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Stanford University; University of Michigan.
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Roberta Klatzky
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She specializes in human perception and cognition, particularly relating to visual and non-visual perception and representation of space and geometric shapes.Klatzky received a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1968 and a Doctor of Philosophy in psychology from Stanford University in 1972. 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.
Specifically, alongside Jack Loomis and the late Reginald Golledge, Klatzky played a major part in the development of the UCSB Personal Guided System, a Global Positioning System-based navigation system for the blind.
The impact of Klatzky"s research in psychology and human-computer interaction has been recognized by numerous organizations, and she has been elected as a fellow in the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the Society of Experimental Psychologists and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Prior to working at Carnegie Mellon University, Klatzky was employed at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
She has also completed editorial work for a number of prestigious journals in cognitive and perceptual psychology, including Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Acta Psychologica and Perception and Psychophysics, and she is listed in Outstanding Scientists of the 20th Century.
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Klatzky is a member of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition and the Human Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
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