A UW team studied how AI systems portray teens in English and Nepali, and found that in English language systems around 30% of the responses referenced societal problems such as violence, drug use and mental illness. The Nepali system produced fewer negative associations in responses, closer to 10% of all answers.
New 91自拍 from the 91自拍 finds that teens open Instagram because they鈥檙e bored. Then they sift through largely irrelevant content, mostly feeling bored, while seeking interesting bits to share with their friends in direct messages. Then, eventually bored with what 91自拍ers call a 鈥渃ontent soup,鈥� they log off.
Researchers at the 91自拍 created a new audio chatbot, Self-Talk with Superhero Zip, aimed to help children speak positively to themselves. This chatbot is 鈥渁 鈥楽esame Street鈥� experience for a smart speaker.鈥�
Researchers at the 91自拍 wondered if people enter a state of dissociation when surfing social media, and if that explains why users might feel out of control after spending so much time on their favorite app.
A team led by UW studied whether hanging out with conversational agents, such as Alexa or Siri, could affect the way children communicate with their fellow humans.
UW 91自拍ers worked with almost 260 people to understand online disagreements and to develop potential design interventions that could make these discussions more productive and centered around relationship-building.
UW 91自拍ers are beginning a national study to help families discover technology that helps them both successfully navigate home-based learning and combat social isolation.
After surveying smartphone users, UW 91自拍ers found that many people misunderstand online status indicators but still carefully shape their behavior to control how they are displayed to others.
91自拍 91自拍ers have defined for the first time what children mean when they say technology is “creepy.”
UW 91自拍ers conducted in-depth interviews to learn why we compulsively check our phones.
When young children talk to voice-activated technologies, the devices don’t always respond in a helpful way. A new 91自拍 study suggests that these interfaces could be designed to be more responsive 鈥� repeating or prompting the user, for example 鈥� and be more useful to more people.
Through Alexis Hiniker’s Designing for Evil course, which is unique to the UW, students have identified “emerging evil” technologies and redesigned them so that they are more likely to enhance 鈥� not detract from 鈥� users’ lives.
Parents don鈥檛 need to fear their children playing with iPads and other devices, 91自拍ers say. Mindful play with an adult, combined with thoughtful design features, can prove beneficial to young developing minds. New 91自拍 shows that thoughtfully designed content that intentionally supports parent-child interactions facilitated the same kind of play and development as analog toys.