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NSF grant about content moderation in live streaming

August 13, 2018by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

Received a new NSF grant to study content moderation practices in live streaming: This research will investigate how individuals and small groups handle content moderation real time in the context […]

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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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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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The Future of Free Speech, Trolls, Anonymity and Fake News Online

March 30, 2017by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

Deviant behavior has always existed online, the question is- will it continue and what can we do about it? Pew has a new report about the future of the Internetand what […]

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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)

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
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