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Karen Schloss, Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, leads the Visual Reasoning Lab, focusing on how people interpret meaning from visual features to enhance effective visual communication. Her primary research interests include color, information visualization, visual cognition, and aesthetic response. She aims to develop educational tools, particularly using virtual reality (VR), to make science more accessible and engaging. Prior to her current role, Schloss spent years as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences at Brown University. She earned her BA in Psychology with a minor in Architecture from Barnard College, Columbia University in 2005, followed by a PhD in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2011, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at UC Berkeley in 2013.
Department: Department of Computer Sciences