Research

I completed my MSc in Engineering - Human-Computer Interaction at the Universitaet Salzburg and FH Salzburg on Apr 2024.

My work revolves around the intersection of emerging technologies, digital-native communities, and Mixed Reality (XR), particularly crypto and Social VR (SVR).

My MSc thesis (supervised by Dr. Janne Mascha Beuthel, PhD) focused on the social dynamics of the emerging rave scene within VRChat. The full-text is available for free here.

I'm currently taking a break from HCI research. However, I can always be contacted through my email [email protected] for any potential collaboration.

Selected Publications

• The Probing Machine: Can Using GenAI Tools Help With Better Reflections During User Interviews
  • Corey Tran, Richard Lance Parayno, Bharat Krishna Venkitachalam, Janna Aika Deja, and Jordan Aiko Deja. 2025. The Probing Machine: Can Using GenAI Tools Help With Better Reflections During User Interviews. In Artificial Intelligence in HCI. HCII 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15821. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-93418-6_6
• Good Day Manager! Exploring Social Relationships in NFT-based Play-to-Earn Games
  • Richard Lance Parayno, Janna Aika Deja, Tyrone Justin Sta. Maria, Briane Paul V. Samson, and Jordan Aiko Deja. 2023. Good Day Manager! Exploring Social Relationships in NFT-based Play-to-Earn Games. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 206, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3580713