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2017 ITU Kaleidoscope Academic Conference

6. UTILIZATION OF OPEN ONLINE COURSES ON
WEB

When considering Japanese language web sites, there are many
useful materials from open online courses. In Japan gacco,
eboard, schoo [8] listed as Japanese Massive Open Online
Courses (JMOOC) have been providing free on-line education
with a variety of courses such as arithmetic, science,
programing, management, marketing, statistics, accounting, as
well as business planning for elementary school children
through grown-ups.
Otani University has been using a site of the past questions of
the IT Passport Examination founded by the Japanese
Government. When one passes the examination, one is
qualified as having basic skills and knowledge on ICT
technologies, management and business strategies, certified by
the Ministry of Economy, Trades and Industry (MITI). The
authors organized one-week intensive course on IT Passport
Exam during the summer and spring breaks of the academic
years 2015 and 2016. Those courses using iPad and the past Fig. 8. The growth and forecast of wearable market in the world
examination site assisted students to complete the examination
with the successful result of seven to eight students each from In general as depicted in Fig. 8, the market of wearable devices
2015, in comparison with just a few students, each year in the is forecast to grow steadily with 62.6 billion US dollars in 2020
past. Based upon this improvement, our faculty has decided to [9]. When usage is divided into two categories, private usage
have all juniors take the examination from April 2017. and business usage, private usage includes the monitoring vital
data and life log with GPS for healthcare as well as positioning
7. WRITING PRACTICE OF DIGITAL MULTIMEDIA one’s location while business usage includes medical, security
CONTENTS USING E-PUB FORMAT services, defense and monitoring the workplace.

The Class for Digital Contents Research involves training for
producing digital multimedia books in standard e-Pub format.
Students use desktop or laptop PC with hardware keyboard and
mouse since tablet PC isn’t conducive to easy input of letters
and figures and content information layout. However, when an
e-book is completed the product may be attractive compared to a
PDF format.
There are several free use web sites for making e-Pub books for
beginners. Most of those websites are capable of publishing
commercial products as well. Each year more than 70 students
participate in submit in their work with stimulating content.

8. VITAL DATA SHARING SYSTEM WITH IoT
WEARABLE DEVICES

Recent observation at campus shows that some students use Fig. 9. The monitoring system for vital data
wristband type wearable devices. Expecting that more and more
students will wear those devices, we have implemented a system The authors propose a method to improve students’ health
to share students’ vital data such as heart rate and sleeping hours consciousness by taking advantage of IoT technologies such as
as well as activity logs such as distance travelled and the means wearable devices and smart phones along with a cloud service.
to obtain information by wearable devices and smartphones. Our Fig. 9 shows an implemented web application system
system allows vital data to be shared securely within a limited consisting of RStudio’s Shiny server [10] in a cloud, a Fitbit
number of private group members so that individual vital data [11] as a wristband type wearable device and its associated
can be properly managed. applications on smartphones and Moves [12] as an application
on smartphones to log active data such as walking, running,
cycling and transportation. A mash-up of two applications,
Fitbit and Moves generates a more precise description on one’s
daily behavior. The RStudio’s Shiny server interacts with both
Fitbit and Moves data through cloud with API in accordance
with OAuth2.0. The application is implemented with a
password to show the contents of vital data even though the site
may be accessed to anyone who knows the URL.
Another issue for further study is the use wearable devices such
as eyeglasses JINS MEME [13]. This device has an
accelerometer, gyroscope and electrooculography sensors to

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