Victoria Schwanda Sosik

PhD Candidate
Information Science
Cornell University

vsosik@cs.cornell.edu
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Publications

Journal Articles

  1. Sosik, V.S., & Cosley, D. (forthcoming). Leveraging Social Media Content to Support Engagement in Positive Interventions. Journal of Positive Psychology.
  2. Sosik, V.S., & Bazarova, N. N. (2014). Relational Maintenance on Social Network Sites: How Facebook Communication Predicts Relational Escalation. Computers in Human Behavior, 35, 124–131.
  3. Cosley, D., Sosik, V., Schultz, J., Peesapati, S.T., Lee, S. (2012). Experiences with designing tools for everyday reminiscing. Human-Computer Interaction, 27, 1-2: 175-198.

Conference Papers

  1. Baumer, E., Khovanskaya, V., Matthews, M., Reynolds, L., Sosik, V. S., Gay, G. (2014). Reviewing Reflection: On the Use of Reflection in Interactive System Design. To appear in Proceedings of Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '14). Vancouver, Canada. June 21–25, 2014.
  2. Reynolds, L., Sosik, V. S., & Cosley, D. (2013). When Wii Doesn't Fit: How Non-Beginners React to Wii Fit's Gamification. In Proceedings of Gamification 2013. Waterloo, Canada. Oct 2–4, 2013.
  3. Baumer, E., Adams, P., Khovanskaya, V., Liao, T., Smith, M., Sosik, V. S., & Williams, K. (2013). Limiting, Leaving, and (re)Lapsing: A Survey of Facebook Non-Use Practice and Experiences. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems (CHI '13). Paris, France. April 27–May 2, 2013.
  4. Zhao, X., Sosik, V.S., Cosley, D. (2012). It's Complicated: How Romantic Partners Use Facebook. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '12). Austin, TX. May 5-10, 2012.
  5. Sosik, V., Zhao, X., Cosley, D. (2012). See Friendship, sort of: How conversation and digital traces might support reflection on friendships. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW '12). Seattle, WA. February 11-15, 2012. [pdf]
  6. Schwanda, V., Ibara, S., Reynolds, L., Cosley, D. (2011). Side effects and 'gateway' tools: advocating a broader look at evaluating persuasive systems. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '11). Vancouver, Canada. May 7-12, 2011. [pdf]
  7. Purpura, S., Schwanda, V., Williams, K., Stubler, W., Sengers, P. (2011). Fit4Life: The Design of a Persuasive Technology Promoting Healthy Behavior and Ideal Weight. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '11). Vancouver, Canada. May 7-12, 2011. [pdf] *Best Paper Award Nomination*
  8. Peesapati, S. T., Schwanda, V., Schultz, J., and Cosley. D. (2010). Triggering memories with online maps. In Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting (ASIS&T '10). Pittsburgh, PA. October 22-27, 2010. [pdf]
  9. Peesapati, S.T., Schwanda, V., Schultz, J., Lepage, M., Jeong, S., Cosley, D. (2010). Pensieve: Supporting Everyday Reminiscence. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '10). Atlanta, GA. April 10-15, 2010. [pdf]

Conference Posters and Presentations (Juried)

  1. Sosik, V.S., Bursztein, E., Consolvo, S., Huffaker, D., Kossinets, G., Liao, K., McDonald, P., & Sedley, A. (2014). Online Microsurveys for User Experience Research. To appear in Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '14). Toronto, Canada. April 26–May 1, 2014.
  2. Reynolds, L. & Sosik, V.S. (2012). Starting States Matter: Experiences with a Persuasive Health System. Presented at Infosocial: A Media, Technology & Society Conference, Evanston, Illinois. October 12–13, 2012.
  3. Reynolds, L., Ibara, S., Schwanda, V., Cosley, D. (2011). "Does It Know I'm Not Maintaining Good Posture?": An In-Home Play Study of Wii Fit. Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '11). Vancouver, Canada. May 7-12, 2011. [pdf]
  4. Schwanda, V., Barron, K., Lien, J., Schroeder, G., Vernon, A., Hancock, J. (2011). Temporal Patterns of Cohesiveness in Virtual Groups. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW '11). Hangzhou, China. March 19-23, 2011. [pdf]

Workshop Papers and Doctoral Colloquia (Juried)

  1. Sosik, V.S. (2013). Leveraging Social Media to Design for Psychological Well-being. 7th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, Venice, Italy. May 7, 2013.
  2. Sosik, V.S., Cosley, D. (2012). Thinking about Side Effects of Personal Informatics Systems. Personal Informatics in Practice: Improving Quality of Life Through Data, Austin, Texas.
  3. Cosley, D., Schwanda, V., Peesapati, S. T., Schultz, J., Baxter, J. (2009). Experiences with a publicly deployed tool for reminiscing. Reminiscence Systems Workshop 2009, Cambridge, UK. [pdf]