Andrea Cuadra '13

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Dr. Andrea Cuadra is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science. Dr. Cuadra’s field is Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), and her work lies at the intersection of interaction design, inclusivity, and artificial intelligence.

She studies the needs of marginalized groups who may particularly benefit from or be harmed by the outcomes of technology design decisions that affect us all. In addition, she employs her design skills to generate and advocate for more-inclusive design alternatives.

Dr. Cuadra’s career in the U.S. has been shaped in the form of a boomerang, starting and ending at Olin. She completed a postdoctoral appointment in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, her Ph.D. in information science at Cornell Tech, her M.S. in product design also at Stanford University, and her B.S. in Engineering with a Concentration in Interaction Design at Olin. She has also worked as a User Experience Researcher at Google (Search and Chrome), Sidewalk Labs (now part of Google), Yahoo, and Hopper.

Dr. Cuadra spent time working as an entrepreneurial product designer prior to starting her Ph.D., and has been involved in teaching activities throughout her life, starting a maker group in high school, a summer camp during college, and teaching in some capacity at every academic institution she holds a degree from. Her work and teaching experience have shaped her social justice-centered, hands-on teaching philosophy.

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Publications: 

  1. Jianna So, Samantha Estrada, Matthew Jörke, Eva Bianchi, Maria Wang, Nava Haghighi, Kristen L. Fessele, James A. Landay, and Andrea Cuadra(2024, preprint). “They Make Us Old Before We’re Old”: Designing Ethical Health Technology with and for Older Adults. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. CSCW.
  2. Andrea Cuadra, Justine Breuch, Samantha Estrada, David Ihim, Isabelle Hung, Derek Askaryar, Marwan Hassanien, Kristen L. Fessele, and James A. Landay (2024, preprint). Digital Forms for All: A Holistic Multimodal Large Language Model Agent for Health Data Entry. The Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT).
  3. Andrea Cuadra, Maria Wang, Lynn Andrea Stein, Malte F. Jung, Nicola Dell, Deborah Estrin, and James A. Landay (2024, preprint). The Illusion of Empathy? Notes on Displays of Emotion in Human-Computer Interaction. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).
  4. Alan Y. Cheng, Meng Guo, Melissa Ran, Arpit Ranasaria, Arjun Sharma, Anthony Xie, Khuyen N. Le, Bala Vinaithirthan, Shihe (Tracy) Luan, David Thomas Henry Wright, Andrea Cuadra, Roy Pea, James A. Landay (2024, preprint). Scientific and Fantastical: Creating Immersive, Culturally Relevant Learning Experiences with Augmented Reality and Large Language Models. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).
  5. Andrea Cuadra, Jessica Bethune, Rony Krell, Alexa Lempel, Katrin Hänsel, Armin Shahrokni, Deborah Estrin, and Nicola Dell. (2023). Designing Voice-First Ambient Interfaces to Support Aging in Place.Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS).
  6. Nava Haghighi*, Matthew Jörke*, Yousif Mohsen, Andrea Cuadra, and James A. Landay (2023). A Workshop-Based Method for Navigating Value Tensions in Collectively Speculated Worlds.Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS).
  7. Alan Y. Cheng, Jacob Ritchie, Niki Agrawal, Elizabeth Childs, Cyan DeVeaux, Yubin Jee, Trevor Leon, Bethanie Maples, Andrea Cuadra, and James A. Landay (2023). Designing Immersive, Narrative-Based Interfaces to Guide Outdoor Learning. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).
  8. Andrea Cuadra, Amy L. Tin, Gordon Taylor Moffat, Koshy Alexander, Robert J. Downey, Beatriz Korc-Grodzicki, Andrew J. Vickers, and Armin Shahrokni (2023). The association between perioperative frailty and ability to complete a web-based geriatric assessment among older adults with cancer. European Journal of Surgical Oncology (EJSO).
  9. Andrea Cuadra, Yen-Hao Chen, Kae-Jer Cho, Deborah Estrin, and Armin Shahrokni. (2022). Introducing the v-RFA, a Voice Assistant-based Geriatric Assessment. Journal of Geriatric Oncology (JGO).
  10. Andrea Cuadra, Hyein Baek, Deborah Estrin, Malte F. Jung, and Nicola Dell (2022). On Inclusion: Video Analysis of Older Adult Interactions with a Multi-Modal Voice Assistant in a Public Setting.Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD).
  11. Andrea Cuadra, Amy L. Tin, and Armin Shahrokni (2022). The association between perioperative frailty and ability to complete a web-based geriatric assessment in older adults with cancer.Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).
  12. Andrea Cuadra, David Goedicke, and J.D. Zamfirescu-Pereira (2021). Democratizing Design and Fabrication Using Speech: Exploring co-design with a voice assistant. Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI).
  13. Andrea Cuadra, Shuran Li, Hansol Lee, Jason Cho, and Wendy Ju (2021). My Bad! Repairing Intelligent Voice Assistant Errors Improves Interaction.Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW). [talk]
  14. Andrea Cuadra, Oluseye Bankole, and Michael Sobolev (2021, shortlisted for Best Paper). Planning Habit: Daily Planning Prompts with Alexa.Conference on Persuasive Technology (PERSUASIVE).
  15. Jamy Li, Andrea Cuadra, Brian Mok, Byron Reeves, Jofish Kaye, and Wendy Ju (2019). Communicating dominance in a nonanthropomorphic robot using locomotion. Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI).
  16. Natalie Friedman, Andrea Cuadra, Ruchi Patel, Shiri Azenkot, Joel Stein, and Wendy Ju (2019). Voice Assistant Strategies and Opportunities for People with Tetraplegia. Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS).