Reports on “Digital Humanities Center for Japanese Arts and Cultures” Center Grants for Young Researchers to Support Their Research Activities


Kingkarn Sookhanaphibarn

Kinugasa Research Organization, Ritsumeikan University Postdoctoral fellow

Period when you used the grant: 2009/09/07 - 2009/09/14

Research activities: Overview and implications: 1. Registration fee for the 5th International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing JPY48,000

2.Registration fee for the 2009
International Conference on Cyberworlds2009 JPY52,000

Progress and effects in your overall research plan and objectives: *Develop a modularization framework of digital museums in second life as learning center:100% wasn proposed in the Cyberworld2009's paper.
*Build a museum prototype to support interactive activities in second life:(New) collect the visitors' data in Rits Pavilion. 50% was collected.
*Analyze the activity-based visitors in digital museum:25% was proposed in the IIH-MSP2009's paper.75% will be written in another conference paper.
*Discovery an evaluation metric of the visitor satisfactory:100% was proposed in this paper.

Advisor: Ruck Thawonmas / Ritsumeikan University