1. Johnson Wang’s presentation:

Wang is interested in ICT application for caregivers of dementia elderly in Japan.

Research question: How ICT can help the caregivers and the related institution to care dementia elderly.

Research Methodology: His intention is to interview caregivers in Japan.

Comments and questions:

• Make clear concept of “Caregivers”
• Why focusing on dementia
• Should care about the differences between private caregivers at home and at hospital

2. Riyoung Chang’s Presentation

Tittle: Regulations on subsidizing in Korean Telecommunication industry

Research Question: Why should (not) regulate marketing expenditure for new customer subsidy in telecommunication industry.

Research Methodology: His intention is to interview people from Korean telecommunication providers.

Comments:

• Should prepare back up plan in the case of failing to make contact with company
• Explaining how handset are sell in Korea
• Choosing specific standpoint

Next zemi, third sesmester students will continue to present their research including Amy, Millya, and Wendji (sorry if I mistyped your name).

About the party, Hitomi-san will send an email with information about time, place, and how to get there. Please check your email.

- How are leadership styles developed?

- Individuals’ behaviors correspond both in real life and game match

- Authoritarian / Democratic / Laissez-faire

- Carry / Support / Ganker

- Hypothesis: Gaming experience shapes an individual’s leadership style in real life.

- Real life behavior influenced as individual’s role chosen in game.

- Methods: Survey and interview

Suggestions:

- Better explanation is required, considering the age level of the thesis examinees

- Since the topic is relatively unfamiliar to professors,

2. Maria’s presentation   – Telework for COOP

- If there is a disaster, what should be done afterwards?

- Real effectiveness = potential + procedural effectiveness

- Procedural: behavioral constraints, values of the target group, capabilities of the administrative system and target group

- Aim: to identify the organizational and individual characteristics that influence the procedural effectiveness of telework for COOP in Japanese public agencies

- Research questions: are managers and employees of J. public agencies open to the implementation of telework as a COOP strategy?

- X1, X2, X3: Demographic, Organizational culture, Technology

- Hypothesis: higher level of technological familiarity will tend to hold more positive views of ad hoc telework.

- Methodology: cross-sectional survey / case study

Suggestions:

- Employer / employee’s aspects should be separated

- Questionnaire surveys will be like asking to employees who are not doing telework

- Gap between their intensions and their actual behaviors, whether they are really willing to adopt telework

- The actual cases… whether ones can in fact stay effective working in your house

Agenda

1. Introductory message by Professor Mitomo
2. Presentations by fourth semester Master’s students: Lee, Scheath
3. Practical issues and Closing

1.  Introductory message by professor

Today’s agenda

Job opportunities for seminar students

2. Presentations (2)

I. Analysis of Mobile Spectrum Assignment Policy in Korea (Lee, Chung Sol)

Background to spectrum allocation via auction in Korea in August 2011
Literature review: Why auction the spectrum? Advantages.
Literature review specifically for the 2011 auction in Korea
Research question and hypothesis
Methodology and Structure
References
Comments / Questions:

• In what aspects will the case comparison take place? This also ties in to some general vagueness issues.
• Are the cases selected really comparable? It may be better to look for other cases that were held in the same time frame and bear more similarities to the Korean case.
• Investigate the auction in more detail, and then extend the comparison to another country’s case, and possibly re-phrase the research question and hypothesis

II. Feasibility and Cost-Benefit of Implementing LIMS in a pathology laboratory (a case in Calmette Hospital, Cambodia), Ly Scheath

Background
Reasons for current study
Thesis objectives
Research Question
Research Methods and Procedures
Significance
LIMS available and Costs and Benefits
Questions / Comments:

• Will the human cost be included in the CBA? (training etc.) Special attention should be paid to fixing the time frame of CB calculation.
• How will system benefits be evaluated? (reliability, effectiveness, and efficiency)
• It may be worthwhile try to find past case studies in related literature.
• Do not focus purely on CBA, but on the form and level of the benefit itself. [List all possible benefits]

3. Practical issues and Closing

The seminar for the fourth semester students will be held after the regular Master’s seminar in the same room (#316)

In the next seminar meeting, Elaine, Maria, and Film will present their MA thesis plans/progress.

This week’s notes were kept by Maria. Note-keeper for  next week will be Riyung.

Lee will be responsible for setting up the equipment before the seminar class [computer, projector, and extension cord should be taken from the professor's office and projection screen from the 7th floor]

About the web-page

Four new students have joined the seminar. It is requested that one of them at least offer to take over administrator responsibilities from Film, as he will be graduating this semester.

About the welcome party

Date of the welcome party: Thursday, May 17th, 7-9pm

Cost: ~3500¥/person. There are two potential places for the welcome party for new students, one close to Takadanobaba station and the other in Shinjuku. More information on the event will be sent to the mailing list.

Welcome back to Zemi Everyone!The cherry trees is blooming and welcoming us a whole new semester. This year, we have one new MA student – Johnson, and two PhD students – John and Naoko. Welcome to our seminar and wish you have a fulfilled life in Waseda!

Here is our Seminar Schedule for this semester. Please prepare and give your presentation on the designated date.

2012 Spring Semester – Seminar Schedule

* The forth semester students (Lee, Socheath, Elaine, Maria, Film) are required to present repeatedly in the fifth period.

• 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.