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Category Archives: ::Games::

Barely-clad models cause controversy at game expo

November 15, 2006by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

Korea’s four-day game expo Gstar 2006 ended on Sunday, with a little more exposure than its organizers had planned for. On the last day, a special event took place at […]

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Korean game expo has fewer vendors

November 9, 2006by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

Game Show and Trade All Round, or Gstar, the largest game expo in Korea, kicks off today. This year the show focuses on online and mobile games. A huge illegal […]

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Soccer-playing robots step out from screens

November 8, 2006by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

For the younger generation, the act of gaming is associated with computer games, but there was a time when games were anything but digital. Elder readers may recall spending their […]

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Brains of pro-gamers function differently

November 1, 2006by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

All hard-core gaming fans, at some point, have probably wanted to give up work or study to become full-time gamers. It seems like the perfect job: playing games all day […]

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Korean players first in world cyber games

October 25, 2006by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

The 2006 World Cyber Games ended last week in Monza, Italy, with Korea emerging as the winner of the most medals. The event was held over five days during which […]

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Football finals kickoff online for FIFA game

October 18, 2006by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

FIFA Online’s official “2006 Hyundai Motor Cup World Cup Championship” finals took to the field last Friday, beginning an 11-week run. Although the online soccer game only debuted last summer, […]

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Game makers’ new priority is user privacy

October 13, 2006by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

Online game companies are tightening security on personal information and eliminating use of resident registration numbers. NCsoft took heat after tens of thousands of stolen numbers were used to play […]

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Online star enlists in air force, vows to be back

October 11, 2006by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

In Korea, mandatory military service applies to all able-bodied men, even cyber royalty. Fans of “Emperor” Lim Yo-hwan fell into a slump after the StarCraft player marched into the air […]

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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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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
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