Hajime Saito, Ph.D.
Professor Hajime Saito conducts research and creative projects that combine design, AI, and Web technologies, using questions emerging from local communities and educational settings as a starting point. His laboratory focuses on creating new systems and interactive content together with students through hands-on, project-based learning.
Research interests include Web Intelligence, Educational Technology, Tourism Informatics, AI & Interactive Media, Concept Mapping, Knowledge Structuring, and Project-Based Learning.
EMPLOYMENT
2017/04 – Current: Professor, Faculty of Information Media, Hokkaido Information University, Ebetsu, Hokkaido, Japan
2005/04 – 2017/03: Associate Professor, Faculty of Information Media, Hokkaido Information University, Ebetsu, Hokkaido, Japan
2001/04 – 2005/03: Lecturer, Faculty of Information Media, Hokkaido Information University, Ebetsu, Hokkaido, Japan
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS
2002/03: Doctor of Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University
Thesis title: A Concept Formation Support Method and its Prototype System using Structural Modeling and Concept Map
1998/04 – 2001/03: Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University
1996/04 – 1998/03: Master of Business Administration and Information Science, Graduate School of Hokkaido Information University
1992/04 – 1996/03: Bachelor of Social Information, Sapporo Gakuin University
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
- 2021, Manami Sugisawa, Hajime Saito, Mitsuyoshi Nagao, Mitsutaka Yasuda, Shigeru Mukaida,
“A Proposal for Tourism Promotion using an AI Digital Face-in-Hole Panel,”
Journal of Society of Tourism Informatics, Vol.17, No.1, pp.83-94 (in Japanese). - 2019, Shuang Song, Hidenori Kawamura, Junichi Uchida and Hajime Saito,
“Determining Tourist Satisfaction from Travel Reviews,”
Information Technology & Tourism,
Vol.21, No.3, pp.337-367. - 2019.12, Manami Sugisawa, Hajime Saito, Mitsuyoshi Nagao, Mitsutaka Yasuda, Shigeru Mukaida,
“A New Approach to Promoting Tourism using an AI Digital Comic Foreground,”
Proceedings of the Asia Pacific Industrial Engineering & Management Systems Conference 2019,
pp.365-370. - 2019.12, Shuang Song, Tomohisa Yamashita, Hidenori Kawamura, Junichi Uchida and Hajime Saito,
“Determining the Number of Tourist Arrivals from Travel Reviews: A Bivariate Correlation Analysis,”
Proceedings of the Asia Pacific Industrial Engineering & Management Systems Conference 2019,
pp.244-248. - 2018, Shuang Song, Hidenori Kawamura, Junichi Uchida, Hajime Saito,
“Towards a New Investigation Method for Tourists’ Needs: From Travel Survey to the Analysis of Travel Reviews,”
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Digital Practice for Science, Technology, Education, and Management,
pp.11-16. - 2018, Shuang Song, Hajime Saito, Hidenori Kawamura,
“Content Analysis of Travel Reviews: Exploring the Needs of Tourists from Different Countries,”
Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2018,
Springer, pp.93-105. - 2010, Hajime Saito, Yoshitomi Morisawa, Takeshi Tanigawa, Masataka Fukui, Takayuki Hoshino,
“Development of an Educational Program that Uses E-Learning for Project Manager Virtual Job Training,”
Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 2010,
pp.366-373. - 2005, Hajime Saito, Makoto Nishimura, Azuma Ohuchi,
“On Constructing Hokkaido Sculpture Web,”
Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology,
Springer, pp.305-315. - 2003, Hajime Saito, T. Maeda, A. Ohuchi,
“Construction of Group-Learning Support System using Concept Map,”
Proceedings of 5th Asia-Pacific Symposium on Information and Telecommunication Technologies APSITT 2003,
pp.171-174. - 2002, Hajime Saito, T. Maeda, A. Ohuchi,
“Study of Group-Learning Support based on Keyword-Map Structural Modeling,”
Proceedings of International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE 2002),
Auckland, New Zealand. - 2002, Hajime Saito, A. Ohuchi, T. Maeda,
“On the Use of Structural Modeling for Collaborative Learning using Concept Map,”
Operations Research / Management Science at Work: Applying Theory in the Asia Pacific Region,
Kluwer Academic Publishers,
pp.215-226. - 2001, Hajime Saito, T. Maeda, A. Ohuchi,
“A Concept Formation Support Method and its Prototype System using Structural Modeling and Concept Map,”
Journal of The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers,
Vol.J84-D-I(9), pp.1431-1439 (in Japanese). - 2001, Hajime Saito, T. Ohno, F. Ozaki, K. Saito, T. Maeda,
“A Semi-Automatic Construction Method of Concept Map Based on Dialog Contents,”
Proceedings of International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE 2001),
Vol.2, pp.628-634, Seoul, Korea.