CAREER: Safety by Design: Protecting Adolescents from Online Risks

该项目将调查青少年在线安全技术的关键差距可以通过利用交互设计作为一种手段来最大限度地减少在线风险，从而优化互联网技术为青少年提供的好处来弥补的机制。为此，工作将：（1）开发关于青少年如何体验在线风险的新见解，（2）确定青少年寻求支持以科普这些经历的机制，（3）将这些见解转化为可重复使用的设计模式，用于在线安全的社会技术干预，（4）直接与青少年合作，共同设计促进自我调节并利用其支持网络的解决方案，（5）将这些设计实例化为高保真原型和现实世界的应用程序，（6）评估这些解决方案是否适合帮助青少年更有效地管理在线风险，以及（7）将这些基于证据的社会技术干预措施传播给青少年在线平台的设计者和开发者。 这项工作是为了保护特别脆弱的青年群体，他们是在最高风险的严重伤害，因为他们缺乏积极的在线父母调解。该研究将青少年发展心理学与交互设计和计算机科学相结合，创造新的知识，理论框架，可重用的设计模式和技术。它使用青少年适应力的社会生态框架来设计技术，帮助青少年自我调节和利用现有的支持网络，教会他们如何更有效地管理在线风险。通过这样做，该项目通过以下方式为青少年在线安全文献做出了根本性贡献：（1）缩小青少年独特的发展需求与旨在保护青少年免受网络风险的系统之间的社会技术差距，以及（2）在文献中确定的风险和保护因素的基础上，设计有效和新颖的社会技术干预措施，以更有效地保护青少年免受在线风险此外，这种新颖的“安全设计”的方法将有助于经验的一个有用的知识，通过设计，开发，评估和传播青少年在线安全，可以很容易地转化为实践的循证社会技术干预措施，改善年轻人的生活。 这项研究旨在实现一个重大的范式转变，建立更多的以青少年为中心的社会技术解决方案，通过将青少年视为他们自己的在线安全的关键利益相关者和代理人来赋予他们权力。这项工作检查，设计，开发和评估创新的社会技术设计干预措施，使青少年能够在他们的支持网络的帮助下自我调节他们的在线风险体验。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

This project will investigate the mechanisms by which a critical gap in adolescent online safety technologies can be closed by leveraging interaction design as a means to minimize online risks, and thus to optimize the benefits internet-enabled technologies provide to youth. To do this, the work will: (1) develop novel insights as to how teens experience online risks, (2) identify the mechanisms by which teens seek support to cope with these experiences, (3) translate these insights into reusable design patterns for sociotechnical interventions for online safety, (4) work directly with teens to co-design solutions that promote self-regulation and leverage their support networks, (5) instantiate these designs into high-fidelity prototypes and real-world applications, (6) evaluate whether these solutions are developmentally appropriate in helping adolescents manage online risks more effectively, and (7) disseminate these evidence-based sociotechnical interventions for protecting adolescents from online risks to designers and developers of online platforms that cater to teens. This work serves to protect particularly vulnerable youth populations that are at highest risk of severe harm because they lack active online parental mediation.The research integrates adolescent developmental psychology with interaction design and computer science to create new knowledge, theoretical frameworks, reusable design patterns, and technologies. It uses a social ecological framework of adolescent resilience to design technologies that help teens self-regulate and leverage their existing support networks in a way that teaches them how to manage online risks more effectively. By doing so, this project makes fundamental contributions to the adolescent online safety literature by: (1) closing the sociotechnical gap between the unique developmental needs of adolescents and the systems designed to keep teens safe from online risks, and (2) building on the risk and protective factors that have been identified in the literature to design effective and novel sociotechnical interventions to more effectively protect teens from online risks. Further, this novel "Safety by Design" approach will empirically contribute to a body of useful knowledge that improves the lives of young people by designing, developing, evaluating, and disseminating evidence-based sociotechnical interventions for adolescent online safety that can be easily translated to practice. This research seeks to achieve a significant paradigm shift towards building more teen-centric sociotechnical solutions that empower teens by treating them as key stakeholders and agents of their own online safety. The work examines, designs, develops, and evaluates innovative sociotechnical design interventions that empower teens to self-regulate their online risk experiences with the help of their support networks.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.