Education
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
College of Computing
Ph.D. in Human-Centered Computing, 2011
Northeastern University, Boston, MA
College of Computer and Information Science, Honors Program
B.S. in Computer Science, Summa Cum Laude, 2005
Research Experience
GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Atlanta, GA (2011-Present)
College of Computing, Everyday Computing Lab
Postdoctoral Fellow
Advisor: Dr. Beth Mynatt
A Tool for Reducing Childhood Obesity in Low-Income Households
GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Atlanta, GA (2005-2011)
College of Computing, Work2Play Lab
Graduate Researcher
Advisor: Dr. Rebecca Grinter
A Cultural, Community-Based Approach to Health Technology Design
MICROSOFT RESEARCH, Redmond, WA (2008)
Collaborative User Experiences Group
Summer Research Intern
Supervisor: Dr. Desney Tan
Family-Focused Fitness Technologies
MICROSOFT RESEARCH, Cambridge, UK (2007)
Socio-Digital Systems
Summer Research Intern
Supervisor: Dr. Richard Harper
Exploring the Domestic Technology Landscape
MICROSOFT RESEARCH, Redmond, WA (2006)
Community Technologies Group
Summer Research Intern
Supervisor: Dr. A.J. Brush
Calendaring Across Home & Work Boundaries
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY, Boston, MA (2004-2005)
College of Computer & Information Science, Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory
Undergraduate Researcher
Advisor: Dr. Peter Tarasewich
Privacy Augmented Displays for Mobile Devices
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY, Boston, MA (2002-2003)
College of Computer & Information Science, Biological Knowledge
Undergraduate Researcher
Laboratory Advisor: Dr. Robert Futrelle
Inductive Discovery of Natural Language Patterns
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY, Boston, MA (2000-2001)
College of Computer & Information Science
Undergraduate Researcher
Researched relational databases to help implement a database system for Northeastern University.
Professional Experience
CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS, INC., Boston, MA (2003-2004)
Citigroup Advanced Placement Program - Software Development Intern
Upgraded a municipal bonds batch data processing application to Solaris 8. Refined the
application's code and implemented a dynamic packaging scheme using Korn shell
scripting. Co-wrote technical design documents for a high-grade retail bond
calculator library and extended the corporate bond functionality using Java.
Administered a training session for new employees on SQL
KAISER PERMANENTE, San Jose, CA 2(2001,2002)
Information Technology Intern
Provided technical support for the medical campus. Performed network administration tasks. Assisted in a campus-wide upgrade
project of workstations to a new build of Windows NT.
Teaching Experience
[E.3] GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Atlanta, GA, Fall 2011
Guest Lecture & Course Assistance, CS4001 Computers & Society
[E.2] EMORY UNISVERSITY, Atlanta, GA, November 2010
Invited Lecture, ANT339 Defining Health: Biocultural Perspectives
[E.1] FACES Teaching Practicum, GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Atlanta, GA, Spring 2009
Conducted guest lectures, CS6455 Qualitative Research Methods
Book Chapter
[B.1] Andrea Grimes (2009). Sharing Personal Reflections on Health Locally. Shared Encounters: Content Sharing as Social Glue in Public Places, Springer Press.
Journal Paper
[J.1] Andrea Grimes Parker, Richard Harper and Beki Grinter (2011). "Celebratory Health Technology," Journal of Diabetes Science & Technology. [PDF]
Peer Reviewed Conference Papers
[C.12] Andrea G. Parker, Vasudhara Kantroo, Heerin Lee, Miguel Osornio, Mansi Sharma, and Rebecca E. Grinter (2012). Health Promotion as Activism:
Building Community Capacity to Affect Social Change. To appear in Proc. of CHI 2012.
[C.11] Andrea Grimes, Vasudhara Kantroo and Rebecca E. Grinter (2010). Let's Play! Mobile Health Games for Adults.
Proc. of UBICOMP 2010. [PDF]
[C.10] Andrea Grimes, Brian Landry and Rebecca E. Grinter. Characteristics of Shared Health Reflections in a Local Community.
Proc. of CSCW 2010. [PDF]
[C.9] Andrea Grimes, Desney S. Tan and Dan Morris (2009).
Technological Support for Family Reflections on Health. Proc. of GROUP 2009. [PDF]
[C.8] Andrea Grimes, Martin Bednar, Jay David Bolter, and Rebecca E. Grinter (2008).
EatWell: Sharing Nutrition-Related Memories in a Low-Income Community. Proc. of
CSCW 2008. *Best Paper Award Nomination* [PDF]
[C.7] Andrea Grimes and Richard Harper (2008). Celebratory Technology: New Directions
for Food Research in HCI. Proc. of CHI 2008. *Best Paper Award Nomination*
[PDF]
[C.6] Andrea Grimes and A.J. Brush (2008). Life Scheduling to Support Multiple Social
Roles. Proc. of CHI 2008. [PDF]
[C.5] Andrea Grimes and Rebecca E. Grinter (2007). Designing Persuasion: Health
Technology for Low-Income African American Communities. Proc. of Persuasive
Technology 2007. [PDF]
[C.4] Andrea Grimes and Peter Tarasewich (2005). Investigating Privacy-Augmented
Displays for Mobile Devices. Proc. of HCI International 2005.
[C.3] Andrea Elaina Grimes and Robert P. Futrelle (2003). Text visualization for
natural language analysis of Biology full text. IEEE Proc. of the Computational
Systems Bioinformatics Conference CSB'03.
[C.2] Robert P. Futrelle, Andrea Grimes and Mingyan Shao (2003). Extracting structure
from HTML documents for language visualization and analysis. Proc. of WDA-2003
(Workshop on Web Document Analysis).
[C.1] Robert P. Futrelle, Mingyan Shao, Chris Cieslik and Andrea Grimes (2003).
Extraction, layout analysis and classification of diagrams in PDF documents.
Proc. of ICDAR-2003 (Intl. Conference on Document Analysis & Recognition).
Magazine Articles
[M.2] Rebecca E. Grinter, Katie A. Siek and Andrea Grimes (2010). Is Wellness Informatics a Field of Human-Centered Health Informatics? ACM Interactions Magazine.
[M.1] Gillian R. Hayes, Erika Shehan Poole, Giovanni Iachello, Shwetak N. Patel, Andrea Grimes, Gregory D. Abowd, Khai N. Truong (2007). Physical, Social, and Experiential Knowledge of Privacy and Security in a Pervasive Computing Environment. IEEE Pervasive Computing Special Issue on Security & Privacy.
Doctoral Consortium
[D.1] Andrea Grimes (2008). Socio-Culturally Relevant Mobile Applications for Nutrition. Extended Abstracts, Proc. of CSCW 2008.
Posters & Workshop Papers
[W.3] Andrea Grimes and Rebecca E. Grinter (2006). Using Entertainment
to Improve Nutrition Among African-Americans. Position paper
presented at the Entertainment Media at Home Workshop at CHI
2006.
[W.2] Brandon Brown, Marshini Chetty, Andrea Grimes & Ellie Harmon
(2005). Effortless Monitoring of Diet & Exercise for Students.
Poster presented at the CHI-Atlanta Student Research
Competition.
[W.1] Andrea Grimes, Peter Tarasewich & Christopher Campbell (2005).
Keeping Information Private in the Mobile Environment. Position
paper presented at First International Workshop on Social
Implications of Ubiquitous Computing at CHI 2005.
Invited Talks & Abstract Presentations
[T.13] Ford Foundation Conference of Fellows, Irvine, CA (2011). "Community-Based Research: A Health Technology Design Case Study."
[T.12] Invited talk at Emory/Children's Healthcare Pediatric Research Center, Atlanta, GA (2011).
"Leveraging Personal Health Data & Social Media: Implications for the Design of Digital Pediatric & Family Health Interventions."
[T.11] Invited talk at the African American Collaborative Obesity Research Network (AACORN) Youth Summit, Philadelphia, PA (2011).
"Technology Tools for Healthy Living: Is there an App for That?"
[T.10] Invited talk at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Workshop on Virtual Reality Technologies for Research and
Education in Obesity and Diabetes, Bethesda, MD (2010).
"Celebratory Health Technology: Designing Around Positive Food
Experiences."
[T.9] Andrea Grimes (2009). "Reducing Health Disparities Through
Partnerships Between Community Health Organizations & Technology
Researchers". Invited talk at U.S. Dept. of Health & Human
Services (HHS) Region IV Office, Atlanta, GA.
[T.8] Andrea Grimes (2009). "Designing Culturally-Focused Health Technology." Invited
talk at Cornell University, SIGCHI Cornell Chapter Invited Speaker Series, Ithaca, NY.
[T.7] Andrea Grimes, Larry Johnson & Rebecca Grinter (2009). "Addressing Health
Disparities through Partnerships Between Community Health Organizations &
Technology Researchers." Abstract presentation at the Third National Leadership Summit on
Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health, National Harbor, MD.
[T.6] Andrea Grimes (2009). "Using Cell Phones to Encourage Healthy Eating". Invited
talk at REACH for Wellness, Atlanta, GA.
[T.5] Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA (2008). "EatWell: Sharing Nutrition-Related Memories in a Low-Income Community".
[T.4] Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA (2008). "Celebratory Technology: New Directions for Food Research in HCI".
[T.3] Andrea Grimes (2008). "Designing Technology to Promote Healthy Eating in
Low-Income Communities". Invited talk at Northeastern University, Boston, MA.
[T.2] Andrea Grimes (2006). "Human Centered Computing for a Technologically-Filled
World". Invited talk at Northeastern University, College of Computer &
Information Science Colloquium, Boston, MA.
[T.1] Peter Tarasewich and Andrea Grimes (2005). "Designing Interaction for
Ultra-Mobile Devices". Invited talk at Nokia Research Laboratory, Boston, MA.
Workshop & Panel Organization
[P.3] Lena Mamykina, Madhu Reddy and Andrea Grimes Parker (2011). Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare (WISH) 2011 at the AMIA 2011 Fall Symposium.
[P.2] Rebecca E. Grinter, Katie A. Siek and Andrea Grimes (2010). Wellness Informatics. Workshop at the CHI 2010 Conference.
[P.1] Andrea Grimes & Sheena Lewis (2009). "Changing the World: Using Technology to Address Social Issues". Birds of a Feather session at The Richard Tapia Celebration for Diversity in Computing Conference.
Grants
Clinical Outcomes Research & Public Health (CORPH) Center Seed Grant, Emory + Children's Healthcare Research Center, 2011 (Key personnel)
Georgia Institute of Technology FACES Postdoctoral Fellowship Grant, 2011-2012
Yahoo! Key Technical Challenge Grant, 2008
Fellowships & Scholarships
Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 2010-2011
Georgia Institute of Technology IBM/FOCUS Fellowship, 2010-present
Microsoft Research Graduate Fellowship, 2008-2010
Georgia Institute of Technology FACES Fellowship, 2007-present
Google Anita Borg Scholarship, 2007-2008
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2005-2008
Georgia Institute of Technology President's Fellowship, 2005-present
Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Fellowship, 2005-2006
Ralph Bunche Full Academic Scholarship - Northeastern University, 2000-2005
LSAMP (Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation) NSF Research Grant, 2003-2005
Awards & Honors
Georgia Tech Foley Scholars Finalist, 2009
Georgia Tech College of Computing Ph.D. Student Research
Excellence Commendation, 2008
2nd place, ACM CHI 2006 Student Design Competition
CRA 2005 Outstanding Female Undergraduate Award, 2005
(National award from the Computing Research Association [CRA] for outstanding research potential
presented to 1 undergraduate female)
Northeastern University Alcott Award, 2005
(presented to 1 undergraduate for outstanding performance in
intellectual activities beyond the curriculum requirements)
Northeastern University Hodgkinson Award, 2005
(awarded to 1 College of Computer & Information Science student for excellence
in scholarship and leadership on the campus and in the
community)
Northeastern University Sears B. Condit Award, 2005
(awarded for outstanding academic achievement)
Northeastern Univ. College of Computer & Information Science Undergraduate
Research Award, 2005
John D. O'Bryant African American Institute Academic Excellence Award, 2005
(awarded to 1 graduating senior for outstanding academic achievement)
Panel Member, WACE International Symposium on Work-Integrated Learning, 2004
(Selected by the Northeastern Univ. President's Office as 1 of 2 U.S. student representatives)
Phi Kappa Phi National Honors Society Commendation, 2001-2003
(Commendation for Top GPA in Northeastern University's College of Computer & Information Science)
3rd Place: Roland E. Latham Oratory Competition, 2003
1st Place: Roland E. Latham Oratory Competition, 2001
Memberships
American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), 2011 - Present
American Public Health Association (APHA), 2010 - Present
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2004-Present
Phi Kappa Phi National Honors Society, 2004-2006
Upsilon Pi Epsilon (Intl. Computer Science Honors Society), 2004-2006
Service & Volunteer Work
CHI 2012 Program Committee, Understanding Users Subcommittee
UIST 2011 Poster Commtitee
Pervasive Health Program Committee, 2010 & 2011
CHI 2009 Program Committee, Work-in-Progress Submissions
CHI 2007-2010, HRI 2009, CSCW 2008 & 2010, Pervasive Computing (2008-2009),
Pervasive Health 2009 Paper Reviewer
Co-Coordinator, Human-Computer Interaction Seminar, 2008
Co-Coordinator, Human-Centered Computing Seminar, 2008
Co-Coordinator, Graduate Women@CC (a student group for women in computer science at
Georgia Tech), 2007-2008
Georgia Tech College of Computing Ph.D. Recruitment Student Coordinator 2006, 2008
Leadership Board Member, Georgia Tech Minorities in Computer Science, 2006
Founder, CCIS-W (a student group for women in computer science
at Northeastern University), 2005
CRA-W Distinguished Lecture Series Event Organizer, 2004-2005
(Submitted a winning proposal to the Computing Research Association's Committee on the Status
of Women in Computing [CRA-W] to host an event encouraging women
to attend graduate school in computing.)
High School Student Mentor, Higher Education Resource Center, 2003-2005
(A program to encourage inner-city students to attend college)
Programming Tutor 2003
Computer Technology Instructor 2003