Tomomi Sato

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■2017.4-Position: Associate Professor.Department: Aichi Shukutoku University Faculty of Human Informatics

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An Ainu Uwepeker Text by N. A. Nevskij

北方言語研究 = Northern language studies, Mar 20, 2021

Nikolaj Aleksandrovich Nevskij (1892-1937) was an outstanding Russian Japanologist who spent 14 y... more Nikolaj Aleksandrovich Nevskij (1892-1937) was an outstanding Russian Japanologist who spent 14 years of his research career in Japan focusing on the study of Ainu and other East Asian languages. Most of his works were published posthumously, yet, many remain unpublished. After Ajnskij Fol’klor (Ainu Folklore) (1972), this is the first publication of an Ainu folklore text from Nevkij’s archive preserved at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. The text was narrated by an Ainu female speaker Kopoanu in Otaru on February 22, 1922. We have added to the original a Latin morphophonemic transcription of the Ainu text, English glosses and an English translation from Ainu. As usual for an uwepeker “folktale”, the story is told by a human main character, here a younger sister, who wants to record the events of her life before dying of old age. The synopsis of the story is as follows. Two sisters lived together. Then the older sister made love to a snake husband, gave birth to a snake child and turned into a snake herself. The younger sister would have repeated the same fate unless she was warned by the old elm tree.

Proposal for a Network Communication Environment to Support Daily Dialogue between Young Children and Grandparents

International Journal for Educational Media and Technology, 2007

This study attempted to build a system environment that would lead to diversification in human re... more This study attempted to build a system environment that would lead to diversification in human relationships by enabling communication between a child and grandparent via the Internet using a computer. The day-today dialogue with a grandparent is realized via the Internet by employing a medium that would give direction to the dialogue and thereby enliven the communication. Along with presenting the possibilities of ICT to increase the opportunities for communication with people, which is indispensable for a child's development, by increasing the communication with close relatives, the study succeeded in presenting a new relationship with computers for a child that is different from the conventional software for children.

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Family Recreation through Family Portfolio : Family Sugoroku

The authors have developed a family portfolio system (FP) that aims to promote parental awareness... more The authors have developed a family portfolio system (FP) that aims to promote parental awareness and interpersonal interaction themes. Users can store pictures with a type tag and an emotion tag. In this study, the authors develop a "Family Sugoroku" application linked with FP. "Sugoroku" is a traditional Japanese board game in which players roll the dice in turn and move their piece on the map designed on the board. In Family Sugoroku, the data stored in FP are used as elements of the map. The pictures from FP are randomly shown on the map, and players move their pieces on the map according to the instructions automatically generated from the type and the emotion tags of the picture. The authors aim at supporting conversation in the family and promoting reflection of family histories through the use of the Family Sugoroku. Family Sugoroku is a proposal of a new recreational activity through family recollections.

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The Impact of Making a Concept Map for Constructive Reading with the Critical Reading Support Software "eJournalPlus

eJournalPlus: Development of a Tablet PC Based Reading Support Software Toward Critical Reading

This study introduces eJournalPlus, a tabletPC based reading support software. The goal is to ass... more This study introduces eJournalPlus, a tabletPC based reading support software. The goal is to assist the user in reading e-documents with accurate comprehension and critical attitude to improve his/her critical reading skills. In the software, the user can underline critical words and phrases in e-documents, depict the concept maps, and edit the report within the interface. Moreover, the special features allow the user to cite underlined words into the knowledge map directly and likewise, into the report. An additional feature allows the collaboration with eJournalPlus Server, which has several functions for downloading and uploading files. This paper describes the contributors' motivation for this project and provides details on the software.

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eJournalPlus

Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Computer supported collaborative learning - CSCL'09, 2009

The authors developed reading support software "eJournalPlus" designed to assist learners in not ... more The authors developed reading support software "eJournalPlus" designed to assist learners in not only reading texts but also constructing their own opinions from it. Since it is difficult for learners to reach a sufficient level of critical reading skills through reading only by themselves, a collaborative learning function was added to allow learners to share their ideas and facilitate discussion in order to assist learners in considering their own opinion more critically and promoting their critical thinking.

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Development of software to support argumentative reading and writing by means of creating a graphic organizer from an electronic text

Educational Technology Research and Development, 2019

This paper describes the development of a software program that supports argumentative reading an... more This paper describes the development of a software program that supports argumentative reading and writing, especially for novice students. The software helps readers create a graphic organizer from the text as a knowledge map while they are reading and use their prior knowledge to build their own opinion as new information while they think about writing their essays. Readers using this software can read a text, underline important words or sentences, pick up and dynamically cite the underlined portions of the text onto a knowledge map as quotation nodes, illustrate a knowledge map by linking the nodes, and later write their opinion as an essay while viewing the knowledge map; thus, the software bridges argumentative reading and writing. Sixty-three freshman and sophomore students with no prior argumentative reading and writing education participated in a design case study to evaluate the software in classrooms. Thirty-four students were assigned to a class in which each student developed a knowledge map after underlining and/or highlighting a text with the software, while twenty-nine students were assigned to a class in which they simply wrote their essays after underlining and/or highlighting the text without creating knowledge maps. After receiving an instruction regarding a simplified Toulmin's model followed by instructions for the software usage in argumentative reading and writing along with reading one training text, the students read the target text and developed their essays. The results revealed that students who drew a knowledge map based on the underlining and/or highlighting of the target text developed more argumentative essays than those who did not draw maps. Further analyses revealed that developing knowledge maps fostered an ability to capture the target text's argument, and linking students' ideas to the text's argument directly on the knowledge map helped students develop more constructive essays. Accordingly, we discussed additional necessary scaffolds, such as automatic argument detection and collaborative learning functions, for improving the students' use of appropriate reading and writing strategies.

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Development of Software that Supports Young Children’s Narrative Productions

In this study, I created a tablet PC application to support children’s narrative skills, which be... more In this study, I created a tablet PC application to support children’s narrative skills, which begins to develop actively at around the age of five and a half years. My aim is to stimulate storytelling to increase the event categories of protocol and to support causal relationships among sentences. After reviewing the relevant previous research, I considered the support methods and developed the necessary functions. To investigate the effectiveness of this software, I conducted an experiment to compare the story protocols of five-year-old children. One group used paper crafts and the other used the software. The results showed that the proposed system stimulates storytelling and increases the event categories in the protocol of each story. In particular, the causality of a character’s emotional state is improved by using a function to change facial expressions. Children can also use causal relationships and compose stories that are easy to understand.

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