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1. CCS 2026Conference paper

   How Children Assess Digital Safety Risk in Gaming Platforms: A Case Study of Roblox

   Zinan Zhang, Qiurong Song, Xinning Gui, Junnan Yu, Sunhye Bai, and Yubo Kou

2. CHI PLAY 2026Journal article

   From Stream to Stake: Gamblification Practices and User Perceptions on Twitch

   Yunhan Liu, Sam Moradzadeh, Qiurong Song, Yubo Kou, and Xinning Gui

3. CHI PLAY 2026Journal article

   Gaming Together on Discord: Teen Gamer's Cross-Platform Practices

   Elena Koung, Xinning Gui, and Yubo Kou

4. ISLS 2026Poster

   Coding as Cultural Expression: Understanding How Children Draw on and Transform Cultural Resources

   Zhiye Fang, Yuqi Wang, Jianing Hu, Qi Yang, Lianmei Dong, Yubo Kou, and Junnan Yu

5. CSCW Companion 2026Poster

   Surfacing Risky Game Design: A Multistakeholder Taxonomy for Understanding Safety Risks on Roblox

   Zinan Zhang, Qiurong Song, Xinning Gui, and Yubo Kou

6. CSCW JournalMarch 2026Journal article

   Making the Gig Economy Infrastructure Work: Gig Drivers’ Adaptive, Algorithmic, and Social Knowledge Practices

   Rie Helene (Lindy) Hernandez, Qiurong Song, Yubo Kou, and Xinning Gui

7. URC-PA 2026Poster

   AI Safety in Children's Games: Evaluating Chatbots in Roblox

   Jessica Gravel, Rie Helene (Lindy) Hernandez, Yubo Kou, and Xinning Gui

8. CHIApril 2026Conference paper

   Player Safety by Design: Co-Designing Child-Centered Safety Mechanisms with Children

   Zinan Zhang, Qiurong Song, Rie Helene (Lindy) Hernandez, Yunhan Liu, Elena Koung, Junnan Yu, Sunhye Bai, Yubo Kou, and Xinning Gui

9. CHIApril 2026Conference paper

   Surveillance as Care: Configuring Baby Monitors in the Home

   Qiurong Song, Yunhan Liu, Zinan Zhang, Yubo Kou, and Xinning Gui

10. CHIApril 2026Conference paper

    Teen Vigilance: Navigating Risky Social Interactions on Discord

    Elena Koung, Yunhan Liu, Zinan Zhang, Xinning Gui, and Yubo Kou

11. CHIApril 2026Conference paper

    Why Creators Break Rules: Quantitative Evidence on Moral Disengagement and Self-Control

    Yao Li, Rie Helene (Lindy) Hernandez, Xinning Gui, and Yubo Kou

12. CHI 2026Conference paper

    Privacy Control in Conversational LLM Platforms: A Walkthrough Study

    Zhuoyang Li, Yanlai Wu, Yao Li, Xinning Gui, and Yuhan Luo

13. CSCWApril 2026Journal article

    “I usually profit because I know when to stop”: Understanding Teenagers’ Risk Perception and Mitigation Strategies of Gambling from Reddit

    Yunhan Liu, Elena Koung, Qiurong Song, Yubo Kou, and Xinning Gui

14. USENIX Security 2026Conference paper

    Digital Risks and Coping Practices among Roblox Game Creators

    Qiurong Song, Rie Helene (Lindy) Hernandez, Xinning Gui, and Yubo Kou

15. IEEE S&PMay 2026Conference paper

    Usable Anonymity in Reproductive Health Privacy

    Qiurong Song, Yanlai Wu, Rie Helene (Lindy) Hernandez, Yao Li, Yubo Kou, and Xinning Gui

16. CHI PLAYOctober 2025Journal article

    Gendered Toxicity in Competitive Gaming: Women’s Perceptions and Responses

    Elena Koung, Zinan Zhang, Xinning Gui, and Yubo Kou

    ★ Best Paper Honorable Mention

17. CHI PLAY 2025Journal article

    More Than Just Microtransactions: Predatory Monetization in User-Generated Games

    Zinan Zhang, Sam Moradzadeh, Xinning Gui, and Yubo Kou

18. CHI PLAY 2025Journal article

    Fake Game but Real Play: Exploring Player Motivations and Coping Strategies with Fake Games

    Sam Moradzadeh, Jeffrey Seihoon Oh, Xinning Gui, and Yubo Kou

19. IJHCS 2025Journal article

    “This is Human Intelligence Debugging Artificial Intelligence”: Examining How People Prompt GPT in Seeking Mental Health Support

    Zhuoyang Li, Zihao Zhu, Xinning Gui, and Yuhan Luo

20. CSCW Journal 2025Journal article

    The State of Video Game Research in Computer-Supported Cooperative Work – A Systematic Literature Review

    Sam Moradzadeh, Zinan Zhang, Xinning Gui, and Yubo Kou

21. SOUPS 2025Conference paper

    How Predatory Monetization Designs Manifest in Child-Friendly Video Games

    Qiurong Song, Zinan Zhang, Rie Helene (Lindy) Hernandez, Xinning Gui, and Yubo Kou

22. DIS 2025Conference paper

    Reflecting Upon the Unintended Consequences of Personal Informatics Systems: A Systematic Review of Empirical Studies

    Yuhan Luo, Xinning Gui, Xianghua (Sharon) Ding, Xi Zheng, Rie Helene (Lindy) Hernandez, Zhuoyang Li, and Qiurong Song

23. IDC 2025Conference paper

    Dangerous Playgrounds: Child Players’ Encounters with Design-Mediated Risks on User Generated Game Platforms and Their Safety Practices

    Zinan Zhang, Xinning Gui, Junnan Yu, Sunhye Bai, and Yubo Kou

24. CHI 2025Conference paper

    Understanding Users’ Perception of Personally Identifiable Information

    Qiurong Song, Yanlai Wu, Rie Helene (Lindy) Hernandez, Yao Li, Yubo Kou, and Xinning Gui

25. CHI 2025Conference paper

    “The System is Made to Inherently Push Child Gambling in my Opinion”: Child Safety, Monetization, and Moderation on Roblox

    Yubo Kou, Rie Helene (Lindy) Hernandez, and Xinning Gui

    ★ Best Paper Honorable Mention

26. CHI 2025Conference paper

    Weighing Benefits and Harms: Parental Mediation on Social Video Platforms

    Renkai Ma, Yao Li, Sunhye Bai, Yubo Kou, and Xinning Gui

27. CHI 2025Conference paper

    Customizing Emotional Support: How Do Individuals Construct and Interact With LLM-Powered Chatbots

    Xi Zheng, Zhuoyang Li, Xinning Gui, and Yuhan Luo

28. IDC Workshop 2025Workshop paper

    Children’s Online Safety Risks and Ethical Considerations in XR Games

    Zinan Zhang, Xinning Gui, and Yubo Kou

29. Interactions 2025Magazine article

    Ethical Challenges in Video Game Research: Experiences and Reflections

    Arianna Boldi, Selina Cho, Yubo Kou, Amon Rapp, and Max V. Birk

30. CHI PLAY 2024Journal article

    Toxicity by Game Design: How Players Perceive the Influence of Game Design on Toxicity

    Zinan Zhang, Sam Moradzadeh, Andrew Woan, and Yubo Kou

31. CHI PLAY 2024Journal article

    Harmful Design in User-Generated Games and its Ethical and Governance Challenges: An Investigation of Design Co-Ideation of Game Creators on Roblox

    Zinan Zhang, Sam Moradzadeh, Xinning Gui, and Yubo Kou

    ★ Best Paper Honorable Mention

32. CHI PLAY 2024Journal article

    “Wow another fake game from YouTube ad”: Unpacking Fake Games Through a Mixed-Methods Investigation

    Sam Moradzadeh and Yubo Kou

    ★ Best Paper Honorable Mention

33. CSCW 2024Journal article

    Casual Competition by Design: A Study of the All Random All Mid (ARAM) Mode in League of Legends

    Zinan Zhang and Yubo Kou

34. CSCW 2024Journal article

    Collective Privacy Sensemaking on Social Media about Period and Fertility Tracking post Roe v. Wade

    Qiurong Song, Renkai Ma, Yubo Kou, and Xinning Gui

35. DIS 2024Conference paper

    The Ecology of Harmful Design: Risk and Safety of Game Making on a Metaverse Platform

    Yubo Kou, Yingfan Zhou, Zinan Zhang, and Xinning Gui

36. DIS 2024Conference paper

    Labeling in the Dark: Exploring Content Creators’ and Consumers’ Experiences with Content Classification for Child Safety on YouTube

    Renkai Ma, Zinan Zhang, Xinning Gui, and Yubo Kou

37. CHI 2024Conference paper

    “At the end of the day, I am accountable”: Gig Workers’ Self-Tracking for Multi-Dimensional Accountability Management

    Rie Helene (Lindy) Hernandez, Qiurong Song, Yubo Kou, and Xinning Gui

38. CHI 2024Conference paper

    “Our Users’ Privacy is Paramount to Us”: A Discourse Analysis of How Period and Fertility Tracking App Companies Address the Roe v Wade Overturn

    Qiurong Song, Rie Helene (Lindy) Hernandez, Yubo Kou, and Xinning Gui

39. CHI 2024Conference paper

    Trading as Gambling: Social Investing and Financial Risks on the r/WallStreetBets subreddit

    Yubo Kou, Sam Moradzadeh, and Xinning Gui

40. CHI 2024Conference paper

    Community Begins Where Moderation Ends: Peer Support and Its Implications for Community-Based Rehabilitation

    Yubo Kou, Renkai Ma, Zinan Zhang, Yingfan Zhou, and Xinning Gui

41. CHI Workshop 2024Workshop paper

    Understanding and Mitigating Harmful Design in User-Generated Virtual Worlds

    Zinan Zhang, Xinning Gui, and Yubo Kou

42. SOUPS 2024Conference paper

    Designing the Informing Process with Streamers and Bystanders in Live Streaming

    Yanlai Wu, Xinning Gui, Yuhan Luo, and Yao Li

43. IP&M 2023Journal article

    Investigating the emotional experiences in eSports spectatorship: The case of League of Legends

    Francesco Cauteruccio and Yubo Kou

44. CSCW 2023Journal article

    How Do Users Experience Moderation?: A Systematic Literature Review

    Renkai Ma, Yue You, Xinning Gui, and Yubo Kou

45. CSCW 2023Journal article

    “Defaulting to boilerplate answers, they didn’t engage in a genuine conversation”: Dimensions of Transparency Design in Creator Moderation

    Renkai Ma and Yubo Kou

46. DIS 2023Conference paper

    Harmful Design in the Metaverse and How to Mitigate it: A Case Study of User-Generated Virtual Worlds on Roblox

    Yubo Kou and Xinning Gui

47. CHI 2023Conference paper

    Transparency, Fairness, and Coping: How Players Experience Moderation in Multiplayer Online Games

    Renkai Ma, Yao Li, and Yubo Kou

48. CHI 2023Conference paper

    Multi-Platform Content Creation: The Configuration of Creator Ecology through Platform Prioritization, Content Synchronization, and Audience Management

    Renkai Ma, Xinning Gui, and Yubo Kou

49. TOCHI 2023Journal article

    Beyond Self-diagnosis: How a Chatbot-based Symptom Checker Should Respond

    Yue You, Chun-Hua Tsai, Yao Li, Fenglong Ma, Christopher Heron, and Xinning Gui

50. CSCW 2023Journal article

    Do Streamers Care about Bystanders' Privacy? An Examination of Live Streamers' Considerations and Strategies for Bystanders' Privacy Management

    Yanlai Wu, Xinning Gui, Pamela J. Wisniewski, and Yao Li

51. CHI 2023Conference paper

    AutoML in The Wild: Obstacles, Workarounds, and Expectations

    Yuan Sun, Qiurong Song, Xinning Gui, Fenglong Ma, and Ting Wang

    ★ Best Paper Honorable Mention

52. CSCW 2022Journal article

    Esports Governance: An Analysis of Rule Enforcement in League of Legends

    Renkai Ma, Xinning Gui, and Yubo Kou

53. CSCW 2022Journal article

    “I'm not sure what difference is between their content and mine, other than the person itself”: A Study of Fairness Perception of Content Moderation on YouTube

    Renkai Ma and Yubo Kou

54. CHI 2022Conference paper

    “As Uploaders, We Have the Responsibility”: Individualized Professionalization of Bilibili Uploaders

    Xianghua Ding, Yubo Kou, Yiwen Xu, and Peng Zhang

55. CSCW Companion 2022Poster

    “I am not a YouTuber who can make whatever video I want. I have to keep appeasing algorithms”: Bureaucracy of Creator Moderation on YouTube

    Renkai Ma and Yubo Kou

56. IJHCS 2022Journal article

    Designing Intelligent Self-Checkup Based Technologies for Everyday Healthy Living

    Yanqi Jiang, Xianghua Ding, Di Liu, Xinning Gui, Wenqiang Zhang, and Wei Zhang

57. Int. J. Healthcare 2022Journal article

    Challenges and patient strategies in seeking health services for chronic stroke: A qualitative study

    Yu Chen, Sun Young Park, Xinning Gui, Steven C. Cramer, Kai Zheng, and Yunan Chen

58. CSCW 2022Journal article

    “I Am Concerned, But...”: Streamers' Privacy Concerns and Strategies in Live Streaming Information Disclosure

    Yanlai Wu, Yao Li, and Xinning Gui

59. CSCW Journal 2022Journal article

    Examining Co-Owners' Privacy Consideration in Collaborative Photo Sharing

    Yao Li and Xinning Gui

60. AMIA 2022Conference paper

    User Experience of Symptom Checkers: A Systematic Review

    Yue You, Renkai Ma, and Xinning Gui

61. COLING 2022Conference paper

    Benchmarking Automated Clinical Language Simplification: Dataset, Algorithm, and Evaluation

    Junyu Luo, Junxian Lin, Chi Lin, Cao Xiao, Xinning Gui, and Fenglong Ma

62. BIBM 2022Conference paper

    AUTOMED: Automated Medical Risk Predictive Modeling on Electronic Health Records

    Suhan Cui, Jiaqi Wang, Xinning Gui, Ting Wang, and Fenglong Ma

63. CSCW 2021Journal article

    With Help from Afar: Cross-Local Communication in an Online COVID-19 Pandemic Community

    Chun-Hua Tsai, Xinning Gui, Yubo Kou, and John M. Carroll

64. CSCW 2021Journal article

    “How advertiser-friendly is my video?”: YouTuber’s Socioeconomic Interactions with Algorithmic Content Moderation

    Renkai Ma and Yubo Kou

65. CSCW 2021Journal article

    Punishment and Its Discontents: An Analysis of Permanent Ban in an Online Game Community

    Yubo Kou

66. CHI 2021Conference paper

    Flag and Flaggability in Automated Moderation: The Case of Reporting Toxic Behavior in an Online Game Community

    Yubo Kou and Xinning Gui

67. CHI 2021Conference paper

    Exploring and Promoting Diagnostic Transparency and Explainability in Online Symptom Checkers

    Chun-Hua Tsai, Yue You, Xinning Gui, Yubo Kou, and John M. Carroll

68. CHI 2021Conference paper

    The Medical Authority of AI: A Study of AI-enabled Consumer-Facing Health Technology

    Yue You, Yubo Kou, Xianghua Ding, and Xinning Gui

69. CSCW 2021Journal article

    Teacher-Guardian Collaboration for Emergency Remote Learning in the COVID-19 Crisis

    Xinning Gui, Yao Li, and Yanlai Wu

70. IJHCS 2021Journal article

    Managing Healthcare Conflicts When Living With Multiple Chronic Conditions

    Clara Caldeira, Xinning Gui, Tera L. Reynolds, Matthew Bietz, and Yunan Chen

71. CHI 2021Conference paper

    Data Engagement Reconsidered: A Study of Automatic Stress Tracking Technology in Use

    Xianghua Ding, Shuhan Wei, Xinning Gui, Ning Gu, and Peng Zhang

72. CSCW 2020Journal article

    Mediating Community-AI Interaction through Situated Explanation: The Case of AI-Led Moderation

    Yubo Kou and Xinning Gui

73. CSCW 2020Journal article

    Emotion Regulation in eSports Gaming: a Qualitative Study of League of Legends

    Yubo Kou and Xinning Gui

74. CSCW 2020Journal article

    Mobile Collocated Gaming: Collaborative Play and Meaning-Making on a University Campus

    Xun Zhang, Xinning Gui, Yubo Kou, and Yukun Li

75. CHI PLAY 2020Conference paper

    Toxic Behaviors in Team-Based Competitive Gaming: The Case of League of Legends

    Yubo Kou

76. JAMIA Open 2020Journal article

    Physician Champions' Perspectives and Practices on Electronic Health Records Implementation: Challenges and Strategies

    Xinning Gui, Yunan Chen, Xiaomu Zhou, Tera L. Reynolds, Kai Zheng, and David A. Hanauer

77. AMIA 2020Conference paper

    Self-Diagnosis through AI-enabled Chatbot-based Symptom Checkers: User Experiences and Design Considerations

    Yue You and Xinning Gui

78. CHI 2020Conference paper

    Getting the Healthcare We Want: The Use of Online “Ask the Doctor” Platforms in Practice

    Xianghua Ding, Xinning Gui, Xiaojuan Ma, Zhaofei Ding, and Yunan Chen

    ★ Best Paper Honorable Mention

79. CHI 2020Conference paper

    Prehabilitation: Care Challenges and Technological Opportunities

    Haining Zhu, Zachary J. Moffa, Xinning Gui, and John M. Carroll

80. CSCW 2019Journal article

    Live Streaming as Co-Performance: Dynamics between Center and Periphery in Theatrical Engagement

    Jie Li, Xinning Gui, Yubo Kou, and Yukun Li

81. CSCW 2019Journal article

    Culturally-Embedded Visual Literacy: A Study of Impression Management via Emoticon, Emoji, Sticker, and Meme on Social Media in China

    Yuan Wang, Yukun Li, Xinning Gui, Yubo Kou, and Fenglian Liu

82. CoDesign 2019Journal article

    Co-Producing, Curating, and Defining Design Knowledge in an Online Practitioner Community

    Colin M. Gray and Yubo Kou

83. MedInfo 2019Conference paper

    Understanding Patient Information Needs about their Clinical Laboratory Results: A Study of Social Q&A Site

    Zhan Zhang, Yu Lu, Yubo Kou, Danny Wu, Jina Huh-Yoo, and Zhe He

84. iConference 2019Conference paper

    “Just my intuition”: Awareness of versus Acting on Political News Misinformation

    Yong Ming Kow, Yubo Kou, Xitong Zhu, and Wang Hin Sy

85. CHI 2019Conference paper

    Turn to the Self in Human-Computer Interaction: Care of the Self in Negotiating the Human-Technology Relationship

    Yubo Kou, Xinning Gui, Yunan Chen, and Bonnie Nardi

86. CHI 2019Conference paper

    A Practice-Led Account of the Conceptual Evolution of UX Knowledge

    Yubo Kou and Colin M. Gray

87. CHI 2019Conference paper

    Making Healthcare Infrastructure Work: Unpacking the Infrastructuring Work of Individuals

    Xinning Gui and Yunan Chen

    ★ Best Paper Honorable Mention

88. MedInfo 2019Poster

    Understanding U.S. Adults' Zika Virus Risk Perceptions and Mitigation Behaviors to Improve Technology-Supported Risk Communication

    Tera L. Reynolds, Xinning Gui, Yunan Chen, and Kai Zheng