Transformative Service Research and Kansei

Transdisciplinary Research, Transformative Learning, and Transformative Science

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An Extended Conceptual Framework for Transformative Service Research

Review of Kansei Research in Japan

This paper gives a historical review of Kansei-based media technologies in Japan. Kansei is a Japanese word, the meaning of which covers sensibility, sentiment, emotion, and feeling. Kansei research started in the field of music, because music is the most acceptable of the arts to computer science. In the 1990s, the applications of Kansei machine vision became widespread in many industrial fiel...

e-Learning and Action Research as Transformative Practice

Recent Internet developments and advances in networking have encouraged students' collaboration with other students and instructors, increased students' access to experts, and provided an array of learning resources. Despite the evident potentiality and dynamism of these emerging technologies, however, studies indicate that while teachers in higher education are making use of e-mail and Web res...

Transformative by Design? Subversive Game Design and Player Research

When games are designed to impact their users’ thinking beyond the created playful environment itself – learning is aimed at. Thereby the question arises, if games are constructive tools to foster transformative learning by challenging players’ perspectives. The following paper outlines the case study of a game design experiment that combines state of the art learning research with game design ...