Field Informatics

Toru Ishida is a professor in the Dept. of Social Informatics at Kyoto University. He was a research scientist at NTT Laboratories, and has spent time at many leading academic institutions as a visiting scholar or professor, including Columbia University, Technische Universität München, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, the University of Maryland, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Tsinghua University. His particular research interest is social informatics, and he manages research projects in the areas of digital cities and intercultural collaboration. He has been an IEEE fellow since 2002.

• Chap. 1 Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems (Tetsuro Sakai).- Chap. 2 Biologging (Nobuaki Arai, Junichi Okuyama).- Chap. 3 Human Sensing (Yuichi Nakamura).- Chap. 4 Ethnography (Takaaki Tsuji)Chap. 5 - System Dynamics (Kazuyuki Moriya).- Chap. 6 Multi-agent Simulation (Toru Ishida, Hiromitsu Hattori, Yuu Nakajima).- Chap. 7 Inclusive Design (Takayuki Shiose).- Chap. 8 Participatory Design (Yutaka Yamauchi).- Chap. 9 Case Writing (Shigeo Matsubara).- Chap. 10 Outreach Communication (Reiko Hishiyama).

"In this very complex and dynamic world, we need to cope with heterogeneous natural, economic, and social challenges. It is common and suitable to respond to many of these challenges with information and communications technology (ICT). The authors present a coherent approach based on a branch of ICT, field informatics, to solve various non-analytical problems arising from specific spatiotemporal areas, such as a hilly region affected by increasing depopulation, for example. ... The book includes a wide range of realistic scenarios and case studies, including land cover sensing, behavior analysis of green turtles, the protection of elderly people, traffic and disaster evacuation simulations, an agricultural land use decision model, and the design of a workshop on information-based navigation systems. The chapter sequence follows the logical steps of the field informatics concept: description, evaluation and estimation, design and implementation, and dissemination. This book is based on the authors' experience, gained from in-field ICT project development. It targets a large spectrum of potential readers, from graduate students, researchers, and design engineers to those working in nonprofit organizations, economic entities, and public services." [Valentin Inceu, ACM Computing Reviews, 2013]