Xanat Vargas Meza

Research Overview

Biography

Vargas Meza Xanat moved to South Korea and obtained her Master degree in Media and Communication at Yeungnam University (2014). She moved to Japan and obtained her PhD in Kansei Sciences from the University of Tsukuba (2019). She has served as Assistant Professor and Researcher in several Japanese educational institutions.

Publications

Vargas Meza Xanat, Shimojo Shigen and Hayashi Yugo (Accepted). Cognitive networks across life: A Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning case study from Japan. International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning.

Vargas Meza Xanat, Oikawa Masanori (2024). Japanese Perception of Organ Donation and Implications for New Medical Technologies: Quantitative and Qualitative Social Media Analysis. JMIR Preprints. 30/01/2024:55797. DOI: 10.2196/preprints.55797

Vargas Meza Xanat, Oikawa Masanori (2023). Japanese Perception of Brain Death and Implications for Communicating New Medical Technologies: Quantitative and Qualitative Social Media Analysis. JMIR Preprints. 01/11/2023:54025. DOI: 10.2196/preprints.54025

Vargas Meza Xanat, Hayashi-Simpliciano R. Shizuko, Yokoyama Takumi, Nishimura Chieko, Nishida Ryohei and Ochiai Yoichi (2023). YouTube Itak: a description of Ainu-related videos. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 10(1): 1-15. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-02336-z

Vargas Meza Xanat, Shimojo Shigen and Hayashi Yugo (2023). Cognition Networks in Collaborative Learning among Japanese Youngsters and Elders. The 13th International Conference on Cognitive Science. Seoul, Korea/online. August 24th.

Vargas Meza Xanat, Shimojo Shigen and Hayashi Yugo (2023). Semantic Network Analysis of a Learning Task Among Japanese Students of Psychology. In: Takada, H., Marutschke, D.M., Alvarez, C., Inoue, T., Hayashi, Y., Hernandez-Leo, D. (eds.) Collaboration Technologies and Social Computing. CollabTech 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14199. Springer, Cham. DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-42141-9_13

Vargas Meza Xanat and Park Han Woo (2023). Information circulation among Spanish-speaking and Caribbean communities related to COVID-19: A social media-based multidimensional analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research. DOI:10.2196/42669

Vargas Meza Xanat and Koyama Shinichi (2022). A Social Media Network Analysis of Trypophobia Communication. Nature Scientific Reports, 12: 21163. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-25301-3

Li Jingjing, Yang Ye, Zhang Zhexin, Yoshida Nozomu, Vargas Meza Xanat, and Ochiai Yoichi (2022). Psychological Distance and User Engagement in Online Exhibitions: Visualization of Moiré Patterns based on Electroencephalography Signals. Frontiers in Psychology, pp.1-15. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.954803

Murakami Takahito, Torii Maya Grace, Vargas Meza Xanat, and Ochiai Yoichi (2022). Kuchibashi: 3D-Printed Tweezers Bioinspired by the New Caledonian Crow’s Beak. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2022 Posters, pp. 1-2. DOI: 10.1145/3532719.3543254

Awards

1st place Undergraduate student research competition, SIGGRAPH (2022), with Murakami Takahito, Torii Maya Grace and Ochiai Yoichi