Trust-Enabled Privacy: Social Media Designs to Support Adolescent User Boundary Regulation
Proceedings of the 21st Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2025).
Digital Youth
Young people deserve safe, developmentally supportive online and the opportunity to participate in the digital world. The User Empowerment Lab designs together with youth to work toward this vision.
Publications
Privacy as Social Norm: Systematically Empowering Teen Privacy Management on Social Media
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW), 9(2):CSCW151, 2025.
You Go Through So Many Emotions Scrolling Through Instagram: How Teens Use Instagram to Regulate Their Emotions
Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025). Acceptance rate: 25%.
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%.
'I Just Don’t Care Enough To Be Interested': Teens’ Moment-By-Moment Experiences on Instagram
In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC 2024). Acceptance rate: 29%.
Representation Bias of Adolescents in AI: A Bilingual, Bicultural Study
Proceedings of the 2024 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES 2024). Acceptance rate: 38%.
Self-Talk with Superhero Zip: Supporting Children’s Socioemotional Learning with Conversational Agents
In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC 2023). 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%.
Parents' Ontological Beliefs Regarding the Use of Conversational Agents at Home: Resisting the Neoliberal Discourse
Learning, Media and Technology, 49(2):290–305, 2023.
Social Emotional Learning with Conversational Agents: Reviewing Current Designs and Probing Parents' Ideas for Future Ones
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), 6(2):1-23, 2022.
Prevalence and Characteristics of Manipulative Design in Mobile Applications Used by Children
JAMA Network Open, 5(6):e221764, 2022.
Examining Voice Assistants in the Context of Children’s Speech
International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction (IJCCI), 34(100540), 2022.
When Screen Time Isn’t Screen Time: Tensions and Needs Among Tweens and Their Parents During Nature-Based Exploration
Proceedings of the 2021 ACM conference on human factors in computing systems (CHI 2021). Acceptance rate: 26%.
Would You Rather: A Focus Group Method for Eliciting and Discussing Formative Design Insights with Children
Proceedings of the 20th annual ACM conference on interaction design and children (IDC 2021). Acceptance rate: 36%.
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).
'Otter this World': Can a Mobile Application Promote Children’s Connectedness to Nature?
Proceedings of the 19th annual ACM conference on interaction design and children (IDC 2020). Acceptance rate: 31%.
Parenting with Alexa: Exploring the Introduction of Smart Speakers on Family Dynamics
Proceedings of the 2020 ACM conference on human factors in computing systems (CHI 2020). Acceptance rate: 24%.
Intentional Technology Use in Early Childhood Education
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, CSCW, 3:78(1-22), 2019.
No Touch Pig! Investigating Child-Parent Use of a System for Training Executive Function
Proceedings of the 18th annual ACM conference on interaction design and children (IDC 2019). Acceptance rate: 31%.
Lights, Music, Stamps! Evaluating Mealtime Tangibles for Preschoolers
Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM conference on tangible, embedded, and embodied interactions (TEI 2019). Acceptance rate: 34%.
'Everything's the Phone': Understanding the Phone’s Supercharged Role in Parent-Teen Relationships
Proceedings of the 2019 ACM conference on human factors in computing systems (CHI 2019). Acceptance rate: 23%.
Laughing is Scary, but Farting is Cute: A Conceptual Model of Children’s Perspectives of Creepy Technologies
Proceedings of the 2019 ACM conference on human factors in computing systems (CHI ’19), 73:1-15. Acceptance rate: 23%.
Anchored Audio Sampling: A Seamless Method for Exploring Children’s Thoughts and Reactions During Deployment Studies
Proceedings of the 2019 ACM conference on human factors in computing systems (CHI 2019). Acceptance rate: 23%.
Best paper award (top 1%)
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%.
The Stamp Plate and the Kicking Chair: Playful Productivity for Mealtime in Preschools
Proceedings of the 19th Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC 2018). Acceptance rate: 29%.
Why Doesn't It Work? Voice-Driven Interfaces and Young Children's Communication Repair Strategies
Proceedings of the 19th Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC 2018). Acceptance rate: 29%.
Joint Media Engagement between Parents and Preschoolers in the U.S., China, and Taiwan
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, CSCW, 2(192):1-19, 2018.
Coco’s Videos: An Empirical Investigation of Video-Player Design Features and Children's Media Use
Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2018). Acceptance rate: 25.7%.
Best paper honorable mention (top 5%)
Co-Designing with Preschoolers Using Fictional Inquiry and Comicboarding
Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2017). Acceptance rate: 25%.
It wasn't really about the Pokémon: Parents' Perspectives on a Location-Based Mobile Game
Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2017). Acceptance rate: 25%.
Plan & Play: Supporting Intentional Media Use in Early Childhood
Proceedings of the 18th Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC 2017). Acceptance rate: 21%.
Best paper honorable mention (top three papers)
Evaluating an iPad Game to Address Overselectivity in Preliterate AAC Users with Minimal Verbal Behavior
Proceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2017). Acceptance rate: 22%.
Best paper honorable mention (top seven papers)
Hidden Symbols: How Informal Symbolism in Digital Interfaces Disrupts Usability for Preschoolers
International Journal of Human Computer Studies (IJHCS), 90:53-67, 2016.
Touchscreen Prompts for Preschoolers: Designing Developmentally Appropriate Techniques for Teaching Young Children to Perform Gestures
Proceedings of the 16th Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC 2015). Acceptance rate: 23%.
Go Go Games: Therapeutic Video Games for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Proceedings of the 14th Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC 2013). Acceptance rate: 33%.