birth_place school_tradition main_interests notable_ideas birth_date article_title name
duluth , minnesota perceptual psychology haptic perception , human-computer interactions the shape perception and object recognition ; the ucsb personal guided human system haptic system is capable of accurate geometric 06 january 1947 roberta klatzky
 roberta klatzky
roberta klatzky

roberta `` bobby lou '' klatzky is a professor of psychology at carnegie mellon university -lrb- cmu -rrb- .
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 b.a. in mathematics from the university of michigan in 1968 and a ph.d 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 gps-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 .
she has been awarded the humboldt senior research award from the alexander von humboldt foundation and the kurt koffka medal from the justus-liebig-university of giessen , germany .
prior to working at cmu , klatzky was employed at the university of california , santa barbara .
klatzky is a member of the center for the neural basis of cognition and the human computer interaction institute at cmu .
she has also completed editorial work for a number of prestigious journals in cognitive and perceptual psychology , including ieee , acta psychologica and perception and psychophysics , and she is listed in outstanding scientists of the 20th century .
