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Category Archives: daily doilies

Discussing mental health on livestreams

February 20, 2022by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

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 […]

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College of Computing research award

September 17, 2021by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

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 […]

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Designing RM Gallery

September 15, 2021by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

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 […]

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Reflecting on IMX

June 29, 2021by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

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 […]

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So much media interest in Clubhouse

April 13, 2021by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

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 […]

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Happy holidays

January 4, 2021by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

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!

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Discussing psychology of giving money to streamers on podcast

July 13, 2020by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

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.

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Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award

July 1, 2020by arcticpenguin 1 Comment

This year has been hard in many ways but I was very honored and grateful to receive the 2020 NCWIT Mentoring Award for Undergraduate Research. Numbers are not everything, but […]

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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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  • 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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