Mobile Gambling: Unexplored Risks to Children and Families
Pediatrics, 157(3):e2025073040, 2026.
Project Description
Family tech content
Publications
Parents' Ontological Beliefs Regarding the Use of Conversational Agents at Home: Resisting the Neoliberal Discourse
Learning, Media and Technology, 49(2):290–305, 2023.
Social Emotional Learning with Conversational Agents: Reviewing Current Designs and Probing Parents' Ideas for Future Ones
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), 6(2):1-23, 2022.
Parenting in a Pandemic: Juggling Multiple Roles and Managing Technology Use in Family Life During COVID-19 in the United States
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 5(CSCW2):1-39, 2021.
When Screen Time Isn’t Screen Time: Tensions and Needs Among Tweens and Their Parents During Nature-Based Exploration
Proceedings of the 2021 ACM conference on human factors in computing systems (CHI 2021). Acceptance rate: 26%.
Can Conversational Agents Change the Way Children Talk to People?
Proceedings of the 20th annual ACM conference on interaction design and children (IDC 2021).
Parenting with Alexa: Exploring the Introduction of Smart Speakers on Family Dynamics
Proceedings of the 2020 ACM conference on human factors in computing systems (CHI 2020). Acceptance rate: 24%.
Assumptions Checked: How Families Learn About and Use the Echo Dot
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), 4(1):1-23, 2020.
Lights, Music, Stamps! Evaluating Mealtime Tangibles for Preschoolers
Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM conference on tangible, embedded, and embodied interactions (TEI 2019). Acceptance rate: 34%.
Understanding Parents’ Perspectives on Mealtime Technology
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), 3(1):5, 1-19, 2019.
'Everything's the Phone': Understanding the Phone’s Supercharged Role in Parent-Teen Relationships
Proceedings of the 2019 ACM conference on human factors in computing systems (CHI 2019). Acceptance rate: 23%.
Communication Breakdowns Between Families and Alexa
Proceedings of the 2019 ACM conference on human factors in computing systems (CHI 2019). Acceptance rate: 23%.
Anchored Audio Sampling: A Seamless Method for Exploring Children’s Thoughts and Reactions During Deployment Studies
Proceedings of the 2019 ACM conference on human factors in computing systems (CHI 2019). Acceptance rate: 23%.
Best paper award (top 1%)
Let's Play! Digital and Analog Play Patterns between Preschoolers and Parents
Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2018). Acceptance rate: 25.7%.
Joint Media Engagement between Parents and Preschoolers in the U.S., China, and Taiwan
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, CSCW, 2(192):1-19, 2018.
Coco’s Videos: An Empirical Investigation of Video-Player Design Features and Children's Media Use
Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2018). Acceptance rate: 25.7%.
Best paper honorable mention (top 5%)
It wasn't really about the Pokémon: Parents' Perspectives on a Location-Based Mobile Game
Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2017). Acceptance rate: 25%.
Plan & Play: Supporting Intentional Media Use in Early Childhood
Proceedings of the 18th Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC 2017). Acceptance rate: 21%.
Best paper honorable mention (top three papers)
Screen Time Tantrums: How Families Manage Screen Media Experiences for Young Children
Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2016). Acceptance rate: 23%.
Best paper honorable mention (top 5%)
Not at the Dinner Table: Parents' and Children's Perspectives on Family Technology Rules
Proceedings of the 19th Annual ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2016). Acceptance rate: 25%.
Texting While Parenting: How Adults Use Mobile Phones When Caring for Children at the Playground
Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2015). Acceptance rate: 25%.
@BabySteps: Design and Evaluation of a System for Using Twitter for Tracking Children's Developmental Milestones
Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2014). Acceptance rate: 23%.
Go Go Games: Therapeutic Video Games for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Proceedings of the 14th Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC 2013). Acceptance rate: 33%.
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