In From Visual Simulation to Virtual Reality Games, Zyda explains the possibility for game developers to “have the potential to influence not just the future of interactive entertainment but also the future of interactive training,[…]

In The Digital Gap Between Rich and Poor Kids Is Not What We Expected, Nellie Bowles of the New York Times covers the digital gap from an angle most don’t expect: instead of the rich[…]

In Digital Na(t)ives? Variation in Internet Skills and Uses among Members of the “Net Generation, Eszter Hargittai challenges the idea that those who have grown up in the digital age are automatically computationally competent. Instead,[…]

In The Relations Among Social Media Addiction, Self-Esteem, and Life Satisfaction in University Students, Hawi and Samaha explore, as their title suggests, the relationships between social media addiction, self-esteem, and life satisfaction by surveying university[…]

In her TEDtalk Connected, but alone? Sherry Turkle, professor of Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT, explains that “those little devices in our pockets [cell phones], are so psychologically powerful that they don’t[…]

In Impression Management 2.0, The Relationship of Self-Esteem, Extraversion, Self-Efficacy, and Self-Presentation Within Social Networking Sites, authors Kramer and Winter investigated “the relationship between self-reported (offline) personality traits and (online) self-presentation in social networking profiles.[…]

In Can Robots Manifest Personality?: An Empirical Test of Personality Recognition, Social Responses, and Social Presence in Human-Robot Interaction, Lee et al. argue that “personality is an essential feature for creating socially interactive robots.” (p.[…]

In Interactive Multimedia-Based E-Learning: A Study of Effectiveness, Dongsong Zhang of the University of Maryland states that “a key challenge is to provide learners with easy, intuitive, and fast access to the content” (p. 149)[…]

In Channels of Computer-Mediated Communication and Satisfaction in Long-Distance Relationships, Hampton et al. found that “the frequency of utilizing various channels of communication was associated with relationship satisfaction and communication satisfaction.” (p. 171). They argue[…]

In Exploring the Impact of Modality on Perceptions of Credibility for Online News Stories, Spiro Kiousis argues that “a distinction needs to be made between the availability of multimedia content and the extent to which[…]

In Human-Compute Interaction: Psychology as a Science of Design, John Carroll argues that “HCI is the visible part of computer science” that is “a science of design” which “seeks to understand and support human beings[…]

In The Relationship Between Facebook Use and Well-Being Depends on Communication Type and Tie Strength, Burke and Kraut argue that “people derive benefits from online communication, as long it comes from people they care about[…]

In the introduction of Human Computer Interaction by Dix et al. (2004), the authors explain that “computers and related devices have to be designed with an understanding that people with specific tasks in mind will[…]

In Theorizing Interactivity’s Effects, S. Shyam Sundar of Penn State University argues that previous means of measures of interactivity are inherently flawed in that they are premised on the individual user, instead of examining the[…]

In The Medium is the Message, Marshall McLuhan argues that the medium with which a message is sent is itself another message; he claims that “the ‘content’ of any medium is always another medium.” (p.[…]