Bio

Chigusa Kita

Professor of Faculty of Informatics, Kansai University, Japan
A225, Kansai University Takatsuki Campus
2-1-1, Ryozenji, Takatsuki, Osaka, JAPAN 569-1095
Phone: +81-(0)72-690-2425
Email: ckita at res.kutc.kansai-u.ac.jp

Research Interests

I majored originally art history, especially on Chinese Ceramics, during my undergraduate study in Kyoto University. After 6 years of experience at NHK, Japanese equivalent of BBC, as a TV program director, I returned to academia majoring contenporary history, more precisely history of modern computing. I published two books in Japanese on the history of Internet from my doctoral dissertation. I am interested in how new technologies become embedded in the society, including processes of innovation, design, and policy making. These years, I have been involved in the Multilingual educational support program employing ICT technologies. Within the social design process of the system, I became interested in HCI field.
I spent a year in Stanford from September 2009 to August 2010 as a H-Star visiting scholar at Stanford HCI group.

Selected Publications

Books/Book chapters

• Kita, Chigusa, (2006). Digital Pax Americana: Standardization process of the Internet, Globalization and Empires, Eisaku Kihira and Daizaburo Yui eds., Minerva Publishing, 2006.11, 263-286.
• Kita, Chigusa, (2005). Prototyping the Internet: Xerox Parc and Alto System, Seido Publishing (in Japanese)
• Kita, Chigusa, (2003). J.C.R. Licklider and his age: Origins of the Internet, Seido Publishing (in Japanese)

Articles

• Kita, Chigusa, (2008). A Historical Method for Innovation Studies, IPSJ Journal , 49(4), 1594-1601.
• Kita, Chigusa, (2008). Multilingual Communication Environment through the Internet: The Vision of the Language Grid and Its Implementation, Journal of Multilingual Multicultural Studies and Practices, 1(1), 77-100.
• Kita, Chigusa and Yasuo Deguchi, “On Some Pioneer Cases of Simulation in Japan: The Stuck Layers Model and The High Tide Simulation,” 4S (Society for Social Studies of Science), EASST Conference, 2004. 8. 28
• Kita, Chigusa Ishikawa, (2003). J. C. R. Licklider's Vision for the IPTO, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 25(3), 61-77.
• Kita, Chigusa Ishikawa, (2002). Origins of the Arguments Concerning the Social Impact of Worldwide Computer Network, JSICR Annual Report, 13(1), 1-11.
• Ishikawa, Chigusa, (1999). Technological Visions for Alto at Xerox PARC, JASTS Annual Report, 9, 33-65.