news (2023-)

Renkai has successfully completed his final dissertation defense. Congratulations, Renkai!

The following three papers have been accepted to CHI’ Play 2024. Congrats to all the authors!

• Sam Moradzadeh, Yubo Kou. 2024. “Wow another fake game from YouTube ad “: Unpacking Fake Games Through a Mixed-Methods Investigation. Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY’ 2024) (to appear)
• Zinan Zhang, Sam Moradzadeh, Xinning Gui, Yubo Kou. 2024. Harmful Design in User-Generated Games and its Ethical and Governance Challenges: An Investigation of Design Co-Ideation of Game Creators on Roblox. Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY 2024) (to appear)
• Zinan Zhang, Sam Moradzadeh, Andrew Woan, Yubo Kou. 2024. Toxicity by Game Design: How Players Perceive the Influence of Game Design on Toxicity. Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY 2024) (to appear)

Our lab’s project, “Community-Based Support for Learning Community Norms“,  has been funded by the National Science Foundation (Total amount: $590,840.00). Many thanks!

Dr. Kou has been awarded the Haile Family Early Career Professorship in Information Sciences and Technology, effective July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2027. Congrats!!

Congratulations!

We have two full papers accepted to DIS 2024 (ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems 2024):

The Ecology of Harmful Design: Risk and Safety of Game Making on a Metaverse Platform

Yubo Kou, Yingfan Zhou, Zinan Zhang, Xinning Gui

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems 2024 (DIS 2024) (to appear)

Labeling in the Dark: Exploring Content Creators’ and Consumers’ Experiences with Content Classification for Child Safety on YouTube

Renkai Ma, Zinan Zhang, Xinning Gui, Yubo Kou

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems 2024 (DIS 2024) (to appear)

Congratulations to all the authors!

Zinan’s first author paper “Casual Competition by Design: A Study of the All Random All Mid (ARAM) Mode in League of Legends” has been accepted to CSCW 2024. Congrats, Zinan!

Yue has successfully completed her final dissertation defense. Congratulations, Yue!

Our lab has had four full papers accepted for CHI 2024. Congratulations to all the authors! Below is the list:

 “Our Users’ Privacy is Paramount to Us”: A Discourse Analysis of How Period and Fertility Tracking App Companies Address the Roe v Wade Overturn

Qiurong Song, Rie Helene (Lindy) Hernandez, Yubo Kou, Xinning Gui

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2024 (CHI 2024) (to appear)

“At the end of the day, I am accountable”: Gig Workers’ Self-Tracking for Multi-Dimensional Accountability Management

Rie Helene (Lindy) Hernandez, Qiurong Song, Yubo Kou, Xinning Gui

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2024 (CHI 2024) (to appear)

 Trading as Gambling: Social Investing and Financial Risks on the r/WallStreetBets subreddit 

Yubo Kou, Sam Moradzadeh, Xinning Gui

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2024 (CHI 2024) (to appear)

Community Begins Where Moderation Ends: Peer Support and Its Implications for Community-Based Rehabilitation 

Yubo Kou, Renkai Ma, Zinan Zhang, Yingfan Zhou, Xinning Gui

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2024 (CHI 2024) (to appear)

Qiurong and Renkai’s paper “Collective Privacy Sensemaking on Social Media about Period and Fertility Tracking post Roe v. Wade” has been accepted to CSCW 2024. Congrats to them!

Our lab’s project, “Investigating and Mitigating Harmful Design in User-Generated Virtual World through Design Moderation“,  has been funded by the National Science Foundation (Total amount: $ 598,705). Many thanks to the NSF and reviewers!

Our paper “Harmful Design in the Metaverse and How to Mitigate it: A Case Study of User-Generated Virtual Worlds on Roblox” has been accepted to DIS 2023!

Congrats to Renkai and Yue for having their paper accepted to CSCW 2023! The paper is titled “How Users Experience Moderation?: A Systematic Literature Review”

Our CHI 2023 paper “AutoML in The Wild: Obstacles, Workarounds, and Expectations” receives the Best Paper Honorable Mention Award.

Yue has had her paper Beyond Self-diagnosis: How a Chatbot-based Symptom Checker Should Respond accepted for publication in ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI).

Congrats to Yue and all the co-authors!

Our lab has three papers accepted to CHI 2023. The three papers are:

1. Renkai Ma, Xinning Gui, and Yubo Kou. (2023). Multi-Platform Content Creation: The Configuration of Creator Ecology through Platform Prioritization, Content Synchronization, and Audience Management. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2023 (CHI 2023).
2. Renkai Ma, Yao Li, and Yubo Kou. (2023). Transparency, Fairness, and Coping: How Players Experience Moderation in Multiplayer Online Games. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2023 (CHI 2023).
3. Yuan Sun, Qiurong Song, Xinning Gui, Fenglong Ma, and Ting Wang. (2023). AutoML in The Wild: Obstacles, Workarounds, and Expectations. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2023 (CHI 2023).

Congrats to all the authors, especially Renkai and Qiurong!