Sep 19, 2021A Story of Uncertainty: Being on the Job Market for Nine-MonthsAfter 9 long months of being on the job market (during a pandemic) I am so excited to share that I will be joining Google as a User Experience Researcher on the Search Ecosystems team this December after I defend my dissertation from HCDE this November! I do not want…Google4 min readGoogle4 min read
Feb 1, 2021Writing to make sense of why I am struggling to writeWriting has always been hard, but it also brings joy for me. Writing is an opportunity to both make my thoughts known to others and process my thoughts for myself. I see writing as a journey of my ideas flowing from my brain to my fingers to my computer to…4 min read4 min read
Dec 14, 2020Strangers Gifting Each Other PresenceBy: Wendy Roldan, Burren Peil, Calvin Liang, Andrew Berry, Jennifer Turns Identities are complex. Identities are interlinked. Some identities grant us more opportunities and power than others. Some identities are fixed while others transform over time. Our identities shape the way we show up to spaces, the things we notice…Identity7 min readIdentity7 min read
Apr 23, 2020How I made my PhD general exam fun for meIn this blog post, I share a snippet of my experience taking my general exam as part of my PhD journey. I quote Dr. Ahmad to encourage those reading this to “Take what you need, and leave the rest.” My goal is to reflect on the actions I took to…5 min read5 min read
Mar 8, 2020Designing Reflection Activities for Students Doing Co-Design with Older AdultsBy Wendy Roldan and Dawn Sakaguchi-Tang March 7, 2020 In this blog post, Wendy and Dawn share their collaborative process to design and use a wide range of reflection activities with college students engaging in weekly co-design sessions with older adults. We recognize there exists a community of researchers and…9 min read9 min read
Jul 9, 2019Funds of Knowledge in Online Search and BrokeringWendy Roldan, Paola Vanegas, Laura Pina, Carmen Gonzalez, Jason Yip This blog post summarizes a research paper discussing the funds of knowledge kids and their parents rely on to collaboratively search for critical information online. This paper was presented at the ACM Computer Supported Collaborative Learning Conference on June 20…Education5 min readEducation5 min read
Feb 14, 2019Building @daytodaydoctoralBy: Wendy Roldan and Tess Wrobleski — This blog post details my experiences and the experiences of my collaborator, Tess W., in building and maintaining an Instagram account which was intended to share snippets of my life as a Ph.D. student. If you’re interested in checking out the Instagram, the account is still live @daytodaydoctoral. We discuss…Social Media4 min readSocial Media4 min read
Published inACM CSCW·Oct 15, 2018How Latino children in the U.S. engage in collaborative online information problem solving with their familiesThis blog post summarizes a research paper discussing how Latino children collaboratively search the internet with their adult family members to solve family needs. This paper will be presented at the ACM Computer Supported Collaborative Work Conference on November 5th. Read our paper here. Searching for online information is not…Humancomputer Interaction6 min readHumancomputer Interaction6 min read
