Murotalab
Research Topics
Development and Evaluation of System ( ScrapBook ) for Web-based Information Gathering and Sharing
This study is aimed at providing a feature for collecting snippets from Web pages and organizing the collection within an Web browser, and sharing the collected information in a small group.
First, we developed a browser-integrated tool, which enables collecting partial or entire Web pages and organize the collections. By integrating with the browser, the tool enables users to do all of the works in the browser window. We released the tool as ScrapBook extension for Firefox, the world famous Web browser. Now ScrapBook has been translated into 15 languages and spread around the world. The features of ScrapBook are classified broadly into 4 parts: collecting, organizing, editing and searching.
Second, We developed a data-sharing system, which enables sharing Web pages collected by ScrapBook. The system consists of 2 parts: ScrapBookPlus and PHP programs running in the Web server. ScrapBooPlus is a plug-in for ScrapBook, which adds uploading, downloading, viewing and sending comments functions to ScrapBook. Users can upload Web pages by drag-and-drop on the SharedScrapBook in the ScrapBook side-bar. Shared Web pages stored in the Web server are displayed in the SharedScrapBook. Comments feature enables the group to discuss the Shared Web pages.
- ScrapBook was developed in 2004 by Taiga Gomibuchi (gomita) while he was a graduate student. After graduation, he has been developing and updating ScrapBook.
- ScrapBook page by Gomibuchi
- ScrapBook appeared on New York Times on April 7, 2005.
Small snapshop of the paper (I'm sorry nobody can't read an article in this small image.) - ScrapBook won the Most Useful Upgraded Extension in Extend Firefox Contest hosted by Mozilla Corporation on March 1, 2006.
Snapshot of ScrapBook
Effects of Information Sharing on CMC based Brainstorming
The purpose of study is to study effects of information sharing when brainstorming are through online chat rooms. In chatting, records of previous conversations disappear from a monitor as the conversation proceeds. Therefore it is hard to produce new ideas based on past ideas. In this study, the effects of information sharing on brainstorming based on chat conversation were investigated. We used two types of an information-sharing board. The one is a chronological board, where a produced idea is written in sequence. The other is a classifiable board where produced ideas are classified into some groups. To investigate effects of an information-sharing board, we used two parameters. The one is productivity performance, which is an index determined by the number of ideas that had been produced. And the other is group interactivity performance. Group interactivity performance is explained by three parameters - (1)the number of similar ideas, which is the number of ideas classified into the same category, (2)the number of consecutive ideas which were produced consecutively in the same classified group, and (3)the number of writing by a member to the other participants.
Snapshot of Chat and Classifiable Information Sharing Board
Web-Based Soccer Learning Material using Animation with Player's View
The purpose of this study is to develop and evaluate a web-based soccer learning material using an animation movie created from a video movie. These animation and video movie can be synchronously played. Furthermore the animation movie can offer a player's view, which make learners feel as if they were on a pitch and help them understand what a real player see on a field. At present, our learning material illustrates two kind of training menus. One is for an offense player in front of a goalmouth. The other is for an defence player who care for a ball played from a side area of the field. The material was evaluated by front-line coaches and was able to get a good rating and comments.
Snapshot of Web-based Soccer Learning Material
