Cristina Fiani
Research title: Safeguarding Children in Social VR: Incorporating Parent, Child and Expert-by-Experience Perspectives into the Design of Real-time Automated and Embodied Moderators
Publications
2025
Fiani, Cristina, Bretin, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2918-1901, McGill, Mark and Khamis, Mohamed
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7051-5200
(2025)
“Abracadabra, Block the Bullies!”: Child Perceptions of Manual, Semi-Automated and Automated Interventions against Group Harassment in Social VR.
In: 24th annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC 2025), Reykjavík, Iceland, 23-26 Jun 2025,
pp. 314-339.
ISBN 9798400714733
(doi: 10.1145/3713043.3728850)
2024
Fiani, Cristina, Bretin, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2918-1901, Macdonald, Shaun
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6519-318X, Khamis, Mohamed
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7051-5200 and McGill, Mark
(2024)
“Pikachu would electrocute people who are misbehaving”: Expert, Guardian and Child Perspectives on Automated Embodied Moderators for Safeguarding Children in Social Virtual Reality.
In: ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2024), Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi, USA, 11-16 May 2024,
(doi: 10.1145/3613904.3642144)
Fiani, Cristina, Saeghe, Pejman, McGill, Mark and Khamis, Mohamed ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7051-5200
(2024)
Exploring the perspectives of social VR-aware non-parent adults and parents on children’s use of social virtual reality.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 8(CSCW1),
54.
(doi: 10.1145/3652867)
2023
Fiani, Cristina, Bretin, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2918-1901, McGill, Mark and Khamis, Mohamed
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7051-5200
(2023)
Big Buddy: Exploring Child Reactions and Parental Perceptions towards a Simulated Embodied Moderating System for Social Virtual Reality.
In: Interaction Design and Children (IDC ’23), Chicago, IL, USA, 19–23 June 2023,
ISBN 9798400701313
(doi: 10.1145/3585088.3589374)
Fiani, Cristina, Bretin, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2918-1901, McGill, Mark and Khamis, Mohamed
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7051-5200
(2023)
Big Buddy: A Simulated Embodied Moderating System to Mitigate Children’s Reaction to Provocative Situations within Social Virtual Reality.
In: 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23), Hamburg, Germany, 23-28 Apr 2023,
p. 53.
ISBN 9781450394222
(doi: 10.1145/3544549.3585840)
2022
Fiani, Cristina and Marsella, Stacy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5711-7934
(2022)
Investigating the Non-verbal Behavior Features of Bullying for the Development of an Automatic Recognition System in Social Virtual Reality.
In: 2022 International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2022), Rome, Italy, 06-10 Jun 2022,
ISBN 9781450397193
(doi: 10.1145/3531073.3534492)
Articles
Fiani, Cristina, Saeghe, Pejman, McGill, Mark and Khamis, Mohamed ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7051-5200
(2024)
Exploring the perspectives of social VR-aware non-parent adults and parents on children’s use of social virtual reality.
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 8(CSCW1),
54.
(doi: 10.1145/3652867)
Conference Proceedings
Fiani, Cristina, Bretin, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2918-1901, McGill, Mark and Khamis, Mohamed
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7051-5200
(2025)
“Abracadabra, Block the Bullies!”: Child Perceptions of Manual, Semi-Automated and Automated Interventions against Group Harassment in Social VR.
In: 24th annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC 2025), Reykjavík, Iceland, 23-26 Jun 2025,
pp. 314-339.
ISBN 9798400714733
(doi: 10.1145/3713043.3728850)
Fiani, Cristina, Bretin, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2918-1901, Macdonald, Shaun
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6519-318X, Khamis, Mohamed
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7051-5200 and McGill, Mark
(2024)
“Pikachu would electrocute people who are misbehaving”: Expert, Guardian and Child Perspectives on Automated Embodied Moderators for Safeguarding Children in Social Virtual Reality.
In: ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2024), Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi, USA, 11-16 May 2024,
(doi: 10.1145/3613904.3642144)
Fiani, Cristina, Bretin, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2918-1901, McGill, Mark and Khamis, Mohamed
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7051-5200
(2023)
Big Buddy: Exploring Child Reactions and Parental Perceptions towards a Simulated Embodied Moderating System for Social Virtual Reality.
In: Interaction Design and Children (IDC ’23), Chicago, IL, USA, 19–23 June 2023,
ISBN 9798400701313
(doi: 10.1145/3585088.3589374)
Fiani, Cristina, Bretin, Robin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2918-1901, McGill, Mark and Khamis, Mohamed
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7051-5200
(2023)
Big Buddy: A Simulated Embodied Moderating System to Mitigate Children’s Reaction to Provocative Situations within Social Virtual Reality.
In: 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23), Hamburg, Germany, 23-28 Apr 2023,
p. 53.
ISBN 9781450394222
(doi: 10.1145/3544549.3585840)
Fiani, Cristina and Marsella, Stacy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5711-7934
(2022)
Investigating the Non-verbal Behavior Features of Bullying for the Development of an Automatic Recognition System in Social Virtual Reality.
In: 2022 International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2022), Rome, Italy, 06-10 Jun 2022,
ISBN 9781450397193
(doi: 10.1145/3531073.3534492)