Selected Publications

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This is a list of publication highlights (the complete list of publication is in the CV and Google Scholar profile above). If you want the full text of anything I’ve ever written (including pre-prints of papers), just ask — I’m always happy to share. When available, I link publications to associated blog posts, which are generally short lay-friendly summaries of the papers.

2022

Qiao Jin, Yu Liu, Svetlana Yarosh, Bo Han and Feng Qian. 2022. How Will VR Enter University Classrooms? Multi-stakeholders Investigation of VR in Higher Education. In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’22). April 29-May5, 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 17 pages. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3517542 [Full Text PDF]

Svetlana Yarosh, Xizi Wang, and Yuan Yao. 2022. Perceptions of visual and multimodal symbolic mediated social touch: Role of technology modality, relationship, and task emotional salience. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 159, (March 2022), 102757. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2021.102757 [Full Text PDF]

Krentzman, A. R., Sharratt, M., Mannella, K. A., Foster, K. T., Yarosh, S., & Jester, J. M. (2022). Women in sober living: Baseline characteristics and their associations with reasons for leaving. Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions, 22(1), 21-39. https://doi.org/10.1080/1533256X.2021.1935156 [Full Text PDF]

2021

[Distinguished Paper Award – Top 5 Accepted Papers] Jasmine Jones, Ye Yuan, and Svetlana Yarosh. 2021. Be Consistent, Work the Program, Be Present Every Day: Exploring Technologies for Self-Tracking in Early Recovery. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 5, 4 (December 2021), 164:1-164:26. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3494955 [Full Text PDF] [Short Article]

[Honorable Mention Award – Top 5% of Submissions] C. Estelle Smith, William Lane, Hannah Miller Hillberg, Daniel Kluver, Loren Terveen, and Svetlana Yarosh. 2021 “Effective Strategies for Crowd-Powered Cognitive Reappraisal Systems: A Field Deployment of the Flip*Doubt Web Application for Mental Health.” Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 5, CSCW2, Article 417 (October 2021), 37 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3479561 [Full Text PDF]

Haiwei Ma and Svetlana Yarosh, “A Review of Affective Computing Research Based on Function-Component-Representation Framework,” in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, https://doi.org/10.1109/TAFFC.2021.3104512. [Full Text PDF]

Haiwei Ma, Sunny Parawala, and Svetlana Yarosh. 2021. Detecting Expressive Writing in Online Health Communities by Modeling Aggregated Empirical Data. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 5, CSCW1, Article 62 (April 2021), 32 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3449136 [Full Text PDF]

[Honorable Mention Award – Top 5% of Submissions] Ye Yuan, Jan Cao, Ruotong Wang, and Svetlana Yarosh. 2021. Tabletop Games in the Age of Remote Collaboration: Design Opportunities for a Socially Connected Game Experience. Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 436, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445512 [Full Text PDF] [Blog Post]

Sabirat Rubya, Joseph Numainville, and Svetlana Yarosh. 2021. Comparing Generic and Community-Situated Crowdsourcing for Data Validation in the Context of Recovery from Substance Use Disorders. Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 449, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445399. [Full Text PDF] [Blog Post]

Zachary Levonian, Marco Dow, Drew Erikson, Sourojit Ghosh, Hannah Miller Hillberg, Saumik Narayanan, Loren Terveen, and Svetlana Yarosh. 2021. Patterns of Patient and Caregiver Mutual Support Connections in an Online Health Community. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 4, CSCW3, Article 275 (December 2020), 46 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3434184 [Full Text PDF]

Adel Al-Dawood, Serene Alhajhussein, and Svetlana Yarosh. 2021. Saudi Arabian Parents’ Perception of Online Marital Matchmaking Technologies. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 4, CSCW3, Article 211 (December 2020), 32 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3432910 [Full Text PDF]

2020

C. Estelle Smith, Zachary Levonian, Haiwei Ma, Robert Giaquinto, Gemma Lein-Mcdonough, Zixuan Li, Susan O’conner-Von, and Svetlana Yarosh. 2020. “I Cannot Do All of This Alone”: Exploring Instrumental and Prayer Support in Online Health Communities. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 27, 5: 38:1–38:41. https://doi.org/10.1145/3402855 [Full Text PDF]

Saba Kawas, Ye Yuan, Akeiylah DeWitt, Qiao Jin, Susanne Kirchner, Abigail Bilger, Ethan Grantham, Julie A Kientz, Andrea Tartaro, and Svetlana Yarosh. 2020. “Another decade of IDC research: examining and reflecting on values and ethics.” In Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC ’20), 205–215. https://doi.org/10.1145/3392063.3394436 [Full Text PDF][Blog Post]

Heyer, Jeremy, Zachary Schmitt, Lynn Dombrowski, and Svetlana Yarosh. “Opportunities for Enhancing Access and Efficacy of Peer Sponsorship in Substance Use Disorder Recovery.” To appear in Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376241 [Full Text PDF]

Zachary Levonian, Drew Richard Erikson, Wenqi Luo, Saumik Narayanan, Sabirat Rubya, Prateek Vachher, Loren Terveen, Svetlana Yarosh. (2020) “Bridging Qualitative and Quantitative Methods for User Modeling: Tracing Cancer Patient Behavior in an Online Health Community.” In Proceedings of the 14th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media – ICWSM 14(1), 405-416. https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/7310 [Full Text PDF]

2019

Sarah McRoberts, Ye Yuan, Kathleen Watson, and Svetlana Yarosh. 2019.,”Behind the Scenes: Design, Collaboration, and Video Creation with Youth.” In Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC ’19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 173-184. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3311927.3323134 [Full Text PDF]

[Honorable Mention Award – Top 5% of Submissions] Ye Yuan and Svetlana Yarosh. 2019. “Beyond Tutoring: Opportunities for Intergenerational Mentorship at a Community Level.” In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 449, 14 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300679 [Full Text PDF] [Blog Post]

Unver, Baris, Jasmine Jones, Alexander Thayer, and Svetlana Yarosh. “Heterogeneous Device Arrangements Affect Both Partners’ Experiences in Collaborative Media Spaces.” In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, pp. 76-98. Springer, Cham, 2019. [Full Text PDF]

Sabirat Rubya, Xizi Wang, and Svetlana Yarosh. 2019. “HAIR: Towards Developing a Global Self-Updating Peer Support Group Meeting List Using Human-Aided Information Retrieval.” In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR ’19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 83-92. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3295750.3298933 [Full Text PDF] [Blog Post]

2018

Zachary Schmitt and Svetlana Yarosh. 2018. Participatory Design of Technologies to Support Recovery from Substance Use Disorders. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 2, CSCW, Article 156 (November 2018), 27 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3274425 [Full Text PDF] [Blog Post]

[Best Paper Award – Top 1% of Submissions] Svetlana Yarosh, Stryker Thompson, Kathleen Watson, Alice Chase, Ashwin Senthilkumar, Ye Yuan, and A. J. Bernheim Brush. 2018. Children asking questions: speech interface reformulations and personification preferences. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC ’18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 300-312. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3202185.3202207 [Full Text PDF] [Blog Post]

Daniel M. Russell and Svetlana Yarosh. 2018. Can we look to science fiction for innovation in HCI?. Interactions. 25, 2 (February 2018), 36-40. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3178552 [Full Text HTML through Authorizer]

Hecht, B., Wilcox, L., Bigham, J.P., Schöning, J., Hoque, E., Ernst, J., Bisk, Y., De Russis, L., Yarosh, L., Anjum, B. and Contractor, D., 2018. It’s time to do something: Mitigating the negative impacts of computing through a change to the peer review process. ACM Future of Computing Blog. Mar. 29, 2018. [Full Text HTML]

2017

Kenya Mejia and Svetlana Yarosh. 2017. A Nine-Item Questionnaire for Measuring the Social Disfordance of Mediated Social Touch Technologies. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 1, CSCW, Article 77 (December 2017), 17 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3134712 [Full Text PDF]

Sabirat Rubya and Svetlana Yarosh. 2017. Interpretations of Online Anonymity in Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 1, CSCW, Article 91 (December 2017), 22 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3134726 [Full Text PDF]

Haiwei Ma, C. Estelle Smith, Lu He, Saumik Narayanan, Robert A. Giaquinto, Roni Evans, Linda Hanson, and Svetlana Yarosh. 2017. Write for Life: Persisting in Online Health Communities through Expressive Writing and Social Support. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 1, CSCW, Article 73 (December 2017), 24 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3134708 [Full Text PDF] [Blog Post]

Svetlana Yarosh, Kenya Mejia, Baris Unver, Xizi Wang, Yuan Yao, Akin Campbell, and Brad Holschuh. 2017. SqueezeBands: Mediated Social Touch Using Shape Memory Alloy Actuation. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 1, CSCW, Article 116 (December 2017), 18 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3134751 [Full Text PDF] [Blog Post]

Carrie James, Katie Davis, Linda Charmaraman, Sara Konrath, Petr Slovak, Emily Weinstein, Lana Yarosh. Digital Life and Youth Well-being, Social Connectedness, Empathy, and Narcissism. Pediatrics Nov 2017, 140 (Supplement 2) S71-S75; DOI: 10.1542/peds.2016-1758F [Full Text PDF]

[Best Demo Award] Baris Unver, Alexander Thayer, and Svetlana Yarosh. 2017. Asymmetric device interaction with projector-camera systems. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (UbiComp ’17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 301-304. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3123024.3123192 [Full Text PDF]

[Best Paper Award – Top 1% of Submissions] Adel Al-Dawood, Norah Abokhodair, Houda El mimouni, and Svetlana Yarosh. 2017. “Against Marrying a Stranger”: Marital Matchmaking Technologies in Saudi Arabia. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS ’17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1013-1024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3064663.3064683 [Full Text PDF] [Blog Post]

Svetlana Yarosh and Pamela Zave. 2017. Locked or Not?: Mental Models of IoT Feature Interaction. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2993-2997. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025617 [Full Text PDF] [Blog Post]

Sarah McRoberts, Haiwei Ma, Andrew Hall, and Svetlana Yarosh. 2017. Share First, Save Later: Performance of Self through Snapchat Stories. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 6902-6911. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025771 [Full Text PDF] [Blog Post]

Sabirat Rubya and Svetlana Yarosh. 2017. Video-Mediated Peer Support in an Online Community for Recovery from Substance Use Disorders. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW ’17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1454-1469. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2998181.2998246 [Full Text PDF] [Blog Post]

Yarosh, Svetlana and Stephen Matthew Schueller. “”Happiness Inventors”: Informing Positive Computing Technologies Through Participatory Design With Children” Journal of medical Internet research vol. 19,1 e14. 17 Jan. 2017, doi:10.2196/jmir.6822
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2016

Sarah McRoberts, Elizabeth Bonsignore, Tamara Peyton, and Svetlana Yarosh. 2016. Do It for the Viewers!: Audience Engagement Behaviors of Young YouTubers. In Proceedings of the The 15th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC ’16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 334-343. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2930674.2930676 [Full Text PDF]

Svetlana Yarosh, Sarita Schoenebeck, Shreya Kothaneth, and Elizabeth Bales. 2016. “Best of Both Worlds”: Opportunities for Technology in Cross-Cultural Parenting. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 635-647. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858210 [Full Text PDF] [Blog Post]

Svetlana Yarosh, Elizabeth Bonsignore, Sarah McRoberts, and Tamara Peyton. 2016. YouthTube: Youth Video Authorship on YouTube and Vine. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW ’16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1423-1437. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2818048.2819961 [Full Text PDF] [Blog Post]

2015

Svetlana Yarosh. Designing technology to empower children to communicate with non-residential parents. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, Volumes 3–4,
2015, Pages 1-13,ISSN 2212-8689, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcci.2015.09.001. [Full Text PDF]

2014

[Best Paper Award – Top 1% of Submissions] Svetlana Yarosh, Panos Markopoulos, and Gregory D. Abowd. 2014. Towards a questionnaire for measuring affective benefits and costs of communication technologies. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing (CSCW ’14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 84-96. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2531602.2531634 [Full Text PDF]

2013

[Honorable Mention Award – Top 5% of Submissions] Svetlana Yarosh. 2013. Shifting dynamics or breaking sacred traditions?: the role of technology in twelve-step fellowships. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3413-3422. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2470654.2466468 [Full Text PDF] [Blog Post]

Hwajung Hong, Svetlana Yarosh, Jennifer G. Kim, Gregory D. Abowd, and Rosa I. Arriaga. 2013. Investigating the use of circles in social networks to support independence of individuals with autism. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3207-3216. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2470654.2466439 [Full Text PDF]

Svetlana Yarosh, Anthony Tang, Sanika Mokashi, and Gregory D. Abowd. 2013. “Almost Touching”: parent-child remote communication using the ShareTable system. In Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work (CSCW ’13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 181-192. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2441776.2441798 [Full Text PDF] [Blog Post]

Svetlana Yarosh, Tara Matthews, Michelle Zhou, and Kate Ehrlich. 2013. I need someone to help!: a taxonomy of helper-finding activities in the enterprise. In Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work (CSCW ’13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1375-1386. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2441776.2441931 [Full Text PDF]

Older Highlights

Svetlana Yarosh, Tara Matthews, and Michelle Zhou. 2012. Asking the right person: supporting expertise selection in the enterprise. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2247-2256. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2207676.2208382 [Full Text PDF]

Svetlana Yarosh, Iulian Radu, Seth Hunter, and Eric Rosenbaum. 2011. Examining values: an analysis of nine years of IDC research. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC ’11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 136-144. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1999030.1999046 [Full Text PDF]

Svetlana Yarosh and Gregory D. Abowd. 2011. Mediated parent-child contact in work-separated families. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1185-1194. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979120 [Full Text PDF]

Svetlana Yarosh, Kori M. Inkpen, and A.J. Bernheim Brush. 2010. Video playdate: toward free play across distance. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1251-1260. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/1753326.1753514 [Full Text PDF]

Yarosh S., Matthews T., Moran T.P., Smith B. (2009) What Is an Activity? Appropriating an Activity-Centric System. In: Gross T. et al. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5727. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03658-3_62 [Full Text PDF]

Svetlana Yarosh, Stephen Cuzzort, Hendrik Müller, and Gregory D. Abowd. 2009. Developing a media space for remote synchronous parent-child interaction. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC ’09). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 97-105. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1551788.1551806 [Full Text PDF]

Svetlana Yarosh, Yee Chieh “Denise” Chew, Gregory D. Abowd. Supporting parent–child communication in divorced families. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Volume 67, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 192-203, ISSN 1071-5819, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2008.09.005. [Full Text PDF]

Mukesh Nathan, Chris Harrison, Svetlana Yarosh, Loren Terveen, Larry Stead, and Brian Amento. 2008. CollaboraTV: making television viewing social again. In Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Designing interactive user experiences for TV and video (UXTV ’08). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 85-94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1453805.1453824 [Full Text PDF]

Svetlana Yarosh and Mark Guzdial. 2008. Narrating data structures: The role of context in CS2. J. Educ. Resour. Comput. 7, 4, Article 6 (January 2008), 20 pages. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1316450.1316456 [Full Text PDF]