Mobile Gambling: Unexplored Risks to Children and Families
Pediatrics, 157(3):e2025073040, 2026.
Jenny Radesky
Dr. Radesky is the David G. Dickinson Collegiate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Michigan Medical School, where she directs the Division of Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics. Her NIH-funded research examines the use of mobile and interactive technology by parents and young children, parent-child relationships, and child social-emotional development. She authored the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) policy statements Media and Young Minds and Digital Advertising to Children and is co-Medical Director of the AAP Center of Excellence on Social Media and Youth Mental Health.
Publications
The Engagement-Prolonging Designs Teens Encounter on Very Large Online Platforms
Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2026). Acceptance rate: 25%.
Risks and Consequences of Children's Use of Social AI
Pediatrics (in press).
Problematic Media Use as a Content-Neutral, Enforceable Harm
The Journal of Online Trust and Safety (JOTS), 3(1), 2025.
Moving Toward the Metaverse: Children’s Avatar Making in Online Social Games
Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025). Acceptance rate: 25%.
Investigating Attention and Normative Dissociation in Children's Online Social Games
Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC 2024). Acceptance rate: 29%.
Let Kids Wonder, Question and Make Mistakes: How the Designers of Children’s Technology Think about Child Well-being
Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC 2023). Acceptance rate: 29%.
Prevalence and Characteristics of Manipulative Design in Mobile Applications Used by Children
JAMA Network Open, 5(6):e221764, 2022.
From Moral Panic to Systemic Change: Making Child-Centered Design the Default
International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, Special Issue in Review Articles in Child-Computer Interaction Research (IJCCI), 31(100351), 2021.
Can Conversational Agents Change the Way Children Talk to People?
Proceedings of the 20th annual ACM conference on interaction design and children (IDC 2021).
Let's Play! Digital and Analog Play Patterns between Preschoolers and Parents
Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2018). Acceptance rate: 25.7%.