Tohoku Gakuin University

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Faculty of Liberal Arts Department of Information Science

Recruitment stopped in April 2023

For all students enrolled in faculties and departments that will cease accepting new students, we will ensure that they maintain their affiliation with their chosen department and the educational environment there until graduation. We, the faculty and staff, will also fulfill our responsibility to provide support for their student life, career paths, and job placement.

Faculty Introduction

Teacher Profiles

MATSUMOTO, Akiyo Professor
Specialty Applications of natural language processing to the web
Subjects Taught Information Science Seminar (3rd year), Integrated Research (4th year)
■Research Themes

Development of intelligent and unique web services/smartphone apps

■Information Science Seminar IA/IIA (3rd year, first semester)
Development of web and Android applications for smartphones and tablets.

First, you will learn how to create web applications for smartphones and tablets.

Web applications run in a browser, so they have the advantage of running on iPhones, Android devices, and Windows tablets all with a single application.

Next, we will learn how to create native Android apps.

While native Android apps won't run on iPhones or Windows, they can be published worldwide on Google Play and receive ratings.

■Information Science Seminar IB/IIB (3rd year, second semester)
Developing new and useful original apps

Each participant will devise an original project and create a project proposal and specifications.

We will actually create the app based on that project proposal and specifications.

In the final class, each student will give a presentation on their completed project.

■ Comprehensive Research (4th year students)

We develop intelligent and unique web services and smartphone applications.

Here are some of the graduation research topics from the past few years.

  • Development of a foreign language conversation training system using smartphone calls
  • Development of a proofreading support app for Android tablet devices
  • Development of a programming simulation app using a tablet's camera.
  • Development of a system for determining the freshness of information in web searches
  • Development of a system for detecting inappropriate expressions in student reports.
  • Development of a readability feedback function in the program assignment submission system.

etc.