Feelbook: A Social Media App for Teens Designed to Foster Positive Online
Behavior and Prevent Cyberbullying
Late-Breaking Works: Collaborative Technologies
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Fan, Mingyue
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Yu, Liyue
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Bowler, Leanne
Extended Abstracts of the ACM CHI'16 Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems
2016-05-07
v.2
p.1187-1192
© Copyright 2016 ACM
Summary: This project presents a prototype for a stand-alone social media application
designed for teenage users in order to prevent and mitigate mean and cruel
online behavior. The purpose of the app is to create a nurturing environment
where teenagers use a variety of features designed to help raise self-awareness
of their own online behavior, seek support when needed, and learn to control
and, when possible, correct aggressive behavior. The prototype is framed by
four design principles: design for reflection, design for empathy, design for
empowerment, and design for the whole. We conclude by outlining the next steps
in our project to develop an application that helps to improve the online
experiences of young people. This work has implications for the CHI community
because it applies software solutions to tackle a critical social problem that
can affect the health and well being of young people.
Visual metaphors to model metacognitive strategies that support memory
during the process of refinding information
Poster session
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Bowler, Leanne
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Mattern, Eleanor
Proceedings of the 2012 Symposium on Information Interaction in Context
2012-08-21
p.250-253
© Copyright 2012 ACM
Summary: This paper reports on a study that models the metacognitive thinking of
users in relation to memory and refinding information. Twenty-seven
participants, in five separate groups ranging in age from 13 to early 30's,
sketched visual metaphors representing strategies and interventions that the
participants thought would remind them to remember before information was lost,
in order to better relocate information. Nine themes emerged: embeddedness,
fear and anxiety, interruptions, messiness and discomfort, locked doors and
barriers, proximity and adjacency, signs and tattoos, scripts, and finally, the
voice. This study started from the premise that design should begin with the
user's metaphor as a way to describe the user's mind and ways of thinking and
end with the designer mapping the metaphor to the artifact. The long term goal
of this work is to move from ideation to implementation, using the users'
metaphors of the mind as a basis for the design of information environments
that scaffold metacognition during the search process.
Design techniques for revealing adolescent memory processes related to
information seeking: a preliminary study
08 13:30 Interaction Design
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Bowler, Leanne
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Mattern, Eleanor
Proceedings of the 2012 iConference
2012-02-07
p.1-9
© Copyright 2012 Authors
Summary: This study investigates the effectiveness of design techniques as a means
for uncovering metamemory, an attribute of metacognition, and its role in
information seeking. A focus group with four adolescents aged 13 and 14 used
design techniques such as brainstorming and sketching, metaphorical design and
fictional inquiry, to help express their thinking about their own memory
processes during the information search process. Results showed that
metaphorical design and fictional inquiry are both effective tools for
revealing conceptual thinking about metamemory and information seeking.
Coupling these techniques with brainstorming and sketching helped the teens to
visualize and communicate their ideas. Results from this study will contribute
to knowledge about adolescent thinking, metamemory, and information seeking
behavior, broaden the range of methodological approaches used in the study of
information seeking behavior, and will provide cognitive models for the design
of information systems and tools that scaffold metacognition.
Who is referring teens to health information on the web?: hyperlinks between
blogs and health web sites for teens
Health Information
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Bowler, Leanne
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He, Daqing
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Hong, Wan Yin
Proceedings of the 2011 iConference
2011-02-08
p.238-243
© Copyright 2011 ACM
Summary: This study analyzes the hyperlinks leading to six teen health web sites from
a specific form of social media -- blogs -- in order to discover who is
referring teens to reliable health information. This was done by gathering
inlink data using Google Webmaster Tools and then classifying inlink sources by
type of creator. The study found that the teen health web sites in this study
had a weak level of referrals from health-related groups compared to other
organizations such as schools, and public libraries. With regard to blogs, we
saw that personal blogs out-numbered blogs in any other category. We saw little
evidence of blogs -- either personal or official -- created by health care
professionals, a group which might be expected to actively refer teens to
reliable health information. The weak network of inlinks leading from reliable
health care providers is a lost opportunity for health care professionals to
reach young people. Due to the weak network of inlinks from reliable health
information sources, teens may not be accessing accurate and reliable health
information. This could have a potential cost in terms of health outcomes. The
results of this study present a snap shot rather than all-inclusive view of the
visibility of teen health web sites and offer a starting point for further
investigation.
EDITED BOOK
New directions in cognitive information retrieval
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Spink, Amanda
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Cole, Charles
2005
p.250
Springer
I. INTRODUCTION
1. Introduction: New Directions in Cognitive Information Retrieval
+ Spink, Amanda
+ Cole, Charles
II. CIR CONCEPTS
2. Interactive Information Retrieval: Bringing the User to a Selection State
+ Cole, Charles
+ Beheshti, Jamshid
+ Leide, John E.
+ Large, Andrew
3. Cognitive Overlaps along the Polyrepresentation Continuum
+ Larsen, Birger
+ Ingwersen, Peter
4. Integrating Approaches to Relevance
+ Ruthven, Ian
5. New Cognitive Directions
+ Ford, Nigel
III. CIR PROCESSES
6. A Multitasking Framework for Cognitive Information Retrieval
+ Spink, Amanda
+ Cole, Charles
7. Explanation in Information Seeking and Retrieval
+ Vakkari, Pertti
+ Järvelin, Kalervo
8. Towards An Alternative Information Retrieval System for Children
+ Beheshti, Jamshid
+ Bowler, Leanne
+ Large, Andrew
+ Nesset, Valerie
IV. CIR TECHNIQUES
9. Implicit Feedback: Using Behavior to Infer Relevance
+ Kelly, Diane
10. Educational Knowledge Domain Visualizations: Tools to Navigate, Understand, and Internalize the Structure of Scholarly Knowledge and Expertise
+ Hook, Peter A.
+ Borner, Katy
11. Learning and Training to Search
+ Lucas, Wendy
+ Topi, Heikki
V. CONCLUSIONS
12. Conclusion and Further Research
+ Spink, Amanda
+ Cole, Charles
