Date: 2006.3.9 (Thu)
Place: General Research Building, Kashiwa New Campus, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa
Society: The 9th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-9)

Description: Mihoko Otake presents the workshop protocol and the development of this community site “WS100H.NET” at IAS-9 as a Program Committee Chair of the “A Hundred Hour Workshop”. IAS-9 is the international conference on intelligent autonomous systems. In order to support collaboration among experts with diverse disciplines, the autonomous collaborative environment for project based learning was developed through the workshop.

Period: 2006.3.7 (Tues) - 3.9 (Thu)
Conference Code: IAS-9

Presenter: Mihoko Otake
Title: Autonomous Collaborative Environment for Project Based Learning
Bibliography: Mihoko Otake, Ryo Fukano, Shinji Sako, Masao Sugi, Kiyoshi Kotani, Junya Hayashi, Hiroshi Noguchi, Ryuichi Yoneda, Kenjiro Taura, Nobuyuki Otsu, and Tomomasa Sato, " Autonomous Collaborative Environment for Project Based Learning", Intelligent Autonomous Systems 9 T. Arai et al. (Eds.) IOS Press, pp.756-763, 2006.

Abstract:
The importance of integrating different discipline of information science and technology is growing for the realization of information system which works robust in real world.
Such system should be achieved by integrating super robust algorithm, large-scale dependable network and devices or interfaces which sense and/or actuate in the real world. It is necessary to encourage collaboration among specialists of different disciplines, since it is difficult to cover all area in information science and technology by only one person or group. In order to support collaboration among various kinds of experts, the autonomous collaborative environment for project based learning was developed. The environment comprises the workshop protocol and the community site.
The workshop named "A Hundred Hour Workshop" for graduate students who belong to different departments was carried out during summer holidays. The community site named "WS100H.NET" was developed for supporting and analyzing autonomous collaboration process. Novel interdisciplinary technology, fusion of recognition and parallel computation was successfully developed. Collaboration process among the participants was autonomous with minimal facilitation by the tutor in the environment.