Trust-Enabled Privacy: Social Media Designs to Support Adolescent User Boundary Regulation
Proceedings of the 21st Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2025).
Technology and Relationships
Interpersonal relationships are the most meaningful part of life. The User Empowerment Lab studies how technology can damage relationships and designs systems to support them instead.
Publications
Toward Nonviolent Design: Co-Designing a Human-Centered Framework for AI-Mediated Communication
Proceedings of the 2025 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES 2025). Acceptance rate: 32%.
Should ChatGPT Write Your Breakup Text? Exploring the Role of AI in Relationship Dissolution
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW), 9(7):1-31, 2025.
Building the Beloved Community: Designing Technologies for Neighborhood Safety
Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025). Acceptance rate: 25%.
Best paper honorable mention (top 5%)
A Temporal Model for Supporting Hard Conversations Online Through Design
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW), 8(CSCW2):1-22, 2024.
From Text to Self: Users' Perception of AIMC Tools on Interpersonal Communication and Self
Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2024). Acceptance rate: 26%.
Best paper award (top 1%)
Sharing, Not Showing Off: How BeReal Approaches Authentic Self-Presentation on Social Media Through Its Design
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW), 8(CSCW2):1-32, 2024.
Parents' Ontological Beliefs Regarding the Use of Conversational Agents at Home: Resisting the Neoliberal Discourse
Learning, Media and Technology, 49(2):290–305, 2023.
Shame on Who? Experimentally Reducing Shame During Political Arguments on Twitter
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 6(CSCW2):1-18, 2022.
Reclaiming Attention: Christianity and HCI
Interactions, 29(4):40-44, 2022.
Someone is Wrong on the Internet: Having Hard Conversations in Online Spaces
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 5(CSCW1):1-22, 2021.
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%.
Can Conversational Agents Change the Way Children Talk to People?
Proceedings of the 20th annual ACM conference on interaction design and children (IDC 2021).
User Experiences with Online Status Indicators
Proceedings of the 2020 ACM conference on human factors in computing systems (CHI 2020). Acceptance rate: 24%.
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%.
'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%.
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%.
What Makes Smartphone Use Meaningful or Meaningless?
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), 2(1):1-26, 2018.
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%.
Screen Time Tantrums: How Families Manage Screen Media Experiences for Young Children
Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2016). Acceptance rate: 23%.
Best paper honorable mention (top 5%)
Not at the Dinner Table: Parents' and Children's Perspectives on Family Technology Rules
Proceedings of the 19th Annual ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2016). Acceptance rate: 25%.
Texting While Parenting: How Adults Use Mobile Phones When Caring for Children at the Playground
Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2015). Acceptance rate: 25%.