Keywords: Human-robot interaction, cognition, spatial language, empirical data collection, discourse-functional lingusitics
Sarah Kriz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Technical Communication. Her research focuses on human-robot interaction, cognitive design principles, experimental methods, and the interplay between cognitive and social influences. Current projects include how people speak to robots, referential communication between humans and robots, cognitive constraints in dual-task situations involving mobile technologies, and incorporating context into language comprehension systems.
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.