Sandra Y. Okita Ph.D.

Work

Child and Adolescent Development

School of Education

Psychological Studies in Education

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StanfordUniversity

StanfordUniversity

abqog2@r.postjobfree.com Stanford, CA, 94305-3096

Research

Interest:

APPLIED:

Designing information technology/robots assisted learning tools for

children and adults that influence behavior (learning,

prevention, coping skills)

BASIC:

Investigating young children's attribution and conceptual understanding of

Agency, Intelligence, Biology, Health using cognitive artifacts.

Education

Spring 2005 KeioUniversity. Grad. Graduate School of Media and Governance

Doctorate

Degree (Ph.D.) in Media and Governance

Ph.D

Thesis:

Assessing Realization and Experience of Embodiment in Multiple Worlds

Fall 2001-Fall 2003 StanfordUniversity. Grad. School of Humanities

and Social Sciences

Master

Degree (M.A.) in Psychology

Fall 1997-Spring 1999

Master

Degree (M.A) in Media and Governance

MA

Thesis:

Therapet System: Projective Computing for Self-Enhancement

Psychology?

Fall 1993-Fall 1997 KeioUniversity (JAPAN) Faculty of Policy Management

Bachelor

Degree (B.A) in Policy Management

BA

Thesis:

Psychological

Animal Agent Assisted Therapy Prototype System

Research

Experience

StanfordUniversity: as a

Protocol Director

1. Perception of Intelligence in Robotic Toys Project (Okita) Protocol # : 0102-623

2. Childhood Health Appreciation Project (Okita) # 82185

3. Affect and Animacy in Robotic Toys Project (Okita)

Protocol #:0203-736

4. Information Transfer Between Real and Virtual

Environments Project (Okita) Protocol#:81809

StanfordUniversity:

as a Research Assistant

1. Teachable Agents Project (Schwartz)

2. Imagery Project (Schwartz)

3. Children with Chronic Illness Re-entry into School (Children's Health

Council-Hoffman)

4. Pet Therapy Project (LPCH)

Journal

Publications

1. Okita, Y.S. (Oct. 2004 in

print). Effects of age on Associating Virtual and Embodied

Toys, CyberPsychology and Behavior, 7, Mary Ann Liebert Inc.

2. Ookita, Y.S., Tokuda, H. (Feb. 2001). A Virtual

Therapeutic Environment with User Projective Agents, CyberPsychology

and Behavior, 4(5), Mary Ann Liebert Inc.

Conference

Papers, Posters

2004

1. Okita, S., (2004) Effects of age on associating virtual and

embodied toys. American Educational Research Association (AERA

) Conference, San

DiegoCA (April 12-16)

2. Okita, S., (2004).

Children's Accuracy and Transfer Across Different

Context Environments, International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) Santa MonicaCA (June 22-26)

1999-2000

1. Ookita, Sandra Yu, The

Development of Middleware in creating a Networked Virtual Therapeutic

Environment for Psychotherapy, Emerging Technology Workshop(ETW 2000), Boston,

MA U.S.A.

2. Ookita, Sandra Yu,

Projective Agent Computing, Emerging Technology Workshop (ETW 99), Santa Barbara, CAUSA

3. Ookita, Sandra Yu, The

Cyber Therapy Model, In Proceedings of IEEE Multimedia Technology &

Applications Conference 1998(MTAC f98),Anaheim, CA. U.S.A. 0-7803-9915-3/98 Copyright 1998 IEEE

4. Ookita, Sandra Yu,

Psychotherapy With Virtual Pet Agents-The PSY-AAAT Prototype System, In

Proceedings of Asia Pacific Computer Human Interaction 1998(APCHI f98), Kamakura, Japan . 0-8186-8347-3/98 Copyright 1998 IEEE

5. Ookita, Sandra Yu, The PSY-AAAT Prototype System,

In Proceedings IPSJ National Conference 1998, Tokyo,

Japan.

Teaching

Experience

Employer Country Type of Work Date

Keio University Japan Part-time

Faculty (undergraduate course)

2000- 2001

Keio University Japan Teaching

Assistant 1999-

2000

Language

and Communication Research Institute

Keio University Japan Teaching

Assistant

1996-

2000

(Courses)

-Autonomous

Distributed Collaborative System(graduate level)

-Media

Architecture (graduate level)

-Mobile and Distributed Programming (graduate level)

-Computer

literacy IPL Is, Ic (undergraduate

level)

Work

Experiences:

Employer Country

Type of Work

Date

Keio University Japan

Part-time Faculty

2000- 2001

Keio University Japan Research Staff/Assistant

1999-2001

Nikko Securities Japan

Computer/network system

administrator 1996-1998

Volunteer

and Community Involvement

Lucile Packard Children fs Hospital (LPCH)

Spring 2002- Present

Recreational Therapy, Adolescent Bedside for Eating

Disorder patients

Bilingual Interpreter for Language Bank

(Japanese/English)

StanfordUniversityMedicalCenter

Spring

2002- Present

Bilingual Interpreter for Language Bank

(Japanese/English)

Copyright 1998 IEEE

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