Ruchi Panchanadikar

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A Potential Teammate?: Understanding How Indie Game Developers Approach Generative AI’s Involvement in Their Small-Scale Creative Teamwork

This paper investigates how indie game developers in resource-constrained, creativity centric small teams approach the potential of generative AI as a teammate in their collaborative workflows. Through 15 interviews with indie developers, our findings suggest that developers believe current AI systems still lack key e…

CHI '261st AuthorYouth Online Safety & Privacy +2

Beyond Age-Based Restrictions: Rethinking Children's Online Safety Through Comparing Parent–Child Perspectives of Risks in User-Generated Content Games

Existing HCI literature on the benefits and risks of User-Generated Content (UGC) games for children often focuses on either parents' or child players' views. Bridging these perspectives is critical for identifying the alignment or divergence between children's and parents' concerns, which provides a more comprehensiv…

CHI '254th AuthorSocial & Collaborative VR +3

"Comforting and Small Like a House Cat, Big and Intimidating Like a Bodyguard": How Women Perceive and Envision AI Companions as a New Harassment Mitigation Approach in Social VR

Companionship is crucial for people's everyday psychological well-being. With growing concerns over harassment against women in embodied social VR spaces, we turn an eye towards AI companions as a potential new approach to protect women in social VR by better fulfilling their under-addressed harassment mitigation need…

CHI '25CorrespondingSocial & Collaborative VR +1

"Grab the Chat and Stick It to My Wall": Understanding How Social VR Streamers Bridge Immersive VR Experiences with Streaming Audiences Outside VR

Social VR platforms are increasingly transforming online social spaces by enhancing embodied and immersive social interactions within VR. However, how social VR users also share their activities outside the social VR platform, such as on 2D live streaming platforms, is an increasingly popular yet understudied phenomen…

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