Paper Info
Title
Stranger Danger!: Social Media App Features Co-designed with Children to Keep Them Safe Online
Abstract
Mobile social media applications ("apps"), such as TikTok (previously Musical.ly), have recently surfaced in news media due to harmful incidents involving young children engaging with strangers through these mobile apps. To better understand children's awareness of online stranger danger and explore their visions for technologies that can help them manage related online risks (e.g., sexual solicitations and cyberbullying), we held two participatory design sessions with 12 children (ages 8-11 years old). We found that children desired varying levels of agency, depending on the severity of the risk. In most cases, they wanted help resolving the issue themselves instead of relying on their parents to do it for them. Children also believed that social media apps should take on more responsibility in promoting online safety for children. We discuss the children's desires for agency, privacy, and automated intelligent assistance and provide novel design recommendations inspired by children.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3311927.3323133
Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
Keywords
Field
DocType
Children, Cooperative Inquiry, Mobile Applications, Online Safety, Participatory Design, Social Media, Stranger Danger
Internet privacy,Social media,Participatory design,Cooperative inquiry,Computer science,News media,Vision,Multimedia,Mobile apps
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-6690-8
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Karla Badillo-Urquiola11112.68
Diva Smriti200.34
Brenna McNally3789.20
Evan Golub424319.29
Elizabeth Bonsignore524026.41
Pamela J. Wisniewski621238.83