Women in HCI Lecture Series:
October 31, 2008 - Roberta Klatzky

The HCI Graduate Program will kick off their new Women in HCI Lecture Series on Friday, October 31 at noon in the Howe Hall Auditorium. Roberta Klatzky, a Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University and a faculty of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition and the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, will speak on, Centering the Human in Virtual and Augmented Reality: The Role of Psychophysics.

Professor Klatzky 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. She is the author of over 200 articles and chapters, and has authored or edited 6 books.

The public is invited to attend.

Klatzky will meet with HCI faculty at 9:30 am on Friday, October 31 in the VRAC Conference Room. She will also have an early lunch with HCI Graduate students at 11 am in Room 20 Howe Hall. If you are interested in attending either of these events, please contact Pam Shill via email: .