The Effect and Problem of Knowledge Engineering Horticultural Activity System in Community Based Welfare

This paper proposes a knowledge management based on social action research for Gardening and Ornamental Affective Engineering (GOAE) on stress relief with social networking program for improving social-welfare and life-long education service consumers’ (including mental disability survivors’ such as dementia, schizophrenic disorder, developmental disability, victim of child abuse etc.) of quality of life through the use of the community based horticultural activity program. This research baseline problem is about the action-research into Horticultural activity within the field of social-welfare and life-long education service at Minami Kyushu University in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan. The horticulture and landscape course students are able to complete their graduation theses using horticultural therapy for psychiatric rehabilitation in workplaces for the mental disabled include developmental disability, the elderly nursing home, the daycare center for children, the community center for community based practice, the self -help group for special needs educational support.