The Association for Social Sciences Research on Japan (VSJF) holds VSJF Technology Section, Online Meeting 2021 on 20.11.2021. Access code and details are as follows;

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88486875974?pwd=MU1BT3pFNUpxSE1HakhWVUZTSFpTdz09

Meeting-ID: 884 8687 5974

Kenncode: 457558

19:00 – 20:15 (Tokyo) // 11:00 – 12:15 (Berlin)

Welcome remarks

Susanne Brucksch (DIJ), Cosima Wagner (FU Berlin)

Introductory Note: Exoskeletal devices: Between science fiction and science facts

Denisa Butnaru, Universität Konstanz, Dept. For History and Sociology

Can Geographic Information System aid care professionals and older people living in communities? Exploration of ideas for a research project 

Mina Ishimaru, Graduate School of Nursing, Chiba University

Naonori Kodate, University College Dublin

Technical innovations in the health care sector: Challenges and risks of co-creative approaches using the example of the project DigiVid19

Katharina Dalko, Medizinische Fakultät, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg;

Sebastian Hofstetter, Medizinische Fakultät, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

Q&A

20:15 – 20:30 (Tokyo) // 12:15 – 12:30 (Berlin)

coffee break

20:30 – 21:30 (Tokyo) // 12:30 – 13:30 (Berlin)

Educating our engineers and designers to solve wicked environmental and social problems

Kevin Delaney, Mechanical and Design Engineering, TU Dublin

The aftermath of Tokyo Games and the future of mega-events

Ross Cheung, School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Q&A

Open Forum: Work-in-progress project reports

• Patrick Grüneberg (Kanazawa University, Japan)