Zinan Zhang

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Teen Vigilance: Navigating Risky Social Interactions on Discord

Teenagers are avid users of Discord, a fast-growing platform for synchronous communication where they often interact with strangers. Because Discord combines private DMs, semi-private voice channels, and public servers in one place, it creates a hybrid environment that can produce complex—and underexplored—safety risk…

CHI '263rd AuthorSmart Home Privacy & Security +2

Surveillance as Care: Configuring Baby Monitors in the Home

With the development of consumer surveillance technologies, monitoring has become increasingly accessible and woven into family life. Prior work has examined parents’ attitudes, privacy concerns, and selected uses of surveillance technologies like smart cameras and location-tracking apps, but offers limited accounts o…

CHI '261st AuthorGame Accessibility +2

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

Gaming is a meaningful part of children’s lives, yet its safety has drawn increasing concerns from scholars and the public. On platforms like Roblox, children may encounter extremist roleplay, scams, or virtual rape. Prior research has emphasized technical interventions that address risks after they occur and ethical…

CSCW '241st AuthorSession 4f: Multiplayer Gaming and Communication

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

Competitive gaming, a long-standing study context for CSCW, has recently faced criticism due to its design emphasis on competition and achievement, which is associated with adverse phenomena such as player toxicity and anxiety. Recognizing this limit, game designers have proactively made design attempts to ameliorate…

DIS '242nd AuthorTeleoperated Driving +2

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

Protecting children’s online privacy is paramount. Online platforms seek to enhance child privacy protection by implementing new classification systems into their content moderation practices. One prominent example is YouTube’s “made for kids” (MFK) classification. However, traditional content moderation focuses on ma…

DIS '243rd AuthorContent Moderation & Platform Governance +2

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

Metaverse platforms have been on the rise in recent years, offering three-dimensional (3D), immersive virtual worlds while encouraging user-generated content (UGC) in various forms. Roblox, a popular metaverse platform, enables its users to create a holistic virtual world (i.e., develop a 3D game) for other users to i…

CHI '243rd AuthorOnline Harassment & Counter-Tools +1

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

Moderation systems of online games often follow a retributive model inspired by real-world criminal justice, expecting that punishments can help users to reform behavior. However, decades of criminological research show that punishments alone do not work and call for a rehabilitative approach, such as community-based…

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