{"id":13444,"date":"2011-04-08T19:29:43","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T10:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=13444"},"modified":"2011-04-08T19:29:43","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T10:29:43","slug":"digicolle-2010-akibas-univ-students-present-their-research-results-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/digicolle-2010-akibas-univ-students-present-their-research-results-works\/","title":{"rendered":"DigiColle 2010: Akiba’s Univ Students Present Their Research Results & Works"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nDigital Hollywood<\/a> was founded in 1994 by Dr. Tomoyuki Sugiyama[J]<\/a> who had worked as a visiting researcher at MIT Media Lab<\/a>, and later then it became a university<\/a> that has grown out of a vocational school. \u00a0 The university holds an annual conference, which is named DigiColle[J]<\/a> after Digital Hollywood Collection, to show up research results chosen from many applications by their students. \u00a0 This year’s one was held in early March. \u00a0 I’m afraid I’ve been concentrating on catching up the quake-related updates and missed to write about it for almost a month.
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\nAt the conference, I could see ten interesting ideas that future techpreneurs were presenting. \u00a0 Let me expose them to the eyes of the international tech community. \u00a0 The conference was recorded by the university’s professor and ad planner Takuya Kawai a.k.a. Himanainu[J]<\/a> (meaning a boring dog) and is available on Ustream.
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Timecode (starting at)<\/strong><\/td>\nPresentation<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
00:11:00<\/strong><\/td>\nA Story of Bump & Concept
\nby David Oshima<\/strong> (3D CG Expression Lab) 
\nHe studied a technology that converts 2D dot images to 3D images and animates them. \u00a0 His view on the changing of computer graphics technologies is worth a listen.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
00:24:00<\/strong><\/td>\nSustainable Social Business in A Rural Village of Bali Island
\nby Kumiko Kobayashi<\/strong> 
\nFor over seven years, she has been involved in founding business in the rural village of Timbul, Bali, Indonesia. \u00a0 In order to grow her business up to a sustainable social business, she compares it with the successful business case of Irodori[J]<\/a> in Tokushima Prefecture.\u00a0 For your reference, Irodori is a community-based company producing decoration leaves especially designed for Japanese dishes.\u00a0\u00a0 The community used to suffer from depopulation, but the company helps elderly people make a living with their highly intelligent marketing efforts.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
00:42:00<\/strong><\/td>\nPhone Concierge Service for Chinese Travelers Visiting Japan
\nby Chen Yang<\/strong> 
\nHe got an idea of a phone-based concierge and interpretation service called eTravel, which intends to remove language barriers from Chinese travelers during their visit in Japan. \u00a0 eTravel, an online travel concierge service for Chinese visitors to Japan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
01:07:00<\/strong><\/td>\nInvestigating Reasons Why The Featured Two Movies Were Hits
\nby Toru Kawana and Yohei Miyazawa<\/strong> (Hit Content Lab) 
\nBy comparing KPIs from movie-related blogs, roadshow promotions and ticket sales, a team of the two guys has investigated the reasons why the two movies of Red Cliff<\/a> and Ponyo<\/em>[J]<\/a> were hits in timeline from their pre-roadshow date to post-roadshow date. \u00a0 They believe the method is efficient to analyze blogsphere effects spreading out to various content businesses.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
01:26:00<\/strong><\/td>\nSaving Process and Time of CGI (computer graphics imagery) Production with Wirless Virtual Camera by Takashi Kitada<\/strong> (@kitada3_frame<\/a>) 
\nUsing a motion capture facility enabling high-speed and accurate detection of a digital video camera, it shows composite motion images on a screen of the camera.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
01:33:00<\/strong><\/td>\nUsing ARG (alternative reality game) for Promoting New Movies
\nby Nami Ikeda <\/strong>(Media Communication Lab) 
\nThis is a joint project with Warner Entertainment and Domino Pizza.\u00a0 She studies how social media can deliver positive effects on promoting new movies.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
01:49:00<\/strong><\/td>\nE-Sports Training App<\/strong>
\nby Kotaro Tsukuma and Toshiki Kakehata<\/strong> (Console Game Produce Lab) 
\nA team of the two guys are developing an iPhone app that intends to train e-sport<\/a> skills.\u00a0 (not yet released on the iTune Store)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
02:05:00<\/strong><\/td>\nDeveloping a Character Business in Shanghai for Promoting the city’s Sightseeing Business<\/strong>
\nby Zhu YuanFang<\/strong> 
\nAs China develops in its economy, more people pursue their mental richness.\u00a0 Character business draws the people’s attention in the country.\u00a0\u00a0 In partnership with the city’s local government, he would like to develop new line-ups of souvenirs using the character.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
02:21:00<\/strong><\/td>\nDesigning an E-Publishing Flow of Drawing Books for Kids<\/strong>
\nby Yoshiro Kosuge and Chieko Mori<\/strong> 
\nDrawing book authors are mostly not familiar with e-publishing.\u00a0\u00a0 A team of the two guys worked with those authors and succeeded to create a new type of drawing books that had been never introduced.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
02:39:00<\/strong><\/td>\nTorao[J]<\/a>: Helping the Primary Sector of Industry Promote Their Products By Social Media Marketing
\nby Masahiro Takeda<\/strong> 
\nHe visited a town of rice fields in Akita Prefecture and worked with young farmers for promoting their direct online sales of rice products with social media such as Twitter. His website Torao[J]<\/a> is named after\u00a0the nickname given to guys using tractors for cultivating rice fields.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

 
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Digital Hollywood was founded in 1994 by Dr. Tomoyuki Sugiyama[J] who had worked as a visiting researcher at MIT Media Lab, and later then it became a university that has grown out of a vocational school. \u00a0 The university holds an annual conference, which is named DigiColle[J] after Digital Hollywood Collection, to show up research… Continue reading DigiColle 2010: Akiba’s Univ Students Present Their Research Results & Works<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,17,24],"tags":[905,913],"class_list":["post-13444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event-report","category-japan","category-news","tag-digicolle","tag-digital-hollywood","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}