Andrea Stevenson Won

Associate Professor, Department of Communication

About

Andrea Stevenson Won directs the Virtual Embodiment Lab. The lab's research focuses on how mediated experiences change people’s perceptions, especially in immersive media. Research areas include the clinical applications of virtual reality, and how nonverbal behavior as rendered in virtual environments affects collaboration and teamwork. Andrea Stevenson Won completed her PhD in the Virtual Human Interaction Lab in the Department of Communication at Stanford University. She also holds an MS in Biomedical Visualization from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Courses Taught

COMM 4380: Communication in Virtual Worlds
COMM 7990: Graduate Research
INFO 4900: Independent Reading and Research
COMM 4990: Independent Research
INFO 7900: Independent Research
COMM 6820: Quantitative Research Methods

Contact Information

471 Mann Library
Ithaca, NY 14853

(607) 255-2161

a.s.won [at] cornell.edu

Andrea Stevenson in the news

News

June 10, 2024

Female AI ‘teammate’ generates more participation from women

A new study suggests that the gender of an AI’s voice can positively tweak the dynamics of gender-imbalanced teams and could help inform the design of bots used for human-AI teamwork.

Communication
Department of Communication
Behavior

Jack Madden watches as Andrea Stevenson Won uses a virtual reality simulator

News

May 29, 2024

VR can help teachers better distribute their gaze

A multidisciplinary team of researchers tested several methods of data visualization in an immersive virtual reality classroom to give teachers a way to gauge how their gaze was distributed.

Department of Communication
Behavior
Communication