Cognition, Sense-Making and Biophysical Skills(CB)
This Program focuses on the construction of cognitive / semantic and biophysical skill models and mechanistic analyses of sense-making processes in groups and societies. The Program conducts research in the aforementioned areas and simultaneously helps to develop human resources in these fields.
The Program will allow students to conduct research in areas related to:
- Elucidation of skills in playing music instrumentals
- Elucidation of skills in sports
- Cognitive science approach during language acquisition process
- Sense-making models in multi-media information such as natural languages, sound and visual images
- Memory mechanism and communication in sense-making
- Data acquisition and analyzing technique through network
- Natural interface between human and computers
Affiliated Projects
- Interaction Design Project
- Cognitive and Language Development and Learning
- Sports Science and Cognitive Ergonomics
- Network Style
- Psychospace
- Cognition, Action, Media in Language and Language Eduvation
- Life Knowledge in Practice
- Cyber Business Marketing
- Interreality
- Social Fabrication
- Novel Computin
Graduate School of Media and Governance > Registration Numbers of Graduation Project
Faculty Members （as of April, 2013）
Note: "*" indicate the members of the graduate school committee; "◎" the Program chairperson.
| Name | Title | Research Interest(S) |
|---|---|---|
| AOYAMA, Atsushi |
Assistant Professor |
Measurement of Brain Functions，Sensory Integration, Neuroscience，Signal Processing |
| * FUKUDA, Kazuya | Professor | Literary Criticism, Civilization, Social Criticism, French Literature |
| *◎ HAMADA, Yoko | Professor | Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, Infant Mental Health, School Mental Health |
| * HASEBE, Yoko | Associate Professor | English Teaching Materials, Teaching Methodology, Distance Learning, Inter-Linguistic & Inter-Cultural Communication |
| * IBA, Takashi | Associate Professor | Pattern Languages, Creativity, Complex Systems, Social Systems Theory |
| * IMAI, Mutsumi | Professor | Cognitive Science (with special focus on Cognitive and language development, Psycholinguistics) |
| * KATO, Takaaki | Associate Professor | Ergonomics, Sport Psychology, Motor Learning and Control |
| * KAWAZOE, Takeshi | Professor | Harmonic Analysis on Lie Groups, Fourier Analysis, Wavelet Analysis |
| * KUMASAKA, Kenji | Professor | Life-Styles, Internet Society |
| * MORI, Sachiko | Associate Professor | Clinical Psychology, Psychoanalysis |
| NAGANO, Tomohisa | Assistant Professor | Sport Psychology, Football Science |
| * NAKAHAMA, Yuko | Professor | Applied Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition |
| * NISHIOKA, Keiji | Professor | Differential Algebra |
| * OHGI, Yuji | Associate Professor | Sports Engineering, Sports Biomechanics, Human Functional Measurement, Wireless Measurement Technique |
| * SASAKI, Mitsuo | Professor | Methodology of Physical Education, Psychology of Physical Education |
| * SHIMOZAKI, Minoru | Professor | Contrastive linguistics, Cognitive linguistics, Translation Studies, English linguistics |
| * SUWA, Masaki | Professor | Cognitive science, Communication Design, Artificial Intelligence, Design Science |
| * TANAKA, Shigenori | Professor | Cognitive Linguistics, A Theory of Sense-making |
| * WATANABE, Toshio | Professor | Mathematical Analysis of Psychological Phenomenon, Space Perception and Space Cognition, Life Design |
Sub-members:
| Name | Title | Research Interest(S) |
|---|---|---|
| * KATO, Fumitoshi | Professor | Communication Design; Facilitation; Communication and Media Studies; Qualitative Research Methods |
| * KIYOKI, Yasushi | Professor | Multimedia Database, Multidatabase |
| * KUWAHARA, Takeo | Professor | Marketing, Consumer Research |
| * MASUI Toshiyuki | Professor | User Interface, Ubiquitous Computing |
| * MURABAYASHI, Yutaka | Professor | Sports Business |
| * OGAWA, Katsuhiko | Professor | Human Interface, Communication Service, The Networked Society |
| * OGUMA, Eiji | Professor | Historical Sociology |
| * TAKEFUJI, Yoshiyasu | Professor | Neural Computing, Internet Gadgets, Security |
Participating Faculty members in other faculties or graduate schools:
| Name | Title | Research Interest(S) |
|---|---|---|
| CHIGNELL, Mark | Part-time Lecturer | - |
| HIROSE, Michitaka | Part-time Lecturer | - |
| KOIKE, Hideki | Part-time Lecturer | - |
| SATO, Masahiko | Guest Professor | Methology of Education , Methodology of Expressing Concepts |
Possibilities after Graduation
This Program aims to train people who can:
- Analyze human intellect, skills, sports technique, etc., from a scientific viewpoint
- Give meaning to multi-media works such as literature, graphics and music, and manipulate them freely by using computers
- Conduct social surveys / analysis invading people’s semantic cognition by using website and IT
Students who have completed this Program are expected to participate in careers such as corporate marketing / planning, system development, policy think tanks, sports coordination, foreign language education, entrepreneurship, interface design and welfare support. The completion of the Program also provides opportunities to become high ranking research scholars or teachers.