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bean-throwing ceremony

A bit late post, but, I have drawn cute devil this year for the bean-throwing ceremony.

bean-throwing ceremony

I have drawn blue devil this year for the bean-throwing ceremony.
My wife first saw it and she said, "... weedy".

A Happy New Year

2008 was a hurried and not enough fruitful year for me.
In 2009, I would rush headlong into the next, but also do my own things.

bean-throwing ceremony

The other day, we've scattered roasted soybeans to drive demons away. I wrote a face of red demon and I also acted as him.

HCI in Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing

My co-authored survey paper on HCI in mobile and ubiquitous computing has been published.

I. Siio, M. Yasumura, M. Fukumoto, S. Iga, T. Masui, HCI in Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing, Journal of Human Interface Society, Vol.5 No.3, pp.313-322, 2003.
(in Japanese)

My contribution appears in section 7, 8, and 9.1 (main topic is on a context-aware computing).

My main issue raised in this article(especially in section 9.1) is that killer applications of mobile and ubiquitous computing would not appear from HCI field while HCI researchers are concerning just on "the way how the system works" or "how the system is peculiar in its mechanism".
That is because the social environment has been gradually changing from an industrial society based to a knowledged based one.
There in the knowledged based society, the human needs would change from objective values to subjective values.
So, I think that there may be no significant achievement from the HCI researches in Ubicomp, Mobcom area, unless subjective fulfillment of the people has been take into account.

Disclosure dilemma

As working as an institutional researcher, you could not always disclose your latest research developments as journal papers or conference papers. Even if you were able to do so, there will be a temporal delay about a few years or so. The most common reason that you could disclose your research outputs is that your research work was not worth enough for your company as a business product. Scholarly value and business value is not always the same.
Play a proactive and creative role in academic societies, yes that's nice thing for you to do. Yes I know that you have to do so for keeping your own employability. But I have to say that the company sees little return in researcher participating in Akademi.
Then how could you persuade your company that there is an advantage in disclosing your research work as conference papers? To build deeper cooperation between businesses and universities? Yes that might be one reason, the reason as a charitable work or recruiting top-class personnel . What is going to be an advantage for company that is persuasive enough for institutional researcher participating in academic societies and publish his or her papers?