2012
Designing Online Games for Real-life Relationships: Examining QQ Farm in Intergenerational Play.
Yong Ming Kow, Jing Wen, and Yunan Chen. Forthcoming CSCW'12 (28% acceptance rate). Seattle, Washington.

Mediating Contradictions of Digital Media.
Yong Ming Kow and Bonnie Nardi. Forthcoming UC Irvine Law Review.

2011
Online Games and Family Ties: Influences of Social Networking Game on Family Relationship.
Jing Wen, Yong Ming Kow, and Yunan Chen. Interact'11 (27% acceptance rate). Lisbon, Portugal.

Forget Online Communities? Revisit Cooperative Work! *Nominated for best Note.
Yong Ming Kow and Bonnie Nardi. CSCW'11 (top 5%). Hangzhou, China.

Rethinking Participatory Culture: Lessons from Core Teams in China.
Yong Ming Kow and Bonnie Nardi. Forthcoming in Chinese and Japanese languages.

2010
Reading Tea Leaves: Interpreting Futures of Chinese Online Communities.
Yong Ming Kow and Bonnie Nardi. Paper presented at Virtual World in East Asia Workshop. Hong Kong University.

Kow and User Creativity, Governance, and the New Media: An Introduction to the First Monday Special Issue.
Yong Ming Kow and Bonnie Nardi. In: Kow and Nardi (editors), User Creativity, Governance, and the New Media, First Monday Special Issue, May 3. download

Who Owns the Mods
Yong Ming Kow and Bonnie Nardi, 2010. In Kow and Nardi (editors), User Creativity, Governance, and the New Media, First Monday Special Issue, May 3. download

Digital Imaginaries: How We Know What We (Think We) Know about Chinese Gold Farming
Bonnie Nardi and Yong Ming Kow, 2010. First Monday, June 7. download

2009
Culture and Creativity: World of Warcraft Modding in China and the U.S.
Yong Ming Kow and Bonnie Nardi, 2009. Book chapter in Online Worlds: Convergence of the Real and the Virtual by William Sims Bainbridge (ed). download

2008
Examining the ‘Four Infrastructures’ Supporting the Hundred Dollars Laptop
Yong Ming Kow and Ruy Cervantes, 2008. Poster presented at CSCW’08, November 8–12, 2008, San Diego, California, USA.

2005
Identifying the Needs of Elderly for Technological Innovations in the Smart Home, in HFES
Martin Helander and Kow, 2005. HFES 2005 (50% acceptance rate). download

2003
Identifying Needs of Smart Homes for the Older Adults, (Thesis submitted to Nanyang Technological University for Partial Requirements for Master of Engineering Degree)
Kow, 2003.

Identifying User Needs in Technological Innovations with Projective Techniques, in SEAMEC 2003. *Best Student Paper.
Yong Ming Kow and Martin Helander,2003. SEAMEC. Kuching, Sarawak.