University of Cincinnati

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CHI '26Social Platform Design & User Behavior +2

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 '26Human-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 '26Agent 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 '26Youth 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 '25Reflecting 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…

CHI '23Smart Home Interaction Design +2

Co-designing Community-based Sharing of Smarthome Devices for the Purpose of Co-monitoring In-home Emergencies

We conducted 26 co-design interviews with 50 smarthome device owners to understand the perceived benefits, drawbacks, and design considerations for developing a smarthome system that facilitates co-monitoring with emergency contacts who live outside of one's home. Participants felt that such a system would help ensure…

CSCW '22Privacy at Various Life Stages; Privacy at Various Life Stages

From Parental Control to Joint Family Oversight: Can Parents and Teens Manage Mobile Online Safety and Privacy Together?

Our research aims to highlight and alleviate the complex tensions around online safety, privacy, and smartphone usage in families so that parents and teens can work together to better manage mobile privacy and security-related risks. We developed a mobile application ("app") for Community Oversight of Privacy and Secu…

CHI '22Design Fiction +1

One Week in the Future: Previs Design Futuring for HCI Research

We explore the use of cinematic "pre-visualization" (previs) techniques as a rapid ideation and design futuring method for human computer interaction (HCI) research. Previs approaches, which are widely used in animation and film production, use digital design tools to create medium-fidelity videos that capture richer…

CHI '22Generative AI (Text, Image, Music, Video) +1

Methodological Reflections on Ways of Seeing

The computer as a creative medium has largely influenced how we make, use, and share images. This study investigates how similarly or distinctively human designers and the computers see (i.e., process visual information from the activity of seeing) in creative practice. Based on the review of the perspectives relevant…

CSCW '21Privacy and Security

Examining Collaborative Support for Privacy and Security in the Broader Context of Tech Caregiving

Managing digital privacy and security is often a collaborative process, where groups of individuals work together to share information and give one another advice. Yet, this collaborative process is not always reciprocal or equally shared. In many cases, individuals with more expertise help others without receiving he…

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