Dr. Kazuyuki Sato

• Since 2024: Researcher at the Department for the Psychology of Human Movement and Sport, Institute of Sport Science, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
• Since 2024: Visiting Researcher at the Department of Health Promotion Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
• Since 2024: Collaborative Researcher at the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Japan
• 2021-2024: Researcher (Non-Full-time) at the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Japan
• 2019-2024: Ph.D. (Human Health Sciences), Tokyo Metropolitan University (Prof. Takahiro Higuchi), Japan
• 2016-2018: M.S. (Rehabilitation), Mejiro University, Japan
• 2011-2015: BSc. (Physical Therapy), SBC Tokyo Medical University, Japan

Research Interests:

• Social interaction
• Virtual reality
• Collision prediction
• Anticipation of other’s movement
• Visual perception

Publications:

• Sato K, Fukuhara K, Higuchi T. Age-related changes in the utilization of visual information for collision prediction: A study using an affordance-based model. Exp Aging Res. 2023 Nov 9:1-17. doi: 10.1080/0361073X.2023.2278985.
• Suda Y, Fukuhara K, Sato K, Higuchi T. Improved walking through an aperture in a virtual environment transfers to a real environment: Introduction of enriched feedback and gradual increase in task difficulty. Front. Sports Act. Living. 2022.
• Kawai H, Nishida K, Ejiri M, Kera T, Sato K, Nakata H, Obuchi S. Effectiveness of a program promoting community activities for the prevention of frailty using a community assessment. Nippon Ronen Igakkai Zasshi (Japanese Journal of Geriatrics). 58 (2), 272-283, 2021.
• Nishida K, Kawai H, Kera T, Nakata H, Sato K, Obuchi S. An implementation study of a program supporting frailty-prevention community activities using the “Community-as-Partner” model. Nihon Koshu Eisei Zasshi (Japanese journal of public health). 67 (8), 518-527, 2020.
• Sato K, Mangyo R, Kawai H, Obuchi S. Examination of factors associated with fear of falling in elderly people hospitalized due to fractures and discharged to their homes. Physical Therapy Japan. 47 (4), 299-305, 2020.

Conference:

• Suda Y, Fukuhara K, Sato K, Higuchi T. Developing a virtual reality system to improve the collision-avoidance behavior when walking through an aperture for older adults. 13th International Meeting of Asian Rehabilitation Science, March 2022.
• Sato K, Fukuhara K, Higuchi T. Judgment of the chaseability of a moving object in older adults -less dependence on the optical expansion of the target-. International Society of Posture and Gait Research World Congress, July 2022.　
• Higuchi T, Suda Y, Sato K, Fukuhara K. Improved walking through an aperture in a virtual environment transfers to a real environment. International Society of Posture and Gait Research World Congress, July 2022.
• Suda Y, Fukuhara K, Sato K, Higuchi T. Training using virtual reality improves collision-avoidance behavior. 17th International Symposium of 3-D Analysis of Human Movement, July 2022.

Conferences in Japan:

• Sato K, Mangyo R. Examination of factors associated with fear of falling in elderly people hospitalized due to fractures and discharged to their homes -A comprehensive perspective on living environment factors and physical and mental functions-. The 4th Japanese Society for Fall Prevention, October 2017.
• Sato K, Mangyo R. The Influence of different injury contexts in elderly fracture injured patients. The 55th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association to Rehabilitation Medicine, July 2018.
• Kawai H, Nishida K, Kera T, Sato K, Nakata H, Obuchi S. Effectiveness of ”Min-Fre” a resident-initiated frailty prevention program using the “Community-as-Partner” model after 1 year. The 6th Conference of Japanese Society of Physical Therapy for Prevention. Medicine, October 2019.
• Kawai H, Nishida K, Ejiri M, Kera T, Sato K, Nakata H, Obuchi S. Effectiveness of a program promoting community activities for the prevention of frailty using a community assessment. The 15th Annual Conference of the Japan Society for Applied Gerontology, September 2020.
• Suda Y, Fukuhara K, Sato K, Higuchi T. Supporting the improvement of collision avoidance behavior in the older adult using virtual reality. The 41st Annual Conference on Society of Biomechanism, December 2020.
• Suda Y, Fukuhara K, Sato K, Higuchi T. Investigation of learning strategies for effective collision avoidance behavior in older adults: Utilization of virtual reality. The 26th Annual Conference of the Japanese Association for Basic Physical Therapy, October 2021.
• Sato K, Fukuhara K, Higuchi T. Age-related differences in visual information used to judge situations: Identifying specific perceptual processes in older adults. The 42nd Annual Conference on Society of Biomechanism, November 2021.
• Suda Y, Fukuhara K, Sato K, Higuchi T. Proposal of supporting methods to improve the collision avoidance ability of the older adults using virtual reality. The 42nd Annual Conference on Society of Biomechanism, November 2021.
• Sato K, Fukuhara K, Higuchi T. Assessment of collision prediction with a moving object in older adults: Usefulness of the Interception task. The 72nd Annual Conference of the Japan Society of Physical Education, Health and Sport Sciences, September 2022.
• Sato K, Higuchi T. Effectiveness of perceptual training on road crossing judgment in the older adults - Focusing on the perception of expansion ratio of an approaching object. The 73rd Annual Conference of the Japan Society of Physical Education, Health and Sport Sciences, August 2023.
• Sato K, Higuchi T. Utilization of VR for the prevention of collision accidents in older adults. The 10th Conference of Japanese Society of Physical Therapy for Prevention Medicine, Organized Session, October 2023.
• Waki R, Sato K, Yamada M, Higuchi T. Simultaneous control of on-foot and far-field while walking: Development of a VR multi-target stepping task. The 10th Conference of Japanese Society of Physical Therapy for Prevention Medicine, Organized Session, October 2023.
• Sato K, Kawai H, Imamura K, Ejiri M, Sasai H, Fujiwara Y, Hirano H, Ihara K, Obuchi S. Relationship between negative self-perception of walking speed changes with aging and the perception gap and frailty -The Otassha Study-. The 10th Conference of Japanese Society of Physical Therapy for Prevention Medicine, Outstanding Presentation Session, October 2023.

Memberships:

• Japan Society of Physical Education, Health and Sport Sciences
• Japanese Physical Therapy Association