August 29, 2019

Ikumi WaragaiI, Makoto Ishii, Andreas Meyer, Tatsuya Ohata, Yukiko Sato, Stefan Brückner and Shuichi Kurabayashi

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One of the most important challenges in foreign language education is how to connect learnings acquired in the classroom with the daily lives of learners or with their learning outside the classroom. We have developed Platzwit neu, a mobile web app that uses highly agile software. Through such functionality as GPS, visual text input, and acoustic text replay, this app allows users to transfer content learned in the classroom into the context of their individual daily lives. Utilizing a cloud system, the learners can create their own visual or acoustic texts based on the content learned in class and allocate them to any defined location for on-the-spot exposure.
 

European Association for Computer Assisted Langauge Learning (EUROCALL) 2019 Call and Complexity, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, August 28-31 2019, https://sites.uclouvain.be/eurocall2019/.

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August 05, 2019

Stefan Brückner, Shuichi Kurabayashi, Yukiko Sato and Ikumi Waragai

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So called “loot boxes” continue to be a highly controversial topic among the gaming press, player communities and in wider public discourses. The growing debate about loot boxes has also contributed towards a rise in academic interest. However, to facilitate a fruitful debate on this contentious topic, a clear definition of what we talk about, when we talk about loot boxes becomes necessary. Whether they are implemented as a means of monetization or not, the aim of this project is to establish an empirically grounded taxonomy of monetized random reward mechanisms, by comparing how they are implemented in different games on different platforms.

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2019 International Conference of the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA'19), 4 pages, Kyoto Japan, August 6-10, 2019, http://www.digra2019.org.

August 06, 2019

Stefan Brückner

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As with other media, the way players experience, interpret and evaluate digital games is inextricably linked to their cultural backgrounds. However, the “current research gap in comparative game studies” (Elmezeny and Wimmer 2018, 81) severely limits out ability to make assertions on the exact nature of these differences across cultures. This dissertation project aims to contribute towards closing this research gap, by realizing an empirically grounded comparative research design, focused on a computer assisted mixed-method analysis of German and Japanese online user reviews and an analysis of player data, gathered through the use of think-aloud-protocol (TAP) in supervised play sessions of 6 German and Japanese players.

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2019 International Conference of the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA'19), Doctoral Consortium, Kyoto Japan, August 6-10, 2019, http://www.digra2019.org

June 08, 2019

松木瑶子

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日本フランス語教育学会2019年度大会, 2019年6月9日, 於：大東文化会館, https://sjdf.org/blog/235.

March 24, 2019

藤谷悠, 松木瑶子, 國枝孝弘

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第33回関西フランス語教育研究会, 2019年3月25日, 於：上田安子服飾専門学校（大阪府）.

January 02, 2019

Yukiko Sato, Stefan Brückner

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This study explores the use of Christian elements in news discourses and analyzes the functions, as well as differences, in the use of religious elements from a semantic approach. We compare the German, American and Japanese news coverage of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake (3.11 disaster) between March 2012 and March 2017, following a media discourse analysis approach. 

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In: T. Endrjukaite, A. Dudko, H. Jaakkola, B. Thalheim, Y. Kiyoki, & N. Yoshida (Eds.), Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases XXX (pp. 319-333). IOS Press. DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-933-1-319.

July 24, 2018

Stefan Brückner, Yukiko Sato, Shuichi Kurabayashi, and Ikumi Waragai

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In this paper we present the first results of an ongoing research project, focused on examining the European reception of Japanese video games, and comparing it with the reception in Japan. We hope to contribute towards a better understanding of how players’ perception and evaluation of a game are influenced by their cultural background. Applying a grounded theory approach, we conducted a qualitative content analysis of articles from German video game websites, user comments, written in response to these articles, as well as Japanese and German user reviews from the respective Amazon online stores and Steam. Focusing on the reception of three Japanese RPGs, our findings show that considerable differences exist in how various elements of the games are perceived. We also briefly discuss certain lexical differences in the way players write about games, indicating fundamental differences in how Japanese and German players talk (and think) about games.

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2018 International Conference of the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA'18), Turin, Italy, 25-28 July, 2018, http://www.digra.org/digital-library/publications/exploring-cultural-differences-in-game-reception-jrpgs-in-germany-and-japan/.

March 09, 2018

藤谷悠

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言語文化教育研究学会第4回年次大会, 2018年3月10日, 於：立命館大学（京都府）.

December 19, 2017

Stefan Brückner, Yukiko Sato, Shuichi Kurabayashi, and Ikumi Waragai

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This paper examines how personal information is handled by mobile game developers and displayed inside mobile games. 38 mobile games from 29 developers were examined, chosen based on their popularity as expressed by the rankings in the Google Play store. An investigation was made into the type of information that is required during the registration process, what information is optional, and what information is finally displayed in the game and to whom. In a second step, the privacy policies of the 29 mobile game developers were compared, examining them for differences in content. Lastly, the reaction of game developers to written requests for information disclosure and deletion was investigated. 

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In: Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE 2017), pp. 415-429, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 10714. Springer, Cham, 2017, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76270-8_29.

November 22, 2017

藤谷悠

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南藤沢学会第15回研究発表大会, 2017年11月23日, 於：東京ミッドタウン（東京都）.

December 02, 2017

Yukiko Sato, Irene Rachmawan, Stefan Brückner, Ikumi Waragai, Yasushi Kiyoki

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This study aims to enhance foreign language learners’ language competence by integrating formal and informal learning environments and considers how they can improve their grammatical and lexical skills through the gathering (comprehension) and sharing (writing) of information in the foreign language. Experiments with German learners at a Japanese university preparing to study in Germany were conducted. 

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In: K. Borthwick, L. Bradley & S. Thouësny (Eds.), CALL in a Climate of Change: Adapting to Turbulent Global Conditions – Short Papers from EUROCALL 2017. Research-publishing.net. pp. 277-282. 
DOI: 10.14705/rpnet.2017.eurocall2017.726.

December 02, 2017

Ikumi Waragai, Tatsuya Ohta, Shuichi Kurabayashi, Yasushi Kiyoki, Yukiko Sato, Stefan Brückner

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This study assumes two axes of a learning environment – formal/informal and real/cyber space – and attempts to integrate them to create a circulating four-dimensional model. Integrating formal and informal environments connects real space, which depends on the physical location and situation, with cyber space, which does not. In this study, sentences written in a foreign language by language learners will be auto- collected and analyzed in cyber space, which plays a great role in students’ daily lives. 

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In: K. Borthwick, L. Bradley & S. Thouësny (Eds.), CALL in a climate of change: adapting to turbulent global conditions – short papers from EUROCALL 2017. Research-publishing.net. pp. 322-327. 

DOI: 10.14705/rpnet.2017.eurocall2017.734.
 

September 03, 2017

Yukiko Sato, Ikumi Waragai

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This study analyzes the news coverage of events related to the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami in German, American and Japanese newspapers. It will aim to uncover expressional differences in the coverage on a similar topic reported in different languages. This research especially focuses on the use of religious language in the coverage, which in this paper refers to religious metaphors and symbols originating from a Christian context.

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In: International Journal on Advanced Science, Engineering and Information Technology, Vol. 7, No.2, insight, pp.406-417. DOI: 10.18517/ijaseit.7.2.2172. 

March 22, 2017

Yukiko Sato, Ikumi Waragai

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The choice of expressions used in news reports is dependent on their language, the perspective of the journalist and the purpose of the news. Previous research by Miyata (2002) and Chomsky (2003) shows that religious language has often been used in the media to convey political ideas and legitimize political acts to the public. Based on that theory this research will try to clarify the reasons for utilizing religious language as a method of expression when delivering news articles about the 2011 catastrophe in Japan.

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In: 2016 International Conference on Knowledge Creation and Intelligent Computing (KCIC), Manado Indonesia, Nov. 15-17 2016, pp. 155-162. DOI: 10.1109/KCIC.2016.7883640. http://kcic2016.eepis-its.edu. *BEST PAPER AWARD.

October 30, 2016

佐藤友紀子

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我々のコミュニティーにおいて生活、ビジネスそして観光など様々な場面において複数の言語と多様な文化が共存する多言語・多文化（multiculturalization and multilingualization）社会が進んでいる状況にある。実空間だけでなく、目に見えない実空間を越えたサイバー空間上においても多言語化・多文化化がダイナミックに拡大している。一方で我々は日々膨大な情報の中に身を置く状況にあるにも関わらず、言語の制約によって我々が得ている情報が非常に限られている可能性がある。研究対象を日本語で発信されたニュース情報に向けた場合、この現象はどのように捉え得るのであろうか。日本で発生したニュース情報は他の言語圏において、どのように表現され、共通するテーマについて報道内容にどのような差異が存在するのだろうか？2011 年3 月11 日に発生した東日本大震災について報道された記事データを対象とし調査・分析をおこなった。日本の報道メディアで発信された記事データを、英語圏(アメリカ)およびドイツ語圏(ドイツ)で発信された同テーマに関する報道データと比較し、言語使用の観点から分析・考察をおこなう。

しごと能力研究学会第9回全国大会, 2016年10月29-30日, 於：慶應義塾大学三田キャンパス(東京).