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「AIU Research Showcase (リサーチ?ショウケース)」のアーカイブを更新しました

「AIU Research Showcase (リサーチ?ショウケース)」(旧:リサーチ?ウィーク)とは、本学の教員と学生が日ごろの研究成果を発表する動画を公開し、学内外のコミュニティで共有するオンライン?イベントです。
2022年度からは、海外提携校の研究者も参加しています。
2020年度以降の各プレゼンテーション動画をアーカイブという形で公開していますので、本学教員?学生の研究成果を是非ご覧ください。

*全てのプレゼンテーションは英語で行われています。

*各教員、学生のタイトル、所属領域名等は各動画の初回公開当時のものです。

Academic Year 2024 Presentations

Fall 2024 Research Showcase: AIU Presenters

Further Adventures in the Lab (WN24/SP24): Building Experimental Design Skills using Computer-Aided Design, 3D Printing, Programming, and the Phototrophic Protist Euglena gracilis

Presenters:

  • Andy CROFTS, Professor, Global Connectivity Program
  • Eriko YAMAMOTO, Undergraduate Student
  • Sota MINATO, Undergraduate Student

Materials:

Aggregate Investment with a Liquidity Trap: A Comparison between Japan and the UK Economies

Presenters:

  • Wenti DU, Associate Professor, Global Business Program
  • Eric PENTECOST, Professor, Loughborough University, U.K.

Materials:

Explaining explanation, understanding understanding: Morphisms (should be) everywhere

Presenters:

  • Attila EGRI-NAGY, Professor, Global Connectivity Program
  • Miklós HOFFMANN, Professor, Eszterhazy Karoly Catholic University and University of Debrecen

Materials:

Ethnographic Research Project: Language, Culture and Identity

Presenters:

  • Chris Carl HALE, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Global Communication and Language, English Language Teaching Practices Program
  • June Ha KIM, Graduate Student, Graduate School of Global Communication and Language, English Language Teaching Practices Program
  • Queena XU, Graduate Student, Graduate School of Global Communication and Language, English Language Teaching Practices Program
  • Wing Yiu LING, Graduate Student, Graduate School of Global Communication and Language, English Language Teaching Practices Program

Materials:

Does Service Innovation Lead to Perceived Service Luxuriousness?

Presenters:

  • Sungkyu LEE, Assistant Professor, Global Business Program

Materials:

Changes in Socio-ecological Production Landscapes in Akita: a case of Kujukushima, Nikaho: Nature Positive and Public Works

Presenters:

  • Yoji NATORI, Associate Professor, Global Studies Program

Materials:

“Reflection Session”: A documentary film about seminar research

Presenters:

  • Noah Keone VIERNES, Associate Professor, Global Studies Program (Interviewing, Filming, and Editing)
  • Collaborators: Shogo KUDO, Associate Professor, Global Studies Program, Luke DILLEY, Assistant Professor, Global Studies Program, Florent DOMENACH, Professor/Director, Global Connectivity Program, Sean O’REILLY, Associate Professor, Japan Studies Program, Clinton WATKINS, Professor/Director, Global Business Program, Wenti DU, Associate Professor, Global Business Program, Kaeko CHIBA, Associate Professor, Global Connectivity Program, Ki Deuk HYUN, Professor, Global Studies Program, Suppaleuk SARPPHAITOON, Assistant Professor, Global Business Program,
  • Presenters: Mao KOKUBO, Connor KENNEDY, Ikumi MASHIKO, Marisa HOWE, Miyu OKUNO, Ayane MIYASHITA, Aika KOZKI, Kiwamu SATO, Kyoko MIYAKE, Kurumi WATANABE, Yuki YOKOGI, Ikumi MOTOMURA, Keisuke KUDO, Ririko IKUTA, Bumpei NAGAYA, Chiharu SUZUKI, Tetsushi KAJIHARA, Nobuharu OMORI, Honoka HASHIMOTO, Ryuji KOBAYASHI, AIU Undergraduate students,

Materials:

Multinationality and Cash Holdings: Evidence from Japan

Presenters:

  • Clinton WATKINS, Professor/Director, Global Business Program

Materials:


Fall 2024 Research Showcase: Partner University Presenters

Does exercise with or without manual therapy influence sensory characteriscs in people with elbow tendinopathy? A single-blinded, randomised cross-over trial.

Presenters:

  • Leanne BISSET, Associate Professor, Griffith University, Australia

Materials:

Development and transformation of Eurasianism during the Cold War: Eurasianism in the Soviet intellectual milieu

Presenters:

  • Michal RACYN, Postdoc researcher, Masaryk University – Faculty of Arts, Department of Slavonic Studies, Czech Republic

Materials:

An investigation of the Factors affecting the Users’ Adoption of Social Media Technologies in Public Sector: Case of Egypt

Presenters:

  • Safaa HUSSEIN, Assistant Professor, Egypt Japan University for Science and Technology, Egypt

Materials:

Next Generation Sustainability

Presenters:

  • Chng Saun FONG, Senior Lecturer, Institute for Advanced Studies, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia

Materials:

ESL Teachers’ Learner Autonomy Promoting Strategies in ESL Tertiary Classrooms: Do They Walk the Talk?

Presenters:

  • Sharina SAAD, Senior Lecturer, Universiti Teknologi Mara Kedah Branch, Malaysia

Materials:

The Reclaimed Agency of a Prostituted Identity in Meryem Alaoui’s Straight from the Horse’s Mouth

Presenters:

  • Rawae KARMIM, Assistant Professor, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco

Materials:

Perception of internal auditing and its effectiveness – the results of research to date

Presenters:

  • Lena GRZESIAK, Assistant Professor, University of Lodz, Faculty of Management, Department of Human Resources Management, Poland

Materials:

Universal revolutionary pedagogical principles. The Ferrer Guardia?s Modern School

Presenters:

  • Antonio NADAL-MASEGOSA, Doctor in Pedagogy, University of Málaga, Spain

Materials:

Death Studies at the University of Aberdeen

Presenters:

  • Arnar ?RNASON, Senior Lecturer in social anthropology, University of Aberdeen, U.K.
  • Vikki ENTWISTLE, Professor, University of Aberdeen, U.K.

Materials:

Stonehenge and Jomon

Presenters:

  • Simon KANER, Director, Centre for Japanese Studies, University of East Anglia, U.K.

Materials:

Tracing the money trail: Okinawa as a key site of regional economic competition

Presenters:

  • Ra MASON, Sasakawa Associate Professor of International Relations and Japanese Foreign Policy, University of East Anglia, U.K.

Materials:


Academic Year 2023 Presentations

Fall 2023 Research Showcase: AIU Presenters

Lips and Teeth: China’s Buffer Thinking Toward North Korea

Presenters:

  • Yu-Hua CHEN, Assistant Professor, Global Studies Program

Materials:

Further Adventures in the Lab (WN23): Building Experimental Design Skills using Computer-Aided Design, 3D Printing, Programming, and the Phototrophic Protist Euglena gracilis

Presenters:

  • Andy CROFTS, Professor, Global Connectivity Program
  • Chizuru HONDA, AIU Undergraduate Student
  • Yuki SHIMIZU, AIU Undergraduate Student
  • Kiwamu SATO, AIU Undergraduate Student

Materials:

Digital Archives x Akita Tourism

Presenters:

  • Kaeko CHIBA, Associate Professor, Global Connectivity Program

Materials:

Are Risk Premia Time-varying and Can They Be Explained by Economic Policy Uncertainty?

Presenters:

  • Wenti DU, Assistant Professor, Global Business Program
  • Eric PENTECOST, Professor, Loughborough University
  • Christopher SPENCER, Senior Lecturer, Loughborough University

Materials:

Re-examining the Historical Growth of Human Playing Strength in Go Games

Presenters:

  • Attila EGRI-NAGY, Professor, Global Connectivity Program

Materials:

ChatGPT in Japanese Higher Education: A Case Study

Presenters:

  • Irina KUZNETCOVA, Assistant Professor, Global Connectivity Program

Materials:

Estimating the Potential Demand for Sharing Transportation: the Case of Toyota Car Sharing Service

Presenters:

  • Hideyuki NAKAGAWA, Associate Professor, Global Business Program

Materials:

Beyond Envy or Sympathy: Overcoming Tropes in the Depiction of Blindness in Japanese Blockbuster Films

Presenters:

  • Sean O’REILLY, Associate Professor, Global Connectivity Program

Materials:

From Crisis to Control: The Role of Emotions, Discourse, Values and Knowledge in Learner Autonomy

Presenters:

  • Joe SYKES, Lecturer, English for Academic Purposes Program

Materials:


Fall 2023 Research Showcase: Partner University Presenters

Unplanned urbanization: The transition of earthquake and flood hazards into major disasters in Kashmir contradicts the United Nations Sustainability Development Goal 11

Presenters:

  • Afroz Ahmad SHAH, Sr. Assistant Professor, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei
  • Muhammad Gazali RACHMAN, PhD Candidate, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei
  • Rajesh KUMAR, Assistant Professor, Sikkim University, India
  • Javed MALIK, Professor, IIT Kanpur, India
  • SANA, University of Kashmir, India

Materials:

Development and Implementation of a Solar-Powered Smart Charger for EVs: An Integrated V2G-Enabled System with a Focus on Egypt’s Seasonal Solar Variations

Presenters:

  • Omar ABDEL-RAHIM, Assistant Professor, Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology, Egypt

Materials:

Mobile Application for Tourism: The Case of Egypt

Presenters:

  • Safaa HUSSEIN, Assistant Professor, Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology, Egypt

Materials:

Development of a Measure for Wise Leadership

Presenters:

  • Abderrahman HASSI, Associate Professor, Al-Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco
  • Giovanna STORTI, Advisor, Employment and Social Development. Canada

Materials:

Skincare Routine for Soviet People: The Use of Cosmetics in the USSR, 1950-1960s

Presenters:

  • Evgenia PLATONOVA, PhD Student, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia

Materials:

Understanding the relationship between government financial support to migrant enterprises (MEs) during the COVID-19 pandemic and mental wellbeing of their entrepreneurs

Presenters:

  • Charan BHATTARAI, Lecturer, University of Essex, U.K. (JSPS Fellow, Waseda University)
  • Caleb KWONG, Professor, University of Essex, U.K.
  • Cherry CHEUNG, Senior Lecturer, London South Bank University, U.K.
  • Gracia LIU-FARRER, Professor, Waseda University, Japan

Materials:

A more resilient food future? The challenges and opportunities of surplus food redistribution in the UK

Presenters:

  • Jordan LAZELL, Lecturer, University of Essex, U.K.
  • Debashree DE, Lecturer, University of Essex, U.K.
  • Ignas ARBACIAUSKAS, Undergraduate Student, University of Essex, U.K.

Materials:

Breaking Down the Islamic State Threat in Asia, a Study of the Current Tactics and Trends

Presenters:

  • Rishi SINGH, Undergraduate Student, George Mason University, U.S.A.
  • Mahmut CENGIZ, Research Associate Professor, George Mason University, U.S.A.

Materials:


Spring 2023 Research Showcase: Academic Year 2022 President’s Fund Recipients

Ikebana Therapy for Dementia Patients

Presenters:

  • Kaeko Chiba, Associate Professor, Global Connectivity Program
  • Yuko Abe, Professor, Head of Japanese Language Program
  • Ayako Motegi, Manager, Nagoyaka nursing care home
  • Ayuk Eyong, Advisor, Sotoasahikawa hospital

Materials:

Developing a “Place” to Support Student Writing at AIU

Presenters:

  • Rebecca Clegg-Sasaki, Select Lecturer, English for Academic Purposes Program
  • Lee Friederich, Associate Professor, English for Academic Purposes Program
  • Ian Hurley, Assistant Professor, English for Academic Purposes Program

Materials:

Creativity & Wellbeing among Akita Students

Presenters:

  • Lee Friederich, Associate Professor, English for Academic Purposes Program
  • Naoko Araki, Professor, English for Academic Purposes Program
  • Kaeko Chiba, Associate Professor, Global Connectivity Program
  • Joel Friederich, Associate Professor, English for Academic Purposes Program
  • Tsuyoshi Cuhullan McGivern, Lecturer, Global Connectivity Program
  • Naeko Naganuma, Associate Professor, English for Academic Purposes
  • Mary Hoeft, Emeritus Professor of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin
  • Hiromi Sone, Professor, Akita University of Art

Materials:

Service-learning for Rural Sustainability

Presenters:

  • Shogo Kudo, Associate Professor, Global Studies Program
  • Norihito Mizuno, Professor, Director of Global Studies Program
  • Luke Dilley, Assistant Professor, Global Studies Program

Materials:

Academic Writing Workshops for Akita High School Students

Presenters:

  • Clay H. Williams, Professor, English Language Teaching Practices
  • Leigh Bennett, Lecturer, English for Academic Purposes Program

Materials:


Academic Year 2022 Research Week

AIU Presenters

Ikebana Therapy

Presenters:

  • Kaeko CHIBA, Associate Professor, Global Connectivity Program

Materials:

Privileging Dialogue with Academic Writing – the creation of a writing centre at AIU

Presenters:

  • Rebecca CLEGG-SASAKI, Select Lecturer, English for Academic Purposes Program

Materials:

Adventures in the Lab: Building Experimental Design Skills using Computer-Aided Design, 3D Printing, Programming, and the Phototrophic Protist Euglena gracilis

Presenters:

  • Andy CROFTS, Professor, Global Connectivity Program
  • Sayaka OHIRA, Undergraduate Student
  • Mashiho TAKAHASHI, Undergraduate Student
  • Kanako TSUCHIYA, Undergraduate Student

Materials:

Assessing the Challenges and Opportunities of the Various Course Delivery Formats

Presenters:

  • Florent DOMENACH, Professor/Director, Global Connectivity Program

Materials:

Recomputing all 4-state computational structures

Presenters:

  • Attila EGRI-NAGY, Professor, Global Connectivity Program

Materials:

Wellbeing through Creativity (President’s Fund Project)

Presenters:

  • Lee FRIEDERICH, Associate Professor, English for Academic Purposes Program
  • Naoko ARAKI, Professor, English for Academic Purposes Program
  • Joel FRIEDERICH, Associate Professor, English for Academic Purposes Program
  • Naeko NAGANUMA, Associate Professor, English for Academic Purposes Program/Dean of Students

Materials:

Visualizing the Syntactic Structure of L2 Japanese: The Suginoki Treebank

Presenters:

  • Hitoshi HORIUCHI, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Global Communication and Language Japanese Language Teaching Practices Program

Materials:

The Role of Temporal Distance in Customer Responses to Scarcity Appeals

Presenters:

  • Sungkyu LEE, Assistant Professor, Global Business Program

Materials:

Understanding Externality of Nursery Facilities

Presenters:

  • Hideyuki NAKAGAWA, Associate Professor, Global Business Program

Materials:

The effect of monetary policy under quantitative easing to the exchange rate in Japan

Presenters:

  • Thaya NGAMPRAVATDEE, Exchange student at AIU from Mahidol University International College, Thailand

Materials:

SpeechCraft Akita: a community-initiated adult education for public speaking in English, introduced in northern Tohoku area of Japan as a way to address opportunity gaps.

Presenters:

  • Kazuhiko TAKEUCHI, Director of Office of Faculty and Staff Support, Administrative Office

Materials:

The Political Resonance of Film in the Works of Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Presenters:

  • Noah Keone VIERNES, Associate Professor, Global Studies Program

Materials:

Arbitrage and Liquidity in Platinum Futures

Presenters:

  • Clinton WATKINS, Professor/Director, Global Business Program

Materials:

Partner University Presenters

Humanitarian Response in Urban Settings: Exploring the Role of Community Leaders during Complex Disasters in the Philippines

Presenters:

  • Dr. Maria Carinnes ALEJANDRIA, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei

Materials:

A Social-theoretical Perspective on Educational Equality and Professional Teacher Training in Japan and Germany

Presenters:

  • Dr. Benjamin HEURICH (Research Associate, Chair of Education with a focus on Diversity Research and Educational Spaces in Middle Childhood, University of Passau, Germany

Materials:

Virtual reality and war reporting: uses, potentialities and challenges of 360° video to narrate armed conflicts

Presenters:

  • Andrés David Castro LOTERO, PhD Student Communication Sciences, University of Passau, Germany

Materials:

Seeing Indonesia from East Kalimantan: An Invitation to Decolonizing Environmental Justice

Presenters:

  • Ms. Siti MAIMUNAH, PhD Student, University of Passau, Germany

Materials:

From Digital to Spatial Turn in Holocaust Education? (Re)Locating Remembrance and its Requirements and Opportunities for Media Education

Presenters:

  • Dr. Kathrin Eveline PLANK, Academic Coucillor, University of Passau, Germany

Materials:

Internationalization@home Promoting virtual mobility – an online group experiment

Presenters:

  • Dr. Tamara RACHBAUER, Academic counselor, Chair of Education with a focus on Diversity Research and Educational Spaces in Middle Childhood, University of Passau, Germany

Materials:

The MORALITY POLITICA of SPORKS in 1970s JAPAN

Presenters:

  • Dr. Nathan HOPSON, Associate Professor, University of Bergen, Norway

Materials:

Initial coin offerings (ICOs): Why do they succeed?

Presenters:

  • Dr. Jose CAMPINO, Professor, ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal

Materials:

The Cultural Heritage when Programming Cruise Itineraries

Presenters:

  • Dr. Antonio PELAEZ-VERDET, Assistant Professor, Department of Management and Business,University of Malaga, Spain

Materials:


Academic Year 2021 Research Week: All Presentations by AIU members

Adventures in the Lab: Building Analytical Thinking and Experimental Design Skills using Computer-Aided Design, 3D Printing, and the Phototrophic Protist Euglena gracilis

Presenters:

  • Andy CROFTS, Professor, Global Connectivity Program
  • Reona YANAGI, Undergraduate Student
  • Ryoka IGUCHI, Undergraduate Student

Materials:

Computational Holonomy Decomposition of Transformation Semigroups

Presenters:

  • Attila EGRI-NAGY, Professor, Global Connectivity Program
  • Chrystopher L. NEHANIV, Professor University of Waterloo, Canada

Materials:

From Writing Workshop to Community Action: Storytelling as Immigration Advocacy

Presenters:

  • Lee FRIEDERICH, Associate Professor, English for Academic Purposes Program
  • Naoko ARAKI, Professor, English for Academic Purposes Program
  • Joel FRIEDERICH, Associate Professor, English for Academic Purposes Program

Materials:

Syntactic Complexity of Oral and Written Outputs through Story-telling/writing in L2 Japanese: A Case of L1 English Learners

Presenters:

  • Hitoshi HORIUCHI, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Global Communication and Language Japanese Language Teaching Practices Program

Materials:

English-Medium Instruction in Japanese Universities: Focus on the Teacher

Presenters:

  • Irina KUZNETCOVA, Assistant Professor, Global Connectivity Program

Materials:

[Case study] The temporary use of L1 in an advanced classroom

Presenters:

  • Yuto YOKOKURA, Graduate Student, Graduate School of Global Communication and Language Japanese Language Teaching Practices Program

Materials:


Academic Year 2020 Research Week: All Presentations by AIU members

Traditional Arts in Higher Education

Presenters:

  • Kaeko CHIBA, Associate Professor, Basic Education Program

Materials:

Using Computer-Aided Design and 3D Printing to Investigate Phototaxis in Euglena

Presenters:

  • Andy CROFTS, Professor, Basic Education Program
  • Kaori FURUKAWA, Undergraduate Student
  • Chiharu MORIYAMA, Undergraduate Student

Materials:

Modeling contagion in the Eurozone: A Time-Varying Coefficients Approach

Presenters:

  • Wenti DU, Assistant Professor, Global Business Program

Materials:

Using Go AIs for detecting online cheating with Go AIs

Presenters:

  • Attila EGRI-NAGY, Professor, Basic Education Program
  • Antti T?RM?NEN, Nihon Ki-in

Materials:

A Reading of Original Poetry: Merging Research and Creativity

Presenters:

  • Joel FRIEDERICH, Associate Professor, English for Academic Purposes Program

Materials:

Tomioka Taeko’s Poetry of Refusal

Presenters:

  • Lee FRIEDERICH, Associate Professor, English for Academic Purposes Program

Materials:

What Experience Cannot Tell Us About Time

Presenters:

  • Akiko FRISCHHUT, Assistant Professor, Basic Education Program

Materials:

Intersectionality in Japanese Queer Community ~We Are Not Just Gay~

Presenters:

  • Hinako ISHIKAWA, Undergraduate Student

Materials: