2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The Possibility for The Social Structure Creative Social Technology:Social Technological Development of On-Demand Transporting System
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23650559
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Sociology/History of science and technology
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
KITOH Shuichi 東京大学, 大学院・新領域創成科学研究科, 教授 (40169892)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
YAMATO Hiroyuki 東京大学, 大学院・新領域創成科学研究科, 教授 (50220421)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2012
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| Keywords | 科学技術社会論 / 社会技術 / 社会構造創造型社会技術 / オンデマンド交通 / ICT技術 / 高齢社会 / コミュニティ形成 |
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| Research Abstract |
The possibility of on-demand transportation system to contributes solving of the problems in aged society is verified, then the new category of social technology, social structure creative social technology, is submitted. In this research, the trans-disciplinary approach is tried, by using together the engineering investigation technique of analyzing the action log of the user, which is characterized in ICT technology, and sociological investigation called a qualitative social research. The component technology developed for senior’s residents of shopping desert relief has the another possibility of generating communication and the community of a new form. The potential capability to develop this technology system as social technology developed to various functions, such as not the single function of mobility but medical treatment, society, and purchase, was suggested. Moreover, by using a new ideal framework called the polysemy framework in environmental ethics, it was able to show that on-demand transportation system could has create the new polysemical functions in the society. It is originated in the special feature of ICT technology as new social creation type social technology. And then, the new methodology, which unites sociological research with the engineering technique, was developed.
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[Presentation]2011
Author(s)
Rudy Raymond, Takamitsu Sugiura, Kota Tsubouchi and Hiroyuki Yamato
Organizer
19th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACMSIGSPATIAL GIS 2011)
Place of Presentation
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Year and Date
2011-11-14
