My current project focuses on children's safety in User-Generated Games (UGG), the games that are created and published by individual users. Major UGG platforms are Roblox, Minecraft, and RecRoom. My research aims to identify safety issues on these platforms, including how the harm occurs and how we can mitigate the safety concerns. 

I'm currently recruiting players and family members (e.g. siblings or parents) of players of these platforms for my next study. If you are interested, please refer to THIS PAGE.

Published Work:

Zinan Zhang, Sam Moradzadeh, Xinning Gui, and Yubo Kou. 2024. Harmful Design in User-Generated Games and its Ethical and Governance Challenges: An Investigation of Design Co-Ideation of Game Creators on Roblox. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 8, CHI PLAY, Article 311 (October 2024), 31 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3677076