Office for Planning and Management, Annual Review 2007, The University of Aizu

Annual Review 2007 > Office for Plannning and Management

Office for Plannning and Management


Yuko Kesen Assistant Professor	Kazuaki Yamauchi Assistant Professor	Tsuyoshi Ishikawa Assistant Professor

The University of Aizu aims to become a front-line university providing the greatest range of the most up-to-date educational and research activities in the eld of computer science and engineering internationally. It is a unique institution unparalleled by any other existing Japanese university, which can be seen from its policy of internationally open and competitive faculty positions. In fact, approximately 40 percent of the positions is filled by foreign faculty. As described in the university regulations, the Office for Planning and Management, headed by the University President, was established as an internal research organization for the purpose of performing general investigative research concerning university functions, along with performing general program planning and design regarding university education and research, international exchange, public relations and publications, legal affairs, local arrangement of conference and other necessary matters concerning administrative management.
The Office for Planning and Management continued to work together with other organizations of the University of Aizu in applying for MEXT's and other programs. The graduate school's proposal entitled Master of Software Engineering and Information Security" applied for the Leading IT Specialist Training Promotion Program" for 2007, was given an interview, but not selected. The other graduate school's proposal entitled Innovative IT Education based on Arenas and Creative Factories" was selected for Supporting Program for Improving Graduate School Education" for 2007. A proposal of the Department of Student Affairs entitled Project: 240 graduates + &alpha" was selected for Student Support Program Responding to Contemporary Needs of Society" for 2007. UBIC's proposal entitled \Venture Experience Factory `Aizu IT Nisshinkan'" was selected for Support Program for Measures for Current Educational Needs" for 2007. Our proposal, Learning about Academic Affairs Programs Conducted the Highest-Ranked Undergraduate Engineering Education Program in the Unites States", was selected again for Program for Acceleration of Globalization in University Education" for 2008.

Two Primary Tasks:

Bridge Function between the University of Aizu and Outside

The Offce makes studies and plans for collaborative research activities inside and outside the university. We seek cooperation between the University, Japanese industry, and government. Such cooperation would include technology transfer, joint university-industry ventures and government funding are sought for promising projects. The function was a foregoing activity of the cooperation/collaboration between University and Industry.
Planning and Management of Education

The University of Aizu was the first Japanese university offering systematically organized curricula tailored to the essentials of computer science and engineering. Since computer science and engineering is a field of rapid progress and development, it is necessary to constantly improve the curricula to provide the appropriate educational experience for students.

Other Major Tasks:

International exchange and international legal affairs
Public relations, international recruitment, and human resource development
Planning and management of educational and research technologies and facilities
Development and publication of motivating teaching methods, materials and top-down interactive educational software
Development and publication of research software
Studies for the development of industries in the local region

Refereed Proceeding Papers

[yamauchi-01:2007]	K. Yamauchi and T. Orr. International Negotiation from Japanese Perspectives. In D. Farkas, editor, The International Professional Commu- nication Conference (IPCC 2007), page CD, Seattle, Washington, Oct. 2007. IEEE, IEEE Computer Society.
	This paper presents a brief survey of current perspectives in Japan on the topic of international negotiation held by Japanese professionals who publish books and offer professional training on the topic. It then brie y critiques these views and identifies problematic teachings that may actually hinder successful international negotiation rather than facilitate it.
[yamauchi-02:2007]	K. Kanev, S. Kimura, N. Kobayshi, and K. Yamauchi. Employment of Physical Objects as Employment of Physical Objects Interactive Interface Components. In CLHIC 2007, editor, CLHIC 2007, pageWeb, Rio de janeiro, Brazil, Sept. 2007. CLHIC 2007, CLHIC 2007.
	This work is dedicated to physical interfaces for interactive presentation control, based on real objectives or their replica. Digital encoding approaches and surface enhancing methods, supporting direct interactions with physical objects, are discussed. An innovative presentation method in which consumer products with digitally enhanced labels or package surfaces could be used as tangible interface components is introduced. Based On this method, inclusive product presentations that actively engage customers and encourage them to touch, feel and explore the products are proposed.
[yamauchi-03:2007]	A. Sasaki, K. Yamauchi, W. Chen, M. Cohen, D.Wei, and Z. Cheng. Innovative Mobile Phone Services Based on Next Generation Infrastructure in Japan- A Survey. In D Wei T. Miyazaki, I. Paik, editor, The Sixth Inter- national Conferernce on Computer And Information Technology (CIT2007), pages 491{496, Los Alamitos, California, Oct. 2007. IEEE, IEEE Computer Society.
	We reviewed the current mobile phone technology and market in Japan in the various fields. We also investigate next generation mobile phone infrastructure and its innovative services. We describe how next generation mobile infrastructure works by introducing some innovative cutting-edge technology differing from the current mobile infrastructure. We explain why new services are available in the next generation mobile network. New services are based upon the advanced infrastructure built-in next generation mobile phone. Because of advancement of hardware specifications and new technology, features of mobile phone terminals would be changed drastically from 2007 through 2010 and our daily lives also would be changed dramatically.