Close to 525 participants, including academics, industries, and practitioners, attended the ACM’s Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2024. They gathered to discuss the role of design in creating universal solutions that innovation has created. Interestingly, this conference saw many researchers who presented solutions related to social media. Our team is delighted to be at the forefront of this race to design sustainable and user-centered solutions, specifically for disclosure-based cyberbullying, by presenting in one of the sessions tagged “Dark Manipulations.”
Almost 70 participants attended the session; our team presented design ideas that included using artificial intelligence tools to prevent the disclosure of personal information about others and solutions that reveal the need for (1) periodically creating and reviewing new and existing policies to reflect the evolving nature of social media platforms, (2) a universal declaration on social media privacy and safety as a fundamental human right, in tandem with the United Nations Human Rights Council’s resolution on human rights on the internet as well as (3) a system that give victims access to a range of real-time support options including psychological, peer and information support.
The full details of our paper can be found here.
Other related presentations include findings from a literature review that systematically characterize how novel and existing systems consider victims’ identity characteristics, definitions of harassment, and preferred strategies for dealing with harassment, as well as practical recommendations for researchers, designers, and practitioners to overcome these challenges. Evey Jiaxin Huang from Northwestern University presents this paper. The full details of the paper can be found here.
