• New Year’s Greetings from Professor Mitomo
• Advice to thesis writers from 4th-semester students
• Presentations: Hitomi and Thuy
• Next up

New Year’s Greetings from Professor Mitomo

The professor welcomed students to the first seminar meeting of 2012, and wished everyone a productive new year. There were plenty of cookies to celebrate.

The fourth semester students all handed in their theses and now only have the oral presentation to go before they can finish. Well done everyone!

The professor described the process of the oral exam and reminded interviewees to especially focus on their contribution, and also bring an extra copy of their thesis in case some specific point needs to be discussed.

Advice to thesis writers from 4th-semester students

The fourth semester students had advice for the rest of the seminar class:

• Start early and stay healthy, and you’ll finish just fine
• Write down your structure, you’ll find out you have a lot less to write than you think
• While writing, put in your references immediately, because you will not be able to remember them afterwards
• Start your reading early

Presentations: Hitomi and Thuy

First semester students Hitomi and Thuy did their presentations today

Hitomi: Digital Divide in India

This presentation concerned the discrepancy between macro-level reporting on the digital divide in India, according to which the divide is narrowing, and micro-level observations, which show that the divide is getting wider.

In the discussion, the issues of digital divide definition, and the differences between a hypothesis and a research question were brought up.

Thuy: Leap-frogging as a way to combat the digital divide in Vietnam

The next presentation also concerned the digital divide, but from a different perspective. The main focus was on the advantages and disadvantages of using leap-frogging as a strategy for combating the digital divide.

The different definitions of digital divide were again brought up, and then the possible problems concerning the gathering of reliable data were discussed, as well as some potential solutions.

Next up

There might be a chance to visit the NTT DoCoMo showroom on February 2-3.

Next week, third semester students will make their final presentations for this semester.

Notes will be taken by Riyung.

Place: Otemachi square, NTT building, Otemachi
Time: 3:00 pm or 4:00 pm
(The students can choose either time period.  The students should arrive at the NTT 10 minutes prior to the stated time.)

There was only one presentation for this week.  Riyoung Chang presented the research interest on the topic of regulating subsidization in telecommunication industry. He discussed about the Korean policies relating to subsidizing regulations from 2000 to 2010.  He also discussed about the marketing expenditures and its effect on the performance of mobile company. The main focus of the research will be on mobile service and the consumer sides.

The next seminar class will be on Dec 15, 2011. The first semester students will present their research interest.

1. ERICSSON JAPAN Internship

Dates:
(1) 2011/12/13-15
(2) 2012/01/10-12
(3) 2012/01/17-19

Time: 18:00-21:00 (3 hours for each day)
Place: Yokohama
Nationality: Any country
Language: Can speak a little bit Japanese

2. Waseda Writing Center

Maria provides an information from Waseda Writing Center which provides sessions of 45 minute-long, one-on-one consultation between a tutor and a writer as a free service for all Waseda students.

3. Today we have 2 presenters: Elaine. Socheath

Elaine

“The Behavior of Joining Brand Pages on Facebook”

To examine the intention of Facebook users to click Like on a Brand Page; Survey on Facebook users to examine how difference types or images of a brand community influences users preference to join/how interactivity

Socheath

“Feasibility and Cost-Benefit of Implementing LIMS in a Pathology Laboratory”

Evaluation of Lab Capacity in Cambodia; Estimate cost and benefit of LIMS available: Open sources & Commercial－Stand alone, Cloud LIMS

Next week’s presenters: Second semester’s students

this weeks presenters are : Maria Elaine, and Film

○Maria

“teleworks schemes can help reduce the time needed to return normal operation

after crisis”

basically she talks about crisis management.

she seems to have  some difficulties with

・what is the casual relationship of interest?

・theoretical experiment  -measurements

-cost vs time

-efficiency vs productivity

-category b/

please give her some advice if anything comes  up to your mind.

○Film

“multiple players online game & its effects on behavior change”

research Qs -how MPOG effect the personality of the players?

-possible links between virtual violence and real world.

proposed answer -MPOG can be  more self-centered.

i pretty much like this thesis. please stick to the plan!!

next weeks presenter: Elaine, and 2nd semester students

see you all in next week

1. Riyoung Chang

The main interest was on the regulation, marketing , expenditure of telecom business.

Chang discussed the necessity to regulate telecom industries by showing the MNP(mobile number portability) usage in Korea  during 2006-2010 which was gradually arising. Chang considered that  customers go back and forth among the operators due to companies’ price competition. This has become a vicious cycle that should be concerned. Whether adopt regulation on telecom industries was what Chang will focus on.

Chang will search for further data for statistic analysis of MNP and market share in Korea, actual proofs on the price gap also make comparison with other countries as his future work.

2. Wenji Li

3G, new type of advertising based on customers acceptance.

Despite the application of mobile phone in China is increasing, consumer beavior is not yet sufficient. Li decided to focus on consumer behavior  by investigating why, how, when and where people access mobile advertisement. She will find proper approaches and give a clue to mobile advertisement.

In her future work, Li will do more literature review, design questionnaires, conduct interview, and do case study in Japan.

3. Milliya Tsai

Location based Service and Regional Tourism Development.

According to Milliya’s explaination, LBS identify people’s geographical position, and people can use it as navigation, request the nearst business or service (e.g. ATM or restaurants.) or find whereabouts of friends, emploees…etc.

Milliya will focus on whether the LBS will facilitate the touring development of an area, and whether LBS provides useful information and change consumers’ consuming behavior.

Milliya also discussed the difficulties that companies will have to conquer while developing LBS. For example, How to make users provide more information? How to provide right information at right time? How to make interface intuitively? On customers’ side, what is the most concerned will be the privacy problem.

In her future work, she will try to understand consumers satisfaction and consumers behavior by interviewing /taking survey on both Japanese and foreign students.

Lee Chung Sol
Analysis on Mobile Spectrum Assignment Policy in Korea
As spectrum auction in Korea has been conducted recently by KCC(Korea Communications Commission), Lee is trying to bring up the question: How can we measure the social welfare effect of spectrum auction?

Juyeon Ren Lee
Japan & Korea Mobile Contents Industries: Mobile Manga
Mobile Manga is a mobile content of comic books and comic magazines that are serviced by mobile handsets. Since Ren is high interest in mobile manga, she will do more research on development of mobile manga in Korea and Japan. Read free manga online please refer to:
Manga Stream at http://mangastream.com/.

Hitomi Onoder
Technology-oriented community development in India
As political strategy to grow up ICT industry in India, Hitomi is trying to ask, what extent ICT oriented development is giving positive impact for India’s community development? We are looking forward to her research.

Updates for the upcoming:

• Statistic Analysis Lecture will from October 13^th 2011 (Thursday on 5^th period).

Nassar will be in charge of lecturing so please attend to show your support.

• The seminar for the students from fourth semester will be cancel on October 13^th.

This week summary:

The first presenter was Maria; she discussed the current issue of “telework for continuity of operations in Japan”.   In depth, it cover how Japanese continue to work (telework) even during after major nature disasters or throughout emergency period.  Disaster management system (DMS) is another main focus of this particular paper.

Film was the second presenter; he is interested in “cloud computing & web 2.0 in Thailand”.  He focused on Thailand because Thailand is a developing country which the need of demand is also expanding simultaneously; therefore, the introducing of cloud computing & web 2.0 is one of their solutions to meet the needs of Thai people.

Elaine should be the third presenter but due to lack of time, she will be presenting next time.

Next week presenters:

• Elaine
• Lee
• Socheath

5^th period seminar wrap up:
Professor Mitomo started off with telling “how ICT can be utilize for strengthening Japanese economy”.  The purpose of this research is to avoid unnecessary panic when the next major earthquakes hit Japan.
Then, Professor Mitomo looked through our “list of contents” and give advices individually.
Those in the fourth semester, please work on literary review/survey!

See you all next week!

• Welcome new students!We have three new students join our seminar class this semester. Hitomi form Japan, Ren from Korea, and Thuy from Vietnam joined us on Thursday. Welcome ladies!
• Introduction to the seminar classTo start off the class (our zemi), professor Mitomo explained the purpose of the seminar class. This semester we will be doing mostly student presentations.
• PresentationsPresentations are usually about 10 minutes long. The slides should be in English, but the presentation can be either in English or Japanese. 3^rd semester students will take over the first 2 weeks of presentations followed by the new students and the 2^nd semester students. Presentation order:
  • 1^st week (10.6): Maria, Film, Elaine
  • 2^nd week (10.13): Socheat, Lee, and, if there is time, Thuy
  • 3^rd week (10.20): Hitomi, Ren
  • 4^th week (10.27): Millya, Wenjin, Riyung
• Extra statistics classThere will most likely be an extra (non-credited) class on statistical analysis with a focus on thesis writing. This class is NOT mandatory. The details will be discussed with Nassar next week.
  • If you can, please leave the 5^th period on Thursdays open.
• Upcoming eventsOn a Wednesday or Thursday afternoon to be specified, those wishing to will be given the opportunity to visit the NTT showroom. The exact date of the study visit will be decided once our schedules have been solidified. Again, this event is not mandatory.
• Welcome nomikaiThe date for the welcome party will be decided next week (Responsible: Tong)
• The websiteThere was a brief introduction on the zemi’s website, http://digitalsociety.jpFilm explained the registration process and how to use the website, and will be in charge of giving access to the new students. (Responsible: Film)Next steps for the website:
  • We need to make a Japanese-language version
  • Everyone is asked to bring in suggestions for a new logo!
• Omiyage time!Cake-eating is a tradition for our zemi.The debate on the best pineapple cake is as yet unresolved. Taiwanese students are asked to bring more cakes for comparative research.
• ITS conference in BudapestThe professor brought up the International Telecommunications Society’s Regional Conference held in Budapest earlier in September, which Tong, Manit, and Maria attended.Students wishing to attend other conferences are encouraged to look up theITS Regional Conference in Perth, Australia (November 13-16)AEA Conference “Towards a Digital Society” in Luxembourg (December 1-2)ITS Regional Conference in New Delhi, India (February 23-24, 2012)

  and everyone should keep in mind the

  ITS Biennial Conference 2012 in Phuket, Thailand (November 18-21, 2012)

  For more information on the ITS conferences, please check: http://www.itsworld.org/content/?con0

  Financing for conference attendance in case of a paper presentation is given only to PhD students. However, privately-financed Master’s students can ask at CIE for other subsidies available to them.

• Classes at GSAPSA clarification was made concerning the contents of the two courses given by Professor Mitomo this semester; while the courses are described as ‘introductory’ and ‘advanced’, this distinction is not so clear in practice and students are free to take whichever they want.
• Sub-zemiA second session was held during the 5^th period for 4^th semester Master’s students to discuss their thesis proposals with the Professor.
• Wrap upNotes for this seminar class were kept by Maria, and will be uploaded on the website (Responsible: Maria)Next zemi’s notes will be kept by Wendy (Responsible: Wendy)

Sorry if I got anyone’s name wrong, despite asking you to spell your name twice.

See you Thursday!

This semester we also have two new MA students came from China and Taiwan. Same as last term seminar, we did report the progress of our research activity… At this term one MA student who came from Tanzania will complete his program in this september.

Reception of visiting professors and students from Yuan Ze University, Taiwan in late May. We exchange some research finding and experiences.

We have also been to the Conference in Yotsuya organized by PTC (Pacific Telecommunication Committee) in June. Theme: Digital Convergence Society, how to make success. Prof. Mitomo contributed a keynote speech.

In late June, Professor Mitomo, PhD students, other students attended ITS Region Conference, Taiwan.

And last but not least, we have contributed to rebuild our seminar website. Have a great vacation everyone!

• Apple: http://www.apple.com/icloud/
• Microsoft: http://www.facebook.com/office​365jp
• ArcGIS: http://www.esri.com/software/a​rcgis/arcgisserver/cloud-infra​structure.html