Youth Connections for Wellbeing

UNDERSTANDING HOW TECHNOLOGY CAN SUPPORT SOCIAL CONNECTIONS AND WELLBEING AMONG YOUTH

The Youth Connections for Wellbeing project is aimed at exploring how technology can create opportunities to develop social connections and wellbeing among youth. While much work has been done in recent years to understand the digital media practices of youth—including research focused on learning and motivation, interest, identity, social development, and creative expression—there is still a large amount of misconceptions surrounding the use of technology to develop mental health and social emotional wellness. Young people are forming online communities that communicate and interact through the use of technology platforms such as digital games and social media. The goal of Youth Connections for WellBeing initiative is to identify, develop, and test digital strategies for developing mental well being which are informed by active engagement and participation with online communities of young people.

PIs: Mizuko Ito, Candice Odgers, Katie Salen, Stephen Schueller

 

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Spaces of Refuge series:

Du, Y. (2020). Designing and Evaluating Young Children’s Interaction During an Alexa Trivia Game (Doctoral Dissertation, University of California, Irvine, CA, United States). Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7806m2dr

Du, Y., Sheng, L., & Tekinbas, K. S. (2020, June). ” Try your best” parent behaviors during administration of an online language assessment tool for bilingual Mandarin-English children. In Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children Conference (pp. 409-420). https://doi.org/10.1145/3392063.3394441

Du, Y., & Tekinbas, K. S. (2020). Bridging the gap in mobile interaction design for children with disabilities: Perspectives from a pediatric speech language pathologist. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, 23, 100152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcci.2019.100152

Du, Y. (2018). Unpacking play in the clinical context: Mobile app use and design between children with disabilities and their speech language pathologists. In Proceedings of Meaningful Play 2018, ETC Press, 114-131.