Academic and Research Staff at KyotoUniversity of Foreign Studies

■ Academic conference presentation

1.	2023/10/19	Convergence of AR, VR, and AI: The Rise of Immersive Learning Technologies in Higher Education (International Symposium \| AI: Challenges and potentialities. A Discourse Analysis Perspective)
2.	2023/08/31	Designing XR for Experiential Education (Augmented World Expo Asia 2023)
3.	2023/02/17	Learning Analytics and Immersive Technology: Issues and Trends (Moodle Moot Japan 2023)
4.	2023/01/21	Designing Immersive Learning Labs for Higher Education (国際言語文化学会)
5.	2022/11/27	The Budding Botanist Paradox: Automating Human Inquiry with Immersive Technology (30th International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE 2022))
6.	2022/11/23	Immersive Technologies and Open and Distance eLearning (7th National Conference on Open and Distance eLearning)
7.	2022/10/04	Immersive Learning Design for Higher Education (Bahria University Webinar Series)
8.	2022/09/17	Immersive Learning in Japan (Educators in VR vLanguage Learning Day 2022)
9.	2022/09/01	Developing Immersive Learning Programs for Higher Education (UPOU Immersive Open Pedagogies Community Hub)
10.	2022/05/31	Exploring Immersive Storytelling for A Post COVID-19 Tourism Industry (8th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network)
11.	2022/05/31	WebVR to Facilitate Model United Nations (8th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network)
12.	2022/04/17	Immersive Learning for International Exchange (Moonlight Sessions #16 Nagoya Google Educators Group)
13.	2022/01/08	Star Trek and the Metaverse: An Analysis of Foresight for Augmented Reality in Science Fiction (The IAFOR International Conference on Arts & Humanities in Hawaii (IICAH2022))
14.	2021/12/14	Navigating Education during COVID -19 and beyond (Borneo Education Research Conference (BERC) 2021)
15.	2021/11/27	International and Cultrual Exchange with Immersive Technology (第11次基礎理論研究部会第13回研究例会（VRデー）)
16.	2021/11	AR, VR, and Other 3D Applications for CLIL Student Research and Learning (JALT2021)
17.	2021/11	Immersive Media Design Showcase (Kyoto Conference on Arts, Media, and Culture)
18.	2021/11	When Media Watches You – The Rise of Immersive Technology (Kyoto Conference on Arts, Media, and Culture)
19.	2021/10	How Immersive Technology Will Power the Future of Tourism (Bermuda Tech Summit)
20.	2021/09	My Hometown Project (TEDxChiangMai)
21.	2021/07	Virtual Tourism and Cultural Exchange (EdChange Global)
22.	2021/06	Smartphone Virtual Reality for Tourism Education: A Case Study on Student-Generated VR Tours (6th Annual Asia-Pacific LSP & Professional Communication Association Conference)
23.	2021/05	My Hometown Project and VR Tourism (Explore and Learn 2021)
24.	2021/05	VR for Tourism Education: From Mobile to WebVR (JALT PANSIG 2021)
25.	2020/12	Collective Art With Augmented Community Spaces and ARientation (International Society for Technology in Education 2020)
26.	2020/12	Migrating from Google Tour Creator and Expeditions (Google Educator Groups APAC GEG Conference 2020)
27.	2020/12	(Japan Institute of Tourism Research 35th Annual Conference)
28.	2020/11	Masterclass: Immersive Learning Technology Tools to Drive Digital Learning and Boost Engagement (EduLearn 2020)
29.	2020/11	Ways to strategizing a successful implementation plan for online learning (EduTech Online 2020)
30.	2020/07	CONTENT CREATION FOR VR/AR/XR: A NEW REALITY (Education 4.0 Virtual Conference by The Douglas Stewart Company)
31.	2020/07	New Realities of City Life: Urban Management Aided with Virtual and Augmented Realities
32.	2020/07	Virtual reality teaching tool: mixing physical, digital realities in learning (LearnTechAsia 2020)
33.	2020/04	Will 2020 be a year of Immersive Learning? (EduTech Online)
34.	2019/12	ARientation: Google and Augmented Reality (Google for Education Kansai Weekend 2019)
35.	2019/11	SMART Interactive Classroom Technology for Higher Education (EduTech 2019)
36.	2019/11	(EduTech 2019)
37.	2019/10	Augmented Tourism: Design Augmented Reality Experiences for Destination Travel (International Federation for IT and Travel & Tourism Conference on AI, Robots, and Automation in Tourism)
38.	2019/10	Hands on Immersive Technology: The Learning Power of Creating Immersive Media (4th International Symposium on Innovative Teaching and Learning)
39.	2019/10	Learning for and in the Future: Immersive and Automated Education (4th International Symposium on Innovative Teaching and Learning)
40.	2019/10	(Kyoto Gaidai Open Lecture Series 2019)
41.	2019/09	The Surveillance Economy in Schools and Tourism (Mirai Sensei 2019)
42.	2019/03	Augmented Learning Environments in Higher Education (BETT Educational Leadership Summit)
43.	2019/03	The Augmented Learner: The Automation of Human Inquiry (SXSWedu 2019)
44.	2018/10	Augmented Reality Community Art Spaces (MAVR SIG Forum at JALT2018)
45.	2018/10	Project Based Learning though TED (第 24 回映像メディア英語教育学会全国大会)
46.	2018/09	Creating Shared Value in University Faculty (1st Annual Faculty Development Seminar for The Faculty of Global Engagement)
47.	2018/08	Augmented Reality Tourism Design (INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON HERITAGE, GASTRONOMY & TOURISM: A REFLECTION)
48.	2018/07/12	The Augmented Learner (Campus Party Singapore)
49.	2017/11/21	MAVR SIG Showcase: Research, Projects, and Demos (Japan Association of Language Teachers Annual Conference)
50.	2017/09/13	Massive Mixed Reality Community Engagement: Design and Deployment of Augmented and Virtual Realities in Community Engagement Programs in a Rural Japanese Community (5th University-Community Engagement Conference)
51.	2017/06/01	Augmenting Tourism: Augmented Reality Design Principles for Tourism Application (1st Global Congress of Special Interest Tourism and Hospitality)
52.	2017/05/15	MAVR (Mixed Augmented Virtual Realities): ¬e Future or a Fad? (PANSIG2017)
53.	2017/05/01	Augmented Reality Design Principles for Informal Learning (The Asian Conference for Technology in the Classroom)
54.	2017/01	Technology in Education from Game Design（ゲームデザインによる教育技術） (TEDxTokushimaU)
55.	2016/11	Augmented reality: The opportunities and dangers of extreme automation in learning (BETT Asia Leadership Summit 2016)
56.	2016/11	Augmented Tourism Design（拡張ツーリズムデザイン） (日本観光学会第110回全国大会)
57.	2016/11	Technology Spotlight: The Case for Augmented Reality in Learning（テクノロジースポットライト：学習における拡張現実の場合） (LEARNTechAsia Conference 2016)
58.	2014/06/23	Augmented Reality Materials Design for Language Learning（言語学習のための拡張現実教材デザイン） (Japan Association of Language Teachers Conference on Computer Assisted Language Learning)
59.	2014/04/09	拡張現実教材デザイン (The Asian Conference for Technology in the Classroom 2014)
60.	2014/04/09	教育のためボードゲームデザイン (Asian Conference on Language Learning)
61.	2014/03/21	Intro to Augmented Reality for Language Learning（言語学習のための拡張現実概論） (6th International Symposium on Digital Technologies in Foreign Language)
62.	2013/12/25	eWOM for Rural Japanese Tourism (Yabu City Symposium for International Tourism)
63.	2013/12/25	Yabu City Tourism Marketing (Yabu City Symposium for International Tourism)
64.	2013/08/25	Informal Learning Environments in Tourism: Interactive Panoramas（観光におけるインフォーマル学習環境：インタラクティブ・パノラマ） (Tourism Institute of Northeast Asia International Conference 2013)
65.	2013/06/20	Digital Publication for E-learning（eラーニングのためのデジタル出版） (全国語学教育学会教育技術部)
66.	2012/07/25	eWOM for Travel in Japan (Japanese Travel Business Association)
67.	2011/11/10	People are People: Comparing Culture though Disaster Response（人間は人間ですね：災害対応を通した文化の比較） (成美市民大学)
68.	2009/12/01	Effective Team Teaching（効果的なチームティーチング） (Kyoto Prefectural English Education Conference)
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■ Books and academic papers

1.	Book	Case Study 10, Japan: Smartphone Virtual Reality for Tourism Education—A Case Study Language Learning with Technology (Collaboration) 2021/07
2.	Book	Issues of Authenticity, Adaptation, and Translation of Heritage in Asian Tourism Heritage Tourism Research Project (Collaboration) 2019/05
3.	Book	Japan Agency for Cultural Affairs Handbook on Multilingualization (Collaboration) 2019/04
4.	Book	Before I Graduate Project 2017: Community Augmented Art Project to Share Hopes and Dreams of College Life (Collaboration) 2018/02
5.	Book	Kyoto Gaidai Zemi 2016: Supervised works of Eric Hawkinson The Community Journal of Eric Hawkinson 1(1) (Collaboration) 2017/02
6.	Book	One with English - Level One: Fundamentals (Single) 2014/03
7.	Article	Beyond CAVEs and Domes: Creating Accessible Multi-User Virtual Installations for Immersive Learning The Kyoto Conference on Arts, Media & Culture 2023: Official Conference Proceedings (Collaboration) 2023/12
8.	Article	Designing Immersive Labs and Programs for Higher Education International Journal in Information Technology in Governance, Education and Business 5(1),pp.33-41 (Single) 2023/06
9.	Article	Automation in Education with Digital Twins: Trends and Issues International Journal on Open and Distance E-Learning 8(2) (Single) 2023/04
10.	Article	Trends in Augmented Reality Marketing to Exploit Tracking in the Physical World MAVR Journal: Realities in Learning 1(1),pp.7-12 (Single) 2022/12
11.	Article	Star Trek and the Metaverse: An Analysis of Foresight for Augmented Reality in Science Fiction The IAFOR International Conference on Arts & Humanities – Hawaii 2022 Official Conference Proceedings pp.107-112 (Single) 2022/11
12.	Article	The Budding Botanist Paradox: Automating Human Inquiry with Immersive Technology Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Computers in Education. Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education 30(1),pp.648-653 (Single) 2022/10
13.	Article	Exploring Immersive Storytelling for a Post COVID-19 Tourism Industry Practitioner Proceedings of the 8th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network Conference pp.107-112 (Single) 2022/05
14.	Article	WebVR in the Facilitation of Model United Nations Simulations 8th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (Collaboration) 2022/05
15.	Article	Immersive Technology Uses in Interactive Media: A Collection of Case Studies The Kyoto Conference on Arts, Media & Culture 2021: Official Conference Proceedings (Collaboration) 2022/01
16.	Article	Work-in-Progress—Legal and Ethical Issues in Immersive Education 6th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN) 6(1),pp.305--307 (Collaboration) 2020/06
17.	Article	The Emergence of Legal and Ethical Issues in Immersive Tourism in Asia Official Proceedings of The IIER Conference on Law and Political Science pp.66-71 (Collaboration) 2019/05
18.	Article	Augmented Tourism: Definitions and Design Principles Invention Journal of Research Technology in Engineering & Management 2(9) (Single) 2018/10
19.	Article	Simplified Mobile AR Platform Design for Augmented Tourism International Journal of Social, Behavioral, Educational, Economic, Business and Industrial Engineer 12(1) (Collaboration) 2018/06
20.	Article	Japan’s Galapagos Syndrome Impact on Educational Technology Development and Design The Journal of Scientific Social Studies 1(2) (Single) 2017/07
21.	Article	Using MAVR to Bring New Dimensions to the Classroom LANGUAGE TEACHER 41 (Collaboration) 2017/05
22.	Article	Mixed, Augmented, Virtual Realities (MAVR) SIG:Significance and Potential Contribution The Language Teacher 41(5) (Collaboration) 2017/01
23.	Article	Augmented Tourism Design pp.20-21 (Single) 2016/10
24.	Article	Augmented Tourism Design 日本観光学会第110回全国大会研究発表紀要 pp.20-21 (Single) 2016/06
25.	Article	Team Teaching and Situational Leadership Theory: Adapting and Combining Frameworks for Japanese English Education（チームティーチング及び状況対応リーダーシップ理論） US-China Education Review A 6(3),pp.183-189 (Single) 2016/05
26.	Article	AR Implementations in Informal Learning（インフォーマル学習におけるARの実行） IEEE Xplore 2015(1),pp.xxxiii-xxxiii (Collaboration) 2015/10
27.	Article	TEDx and Augmented Reality: Informal Learning and International Exchange with Mobile Technology（TEDxと拡張現実：インフォーマル学習とモバイルテクノロジーの国際交流） The Asian Conference on Technology in the Classroom 2015 Official Conference Proceedings 2015 2015(1),pp.423-430 (Collaboration) 2015/06
28.	Article	Augmented Reality Enhanced Materials Design for Language Learning（言語学習のための拡張現実で強化された教材の設計） Asian Conference on Language Learning 2014 Official Conference Proceedings 2014(1),pp.155-161 (Single) 2014/08
29.	Article	Informal learning environments in tourism: Augmented Reality（観光におけるインフォーマル学習環境：拡張現実） The Academy of Korea Hospitality & Tourism 31st International Academic Conference 2014(1),pp.514-523 (Single) 2014/01
30.	Article	Social media for international inbound tourism in Japan: A research model for finding effective eWOM mediums（日本におけるインバウンド旅行のためのソーシャルメディア）日本国際観光学会 20(1),pp.41-48 (Single) 2013/12
31.	Article	Board game design and implementation in education（ボードゲームの設計及び教育への活用） The Asian Conference on Language Learning 2013 Official Conference Proceedings 2013(1),pp.317-326 (Single) 2013/08
32.	Article	Informal learning environments in tourism: Interactive panoramas（観光におけるインフォーマル学習環境：インタラクティブ・パノラマ） 7th Annual Academic Conference by Tourism of Northeast Asia 7(1),pp.103-108 (Single) 2013/05
33.	Article	Using social media for small town tourism in Kyoto countryside（ソーシャルメディアを用いた京都の田舎観光）成美大学紀要 3(1),pp.41-48 (Single) 2013/04
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■ Academic background

1.	2014/08～2024/05	〔Doctorial Course〕 Educational Technology, Graduate School, Division of Education, Boise State University, Graduate,
2.	2011/08～2014/05	〔Master Course〕 Educational Technology, Graduate School, Division of Education,, San Diego State University,, Completed, Master of Educational Technology
3.	2003/08～2004/05	Kansai Gaidai University, Studying abroad,
4.	2002/08～2004/12	Interdisciplinary Studies, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Science (Humanities),, Arizona State University,, Graduated, Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies

■ Business career

1.	2018/04～	Kyoto University of Foreign Studies Faculty of Global Engagement, Department of Global Tourism Associate Professor
2.	2018/04～2022/03	Kyoto University of Foreign Studies Faculty of Global Engagement Department of Global Tourism Associate Professor
3.	2016/04～2018/03	The University of Fukuchiyama Regional Management Associate Professor of Learning Design and Technology
4.	2011/04～2016/03	Seibi University Business and Commerce Associate Professor
5.	2022/04～	Kyoto University of Foreign Studies Faculty of Global Engagement Department of Global Tourism Professor

■ Educational ability

● Made textbook and teaching material
1.	2014/03/21～	One with English - Level One: Fundamentals (1st ed., Vol. 1)（英語と共に－レベル1：基礎）
● Guidance such as alumni meetings and club
1.	2019/05～	ESports Club Facilitator

■ Main Subject

教育未来派（ラーニングフューチャーリスト）

■ Belonging society

1.	2018/07～	Immersive Learning Network
2.	2013/07～	MAVR Immersive Learning Research SIG
3.	2011/04～	Japan Association for Technology in Language Education
4.	2011/04～	Japan Association of Language Teachers
5.	2011/04～	Japan Foundation for International Tourism
6.	2012/04～	∟ Reviewer
7.	2011/04～	Kansai Tourism Consortium
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■ Qualification and license

1.	2022/08/01	Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert
2.	2021/06/15	Adobe Education Leader
3.	2018/08/15	Certified Google Innovator
4.	2014/10/01	Human Subjects Research (HSR)

■ Subject

1.	Digital Literacy
2.	Digital Citizenship and Engagement
3.	Digital Literacy
4.	Digital Citizenship and Engagement
5.	Digital Design and Publishing
6.	Interactive Webpublishing(CD244)
7.	New Media Marketing in Tourism
8.	New Media Lab
9.	Game Based Tourism
10.	Interactive Webpublishing(PBL)
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■ Research topic, funded research, and department laboratory expense

1.	2023/04～2025/03	The Digital Transformation of Higher Education: Curriculum Innovation in the Age of AI, Chat GPT, and Other Emerging Technologies (Key Word : )
2.	2022/04～2025/03	Immersive Technology Implementations in the MICE Industry (Key Word : )
3.	2014/04～	eWOM Generation Systems for International Tourism Promotion with Augmented Reality (Key Word : 拡張現実、教育技術、オーグメンテッド・リアリティ、教育デザイン)

■ Lecturer and lecture

1.	2023/03/17	Master of Ceremonies and Host
2.	2023/01/27	Opening Remarks
3.	2022/07/28	Introduction to Immersive Technology
4.	2022/03/25	Global Citizenship in the Digital Age (Hanazono High School)
5.	2021/06	Virtual Tourism
6.	2019/10	Automation and the Future of Work (Aichi University)
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■ Exhibition, concert, and athletic meet

1.

2016/04/01～2018/03/29

FMいかる「Laboratory Cafe」 (FMいかる 76.3 FM Kyoto)

■ Committee and society

1.	2017/01/31～	JALT Mixed, Augmented and Virtual Realities in Learning SIG President
2.	2014/04/01～2014/04/01	Board Member

■ Home Page

http://erichawkinson.com

■ Research Field

1.	2020/07	Immersive Learning Network Immersive Learning Project Showcase & Competition (Finalist)
2.	2020/06	UNWTO (United Nations World Tourism Organization) HEALING SOLUTIONS FOR TOURISM CHALLENGE (Finalist (Top 5 Asia-Pacific Region))
3.	2019/11	BETT Awards (British Educational Training and Technology) Leadership in Educational Technology in Asia (Finalist)

■ Department laboratory expense researcher number

50625994

■ Profile

Eric is a learning futurist, tinkering with and designing technologies that may better inform the future of teaching and learning. Eric is president and research coordinator of MAVR, a research group working in immersive technologies for teaching and learning, and more specifically, augmented and virtual realities in language learning. Eric's day job is at the Kyoto University of Foreign Studies where he teaches courses and conducts research on issues related to technology in tourism and education. Eric also leads a team of interactive media designers for TEDxKyoto. His passion project, ARientation is an award winning, free-to-use, privacy-by-design augmented learning platform to rapid prototype augmented learning environments, also aiming to spread awareness of increasing aggressive data collection models using immersive technology. Eric's other projects have included augmented tourism rallies, AR community art exhibitions, mixed reality escape rooms, and other experiments in immersive technology.

■ External Researcher ID

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Researcher ID	NbfRPh0AAAAJ