D. Yvette Wohn

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Category Archives: ::Gadgets/Services::

5 Suggestions for AirBnB

January 4, 2016by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

To help people find their perfect short-term rental, there could be some additional things in the search engine and host profile that could help facilitate the perfect match. Of course […]

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::Gadgets/Services::

Top 5 Robots in 2014 Pop Culture

December 22, 2014by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

1. Hyundai Exobaby commercial This “harder than steel” exoskeleton turns babies into Iron Man. “The baby in the suit is you in a new Hyundai.” the commercial states. Humanistic factor: […]

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::Cyber Culture::, ::Gadgets/Services::

The Cost of Liking: I’m sorry, but I’m not going to “like” your posts any more

June 9, 2014by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

I’m sorry, but I’m not going to “like” your posts any more. Here’s why: I am not FB friends with mom, yet I found that she was getting updates of […]

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::Gadgets/Services::, ::Social Media::

Why blame Elsevier? Understanding who “owns” scholarly work

December 8, 2013by arcticpenguin 3 Comments

There is currently a very angry discussion among some academics about how the publisher Elsevier is taking down papers that were published by Elsevier and uploaded onto Academia.edu by the […]

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::Gadgets/Services::, politics & law

10 (realistic) things I want in a future car

September 4, 2013by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

by arcticpenguin (Sept. 4, 2013) 1. Heated/cooling steering wheel: I know a lot of new models have heated steering wheels, but do they have cooling ones too? Really useful for […]

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::Gadgets/Services::

History of Social Television

January 11, 2013by arcticpenguin 1 Comment

When I first published my article on Tweeting while watching TV, social television wasn’t exactly a hot trend. Given the delay of academic publishing, I am so thankful I published my […]

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::Gadgets/Services::, ::Social Media::

Google’s new cloud service is not a cloud

September 25, 2012by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

I was very pleased when Google changed its Google Docs service to a more generic cloud computing service and named it Google Drive instead of Google Cloud. I never really […]

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::Gadgets/Services::

Becoming a political tweeter and hating it

June 28, 2009by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

Those few people who read my blog will know that for some time, I’ve been complaining about political tweeting, digital narcissism, and my longing for more sociable networking. It’s not […]

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::Gadgets/Services::, being digital

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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

Blog Posts

  • 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
2025 Schedule

3/2-5: Future of Games (Dagstuhl, Germany)
4/27-5/1: CHI (Yokohama, Japan)
6/3-6: IMX (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Blog Posts

  • 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

  • New research on how music fans feel about AI- generated fan content
  • Chi 2025
  • Judging for sigchi design jam
  • Op-eds in 2024

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