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  Title:

  Associate Professor

  Teacher Group:

  Media and Culture

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Classes

Multimedia Studies

Class Content

My survival with ICT

Theo Jansen defined "living things" as "things that behave, inherit, and evolve autonomously" and created "living things" with plastic tubes. Whether consciously or unconsciously, we live in a world that we can interfere with. As long as we take the boundaries between "things" and "creatures," "me" and "you," "ourselves" and "the world" as self-evident and absolute, the experiment of creating "creatures" is nothing but a "grotesque imitation of exquisite nature. However, the evolution of computers, especially Internet technology, has facilitated the externalization of the brain and the networking of knowledge, and the boundaries are becoming less self-evident. Can culture be inherited or can it evolve? Can love be edited, stored, and copied? We will examine what and how information and communication technologies are changing us through contents and services.

Brief Outline of History & Achievements

Received M.A. from the Graduate School of Foreign Languages, Osaka University of Foreign Studies.Main achievements are RPG-type Chinese group learning system, Chinese romaji learning program, Chatterbot Xiao-Li, and "Dennou Chinesology" II (JAET).

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Academic Society Affiliations

Japan Society for Educational Technology, The Japan Association of Chinese Language Education, Association for e-Learning Language Education

E-mail

ttanabe@iic.hokudai.ac.jp

Research Areas

Multimedia Studies, Educational Technology, Theory of Language Learning