15 papers
A Social Norms Approach to Youth Social Media Design
JaeWon Kim
Young people consistently say they want authentic self-expression, less judgment, and more interpersonal trust on social media, yet they rarely manage to engage that way. My disser…
Mapping the Design Space for Youth Social Media: A Framework Centered on Friendship Building
JaeWon Kim
This dissertation develops a design framework for friendship-supportive youth social media. I conducted a qualitative meta-analysis across my formative, case-study, and co-design w…
Metaphors as Scaffolds: Spatial, Embodied, Fantastical, and Relational Framings for Youth Usable Privacy Design
JaeWon Kim, Alexis Hiniker
Drawing on observations from three prior studies with youth aged 13--24, we examine how metaphor shapes the way young people reason about privacy and imagine privacy designs beyond…
Social Understanding, Placeness, and Identity Alignment: A Design Framework for Friendship-Supportive Youth Social Media
JaeWon Kim, Alexis Hiniker
We present a design framework for friendship-supportive youth social media, derived from a synthesis of five empirical studies with 331 youth participants (ages 13-25) using interv…
The Capacity to Care: Designing Social Technology for Sustained Engagement With Societal Challenges
JaeWon Kim, Lindsay Popowski, Louisa Conwill +12
People care about climate change, injustice, and humanitarian crises. The challenge is not apathy but capacity: sustained engagement with large-scale problems is psychologically co…
Designing Youth Social Media through Problem Space Attunement
JaeWon Kim
Social media is central to how young people maintain relationships, develop identity, and access communities, yet dominant platform designs often leave youth feeling disempowered r…