D. Yvette Wohn

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Chi Conference

April 30, 2024by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

This year, the largest conference for Human Computer Interaction took place in Hawaii. I co-hosted a workshop on generative AI and had two late breaking works related to content moderation. […]

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University talks

April 27, 2024by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

Spring semester was busy, giving lots of invited talks about my content moderation research at different universities including Cornell, University of Maryland, and Princeton. Here is a video of the […]

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Visiting Oxford

March 27, 2024by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

Gave a talk at Oxford as part of the Global Research Conference and then caught up with old colleague at the Oxford Internet Institute. The old buildings are so lovely- […]

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Talk show about harassment in gaming on Wisconsin radio

November 14, 2023by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

Was featured as an expert guest on Wisconsin Public Radio to talk about harassment in online gaming: https://www.wpr.org/preventing-harassment-online-gaming You can listen to the entire episode here.

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Seminar on academic conferences

October 2, 2023by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

Gave a seminar hosted by the university’s Graduate Studies Office about getting the most out of academic conferences

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Interview for Rappler

September 22, 2023by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

Talked about how content moderation is important for companies in this Rappler piece about review bombing: When creative work becomes a target of review bombing, what do platforms do?

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Art with RM Instagram Filter

August 6, 2023by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

This idea for this project was born almost two years ago. I had created a virtual museum of RM fan art (rmgallery.net) where Army could view art and also interact […]

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Metaverse-related talks

July 24, 2023by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

In the past year I was invited to give a handful of talks related to moderation in the metaverse. Most of them were in Korea, where interest in virtual worlds […]

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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
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

  • Inaugural Student Mentoring Program at CHI2026
  • Keynote at Spring XR School
  • New research on how music fans feel about AI- generated fan content
  • Chi 2025

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