- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism
- Multilingual Education and Policy
- Speech and dialogue systems
- Disaster Response and Management
- Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Healthcare Systems and Technology
- Education, Healthcare and Sociology Research
- Educational Reforms and Innovations
- Marriage and Sexual Relationships
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
- Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
- Educational Technology and Pedagogy
- Appreciative Inquiry and Organizational Change
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Education and Critical Thinking Development
- Islamic Finance and Banking Studies
- EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Culinary Culture and Tourism
- Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
- Ideological and Political Education
Tamagawa University
2019-2024
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
2014-2016
Chiba University
2014-2016
Meiji Gakuin University
2013
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
2012
University of California, Los Angeles
2009
This article examines several conversational practices by which people show empathy with others' experiences of extremely distressing, life-changing events. We recorded and analyzed volunteers' handling evacuees' the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake tsunami related Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster. The demonstrates three different in how volunteers reacted: formulating troubles-teller's experience as uniquely owned, differentiating from others', invoking volunteer's similar a basis for...
This paper looks at the issue of therapists’ and participants’ accountability regarding a perceived problem in routine medical massage sessions. Specifically, it shows how therapists patients communicate their tactile perception sensation by negotiating for current state treated body part. Drawing on video-recorded data 12 sessions home five clinic, this demonstrates that there is normative order with regard to patients’ problems. In sessions, presumably have (e.g., stiffness or tension)...
Abstract Introduction Though many governmental and nongovernmental efforts for disaster prevention have been sought throughout Japan since the Great East Earthquake on March 11, 2011, most of preparation disasters based more structural conventionalized regulations than scientific objective grounds. Problem There has a lack knowledge space utilization triage posts in drill sessions. This report addresses how participants occupy make use within post terms areas occupied time. Method The...
In the Shinjuku Station West Exit Medical Relief Training, a disaster medical (triage) training that includes ordinary citizens as well professionals has been conducted on continual basis. However, updating and improving contents maintaining participants’ interest levels were challenged because there no baseline evaluations post-training accomplishments. The purpose of this study is to develop model which facilitate updates in sustainable manner increase number participants by raising...
By drawing on service encounter data in Japanese, this paper analyzes a previously undocumented request action initiated by provider to client as necessary step provide the service. The and their client, both exercising respective deontic rights, collaboratively construct turn particular ways. In case, due Japanese SOV word order, takes advantage of segmenting allow recipient clients begin compliance, who thereby acquiesce provider’s authority at earliest point. bringing completion after...

 Surgical operations are fundamentally comprised of multisensorial and multimodal activities. As surgical work involves professional technical skills that entail a multitude sensorial information, various methodological difficulties constraints emerge for analysts. Subjective sensations feedback received during the participants' constructed actions may not be available to outsiders, privilege studying is always guaranteed fieldworker. However, as practical tasks from routine...
Emergency medical care involves a high level of urgency and requires team approach. Thus, the need for simulation-based education is high. Evaluation, however, difficult to perform. Therefore, we carried out study analyze trajectories personnel during treatment contribute education. We installed four stereo cameras on ceiling around one bed in an emergency room (ER). extracted recorded their conversations ambient sounds treatment. In this paper, investigate meaning ER, analyzed relationship...
We investigated team medicine in emergency medical services by utilizing two distinctive research methodologies: human trajectories and conversation analysis. Our intention was to promote shared within critical care foster the on-site education of students. collected trajectory data conversational during an actual procedure room then analyzed it with analytical tool we developed that enable us combine analyze these different types simultaneously. In this paper, describe basic configuration...
Abstract This study investigates intercultural phenomena in the process of recognizing cultural boundaries online English as a lingua franca (ELF) video conferencing-based interactions. The recorded interactions between 20 conversational pairs were analyzed by adopting conversation analysis an analytic framework. participants’ perspectives are demonstrated through action sequence verifying recipient’s knowledge status, informing, and complimenting, which built category relevant backgrounds...