4 papers
Validating the Single Item Kawaii Measure
Katie Seaborn, Yijia Wang
Kawaii is the Japanese instantiation of cuteness. As a multimodal percept theoretically derived from the notion of baby schema, kawaii can be a property of voice and sound, visual…
Legitimizing, Developing, and Sustaining Feminist HCI in East Asia: Challenges and Opportunities
Runhua Zhang, Ruyuan Wan, Jiaqi Li +7
Feminist HCI has been rapidly developing in East Asian contexts in recent years. The region's unique cultural and political backgrounds have contributed valuable, situated knowledg…
First Contact with Dark Patterns and Deceptive Designs in Chinese and Japanese Free-to-Play Mobile Games
Gloria Xiaodan Zhang, Yijia Wang, Taro Leo Nakajima +1
Mobile games have gained immense popularity due to their accessibility, allowing people to play anywhere, anytime. Dark patterns and deceptive designs (DPs) have been found in thes…
Super Kawaii Vocalics: Amplifying the "Cute" Factor in Computer Voice
Yuto Mandai, Katie Seaborn, Tomoyasu Nakano +3
"Kawaii" is the Japanese concept of cute, which carries sociocultural connotations related to social identities and emotional responses. Yet, virtually all work to date has focused…