I am a PhD student at University of Minnesota, advised by Loren Terveen and Stevie Chancellor at the GroupLens Lab.

I'm broadly interested in social participation in sociotechnical systems. Specifically, I use mixed-methods to examine community-building, support-seeking, and information sharing in online spaces, especially by marginalized individuals. I utimately want to learn how to make systems that bolster, not undermine or control, marginalized communities online.

In undergrad, I worked with Shuo Niu in the VIDEO lab. We examined video-sharing as it relates to parasocial interaction and wellbeing (here's an article which features our work!). My honors thesis was a review on video-sharing platform research in HCI literature, which I presented at CHI'23.

publications

❗New paper alert!❗A Literature Review of Video-Sharing Platform Research in HCI (full paper)

Our review summarizes a decade's worth of HCI research about video-sharing platforms. We outline the research themes, methods, and findings of 106 papers. Moreover, we provide a framework of video-sharing platform research that serves as both a summary of past research in VSPs and a roadmap for future VSP research in HCI (see below).
I presented this paper at CHI'23 this year :D [paper]

Close-up and Whispering: An Understanding of Multimodal and Parasocial Interactions in YouTube ASMR Videos (poster paper)

A continuation and completion of the work described in our CSCW paper, this work further analyzes 2,663 ASMR videos and their comments and discusses the implications of ASMR in design. (presented at CHI'22) [paper]

Investigating Multimodal Interactions and Parasocial Attractiveness in YouTube ASMR Videos (poster paper)

Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) has become a popular genre on YouTube, attracting millions of viewers every day. This ongoing work explores and presents a typology of the multimodalities and parasocial interactions of ASMR videos. I presented this poster paper at CSCW'21 as my first first-author paper! [paper]

#StayHome #WithMe: How Do YouTubers Create Videos for COVID-19 Loneliness? (conference paper)

This project was born from a curiosity about the way that content creators were using YouTube to connect with viewers during the pandemic. Specifically: What kinds of videos emerged during the world-wide quarantine in 2020, and how did these videos impact the loneliness and overall wellbeing of viewers? I presented this paper at CHI'21 with Dr. Shuo Niu. [paper] [video]

more about me 🌱

If you know me, you probably know that I'm a self-identified plant mom. My favorite genus at the moment is philedendron.

(this website is a WIP 🔨🔜 more to come soon) </p>