Explication of the Structure of Subjective Well-being in Lifestyle Based on Ontology Engineering—The Second Paper: Evaluation of the Method—

• KISHIKAMI Yuko

  Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University

• FURUKAWA Ryuzo

  Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University

• SUTO Yuko

  Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University

• ISHIDA Emile H.

  Earth Village Research Lab. LLC

• MIZOGUCHI Riichiro

  Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• オントロジー工学に基づく心豊かなライフスタイルの構造の明示化—第二報：手法の検証—

Abstract

Understanding “subjective well-being” is a challenging task, especially that of those who were living under severer environmental, economic and social constraints before the World War II era in Japan. A methodology using the ontology engineering, proposed by our first paper, can demonstrate the relationship between the people’s activities (nodes), and the meaning attached (concepts). It can clarify the structural complexities as to what activities could substitute others, whilst achieving the same goals and purposes for fulfilling the people’s sense of well-beings This paper evaluates the usefulness of this methodology in terms of the quality of the concepts extracted by analyzing the action decomposition trees. In fact, the action decomposition trees explicate the lifestyle structure with tacit concepts and underlying requirements, such as social context, cultural context, and environmental constraints. They can also explicate multistoried lifestyles, together with the relationship between multiple goals that seemingly have no explicit relationship with each other. Analysis of some upper parts of all the trees reveals a couple of ultimate goals of lifestyles which are compatible with the frameworks for measuring well-being and progress published by the OECD. This result demonstrates that ontology engineering is useful for extracting concepts of lifestyles.

Journal

• ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

  ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE 31 (3), 103-122, 2018-05-31

  SOCIETY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, JAPAN

Keywords

• Lifestyle
• ontology engineering
• low environmental impact
• sustainability
• subjective well-being

Details

• CRID: 1390001288036430976
• NII Article ID: 130007378848
• DOI: 10.11353/sesj.31.103
• ISSN: 18845029
• ISSN: 09150048
• Text Lang: ja
• Data Source:
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  • CiNii Articles
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• Abstract License Flag: Disallowed