Programs

  • Royce Fellowship
Scott
Klemmer

Concentration 

Art-Semiotics and Computer Science

Award Year 

1997
The "Other Race Effect": designed experiments examining how we quantitatively process the faces of people from other racial groups

Scott project explores a cognitive phenomena known as the "other race effect." Integrating computer graphics and photography, he will design experiments examining how the brain processes the faces of people from other racial groups.

Scott has a dual A.B. in Art-Semiotics and Computer Science from Brown University and Graphic Design from RISD. He has an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley. He is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. He co-directs the Human-Computer Interaction Group and holds the Bredt Faculty Scholar development chair. Organizations around the world use his lab's open-source design tools and curricula; several books and popular press articles have covered his research and teaching. He has been awarded the Katayanagi Emerging Leadership Prize, Sloan Fellowship, NSF CAREER award, Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowship, and several best paper awards at the premier HCI conferences (CHI and UIST). "The Royce Fellowship supported my interdisciplinary curiosity at a young age. It’s had a huge impact on my life."