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Understanding children’s avatar making in social online games

Fu, Y., Schwamm, S., Baughan, A., Powell, N., Kronberg, Z., Owens, A., Izenman, E., Alsabeh, D., Hunt, E., Rich, M., Bickham, D., Radesky, J., & Hiniker, A. (2025). Understanding children’s avatar making in social online games. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25). IN PRESS, DOI TO COME.

We believe that by following the science, we can create an empathetic and respectful world in which our kids can grow up healthy, smart, and kind.

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