Kazuhiro MIYAHARA

	Kazuhiro MIYAHARA Research Associate, Master of Education
	E-mail: miya TEL: +81-52-872-5150 FAX: +81-52-872-5150 Research Course: Mathematical and Material Science
	URL　http://www.nsc.nagoya-cu.ac.jp/~miya/
Specialties	Information Science, Educational Technology
Keywords	WWW, Information Filtering, Collaborative Filtering, Semantic Web
Current Research	(1) Web Systems: First reseach topic is the field of information filtering technologies. Especially, I'm interested in collaborative filtering and recommender systems. In the systems, collaboration with community members are incorporated into the process of information filtering. Also using the technologies of semantic web systems. (2) Educational Technology, Information Education: Second topic is educational technologies. Now I'm engaged in development of the curriculum of Information Education in higher education. Also developing e-learning materials.
Selected Papers	Quantitative Discrimination and Its Analyzing Method among Nuance of KANSEI Words on Estimation Scale, Educational Technology Research, Vol.25, pp.9-18 (2002). Improvement of Learning Environment by Information Technology for Pupils of a Special Class in a Hospital, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computers in Education(ICCE 2001), pp.743-746 (2001). Collaborative Information Filtering in Cooperative Communities, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, Vol.14, No.2, pp.39-51 (1998).