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Procedural Collapse: A Structural Account of Disengagement in LLM-Assisted Writing
JaeWon Kim, Katelyn X. Mei
When students use large language models for writing, the dominant explanation for disengagement is dispositional: they are over-reliant, and the remedy is to scaffold self-regulati…
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…
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…
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…
Sustainable Care: Designing Technologies That Support Children's Long-Term Engagement with Social Issues
JaeWon Kim, Aayushi Dangol, Rotem Landesman +2
Children today encounter social issues -- climate change, conflict, inequality -- through digital technologies, and the design of that encounter shapes whether young people move to…
Toward Needs-Conscious Design: Co-Designing a Human-Centered Framework for AI-Mediated Communication
Robert Wolfe, Aayushi Dangol, JaeWon Kim +1
We introduce Needs-Conscious Design, a human-centered framework for AI-mediated communication that builds on the principles of Nonviolent Communication (NVC). We conducted an inter…
Children's Mental Models of AI Reasoning: Implications for AI Literacy Education
Aayushi Dangol, Robert Wolfe, Runhua Zhao +4
As artificial intelligence (AI) advances in reasoning capabilities, most recently with the emergence of Large Reasoning Models (LRMs), understanding how children conceptualize AI's…
Design for Hope: Cultivating Deliberate Hope in the Face of Complex Societal Challenges
JaeWon Kim, Jiaying "Lizzy" Liu, Lindsay Popowski +10
Design has the potential to cultivate hope in the face of complex societal challenges. These challenges are often addressed through efforts aimed at harm reduction and prevention -…
Trust-Enabled Privacy: Social Media Designs to Support Adolescent User Boundary Regulation
JaeWon Kim, Robert Wolfe, Ramya Bhagirathi Subramanian +3
Adolescents heavily rely on social media to build and maintain close relationships, yet current platform designs often make self-disclosure feel risky or uncomfortable. Through a t…
Social Media Should Feel Like Minecraft, Not Instagram: Youth Visions for Meaningful Social Connections through Fictional Inquiry
JaeWon Kim, Hyunsung Cho, Fannie Liu +1
We conducted co-design workshops with 23 participants (ages 15--24) to explore how youth envision ideal remote social connection. Using Fictional Inquiry (FI) within a Harry Potter…
"A Party That Never Stops": Designing Digital Third Places for Young People's Friendships on Discord
JaeWon Kim, Thea Klein-Balajee, Ryan M. Kelly +1
Third places---informal settings where relationships grow through repeated casual contact---are increasingly inaccessible to young people. Prior work shows that virtual third place…
Privacy as Social Norm: Systematically Reducing Dysfunctional Privacy Concerns on Social Media
JaeWon Kim, Soobin Cho, Robert Wolfe +2
Through co-design interviews () and a design evaluation survey (N=136) with U.S. teens ages 13-18, we investigated teens' privacy management on social media. Our study reveal…
"Sharing, Not Showing Off": How BeReal Approaches Authentic Self-Presentation on Social Media Through Its Design
JaeWon Kim, Robert Wolfe, Ishita Chordia +2
Adolescents are particularly vulnerable to the pressures created by social media, such as heightened self-consciousness and the need for extensive self-presentation. In this study,…
Envisioning New Futures of Positive Social Technology: Beyond Paradigms of Fixing, Protecting, and Preventing
JaeWon Kim, Lindsay Popowski, Anna Fang +8
Social technology research today largely focuses on mitigating the negative impacts of technology and, therefore, often misses the potential of technology to enhance human connecti…