Sensible organizations: Technology and methodology for automatically measuring organizational behavior

…, BN Waber, T Kim, A Mohan, K Ara… - … on Systems, Man …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present the design, implementation, and deployment of a wearable computing platform
for measuring and analyzing human behavior in organizational settings. We propose the use …

Relationship between social interaction and mental health

…, N Higo, T Kobayashi, K Ishikawa, K Ara… - 2011 IEEE/SICE …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In order to explore the relationship between human social interaction and mental health, we
investigated the correlations between the amount of face-to-face contact time and quantified …

Sensible organizations: Changing our businesses and work styles through sensor data

K Ara, N Kanehira, DO Olguin, BN Waber… - Journal of Information …, 2008 - jstage.jst.go.jp
We introduce the concept of sensor-based applications for the daily business settings of
organizations and their individual workers. Wearable sensor devices were developed and …

Beam-scan sensor node: Reliable sensing of human interactions in organization

Y Wakisaka, N Ohkubo, K Ara, N Sato… - 2009 Sixth …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We have developed a wearable sensor node with a low power and high detection rate by
using sequential control of multiple infrared (IR) modules. Conventional sensor nodes are not …

Predicting flow state in daily work through continuous sensing of motion rhythm

K Ara, N Sato, S Tsuji, Y Wakisaka… - 2009 Sixth …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We have constructed a new application of continuous sensing of human physiological data
during daily a business setting. By capturing the subtle changes and differences in motion …

Organizational engineering using sociometric badges

…, D Olguin Olguin, T Kim, A Mohan, K Ara… - Available at SSRN …, 2007 - papers.ssrn.com
We show how a wearable computing research platform for measuring and analyzing human
behavior can be used to understand social systems. Using a wearable sociometric badge …

A 15--15 mm, 1 μA, reliable sensor-net module: enabling application-specific nodes

S Yamashita, T Shimura, K Aiki, K Ara, Y Ogata… - Proceedings of the 5th …, 2006 - dl.acm.org
An ultra-small, low-power sensor-net module called ZN1 is developed. ZN1 integrates MCU,
ZigBee RF into an ultra-small 15 -- 15-mm module with an ultra-low standby current less …

Profiting from IoT: The key is very-large-scale happiness integration

K Yano, T Akitomi, K Ara, J Watanabe… - 2015 Symposium on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Big data without link to value is merely a cost. We have studied how to profit from data with
Internet-of-Things technologies for over 10 years to reach the answer: the Wearable …

[PDF][PDF] Measuring happiness using wearable technology

K Yano, T Akitomi, K Ara, J Watanabe, S Tsuji… - Hitachi …, 2015 - hitachi-hightech.com
OVERVIEW: Instead of the industrial production, which drove economic growth in the 20th
century, the driver for growth in the 21st century is productivity in knowledge work and service …

Long-term hematopoietic stem cells require stromal cell-derived factor-1 for colonizing bone marrow during ontogeny

T Ara, K Tokoyoda, T Sugiyama, T Egawa, K Kawabata… - Immunity, 2003 - cell.com
The physiological role of SDF-1 on hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) remains elusive. We
show that colonization of bone marrow by HSCs in addition to myeloid cells is severely …