Field

• Social Science(s)

• Digital Humanities

Research Interest

• Quantitative analysis of cultural data (e.g. folktales)

• Dynamics between (web) system(s) and people

  • Mass-collaboration

  • Technological evolution / innovation

  • Recommender system

• Databases / Knowledge Management Systems

Research Method

• Using existing data

  • Statistics

  • Data mining / Text mining

• Experiment / Survey

  • Computer Simulation

  • Behavioral Experiment

  • Social survey

  • Qualitative method (interview, etc.)

Research Skill

• Data analysis

  • Statistical analysis / Modelling / Epidemiology

  • Network analysis

  • Natural Language Processing

• Programming

  • Python, R, SAS, SQL, Common Lisp

• Web application development

Publications(2018~)

Research Article / Technical Paper

• Ikari, S., Sato, K., Burdett, E., Ishiguro, H., Jong, J., & Nakawake, Y. (2023). Religion-Related Values Differently Influence Moral Attitude for Robots in the United States and Japan. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 54(6-7), 742-759.

• Suyama, M., Sato, K. (2020). Investigation into open-ended fitness landscape through evolutionary logical circuits. Letters on Evolutionary Behavioral Science, 11(2) 31-36. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5178/lebs.2020.78

• Nakawake, Y., Sato, K. (2019). Systematic quantitative analyses reveal the folk-zoological knowledge embedded in folktales. Palgrave Communications 5, 161.  doi:10.1057/s41599-019-0375-x  *equally contributed

• Nakawake, Y. and Sato, K. (2018) Systematic quantitative analysis on folktales revealed folk-zoological knowledge transmitted through generations. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 118, no. 122, NLC2018-1, pp. 1-6. Workshop: Application of natural language processing and intelligent systems, and general topic of NLP (at Hokkaido University, Sapporo) 

  • Abstract

Proceedings

• Sato, A., Sato, T., Sato, K. and Hotta, H. (2020). How Do Parents Handle the Advantages and Disadvantages of Using Digital Media for Toddlers and Preschool Children? A Questionnaire Survey. 18th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education (Honolulu, Hawaii, USA)

• Nakawake, Y. and Sato, K. (2019) Cultural transmission via folktales: Systematic analysis focusing on folk-zooligical content. The 8th Conference on Cultural History of PaleoAsia, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, December 14–15, 2019 (Proceedings, pp. 89–90).