Paper Info
Title
Understanding Value and Design Choices Made by Android Family App Developers
Abstract
The rapidly expanding family mobile app market provides a great opportunity for children's education and development. However, recent research has revealed a prevalence of persuasive designs and tracking of children's data in these apps, which may harm children's online privacy and self-regulation development. We conducted 20 interviews with Android family app developers to understand their design practices. We used the lens of Value Sensitive Design to identify developer's values and how they translate them into design choices. Our findings show that though developer values are generally aligned with the best interest of users, they often must make compromises due to market pressure, lack of monetisation options, and the use of biased design guidelines. Our findings show a need for centralised actionable guidelines and important directions for HCI research to support both end-users' and developers' values.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3334480.3383064
CHI '20: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Honolulu HI USA April, 2020
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
Child safety online, developer practices, Value Sensitive Design, responsible design
Conference
978-1-4503-6819-3
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anirudh Ekambaranathan100.34
Jun Zhao286987.96
Max Van Kleek354258.95