Conference Proceedings📜
Zinan Zhang, Xinning Gui, Junnan Yu, Sunhye Bai, and Yubo Kou. 2025. Dangerous Playgrounds: Child Players’ Encounters with Design-Mediated Risks on User Generated Game Platforms and Their Safety Practices. In Interaction Design and Children (IDC ’25), June 23–26, 2025, Reykjavik, Iceland. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 18 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3713043.3728858
Zinan Zhang, Sam Moradzadeh, Andrew Woan, and Yubo Kou. 2024. Toxicity by Game Design: How Players Perceive the Influence of Game Design on Toxicity. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 8, CHI PLAY, Article 345 (October 2024), 31 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3677110
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 *Honorable Mention Award*
Renkai Ma, Zinan Zhang, Xinning Gui, and Yubo Kou. 2024. Labeling in the Dark: Exploring Content Creators’ and Consumers’ Experiences with Content Classifcation for Child Safety on YouTube. In Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’24), July 01–05, 2024, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 15 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/ 3643834.3661565
Yubo Kou, Yingfan Zhou, Zinan Zhang, and Xinning Gui. 2024. The Ecology of Harmful Design: Risk and Safety of Game Making on a Metaverse Platform. In Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’24), July 01–05, 2024, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 15 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3643834.3660678
Yubo Kou, Renkai Ma, Zinan Zhang, Yingfan Zhou, and Xinning Gui. 2024. Community Begins Where Moderation Ends: Peer Support and Its Implications for Community-Based Rehabilitation. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24), May 11–16, 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 18 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642675
Journal Articles📜
Sam Moradzadeh, Zinan Zhang, Xinning Gui, Yubo Kou. 2025. The State of Video Game Research in Computer-Supported Cooperative Work – A Systematic Literature Review. In Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Springer. (In press)
Zinan Zhang and Yubo Kou. 2024. Casual Competition by Design: A Study of the All Random All Mid (ARAM) Mode in League of Legends. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 8, CSCW2, Article 453 (November 2024), 28 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3686992
Posters📜
Guo Freeman, Julian Frommel, Regan L Mandryk, Jan Gugenheimer, Lingyuan Li, Daniel Johnson, Cecilia Aragon, Syed Ali Asif, Jakki Bailey, Meryem Barkallah, Braeden Burger, Sebastian Cmentowski, Jamie Hancock, Leanne Hides, Hongxin Hu, Yang Hu, Wangfan Li, Ruchi Panchanadikar, Niloofar Sayadi, Devin Tebbe, Leslie Wöhler, Xinyue You, Zinan Zhang, and Douglas Zytko. 2024. Understanding and Mitigating New Harms in Immersive and Embodied Virtual Spaces: A Speculative Dystopian Design Fiction Approach. In Companion Publication of the 2024 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW Companion ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 288–295. https://doi.org/10.1145/3678884.3681865
Zainab Agha, Zinan Zhang, Oluwatomisin Obajemu, Luke Shirley, and Pamela J. Wisniewski. 2022. A Case Study on User Experience Bootcamps with Teens to Co-Design Real-Time Online Safety Interventions. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI ’22 Extended Abstracts), April 29–May 05, 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 8 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3503563