Academia

Education

B.S. Cognitive Science

Focus: Human-Computer Interaction
Major GPA 4.0

Project Researcher at Airbnb

April 2019 to Present

I am on the Hotels (Pro Host) team at Airbnb. More information coming soon!

Re-Embodied Cognition (ReCo) lab

September 2017 to June 2018

At ReCo, I investigate Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) in collaboration with Dr. Leila Takayama. (ReCo website)

Projects

HRI Openings - Investigates approach directions and conversation opening for teleoperated robots.

Virtual Reality - Assesses user comfort in varying virtual reality environments.

Disclosure - If a computer follows implicit social rules, and asks you questions about yourself, do you disclose more information?

Collaborative Humans and Robots: Interaction, Sociability, Machine Learning, and Art (CHARISMA) lab

June 2018 to present

CHARISMA is a Human-Robot Interaction lab at Oregon State University, directed by Dr. Heather Knight. I joined this lab as a member of the Robotics REU program in the summer of 2018.

Projects

Social privacy - Robots are becoming more prevalent and social. In public, how should robots engage with people in a way that protects their sense of privacy? This study incorporates methods from theater to assess participant perspectives.

Robot education workshop - This interdisciplinary workshop combines theater and robots in a human-robot interactive play. In this workshop, high school students choose what the robot does and says while learning about the background computer science simultaneously.

Early Social Interaction Lab (ESIL)

November 2017 to September 2018

ESIL lab members assist Dr. Audun Dahl in experimentally researching Moral Psychology from a developmental perspective. I conduct research for the Academic Orientation Project (AOP), studying moral considerations of academic cheating and plagiarism. (ESIL Website)

Academic Orientation Project (AOP)

Plagiarism Index Study - Explores explicit and implicit considerations of students and teachers to predict plagiarism judgments.

High School Study - Investigates high school student perspectives about cheating and plagiarism.

(AOP Website)

Publications

Hedaoo, S., Williams, A. J., Wadgaonkar, C., & Knight, H. (forthcoming). A robot barista comments on its clients: Intelligent interaction vs. social privacy. Human-Robot Interaction.

Conference presentations

Williams, A., Waltzer, T., & Dahl, A. (2018). What makes something plagiarized? A survey of teachers and students. Spartan Psychological Association Research Conference, San Jose, CA.

Williams, A., Waltzer, T., & Dahl, A. (2018). What makes something plagiarized? A survey of teachers and students. Stevenson Alumni Weekend, Santa Cruz, CA.

Williams, A., Lutz, R., Hsiao, K., Santer, N., & Takayama, L. (2018). HRI openings: approach paths and dialogue timing. Cognitive Sciences Student Association Conference, Berkeley, CA.

Williams, A., Medina, C., & Hopkins, B. (2017). The relationship between future thinking and memory recall. The Symposium for Undergraduate Research at UCSC, Santa Cruz, CA.

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