New Knowledge Impacts on Designing Implementable Innovative Realities

Lessons Learned about Designing Augmented Realities

While utilizing GPS-enabled handheld computing units, we have developed and studied augmented reality (AR) curricula to help middle school students learn literacy and math. In AR, students move around an outdoor physical environment, interacting with virtual characters and artifacts on their handheld computer. These invisible objects and characters provide clues to help solve a mystery, guiding...

Multimodal Knowledge for Designing New Sound Environments

To realize new sound environments to enhance music society, we have designed two systems. One is the club environment system that makes it possible to create a DJ’s expressions with much more variety by handling the sound flow and makes it easier to comprehend the atmosphere of an audience by providing the images of environmental cameras. The other is the karate training system which enables a ...

Organizational Effectiveness: New Realities

Paranoid atmospheres: Psychiatric knowledge and delusional realities

In this paper I investigate the topic of paranoid atmospheres. This subject is especially of interest with respect to persons who are deluded, and also, I will demonstrate, sheds light upon the psychiatrist's "gaze" and knowledge of delusions. In my argument I will follow a path initially outlined by Karl Jaspers (1883-1969): modern psychiatric diagnosis of delusions is a diagnosis of form and ...

Knowledge Management: Problems, Promises, Realities, and Challenges

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. —George Santayana Innovation is everywhere; the difficulty is learning from it. —John Seeley Brown T he first quote reflects the motivation underlying traditional knowledge management (KM), in which the goal is to store information from the past so that lessons will not be forgotten. This perspective implies that future information ...