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2026

CCS2026

How Children Assess Digital Safety Risk in Gaming Platforms: A Case Study of Roblox

Zinan Zhang, Qiurong Song, Xinning Gui, Junnan Yu, Sunhye Bai, and Yubo Kou

Proceedings of the ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2026), The Hague, Netherlands

USENIX Security2026

Digital Risks and Coping Practices among Roblox Game Creators

Qiurong Song, Rie Helene (Lindy) Hernandez, Xinning Gui, and Yubo Kou

USENIX Security 2026

URC-PA2026

AI Safety in Children's Games: Evaluating Chatbots in Roblox

Jessica Gravel, Rie Helene (Lindy) Hernandez, Yubo Kou, and Xinning Gui

Undergraduate Research at the Capitol-Pennsylvania Poster Conference (URC-PA), Harrisburg, PA, USA

2025

SOUPS2025

How Predatory Monetization Designs Manifest in Child-Friendly Video Games

Qiurong Song, Zinan Zhang, Rie Helena (Lindy) Hernandez, Xinning Gui, and Yubo Kou

Twenty-First Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2025), Seattle, WA, USA

IDC Workshop2025

Children’s Online Safety Risks and Ethical Considerations in XR Games

Zinan Zhang, Xinning Gui, and Yubo Kou

Workshop "Extended Reality and Children: Risks, Opportunities, and Ethics" at IDC 2025, Reykjavík, Iceland

2024

CHI Workshop2024

Understanding and Mitigating Harmful Design in User-Generated Virtual Worlds

Zinan Zhang, Xinning Gui, and Yubo Kou

Workshop "Novel Approaches for Understanding and Mitigating Emerging New Harms in Immersive and Embodied Virtual Spaces" at CHI 2024, Honolulu, HI

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

CHI2018

The Dark (Patterns) Side of UX Design

Colin M. Gray, Yubo Kou, Bryan Battles, Joseph Hoggatt, and Austin L. Toombs

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Montréal, Canada

2017

AMIA2017

Understanding the Patterns of Health Information Dissemination on Social Media during the Zika Outbreak

Xinning Gui, Yue Wang, Yubo Kou, Tera Leigh Reynolds, Yunan Chen, Qiaozhu Mei, and Kai Zheng

American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium (AMIA), Washington, DC, USA

2016

2015

FDG2015

I Am Being Watched by The Tribunal-Trust and Control in Multiplayer Online Battle Arena Games

Magnus Johansson, Harko Verhagen, and Yubo Kou

Foundations of Digital Games (FDG), Monterey, CA, USA

2014

FDG2014

Governance in League of Legends: A Hybrid System

Yubo Kou and Bonnie Nardi

Foundations of Digital Games (FDG), Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA

Exemplary Paper

2013

iConference2013

Regulating Anti-Social Behavior on the Internet: The Example of League of Legends

Yubo Kou and Bonnie Nardi

iConference, Fort Worth, TX, USA

2010

2009

JCRD2009

A Task Mining Strategy in Personal Dataspace Management

Yubo Kou, Yukun Li, Xiaofeng Meng, Xiangyu Zhang, and Jing Zhao

Journal of Computer Research and Development, 26 (Suppl.): 446-452

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