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VOICE summit participation

July 30, 2018by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

I participated in two panels at VOICE, a voice technology conference that took place at NJIT. In one panel, I was the moderator for a discussion on VOICE in transportation. […]

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Livestreaming shopping @ TVX

July 27, 2018by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

On June 27 PhD student Jie Cai presented a paper on live streaming shopping motivations at ACM TVX, an international conference on interactive television. Read the full paper here: Cai, […]

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Why do people support live streamers?

June 14, 2018by arcticpenguin

I presented a paper on why viewers give emotional and financial support to live streamers at the 2018 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). This took place […]

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Interview about why people buy things in Fortnite

May 11, 2018by arcticpenguin 1 Comment

Was interviewed in this article that talks about why people buy things in the game Fortnite: https://morningconsult.com/2018/05/10/fortnite-battle-royale-success-signals-mobile-gamings-future/ For “Fortnite: Battle Royale” players, these in-app purchases are just cosmetic: “skins” that […]

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New Mozilla grant!

December 8, 2017by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

On the heels of a presentation at the All Things Moderation conference, where I talked about ongoing work related to the emotional tolls of human moderators who moderate small streams on Twitch, […]

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being digital, daily doilies

Copying Designs from Instagram Without Attribution: Where do you draw the line?

July 28, 2017by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

The accounts I follow on Instagram reflect two passions of mine: fantasy haute couture and cute baked goods. I follow less than a hundred of accounts related to these themes […]

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::Social Media::, fashion, food

Chagall Exhibit on Color and Music

May 19, 2017by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

The exhibit “Chagall: Colour and Music” at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is one of the most stunning, well-curated special exhibits of an single-artist retrospective that I’ve seen yet […]

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art & architecture

i-Corps mini grants

April 17, 2017by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

The Social Interaction Lab received two i-Corps mini grants this spring! With Professor Yvette Wohn as the faculty mentor, Adam Spryzinski received a grant for a Mood App that uses […]

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D.Yvette Wohn, Ph.D.

Dr. Wohn (she/her) is an associate professor at NJIT and director of the Social Interaction Lab (socialinteractionlab.com). Her research is in the area of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) where she studies the characteristics and consequences of social interactions in online environments such as livestreaming, esports, virtual worlds/metaverse, and social media.

Funded by the National Science Foundation, Mozilla Foundation, and Yahoo, her main projects examine 1) content moderation, online harassment and the creation/maintenance of online safe spaces, 2) social exchange in digital economies & digital patronage (creator-supporter dynamics), and 3) identity and online self-presentation

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2026 Schedule

4/13-17: CHI (Barcelona)
4/19-23: Social XR @CWI (Amsterdam)
6/4-6: ICA (Capetown)
7/26-30: HCI International (Montreal)

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  • art & architecture
  • being digital
    • ::3D Virtual Worlds::
    • ::Cyber Culture::
    • ::Gadgets/Services::
    • ::Games::
    • ::Mobile Culture::
    • ::Social Media::
  • daily doilies
  • fashion
  • fiction:surrealism
  • food
  • journalism
  • natural science
  • politics & law

Most Recent Posts

  • Inaugural Student Mentoring Program at CHI2026
  • Keynote at Spring XR School
  • New research on how music fans feel about AI- generated fan content
  • Chi 2025

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