Presentation 2018-05-21
Qualitative Study on Information Behavior in Myanmar 1
Sumaru Niida, Naoya Tojo, Tomoko Oto,
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Abstract(in English) In the development of services and products, a qualitative survey is conducted to understand the consumers’ behavior and to obtain insight as a seed of service design. In this paper, authors reported ethnographic survey conducted to understand the people’s lives in Myanmar from the viewpoint of information behavior. This report shows how people accept mobile phones in Myanmar where economy is rapidly growing, and describes insights that can be used for future service development. Furthermore, authors analyze the method used in this survey from the viewpoint of industrial application of ethnography, and discuss an appropriate choice of research method from the purpose and the question of the survey.
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Keyword(in English) Qualitative Research / Ethnography / Information Behavior / Myanmar
Paper # HCS2018-7,HIP2018-7
Date of Issue 2018-05-14 (HCS, HIP)

Conference Information
Committee HCS / HIP / HI-SIGCE
Conference Date 2018/5/21(2days)
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Place (in English) Okinawa Industry Support Center
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) Communication Enhancing and Human Communications
Chair Yukiko Nakano(Seikei Univ.) / Masahiro Ishii(Sapporo City Univ.)
Vice Chair Nobuyuki Watanabe(Kanazawa Inst. of Tech.) / Tomoo Inoue(Univ. of Tsukuba) / Miyuki Kamachi(Kogakuin Univ.) / Shuichi Sakamoto(Tohoku Univ.)
Secretary Nobuyuki Watanabe(Ritsumeikan Univ.) / Tomoo Inoue(Osaka Electro-Comm. Univ.) / Miyuki Kamachi(NEC) / Shuichi Sakamoto(Univ. of Tsukuba) / (Nagoya Univ.)
Assistant Kazuki Takashima(Tohoku Univ.) / Ken Fujiwara(Osaka Univ. of Economic) / Kazunori Terada(Gifu Univ.) / Atsushi Kimura(Nihon Univ.) / Atsushi Wada(NICT) / Kanaya Hidetoshi(Aichi Syukutoku Univ.) / Rika Mochizuki(NTT)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on Human Communication Science / Technical Committee on Human Information Processing / Special Interest Group on Communication Enhancement
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Qualitative Study on Information Behavior in Myanmar 1
Sub Title (in English) Research Design of Living Survey in Different Culture
Keyword(1) Qualitative Research
Keyword(2) Ethnography
Keyword(3) Information Behavior
Keyword(4) Myanmar
1st Author's Name Sumaru Niida
1st Author's Affiliation KDDI Research, Inc.(KDDI Research, Inc.)
2nd Author's Name Naoya Tojo
2nd Author's Affiliation KDDI Research, Inc.(KDDI Research, Inc.)
3rd Author's Name Tomoko Oto
3rd Author's Affiliation KDDI Research, Inc.(KDDI Research, Inc.)
Date 2018-05-21
Paper # HCS2018-7,HIP2018-7
Volume (vol) vol.118
Number (no) HCS-49,HIP-50
Page pp.pp.43-48(HCS), pp.43-48(HIP),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2018-05-14 (HCS, HIP)