Our latest papers:
Meryem Barkallah and Douglas Zytko. 2026. “I Wanted Them to Think That I Wrote That”: AI-Generated Self-Presentation on Dating Apps and Implications of Non-Disclosure on Informed Consent. In Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’26), April 13–17, 2026, Barcelona, Spain. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 18 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3791593
Sima Amirkhani, Mahla Alizadeh, Dave Randall, Gunnar Stevens, and Douglas Zytko. 2026. “My Parents’ Expectations Were Overwhelming”: Online Dating Romance Scams Targeting Minors in Iran Through Exploitation of Parental Pressure. In Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’26), April 13–17, 2026, Barcelona, Spain. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 31 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3791198
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Braeden Burger and Douglas Zytko. 2026. Demonstrating Consent Rings: Explicit Non-Verbal Consent Through Haptic Wearables as a Solution to Unwanted Sex Between Neurodivergent Partners. In Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’26), April 13–17, 2026, Barcelona, Spain. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3799120
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Yosr Aissa and Douglas Zytko. 2026. No Sex Until My Body is Green: Trauma-Informed Design Fiction of Spatial Consent to AR/VR Sexual Interactions. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 10, 1, Article GROUP14 (March 2026), 31 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3799449
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Douglas Zytko, Devin Tebbe, Braeden Burger, Emma Walquist, and Meryem Barkallah. 2025. Beyond Affirmative Consent: Creating Alternative Models for Consent to Computer-Mediated Sexual Activity Through Social VR for Online Dating. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 9, 7, Article CSCW377 (November 2025), 34 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3757558
*Honorable Mention Award at CSCW 2025
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Emma Walquist, Isha Datey, Wenqi Zheng, Xiangyu Zhou, Kelly Berishaj, Melissa McDonald, Michele Parkhill, Dongxiao Zhu, and Douglas Zytko. 2025. Collective Consent: Who Needs to Consent to the Donation of Data Representing Multiple People?. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 9, 7, Article CSCW386 (November 2025), 30 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3757567
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Sima Amirkhani, Mahla Alizadeh, Dave Randall, Gunnar Stevens, and Douglas Zytko. 2025. “Society Encourages the Killing of Girls Like Me”: Layers of Victimization in Online Dating Romance Scams in Iran That Target Sexual Access Over Financial Gain. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 9, 7, Article 357 (November 2025), 25 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3757538
*Honorable Mention Award at CSCW 2025
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Devin Tebbe, Yosr Aissa, Braeden Burger, and Douglas Zytko. 2025. “Like, Are You Okay With Being Recorded?”: Understanding and Designing for Consent to Recording and Livestreaming. In Companion of the Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW Companion ’25), October 18–22, 2025, Bergen, Norway. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 5 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3715070.3749278
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Braeden Burger, Devin Tebbe, Emma Walquist, Toby Kind, and Douglas Zytko. 2025. Saying No to “Yes Means Yes”: Limitations of Affirmative Consent for Mitigating Unwanted Behavior Online According to Women and LGBTQIA+ Stakeholders. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25), April 26–May 01, 2025, Yokohama, Japan. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 17 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713236
*Honorable Mention Award at CHI 2025
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Meryem Barkallah, Yosr Aissa, and Douglas Zytko. 2025. Transparent Hearts: Balancing Privacy and Trust in AI-Generated Self-Presentation for Online Dating. In Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’25), April 26–May 01, 2025, Yokohama, Japan. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 8 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706599.3720311
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Catherine R K O’Brien, Nuur Alifah Roslan, Steven J. Murdoch, Ruba Abu-Salma, Douglas Zytko, and Mark Warner. 2025. Online Dating Platform Safeguards and Self-Protection: How Dating Platforms Characterise, Respond to, and Safeguard Against Harms. In Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 423, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706599.3719825
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Guo Freeman, Julian Frommel, Regan L. Mandryk, Jan Gugenheimer, Lingyuan Li, Douglas Zytko, Afsaneh Razi, and Cliff Lampe. 2025. Developing Sociotechnical Solutions to Mitigate New Harms in Immersive and Embodied Virtual Spaces: A Workshop at CHI 2025. In Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 775, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706599.3706708
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Jessica Pater, Brandon T. McDaniel, Fayika Farhat Nova, Michelle Drouin, Kimberly O’Connor, & Douglas Zytko. 2025. A commentary on sexting, sextortion, and generative AI: Risks, deception, and digital vulnerability. Family Relations, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.13152
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Guo Freeman, Douglas Zytko, Afsaneh Razi, Cliff Lampe, Heloisa Candello, Timo Jakobi, and Konstantin Kosta Aal. 2025. New Opportunities, Risks, and Harm of Generative AI for Fostering Safe Online Communities. In Companion Proceedings of the 2025 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP ’25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2–5. https://doi.org/10.1145/3688828.3700747
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Fatemeh Alizadeh, Dennis Lawo, Gunnar Stevens, Douglas Zytko, and Motahhare Eslami. 2024. When the “Matchmaker” Does Not Have Your Interest at Heart: Perceived Algorithmic Harms, Folk Theories, and Users’ Counter-Strategies on Tinder. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 8, CSCW2, Article 481 (November 2024), 29 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3689710
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Isha Datey and Douglas Zytko. 2024. “Just Like, Risking Your Life Here”: Participatory Design of User Interactions with Risk Detection AI to Prevent Online-to-Offline Harm Through Dating Apps. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 8, CSCW2, Article 367 (November 2024), 41 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3686906
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Devin Tebbe, Braeden Burger, Toby Kind, and Douglas Zytko. 2024. Consent, Deception, and Retaliation: Articulating What it Means to Feel Safe in Social Cross-Reality with Participatory Design of VR Dating. In Companion of the 2024 Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW Companion ’24), November 9–13, 2024, San Jose, Costa Rica. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 8 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3678884.3681915
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Wenqi Zheng, Emma Walquist, Isha Datey, Xiangyu Zhou, Kelly Berishaj, Melissa McDonald, Michele Parkhill, Dongxiao Zhu, and Douglas Zytko. 2024. “It’s Not What We Were Trying to Get At, but I Think Maybe It Should Be”: Learning How to Do Trauma-Informed Design With a Data Donation Platform for Online Dating Sexual Violence. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24), May 11-16, 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 15 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642045
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Kelsea Schulenberg, Lingyuan Li, Caitlin Lancaster, Douglas Zytko, and Guo Freeman. 2023. “We Don’t Want a Bird Cage, We Want Guardrails”: Understanding & Designing for Preventing Interpersonal Harm in Social VR through the Lens of Consent. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 7, CSCW2, Article 323 (October 2023), 30 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3610172
*Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at CSCW 2023
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Connor Homayouni and Douglas Zytko, “Consensual XR: A Consent-Based Design Framework for Mitigating Harassment and Harm Against Marginalized Users in Social VR and AR,” 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct), Sydney, Australia, 2023, pp. 360-364, doi: 10.1109/ISMAR-Adjunct60411.2023.00077.
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Isha Datey, Hunter Soper, Khadeejah Hossain, Wing-Yue Geoffrey Louie, and Douglas Zytko, “Ethical Participatory Design of Social Robots Through Co-Construction of Participatory Design Protocols,” 2023 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Busan, Korea, Republic of, 2023, pp. 2454-2461, doi: 10.1109/RO-MAN57019.2023.10309539.
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Wenqi Zheng, Emma Walquist, Isha Datey, Xiangyu Zhou, Kelly Berishaj, Melissa McDonald, Michele Parkhill, Dongxiao Zhu, and Douglas Zytko. 2023. Towards Trauma-Informed Data Donation of Sexual Experience in Online Dating to Improve Sexual Risk Detection AI. In The 36th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST ’23 Adjunct), October 29-November 1, 2023, San Francisco, CA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3586182.3616689
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Douglas Zytko and Jonathan Chan. “The Dating Metaverse: Why We Need to Design for Consent in Social VR,” in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 29, no. 5, pp. 2489-2498, May 2023, doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2023.3247065.
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Douglas Zytko and Nicholas Furlo. 2023. Online Dating as Context to Design Sexual Consent Technology with Women and LGBTQ+ Stakeholders. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23), April 23–28, 2023, Hamburg, Germany. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 17 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3580911
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Hanan Khalid Aljasim and Douglas Zytko. 2022. Foregrounding Women’s Safety in Mobile Social Matching and Dating Apps: A Participatory Design Study. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 7, GROUP, Article 9 (January 2023), 25 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3567559
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Douglas Zytko, Jane Im, and Jonathan Zong. 2022. Consent: A Research and Design Lens for Human-Computer Interaction. In Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW’22 Companion), November 8–22, 2022, Virtual Event, Taiwan. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 5 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3500868.3561201
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Isha Datey, Hanan Aljasim, and Douglas Zytko. 2022. Repurposing AI in Dating Apps to Augment Women’s Strategies for Assessing Risk of Harm. In Companion Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW’22 Companion), November 8–22, 2022, Virtual Event, Taiwan. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 5 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3500868.3559472
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Jonathan Chan and Douglas Zytko. 2022. An Online Memorial for Coping with Mass Shooting Tragedy by Combining Participatory Memory with Participatory Design of AI Use Cases. In Companion Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW’22 Companion), November 8–22, 2022, Virtual Event, Taiwan. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3500868.3559449
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Douglas Zytko, Pamela Wisniewski, Shion Guha, Eric P.S. Baumer, and Min Kyung Lee. 2022. Participatory Design of AI Systems: Opportunities and Challenges Across Diverse Users, Relationships, and Application Domains. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI ’22 Extended Abstracts), April 29–May 05, 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3516506
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Sarath S. Shanker and Douglas Zytko. The…Tinderverse?: Opportunities and Challenges for User Safety in Extended Reality (XR) Dating Apps. Position Paper for CHI 2022 Workshop “Novel Challenges of Safety, Security and Privacy in Extended Reality.”
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Douglas Zytko and Wing-Yue Geoffrey Louie. Ethical Considerations When Constructing Participatory Design Protocols for Social Robots. Position Paper for HRI 2022 Workshop “Participatory Design and End-User Programming for Human-Robot Interaction.”
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Douglas Zytko, Nicholas Mullins, Shelnesha Taylor, and Richard H Holler. 2022. Dating Apps Are Used for More Than Dating: How Users Disclose and Detect (Non-)Sexual Interest in People-Nearby Applications. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 6, GROUP, Article 30 (January 2022), 14 pages, https://doi.org/10.1145/3492849
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Douglas Zytko, Nicholas Furlo, Bailey Carlin, Matthew Archer. 2021. Computer-Mediated Consent to Sex: The Context of Tinder. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 5, CSCW1, Article 189, 2021. ACM, New York, NY, USA. 27 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3449288
*Best Paper Award at CSCW 2021
*Impact Recognition at CSCW 2021
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Caroline Bull, Hanan Aljasim, and Douglas Zytko. 2021. Designing Opportunistic Social Matching Systems for Women’s Safety During Face-to- Face Social Encounters. In Companion Publication of the 2021 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW ’21 Companion), October 23–27, 2021, Virtual Event, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3462204.3481751
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Nicholas Furlo, Jacob Gleason, Karen Feun, and Douglas Zytko. 2021. Rethinking Dating Apps as Sexual Consent Apps: A New Use Case for AI- Mediated Communication. In Companion Publication of the 2021 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW ’21 Companion), October 23–27, 2021, Virtual Event, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3462204.3481770
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Douglas Zytko and Hanan Aljasim. Designing AI for Online-to-Offline Safety Risks with Young Women: The Context of Social Matching. Position Paper for CSCW 2021 Workshop “MOSafely: Building an Open-Source HCAI Community to Make the Internet a Safer Place for Youth.”
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Zytko D., Ma Z., Gleason J., Lundquist N., Taylor M. (2021) Immersive Stories for Health Information: Design Considerations from Binge Drinking in VR. In: Toeppe K., Yan H., Chu S.K.W. (eds) Diversity, Divergence, Dialogue. iConference 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12645. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71292-1_25
*Nominated for Best Paper Award at iConference 2021
*Won 2021 Oakland University Undergraduate Research Award
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Douglas Zytko, Nicholas Furlo, and Hanan Aljasim. Human-AI Interaction for User Safety in Social Matching Apps: Involving Marginalized Users in Design. Position paper for CHI 2021 Workshop “Artificially Intelligent Technology for the Margins: A Multidisciplinary Design Agenda.”
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Douglas Zytko, Victor Regalado, Nicholas Furlo, Sukeshini A. Grandhi, Quentin Jones. 2020. Supporting Women in Online Dating with a Messaging Interface that Improves their Face-to-Face Meeting Decisions. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 4, CSCW2, Article 137, October 2020. ACM, New York, NY, USA. 30 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3415208
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Douglas Zytko and Leanne DeVreugd. 2019. Designing a Social Matching System to Connect Academic Researchers with Local Community Collaborators. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 3, GROUP, Article 236 (December 2019), 15 pages, https://doi.org/10.1145/3361117
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Matthew Archer and Douglas Zytko. 2019. Social Matching Systems for Research Collaboration: A Profile Page Design for University Faculty. In Conference Companion Publication of the 2019 on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW ’19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 146–150. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3311957.3359459
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Marcel Jonas, Steven Said, Daniel Yu, Chris Aiello, Nicholas Furlo, and Douglas Zytko. 2019. Towards a Taxonomy of Social VR Application Design. In Extended Abstracts of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Companion Extended Abstracts (CHI PLAY ’19 Extended Abstracts). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 437–444. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3341215.3356271
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