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Roberta
Klatzky is Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, where
she
is also on the faculty of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
and the
Human-Computer
Interaction Institute. She received a B.S. in mathematics from the
University
of Michigan and a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Stanford University.
Before
coming to Carnegie Mellon, she was a member of the faculty at the University
of
California,
Santa Barbara.
Klatzky's
research interests are in human perception and cognition, with special
emphasis
on spatial cognition and haptic perception. She has done extensive
research
on
human haptic and visual object recognition, navigation under visual and
nonvisual
guidance,
and perceptually guided action. Her work has application to navigation
aids
for
the blind, haptic interfaces, exploratory robotics, teleoperation, and
virtual environments.
Professor
Klatzky is the author of over 200 articles and chapters, and she has authored
or
edited
6 books.
Honors and Awards
Educational
Michigan
Regents-Alumni and General Motors scholarships
James
B. Angell Scholar
Phi
Beta Kappa
National
Science Foundation Graduate Fellow
Professional
Fellow,
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
Fellow,
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellow,
American Psychological Assn., Divisions 1 and 3
Charter
Fellow, American Psychological Society
Society
of Experimental Psychologists (honorary society)
Professional Service
Professor
Klatzky has been a member of the National Research Council's Committee
on
Human Factors and Committee
on Techniques for Enhancing Human Performance, as
well as other working groups
of the NRC. Her service to scientific societies includes
chairing the governing board
of the Psychonomics Society, the Psychology Section of
AAAS, and the International
Association for the Study of Attention and Performance, as
well as serving as Treasurer
of the American Psychological Society and chair of the
Board of Scientific Affairs
of the American Psychological Assn. She has been a
member of research review
panels for the National Institutes of Health and the National
Science Foundation.
She is an associate editor of ACM Transactions in Applied
Perception, a past associate
editor of Memory and Cognition, and a member of several
editorial boards.
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