Digital games often constitute a shared activity where people can spend time together,
communicate and socialize. Several commercial titles place social interaction at the center …

Collocated interaction has received growing interest in both academic research and the
design of information and communication technological applications. An emergent research …

The growing number of video chat users includes socially anxious people, but it is not
known how video chat interfaces affect their interpersonal interactions. In our first study, we …

Social awkwardness is a frequent challenge to healthy social interactions and can
dramatically impact how people feel, communicate and behave. It is known that humor can …

With the integration of AI systems into our daily lives, human-AI collaboration has become
increasingly prevalent. Prior work in this realm has primarily explored the effectiveness and …

Pokémon GO, a location-based mobile game with millions of users, offers an opportunity to
study how mobile technology can encourage collocated social interaction between people …

Initiating conversations with new people at work is often intimidating because of uncertainty
about their interests. People worry others may reject their attempts to initiate conversation or …

Technology, especially the smartphone, is villainized for taking meaning and time away from
in-person interactions and secluding people into “digital bubbles”. We believe this is not an …

While the proliferation of mobile devices has rendered mobile notifications ubiquitous,
researchers are only slowly beginning to understand how these technologies affect …

Video chat continues to play an increasing role in the personal and professional lives of
many people. When meeting someone for the first time via video chat, traditional icebreakers …