D. Yvette Wohn

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Emotion Contagion or Conforming to Social Norms? Are we misinterpreting Facebook’s psych experiment?

June 29, 2014by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

Last week, some researchers from Facebook, Cornell, and UCSF published a paper in PNAS about how more or less exposure to positive/negative  status updates on Facebook made those who saw those […]

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::Social Media::

Spring 2014- iConference, CSCW, CHI, ICA

June 9, 2014by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

The main conferences that I go to are all in the spring semester, which makes it a very busy semester. This year, I kicked off with CSCW in Baltimore, which was […]

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daily doilies

The Cost of Liking: I’m sorry, but I’m not going to “like” your posts any more

June 9, 2014by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

I’m sorry, but I’m not going to “like” your posts any more. Here’s why: I am not FB friends with mom, yet I found that she was getting updates of […]

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::Gadgets/Services::, ::Social Media::

Soft Sustainability

April 16, 2014by arcticpenguin 1 Comment

My research focus is understanding long-term use of technology through a lens I call “soft sustainability.” While sustainability research in HCI has mainly been on the hardware aspects of environmentally-friendly […]

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daily doilies

Giggling for no apparent reason: definitely non-conscious, perhaps cultural?

April 14, 2014by arcticpenguin 5 Comments

I’ve been working with a new boss for about half a year now, and every time we have a group meeting or a private conversation, I apparently laugh (not laughing […]

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daily doilies

Susan Philipsz “part file score”

April 9, 2014by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

Loved loved loved Susan Phillpsz’ show “part file score” at the Berlin Contemporary Arts Museum! Here is the description of the exhibit on the museum website: The Berlin based Scottish […]

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art & architecture

Jumping into Escher: Monument Valley

April 9, 2014by arcticpenguin 1 Comment

This is what it must feel like to be inside the mind of M. C. Escher. Monument Valley is a game with 2-dimensional graphics that can never be 3-dimensional. One has […]

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::Games::, art & architecture

Loneliness, Facebook use, and college adjustment

April 7, 2014by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

The first year in college can be hard- moving to a new place, meeting new people, being away from family can really affect one’s social adjustment. Social adjustment, in turn, […]

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::Social Media::

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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
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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