Publications

Publications

Last Updated: Oct 2026

[IN PRESS] Turay, B. M., Zabala, J., Wong, T., Williams, G., To, A. (2027). Let Her Cook: A Review of Women of Color Protagonists in Games. In Proceedings of the BIPOC Game Studies Conference.
[IN PRESS] To, A., Williams, G., Chen, N., Dinio, D., Zabala, J., Wong, T., Turay, B. M. (2027). SERG: A Framework for Meaningful Racial Representations in Game Design. In Proceedings of the BIPOC Game Studies Conference.
Turay, B. M., Williams, G., Dinio, D., Chen, N., Wong, T., To, A. (2026). "What if England Actually Sucked at Colonizing?”: Challenges, Opportunities, and Approaches to Engaging Race in Game Design. In Proceedings of the 2026 Creativity and Cognition Conference.
Zabala, J., Delandro, D., Lee, C., To, A. (2026). Learning Ecological Justice and Game Design by Creating Transformational Games. In Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
Chen, N., Williams, G., To, A., DeVito, M.A. (2026) "I can take what I want and adapt as needed": BIPOC Identity Making and Resistance Through Internet Aesthetics on TikTok. In Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
Smith, A. D., Williams, G., Thompson, G., & To, A. (2025). Constructing a Community of Play: Black Sims Players and Game Modding. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 9(6), 385-414. Honourable Mention Award Icon
Williams, G., Chen, N., DeVito, M. A., & To, A. (2025, April). Why Can't Black Women Just Be?: Black Femme Content Creators Navigating Algorithmic Monoliths. In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-14). Honourable Mention Award Icon
Turay, B. M., Baca Vázquez, A., To, A., & Smith, A. D. (2025, April). "I want to let them in": Exploring Critical Consciousness Development through Roleplay and Reflection in "Papers, Please. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (pp. 1-13).
Zabala, J., Zvelebilova, J., & To, A. (2024, May). Queer TTRPGs' Visibility, Safety, and Allegory as Resistance. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (pp. 1-10). Best Paper Award Icon
To, A., Smith, A. D., Showkat, D., Adjagbodjou, A., & Harrington, C. (2023, July). Flourishing in the everyday: Moving beyond damage-centered design in HCI for BIPOC communities. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 917-933). Best Paper Award Icon
Ogbonnaya-Ogburu, I. F., Smith, A. D., To, A., & Toyama, K. (2020, April). Critical race theory for HCI. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI conference on human factors in computing systems (pp. 1-16). Best Paper Award Icon
To, A., McDonald, J., Holmes, J., Kaufman, G., & Hammer, J. (2018). Character diversity in digital and non-digital games. Transactions of the Digital Games Research Association, 4(1).
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