Livestreaming shopping @ TVX
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, […]
Why do people support live streamers?
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 […]
Interview about why people buy things in Fortnite
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 […]
New Mozilla grant!
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, […]
Copying Designs from Instagram Without Attribution: Where do you draw the line?
The accounts I follow on Instagram reflect two passions of mine: fantasy haute couture and cute baked goods. I follow less than a hundred of accounts related to these themes […]
Chagall Exhibit on Color and Music
The exhibit “Chagall: Colour and Music” at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is one of the most stunning, well-curated special exhibits of an single-artist retrospective that I’ve seen yet […]
i-Corps mini grants
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 […]
The Future of Free Speech, Trolls, Anonymity and Fake News Online
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 […]
