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Investigating VTubing as a Reconstruction of Streamer Self-Presentation: Identity, Performance, and Gender
Qian Wan, Zhicong Lu
VTubers, or Virtual YouTubers, are live streamers who create streaming content using animated 2D or 3D virtual avatars. In recent years, there has been a significant increase in th…
StoryChat: Designing a Narrative-Based Viewer Participation Tool for Live Streaming Chatrooms
Ryan Yen, Li Feng, Brinda Mehra +3
Live streaming platforms and existing viewer participation tools enable users to interact and engage with an online community, but the anonymity and scale of chat usually result in…
Practitioners Versus Users: A Value-Sensitive Evaluation of Current Industrial Recommender System Design
Zhilong Chen, Jinghua Piao, Xiaochong Lan +4
Recommender systems are playing an increasingly important role in alleviating information overload and supporting users' various needs, e.g., consumption, socialization, and entert…
"It Feels Like Being Locked in A Cage": Understanding Blind or Low Vision Streamers' Perceptions of Content Curation Algorithms
Ethan Z. Rong, Mo Morgana Zhou, Zhicong Lu +1
Blind or low vision (BLV) people were recently reported to be live streamers on the online platforms that employed content curation algorithms. Recent research uncovered algorithm…
Beyond Virtual Bazaar: How Social Commerce Promotes Inclusivity for the Traditionally Underserved Community in Chinese Developing Regions
Zhilong Chen, Hancheng Cao, Xiaochong Lan +2
The disadvantaged population is often underserved and marginalized in technology engagement: prior works show they are generally more reluctant and experience more barriers in adop…
An Exploration of Captioning Practices and Challenges of Individual Content Creators on YouTube for People with Hearing Impairments
Franklin Mingzhe Li, Cheng Lu, Zhicong Lu +2
Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) audiences have long complained about caption qualities for many online videos created by individual content creators on video-sharing platforms (e.g.…
Malicious Selling Strategies in E-Commerce Livestream: A Case Study of Alibaba's Taobao and ByteDance's TikTok
Qunfang Wu, Yisi Sang, Dakuo Wang +1
Due to the limitations imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, many users have shifted their shopping patterns from offline to online. Livestream shopping has become popular as one of th…
Automatic removal of false image stars in disk-resolved images of the Cassini Imaging Science Subsystem
Qingfeng Zhang, Zhicong Lu, Xiaomei Zhou +5
Taking a large amount of images, the Cassini Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) has been routinely used in astrometry. In ISS images, disk-resolved objects often lead to false detecti…
Tag2Vec: Learning Tag Representations in Tag Networks
Junshan Wang, Zhicong Lu, Guojie Song +3
Network embedding is a method to learn low-dimensional representation vectors for nodes in complex networks. In real networks, nodes may have multiple tags but existing methods ign…
You Watch, You Give, and You Engage: A Study of Live Streaming Practices in China
Zhicong Lu, Haijun Xia, Seongkook Heo +1
Despite gaining traction in North America, live streaming has not reached the popularity it has in China, where livestreaming has a tremendous impact on the social behaviors of use…