.

A city or city where the power of information improves the quality of the activity of that person simply by staying there or staying is called smart city. This study group creates information technology to collect, process and produce information that enhances people's health, convenience, safety, and makes people happy.

exploration and designing of one's own body from the viewpoint of cognitive science

Based on the current situation of smart agriculture, we will consider future directions.

To study the skill of human movement including sports, it is necessary to measure physical movement. It is also necessary to measure humans in the same way with devices and systems that aim to improve sports performance. This study group focuses on "measuring humans" and pursues the mechanism of human movement including sports, aiming at research that leads to technological development that supports the improvement of sports performance.

What exactly is a robot that does not give discomfort to us and we can easily accept its existence as a part of everyday life? Now we obtain capabilities to access ubiquitous information spaces and our human ability and cognitive performance will be gradually enhanced. Robots will also be integrated well into the human life and helping us naturally. They will have rich sensory perception and expressive facial signals, and are going to be social partners for us. In this laboratory, we are discussing what kind of “sociality” robots should have in human robot interactions (HRI).