Publications

Journal Articles

J25. Qiurong Song, Renkai Ma, Yubo Kou, and Xinning Gui. 2024. Collective Privacy Sensemaking on Social Media about Period and Fertility Tracking post Roe v. Wade. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. (CSCW'2024)

J24. Renkai Ma, Yue You, Xinning Gui, and Yubo Kou. 2023. How Users Experience Moderation?: A Systematic Literature Review. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. (CSCW'2023)

J23. Renkai Ma and Yubo Kou. 2023. ”Defaulting to boilerplate answers, they didnt engage in a genuine conversation”: Dimensions of Transparency Design in Creator Moderation. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. (CSCW’2023)

J22. Renkai Ma, Xinning Gui, and Yubo Kou. 2022. Esports Governance: An Analysis of Rule Enforcement in League of Legends. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. (CSCW’2022)

J21. Renkai Ma and Yubo Kou. 2022. "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. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. (CSCW’2022)

J20. Chun-Hua Tsai, Xinning Gui, Yubo Kou, and John M. Carroll. 2021. With Help from Afar: Cross-Local Communication in an Online COVID-19 Pandemic Community. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. (CSCW’2021)

J19. Renkai Ma and Yubo Kou. 2021. “How advertiser-friendly is my video?”: YouTuber’s Socioeconomic Interactions with Algorithmic Content Moderation. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. (CSCW'2021)

J18. Yubo Kou. 2021. Punishment and Its Discontents: An Analysis of Permanent Ban in an Online Game Community. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. (CSCW'2021)

J17. Yubo Kou and Xinning Gui. 2020. Mediating Community-AI Interaction through Situated Explanation: The Case of AI-Led Moderation. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 4, CSCW2, Article 102, (October, 2020). (CSCW’2020)

J16. Yubo Kou and Xinning Gui. 2020. Emotion Regulation in eSports Gaming: a Qualitative Study of League of Legends. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 4, CSCW2, Article 158, (October, 2020). (CSCW’2020)

J15. Xun Zhang, Xinning Gui, Yubo Kou, and Yukun Li. 2020. Mobile Collocated Gaming: Collaborative Play and Meaning-Making on a University Campus. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 4, CSCW2, Article 142, (October, 2020). (CSCW’2020)

J14. Jie Li, Xinning Gui, Yubo Kou, and Yukun Li. 2019. Live Streaming as Co-Performance: Dynamics between Center and Periphery in Theatrical Engagement. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 3, CSCW, Article 64, (November 2019). (CSCW'2019)

J13. Yuan Wang, Yukun Li, Xinning Gui, Yubo Kou, and Fenglian Liu. 2019. Culturally-Embedded Visual Literacy: A Study of Impression Management via Emoticon, Emoji, Sticker, and Meme on Social Media in China. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 3, CSCW, Article 68, (November 2019). (CSCW'2019)

J12. Colin M. Gray and Yubo Kou. 2019. Co-Producing, Curating, and Defining Design Knowledge in an Online Practitioner Community. CoDesign.

J11. Yubo Kou, Colin M. Gray, Austin L. Toombs, and Robin S. Adams. 2018. Understanding Social Roles in an Online Community of Volatile Practice: A Study of User Experience Practitioners on Reddit, ACM Transactions on Social Computing.

J10. Yubo Kou and Xinning Gui. 2018. Entangled with Numbers: Quantified Self and Others in a Team-Based Online Game, PACMHCI, 2, CSCW, Article 93, (November 2018). (CSCW'2018 second cycle) Honorable Mention Award

J9. Yubo Kou and Colin M. Gray. 2018. “What do you recommend a complete beginner like me to practice?": Professional Self-Disclosure in an Online Community, PACMHCI, 2, CSCW, Article 94, (November 2018). (CSCW'2018 second cycle)

J8. Yao Li, Yubo Kou, Je Seok Lee, and Alfred Kobsa. 2018. Tell Me Before You Stream Me: Managing Information Disclosure in Video Game Live Streaming, PACMHCI, 2, CSCW, Article 107, (November 2018). (CSCW'2018 second cycle)

J7. Yubo Kou and Colin M. Gray. 2017. Supporting Distributed Critique through Interpretation and Sense-making in an Online Creative Community, PACMHCI, 1, CSCW, Article 60, (November 2017). (CSCW'2018 online first).

J6. Yubo Kou, Xinning Gui, Yunan Chen, and Kathleen Pine. 2017. Conspiracy Talk on Social Media: Collective Sensemaking during a Public Health Crisis, PACMHCI, 1, CSCW, Article 61, (November 2017). (CSCW'2018 online first).

J5. Yubo Kou, Xinning Gui, Shaozeng Zhang, and Bonnie Nardi. 2017. Managing Disruptive Behavior through Non-Hierarchical Governance: Crowdsourcing in League of Legends and Weibo, PACMHCI, 1, CSCW, Article 62, (November 2017). (CSCW'2018 online first).

J4. Xinning Gui, Yu Chen, Yubo Kou, Kathleen Pine, and Yunan Chen. 2017. Investigating Support Seeking from Peers for Pregnancy in Online Health Communities, PACMHCI, 1, CSCW, Article 50, (November 2017). (CSCW'2018 online first).

J3. Yubo Kou, Yong Ming Kow, Xinning Gui, and Waikuen Cheng. 2017. One Social Movement, Two Social Media Sites: A Comparative Study of Public Discourses, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 26, 4-6, 807-836.

J2. Yubo Kou and Bonnie Nardi. 2016. Rethinking Civic Computing in China, First Monday, 21(7).

J1. Yubo Kou, Yukun Li, Xiaofeng Meng, Xiangyu Zhang, and Jing Zhao. 2009. A Task Mining Strategy in Personal Dataspace Management, Journal of Computer Research and Development 46(Suppl.), 446-452, 2009. (NDBC'2009)

Conference Proceedings

C41. Qiurong Song, Rie Helene (Lindy) Hernandez, Yubo Kou, and Xinning Gui. 2024. “Our Users' Privacy is Paramount to Us”: A Discourse Analysis of How Period and Fertility Tracking App Companies Address the Roe v Wade Overturn. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2024 (CHI 2024).

C40. Rie Helene (Lindy) Hernandez, Qiurong Song, Yubo Kou, and Xinning Gui. 2024. "At the end of the day, I am accountable": Gig Workers' Self-Tracking for Multi-Dimensional Accountability Management

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2024 (CHI 2024).

C39. Yubo Kou, Sam Moradzadeh, and Xinning Gui. 2024. Trading as Gambling: Social Investing and Financial Risks on the r/WallStreetBets subreddit. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2024 (CHI 2024).

C38. 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. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2024 (CHI 2024).

C37. Yubo Kou and Xinning Gui. 2023. Harmful Design in the Metaverse and How to Mitigate it: A Case Study of User-Generated Virtual Worlds on Roblox. DIS'2023.

C36. Renkai Ma, Yao Li, and Yubo Kou. 2023. Transparency, Fairness, and Coping: How Players Experience Moderation in Multiplayer Online Games. SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Hamburg, Germany.

C35. Renkai Ma, Xinning Gui, and Yubo Kou. 2023. Multi-Platform Content Creation: The Configuration of Creator Ecology through Platform Prioritization, Content Synchronization, and Audience Management. SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Hamburg, Germany.

C34. Xianghua Ding, Yubo Kou, Yiwen Xu, Peng Zhang. 2022. “As Uploaders, We Have the Responsibility”: Individualized Professionalization of Bilibili Uploaders. CHI'2022

C33. Yue You, Yubo Kou, Xianghua Ding, Xinning Gui. 2021. The Medical Authority of AI: A Study of AI-enabled Consumer-Facing Health Technology. CHI'2021

C32. Chun-Hua Tsai, Yue You, Xinning Gui, Yubo Kou, John M. Carroll. 2021. Exploring and Promoting Diagnostic Transparency and Explainability in Online Symptom Checkers. CHI'2021

C31. Yubo Kou and Xinning Gui. 2021. Flag and Flaggability in Automated Moderation: the Case of Reporting Toxic Behavior in an Online Game Community. CHI'2021

C30. Yubo Kou. 2020. Toxic Behaviors in Team-Based Competitive Gaming: The Case of League of Legends. ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY), Ottawa, Canada.

C29. Zhan Zhang, Yu Lu, Yubo Kou, Danny Wu, Jina Huh-Yoo, and Zhe He. 2019. Understanding Patient Information Needs about their Clinical Laboratory Results: A Study of Social Q&A Site. World Congress of Medical and Health Informatics (MedInfo), Lyon, France

C28. Yong Ming Kow, Yubo Kou, Xitong Zhu, and Wang Hin Sy. 2019. “Just my intuition”: Awareness of versus Acting on Political News Misinformation, iConference 2019.

C27. Yubo Kou, Xinning Gui, Yunan Chen, and Bonnie Nardi. 2019. Turn to the Self in Human-Computer Interaction: Care of the Self in Negotiating the Human-Technology Relationship, SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Glasgow, Scotland

C26. Yubo Kou and Colin M. Gray. 2019. A Practice-Led Account of the Conceptual Evolution of UX Knowledge, SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Glasgow, Scotland.

C25. Yubo Kou and Colin M. Gray. 2018. Distinctions between the Communication of Experiential and Academic Design Knowledge: A Linguistic Analysis, Design Research Society (DRS), Limerick, Ireland.

C24. Yubo Kou, Colin M. Gray, Austin Toombs, and Bonnie Nardi. 2018. The Politics of Titling: The Representation of Countries in CHI Papers, alt.CHI 2018, Montréal, Canada.

C23. Yubo Kou and Bonnie Nardi. (2018). Complex Mediation in the Formation of Political Opinions, SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Montréal, Canada. Honorable Mention Award

C22. Yubo Kou, Yao Li, Xinning Gui, and Eli Suzuki-Gill. 2018. Playing with Streakiness in Online Games: How Players Perceive and React to Winning and Losing Streaks in League of Legends, SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Montréal, Canada.

C21. Xinning Gui, Yubo Kou, Kathleen Pine, Elisa Ladaw, Harold Kim, Eli Suzuki-Gill, and Yunan Chen. 2018. Multidimensional Risk Communication: Public discourse on Risks during an Emerging Epidemic, SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Montréal, Canada.

C20. Colin M. Gray, Yubo Kou, Bryan Battles, Joseph Hoggatt, and Austin Toombs. 2018. The Dark (Patterns) Side of UX Design, SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Montréal, Canada.

C19.Yubo Kou and Colin M. Gray. 2018. Towards Professionalization in an Online Community of Emerging Occupation: Discourses among UX Practitioners. ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP), FL, USA.

C18. Yubo Kou, Colin M. Gray, Austin Toombs, and Robin Adams. 2018. Knowledge Production and Social Roles in an Online Community of Emerging Occupation: A Study of User Experience Practitioners on Reddit, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), HI, USA.

C17. Xinning Gui, Yue Wang, Yubo Kou, Tera Leigh Reynolds, Yunan Chen, Qiaozhu Mei, and Kai Zheng. 2017. Understanding the Patterns of Health Information Dissemination on Social Media during the Zika Outbreak. American Medical Informatics Association 2017 Annual Symposium (AMIA), Washington, D.C., USA.

C16. Yubo Kou, Magnus Johansson, and Harko Verhagen. 2017. Prosocial Behavior in an Online Game Community: an Ethnographic Study, Foundations of Digital Games (FDG), Hyannis, MA, USA.

C15. Yubo Kou. 2017. Exploring Offline Context and Consciousness in Social Media Use, International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) – INTERACT, Mumbai, India.

C14. Yubo Kou, Bryan Semaan, and Bonnie Nardi. 2017. A Confucian Look at Internet Censorship in China, International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) – INTERACT, Mumbai, India.

C13. Xinning Gui, Yubo Kou, Kathleen Pine, and Yunan Chen. 2017. Managing Uncertainty: Using Social Media for Risk Assessment during a Public Health Crisis, SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Denver, CO, USA. Honorable Mention Award

C12. Yubo Kou and Xinning Gui. 2017. When Code Governs Community, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), HI, USA.

C11. Yubo Kou, Yong Ming Kow, and Xinning Gui. 2017. Resisting the Censorship Infrastructure in China, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), HI, USA.

C10. Yubo Kou, Xinning Gui, and Yong Ming Kow. 2016. Ranking Practices and Distinction in League of Legends, ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY), Austin, TX, USA.

C9. Yong Ming Kow, Yubo Kou, Bryan Semaan, and Waikuen Cheng. 2016. Mediating the Undercurrents: Using Social Media to Sustain a Social Movement, SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), San Jose, CA, USA. Honorable Mention Award

C8. Yubo Kou, Yong Ming Kow, and Kelvin Cheng. 2015. Developing Intuitive Gestures for Spatial Interaction with Large Public Displays, HCI International, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

C7. Magnus Johansson, Harko Verhagen, and Yubo Kou. 2015. I Am Being Watched by The Tribunal-Trust and Control in Multiplayer Online Battle Arena Games, Foundations of Digital Games (FDG), Monterey, CA, USA.

C6. Samantha Meyer, Casey Pierce, Yubo Kou, Paul Leonardi, Bonnie Nardi, and Diane Bailey. 2015. Offshoring Digital Work, But Not Physical Output: Differential Access to Task Objects and Coordination in Globally Distributed Automotive Engineering and Graphic Design Work, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Kauai, HI, USA. Nomination for Best Paper

C5. Yubo Kou and Xinning Gui. 2014. Playing with Strangers: Understanding Temporary Teams in League of Legends, ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY), Toronto, Canada.

C4. Yubo Kou and Bonnie Nardi. 2014. Governance in League of Legends: A Hybrid System, Foundations of Digital Games (FDG), Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA. Exemplary Paper

C3. Yubo Kou and Bonnie Nardi. 2013. Regulating Anti-Social Behavior on the Internet: The Example of League of Legends, iConference, Fort Worth, TX, USA.

C2. Yubo Kou, Yukun Li, and Xiaofeng Meng. 2010. DSI: A Method for Indexing Large Graphs Using Distance Set. International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM), Jiuzhaigou, China.

C1. Yukun Li, Xiaofeng Meng, and Yubo Kou. 2009. An Efficient Method for Constructing Personal DataSpace. Web Information Systems and Applications Conference (WISA), Xuzhou, China. Best Paper Award

Workshop Papers and Posters

P5. Renkai Ma and Yubo Kou. 2022. “I am not a YouTuber who can make whatever video I want. I have to keep appeasing algorithms”: Bureaucracy of Creator Moderation on YouTube. CSCW'2022, online.

P4. Yubo Kou and Colin M. Gray. 2018. Exploring the Knowledge Creation Practices of UX Designers on Stack Exchange, ACM Conference Companion on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), Hong Kong, China.

P3. Jason Brier, Colin M. Gray, and Yubo Kou. 2017. In Search of UX Translators: Analyzing Researcher-Practitioner Interactions on Twitter. ACM Conference Companion on Designing Interactive Systems, Edinburgh, UK.

P2. Colin M. Gray and Yubo Kou. 2017. UX Practitioners’ Engagement with Intermediate-Level Knowledge. ACM Conference Companion on Designing Interactive Systems, Edinburgh, UK.

P1. Yubo Kou and Xinning Gui. 2017. The Rise and Fall of Moral Labor in an Online Game Community, ACM Conference Companion on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing, Portland, OR, USA.