Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
We would like to sincerely acknowledge the volunteer contributions of Roshia (Master’s student), and Claudio Gonzalez and Vitor Rodrigues (Research students) at Kyoto University (2025) for their valuable assistance in supporting the social experiment conducted as part of this project.
We also gratefully acknowledge the support of the KICSS 2025 Organizing Committee, in particular the Program Chair, Prof. Tessai Hayama, for officially adopting our participatory method and for facilitating the social experiment throughout the conference.
This research was supported partially by the JST CREST fund (Grant Number: JPMJCR20D1, Japan) and JSPS KAKENHI (Grant Number:
23K17164, Japan).The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis.
The study was conceived and designed by Jawad Haqbeen (J.H), with feedback provided by the other members: Sofia Sahab (S.S), and Takayuki Ito (T.I.). The experiment was designed by J. H. with support provided by the other members (T.I. & S.S).
The experiment was conducted by J.H with support provided by volunteers (Roshia, Claudio Gonzalez and Vitor Rodrigues), and conference Program Chair, Tessai Hayama. Data analysis was performed by J.H.