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# Andrés Monroy-Hernández

Title/Position
Assistant Professor
Degree
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012
andresmh (@cs.princeton.edu) (609) 258-5966 405 Computer Science

Research Areas:

- Human-Computer Interaction

## Short Bio

Andrés Monroy-Hernández co-leads the Princeton HCI Lab, where he focuses on human-computer interaction and social computing. He is also an associated faculty at Princeton's Center for Information Technology and Policy, the Keller Center for Innovation, the DeCenter, the Program in Cognitive Science, and the Program in Latin American Studies. He also serves on the board of the non-profit Crisis Text Line. Before Princeton, he spent a decade in industry research labs, first in the leadership team of Microsoft Research's FUSE Labs and then at Snap Research, where he founded and managed the HCI Research team.

He has created technologies that help millions of people connect and collaborate in new ways, including MIT's Scratch, an online community for children to learn programming; Microsoft's Meeting Scheduler, a scheduling agent that uses hybrid AI; Significant Otter, a smartwatch app for couples to connect using biosignals; and Snapchat's Project IRL, a suite of playful and co-located augmented reality experiences.

His research has received best paper awards at CHI, CSCW, HCOMP, and ICWSM, and has been featured in The New York Times, CNN, Wired, BBC, and The Economist. Andrés was named one of the 35 Innovators under 35 by the MIT Technology Review magazine and one of the most influential Latinos in Tech by CNET. Andrés was the technical program co-chair for CSCW 2018 and Collective Intelligence 2019. He was an editor for CSCW from 2019 to 2022 and was a member of the CSCW steering committee until 2022.

His recent research focuses on public-interest technology platforms and social augmented reality experiences. Some of the systems his team is building include OpenDeli, an open-source federated protocol to enable locally-owned alternatives to mainstream food delivery platforms, and Capybara, a social AR app that aims to democratize AR by empowering children to express themselves through creating virtual characters.

## Selected Publications

- Kim, S., Watkins, E., Russakovsky, O., Fong, R., Monroy-Hernández, A.(2023) 'Help Me Help the AI': Understanding How Explainability Can Support Human-AI Interaction. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23). Best paper honorable mention.
- Dagan, E., Cárdenas Gasca, A., Robinson, A., Noriega, A., Tham, Y.J., Vaish, R., Monroy-Hernández, A. (2022) Project IRL: Playful Co-Located Interactions with Mobile Augmented Reality. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW '22).
- Zhang, L., Chen, T., Seow, O., Chong, T., Kratz, S., Tham, Y.J., Monroy-Hernández, A., Vaish, R., Liu, F. (2022) Auggie: Encouraging Effortful Communication through Handcrafted Digital Experiences. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW '22). Best Paper Award.
- Liu, F., Park, C.J., Tham, Y.J., Tsai, T.Y., Dabbish, L., Kaufman, G., Monroy-Hernández, A. (2021) Significant Otter: Understanding the Role of Biosignals in Communication. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21). Best paper honorable mention.
- Cranshaw, J. B., Elwany, E., Newman, T., Kocielnik, R., Yu, B. Soni, S., Teevan, J., Monroy-Hernández, A. (2017) Calendar.help: Designing a Workflow-Based Scheduling Agent with Humans in the Loop. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17).
- Hill, B. M., Monroy-Hernández, A. (2017) A longitudinal dataset of five years of public activity in the Scratch online community. Nature, Scientific Data 4, Article number: 170002.
- Cranshaw, J., Monroy-Hernández, A., Needham, S.A. (2016) Journeys & Notes: Designing Social Computing for Non-Places. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '16).
- Agapie, E., Teevan, J. Monroy-Hernández, A. (2015) Crowdsourcing in the Field: A Case Study Using Local Crowds for Event Reporting. In Proceedings of the Third AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP '15). Best paper award.
- Glassman, E.L., Kim, J., Monroy-Hernández, A., Morris, M.R. (2015) Mudslide: A Spatially Anchored Census of Student Confusion for Online Lecture Videos. In Proceedings the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '15). Best paper honorable mention.
- De Choudhury, M., Monroy-Hernández, A., Mark, G. (2014) "Narco" Emotions: Affect and Desensitization in Social Media during the Mexican Drug War. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '14). Best paper award.
- Monroy-Hernández, A., De Choudhury, M., Kiciman, E., boyd, d., Counts, S. (2013). The New War Correspondents: The Rise of Civic Media Curation in Urban Warfare. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW '13)
- Hu, Y., Farnham, S., Monroy-Hernández, A. (2013). Whoo.ly: Facilitating Information Seeking For Hyperlocal Communities Using Social Media. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '13). Best paper honorable mention.
- Monroy-Hernández, A., Hill, B.M, González-Rivero, J., boyd, d. (2011). Computers can't give credit: How automatic attribution falls short in an online remixing community. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '11). Best paper honorable mention.
- Bernstein, M.S., Monroy-Hernández, A., Harry, D., André, P., Panovich, K., Vargas, G. (2011). 4chan and /b/: An Analysis of Anonymity and Ephemerality in a Large Online Community. In Proceedings of the AAAI International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM '11). Best paper award.
- Resnick, M., Maloney, J., Monroy-Hernández, A., et al. (2009). Scratch: Programming for All. Communications of the ACM, 52, 11, 60-67

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