Professor
Area: Cognitive

Contact information:
Email: klatzky@cmu.edu
Psychology office: 354K Baker Hall
Psychology phone: 412-268-8026

Research Interests:

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. Among her honors are an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award and the Kurt Koffka Medaille from the Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen, Germany.
 

Publications:

*Click HERE for pdfs of selected publications

Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Collaborators:

Dr. Bing Wu,  bingwu@andrew.cmu.edu
Gaurav Shukla,  gas9@pitt.edu
Valentinos Zachariou,  vzachari@cmu.edu
Hanns Tappeiner,  hanns@cmu.edu
Pnina Gershon, pgershon@andrew.cmu.edu

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Related Links:

Curriculum Vitae (pdf file)

Papers

Individual Web-Page

Visualization and Image Analysis (VIA) Laboratory

UCSB Personal Guidance System for the Visually Impaired

Butterfly Haptics

CMU Directory Information

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