平成 23 年度図書館情報学海外研修助成報告書
Library & Information Science Overseas Training Grant
訪問期間： Oct. 13~28, 2011
訪問先：Vancouver, CanadaMamoun Nawahdah [ナワーダ マムーン]
PhD Candidate, 2nd year [博士後期課程 2 年]
It’s essential for the library information and media studies’ students to be exposed todifferent resources of knowledge. This will enhance their capabilities and will expand theirawareness in the library information field. PhD students, specifically, have to work on this matterso the benefit will be enormous before and after graduation. This overseas training is one of themethods to achieve such goal. Therefore, I decided to apply for this overseas training grant, andappreciatively I was selected.
My research theme falls under the remote communication field, where remote people
collaborate to achieve some specific goals. More specifically, my research deals with two
common tasks which are:A) Remote meetings andB) Remote dining.
Regarding the remote meetings, it’s important to build an environment where theparticipants will feel more comfortable. This will affect the meeting’s outcomes, and transferring
the knowledge will be much easier. Regarding the remote dining, sadly, the majority of thepeople around the world are forced to have their meals alone, away from the beloved one. My
research will focus on building a remote dining environment, where people feel enjoyable andmore connected to each other despite the fact that they are apart from each other.
The following are the list of objectives to be accomplished through the anticipated overseas
training into Canada:
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Get firsthand experience on related researches from some universities as well as some
private and public institutes.
Explore the latest development in human computer interaction field [HCI] from theCanadian point of view.
Get involved in some related projects as an external reviewer.
Build a partnership to help in my current research and to run joint research in the future.
Got my research evaluated and discuss the used research methodology in details withthe mentioned universities’ staff.
Explore any new tools or techniques to be used in the research.
Be aware of the new technologies and methodologies used in similar researches.
Promotes the distinctive Japanese culture and research methodology to the researchstaff in Canada.

Visiting University of British Columbia [UBC]
My main goal from this trip was to visit the Human Communication
Technologies Research Laboratory at university of British Columbia for 4 days.
This prestigious university had been chosen for this overseas training because it
has similar research lab. It also works on similar projects like my research.

Therefore the benefit will be immense to my research. The following are the conducted training
schedule at UBC:
Day 1: Introducing• Visited the Human Communication Technologies Research Laboratory.
• Met the supervisor (Prof. Sidniy Feles) and the other staff in
the mentioned research lab.
• Discussed my research and the used methodology.
Day 2-4: Working in the research lab• Reviewed the currently running research projects.
• Collected research materials and papers.
• Got involved in the research process.
Visiting Kwantlen Polytechnic University
I visited the university for 1 day. During this visit I got introduced
to some staff and to the wide range of courses that offered by theuniversity. The university design and atmosphere was amazing.
Visiting Point Grey Research, Inc.
Point Grey Research, Inc. is a worldwide leader in thedevelopment of advanced digital camera technology products for machine vision, industrial
imaging, traffic and surveillance, and computer vision applications. In my lab we are using oneof this company’s stereo vision cameras, the Bumblebee®2. During myvisit to this company I had the chance to explore the new version of thisstereo vision camera, the Bumblebee® XB3. Other cameras had beenreviewed as well during this visit.
Visiting Libraries
During this visit, I stopped by 2 well-known libraries in Vancouver area. My goal from thisvisit was to familiarize myself with the new services they provide to the clients.
•Visiting Vancouver Public Library
Vancouver Public Library has twenty-two branches distributed
across the city. In this trip I visited the Oakridge Branch in south ofVancouver city.
•Visiting Richmond Public Library
Richmond Public Library has been serving the Richmond, BCcommunity since 1976. In this trip I visited the Ironwood Branch’s in Richmond city.

Conclusion
This overseas training grant was an excellent opportunity for me to obtainthe necessary information related to my research at the graduate school of library, information,and media studies. The visited universities’ research lab and libraries were one of the reputablelabs in my research field. The benefit was great to my research. It was a good experience andfun to travel to Canada.