Sarah Kriz

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Faculty
Human-Centered Design and Engineering

Sarah Kriz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human-Centered Design & Engineering. Her research focuses on human-robot interaction, visual communication, and human factors issues in HCI design. Current projects in HRI evaluate people's expectations about robots' cognitive and communicative capabilities, how media images of robots affect first-time users' expectations, how robots' physical form and appearance influence human-robot communication. Her current work in visual communication examines how nanotechnology researchers create and understand nanoscience graphics. Prior to coming to the University of Washington, Professor Kriz was a National Research Council Postdoctoral Associate at the Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC. She holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology and an M.A. in Linguistics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.