ITO, Yasunobu Professor
Knowledge Science, Transformative Knowledge Management, School of Knowledge Science
◆Degrees
Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology, Kyushu University(2005)
◆Professional Experience
: Honorary Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, University College London, UK (2011-2021)
: Department of Sociology and Centre for Science Studies, Lancaster University, UK (2011), Visiting researcher, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), US (2013)
: Research Fellow, The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) (2001-2003), Lecturer, Oita Prefectural College of Arts and Culture (2003-2005)
◆Research Keywords
Cultural Anthropology, Sociology of Knowledge, Ethnography, Anthropology of Education, Science and Technology Studies, Medical Ethnography, Organisational Ethnography, Business Anthropology, Design Anthropology, Service Design Anthropology
◆Research Interests
Anthropology of Science and Technology, Business Ethnography, Medical Ethnography
■Our Lab's motto is: "Enriching Anthropology, Enriching by Anthropology". On one hand, we want to enrich other fields and business by using anthropological knowledge and methodologies. On the other hand, through encountering and experiencing other fields, we want to enrich and broad then our own areas of interest and expertise. ■Ongoing projects: Anthropological study of the knowledge of indigenous people in the fourth world; Comparative research on the generation and creation of scientific knowledge at experimental labs in universities in Japan (with the collaboration of scholars in the School of Material Science of JAIST); Ethnographic study of medical information, technologies and work practices in the medical workplace (a collaboration with medical professionals); Business anthropology and consumer ethnography: Identifying the possibilities and limitations of anthropological/ethnographi research in the context of business (working with various Japanese firms and their laboratories) 備考_alt

■Publications

◆Published Papers
Examination of Human-centered Design in Artificial Intelligence System
Masaya Ando, Yasunobu Ito
Journal of Human Interface Society : human interface, 25, 2, 127-138, 2023
Cultivating cultural awareness among medical educators by integrating cultural anthropology in faculty development: an action research study
Sayaka Oikawa, Junko Iida, Yasunobu Ito, Hiroshi Nishigori
BMC Medical Education, 22, 196, -, 2022
On the boundary of services and research collaborations in Japanese state-of-the-art academic research infrastructures
Takashi Onoda, Yasunobu Ito
Science and Public Policy, scac002, 1-11, 2022
“As Normal” Co-created by Visiting Nurses and Patients: Ethnographic Study on Visiting Nurse Station in Japan
Kagari Otani, Yasunobu Ito
Christine Leitner, Walter Ganz, Debra Satterfield, Clara Bassano eds., Advances in the Human Side of Service Engineering, AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol. 266, Springer, 503-509., 266, 503-509, 2021
What 1.5-order Ethnography Poses: A Collaborative Reflection on the Ways of Doing Anthropology
KIMURA Shuhei, NAITO Naoki, ITO Yasunobu
Journal of cultural anthropology, 20, 104-118, 2019
◆Misc
「文化人類学にとっての医学教育モデル・コア・カリキュラム改訂の意義」
木村周平, 飯田淳子, 伊藤泰信, 倉田誠, 錦織宏, 浜田明範, 春田淳志, 星野晋
『文化人類学』, 86, 3, 511-514, 2021
「医学教育に社会科学を生かすために──次回コアカリ改訂に向けての提案(掲示板:意見)」
飯田淳子, 木村周平, 伊藤泰信, 倉田誠, 浜田明範, 星野晋, 春田淳志, 錦織宏
『医学教育』, 52, 4, 342-344, 2021
「医療者教育の文脈で人類学という学知の何が必要とされるのか」
伊藤泰信
『民博通信』, 160, 18-19, 2018
「いま、ビジネスの現場に「文化人類学」が必要な理由」
伊藤泰信
『Work Mill with Forbes JAPAN ISSUE 02(フォーブス ジャパン5月号別冊)』, 5(6), 97-98, 2018
「現場の課題や消費者ニーズを文化人類学する、エスノグラフィする」
伊藤泰信
『ADVANCED』, 31, 7-8, 2017
◆Books
伊藤泰信「エスノグラフィと文化人類学の視点」飯田淳子・錦織宏編『医師・医学生のための人類学・社会学――臨床症例/事例で学ぶ』
17-26, ナカニシヤ出版, 2021
飯田淳子・伊藤泰信「医学教育の文化的社会的文脈」錦織宏・三好沙耶佳編『指導医のための医学教育学──実践と科学の往復』
共著, 292-303, 京都大学学術出版会, 2020
伊藤泰信訳「アン・ジョーダン『アジアにおける企業人類学/ビジネス人類学の意義(Ann Jordan, The Significance of Enterprise Anthropology in Asia)』」八巻惠子編『企業実践のエスノグラフィ』
単訳, 8-22, 東方出版, 2020
伊藤泰信「文化人類学の視角と方法論を実務に活かす──ビジネスエスノグラフィの可能性と課題」八巻惠子編『企業実践のエスノグラフィ』
共著, 311-337, 東方出版, 2020
伊藤泰信「企業で活躍する文化人類学者、その背景」中牧弘允・日置弘一郎 ・竹内惠行編『テキスト 経営人類学』
東方出版, 2019
◆Conference Activities & Talks
Design Concept Workshop with Anthropological Perspective: A Case Study of The Launch of a New Service "Mercard""
The 70Th Annual Conference of JSSD, 2023
Conceptual Change in Human-centered Design by Artificial Intelligence System
AHFE 2022 Virtual Conference on The Human Side of Service Engineering (HSSE 2022), 2022
An Encouragement of Doing Ethnography for Non-Anthropologists
HCG symposium 2021 (IEICE Human Communication Group), 2021
「文化人類学から見たがん医療」(日本学術会議との共催シンポジウム「行動経済学・文化人類学・医療経済学から見たがん治療」)
第60回日本肺癌学会学術集会(共催:日本学術会議臨床医学委員会腫瘍分科会), 大阪国際会議場 第5会場, 2019
「人類学教育と応答性──人類学者の再生産モデルを超えて」(分科会代表者:伊藤泰信「人類学教育と応答性──人類学者の再生産モデルを超えて」)
日本文化人類学会第49回研究大会, 大阪国際交流センター, 2015

■Teaching Experience

Advanced Topics in Healthcare Service Knowledge Science, Anthropology of Knowledge, Business Ethnography, Methodology for the Social Sciences, 先端医療・介護サービス知識科学特論(東京サテライト), 知識人類学(石川本校), ビジネスエスノグラフィ(東京サテライト), 社会科学方法論(東京サテライト)

■Contributions to  Society

◆Academic Society Affiliations
サービス学会, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES), European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS), The Kyushu Anthropological Association, The Japan Society for Science Policy and Research Management, Japanese Society for Science and Technology Studies (JSSTS), The New Zealand Studies Society - Japan, Japanese Society for Oceanic Studies, Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa /New Zealand
◆Academic Contribution
Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference (EPIC) 2010, Tokyo , Member of the local committee (Public Relations) , 2010 - 2010
庶務理事(業務執行理事 庶務担当) , 日本文化人類学会
委員長 , 日本文化人類学会「医療者向け人類学教育連携委員会」
◆Committee Memberships
・ Science Council of Japan , Council member , 2023-
・ Science Council of Japan , associate member , 2020- 2023
・ Science Council of Japan , associate member , 2018- 2020

■Academic  Awards

・ 現場実践賞 , 山口宏美・伊藤泰信 , サービス学会第11回国内大会 , 2023
・ BEST PAPER AWARD (1st Place) , Kagari Otani, Yasunobu Ito , The 8th International Conference on the Human Side of Service Engineering (AHFE HSSE 2021) , 2021
・ The Yoshinobu Kakiuchi Memorial Award for Practical Science and Technology Studies , Japanese Society for Science and Technology Studies (JSSTS) , 2017