Nader Akoury

Collaborative Upstanding: Exploring Conversational Strategies for Cyberbullying Upstanding Education

Bystander intervention, or upstanding, is an effective antidote to cyberbullying, but entails many challenges (e.g. self-efficacy, not knowing what to do or how to upstand). Through two studies, this paper investigates collaborative upstanding, examining how a conversational partner (human or AI) can guide bystanders…