Regular biography
Dr. Elizabeth Croft is a Professor in Mechanical Engineering.
Scholar-generated biography
Elizabeth Croft is a Professor of Engineering and Vice President Academic and Provost at the University of Victoria, with adjunct appointments at Monash and UBC. Her research focuses on Human-Robot Interaction, Robotics, Trajectory Generation, Motion Planning, and Social Robotics. Her work explores the design of safe and intuitive human-robot interactions, including physical and affective state estimation, as well as the development of trajectory planning algorithms for industrial and service robots. She also investigates social and psychological aspects of human-robot interaction, such as shared attention, gaze, and safety strategies. Her research has applications in robotics, human-robot handover, and haptic rendering.