Starting February, I have been advising LG Electronics on a project related to designing a new metaverse. My first academic paper was about Second Life, so I feel like I […]

We just published our final paper (for now) about how people discuss mental health on livestreams/ in livestreaming communities! We would never recommend that livestreams replace formal therapy but they […]

I was given a research award by the College of Computing which is given to one faculty every year. After several years of being married to work it was nice […]

It was really a last minute endeavor- with just nine days left, I decided to design an art gallery that houses portraits of BTS leader Kim Nam-joon (RM) drawn by […]

I was general chair of IMX (ACM International Conference on Interactive Media experiences) with Vino this year and it was really hard putting together a virtual conference in the middle […]

The media is fascinated with Clubhouse, it seems. I’ve done a few interviews recently where the questions went very quickly from ‘why is this popular’ a couple months ago to […]

Thank you to my lab members who sent me this enormous card with sweet notes! Looking forward to another semester of research during a pandemic!

In this episode of The Psychology of Video Games podcast by Jamie Madigan, I discuss why people subscribe and donate to live streamers on Twitch.