Our Research
Our latest papers:
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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You can find Douglas Zytko’s publications pre-Oakland HCI Lab here. You might want also check out Doug’s Research Gate page for an updated publication list.