Renkai Ma

schoolUniversity of Cincinnatibar_chart#2299 Global Rank

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#2299

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Leveraging Affordances as a Lens: A Systematic Review of Social Media Benefits and Risks for Adolescents

Although social media use is ubiquitous among adolescents, research often emphasizes benefits and risks without considering the design-based affordances that may influence these experiences. Affordances enable or constrain user behavior and thus provide a valuable lens for promoting positive online engagement. To this…

CHI '262nd AuthorHuman-LLM Collaboration +3

Characterizing User-Reported Risks across LLM Chatbots

As Large Language Models (LLMs) become increasingly integral to daily life, users are engaging with multiple LLM chatbots for various needs; however, prior research on LLM risks often remains lab-based or focuses on single LLMs like ChatGPT or singular risks like privacy. To gain a multi-risk, cross-chatbot understand…

CHI '261st AuthorAgent Personality & Anthropomorphism +2

Negotiating Digital Identities with AI Companions: Motivations, Strategies, and Emotional Outcomes

AI companions enable deep emotional relationships by engaging a user's sense of identity, but they also pose risks like unhealthy emotional dependence. Mitigating these risks requires first understanding the underlying process of identity construction and negotiation with AI companions. Focusing on Character.AI (C.AI)…

CHI '261st AuthorYouth Online Safety & Privacy +2

From "Fail Fast" to "Mature Safely:" Expert Perspectives as Secondary Stakeholders on Teen-Centered Social Media Risk Detection

In addressing various risks on social media, the HCI community has advocated for teen-centered risk detection technologies over platform-based, parent-centered features. However, their real-world viability remains underexplored by secondary stakeholders beyond the family unit. Therefore, we present an evaluation of a…

CSCW '252nd AuthorReflecting on Methodology

Teens as Co-Researchers: Advocating for Disruptive Change to Engage Youth Meaningfully in Online Safety Research and the Design of Social Media

Academic research is largely an adult endeavor that creates systemic power imbalances when studying teen-centered topics, such as adolescent online safety. To rectify this problem, we engaged seven teens as co-researchers through a year-and-a-half-long Youth Advisory Board (YAB) program to critically assess our resear…

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