27 January 2011, 5.30 pm
Professor John Seddon is credited with translating the Toyota Production System (TPS) for service organisations. In this talk he argues the TPS has wrongly been promulgated as 'lean tools', insisting the TPS was developed through understanding and managing the organisation as a system. John will show how to study service systems in order to get knowledge as the prerequisite for effective, significant and sustainable change.
28 January 2011, 4 pm
Good media content has the power to enrich our lives. The effectiveness of content delivery is becoming more and more important in a wide variety of fields, such as industry, education, culture, entertainment, and so on. Expectations of its use in the general public are also increasing. We focus on non-traditional contents other than movies, music and games, conducting comprehensive research on a variety of interactive content which creates new value through interactions with humans. In this talk I will introduce 3D user interface techniques for designing future interactive content.
1 February 2011, 1 pm
We report the first simulation of spin-orbit coupling of light in the far-field of a dipole emitter in photonic structure. A linearly-polarized dipole emitter in the feedgap of a cross-shaped plasmonic nano-antenna gives rise to a longitudinal optical vortex in the far-field.