@inproceedings{5422ecc1cb9648ab801f5c24e35d8b29,
title = "Tobe: A Virtual Keyboard and an Animated Character for Individual and Educational Cyberbullying Intervention",
abstract = "As the use of communication on social media among children increases, the cyberbullying phenomena is becoming a prominent challenge. We present the preliminary design of Tobe, a virtual keyboard that provides textual and visual feedback in real-time to help prevent harmful discourse on social media among elementary school-aged children. The widget is designed based on two unique principles: (1) An empathy based feedback mechanism which involves an animated character and verbal statements (both positive and negative); (2) A class specific solution in which children and the teacher build a vocabulary of words together. This element provides transparency as to why feedback was shown at any given moment, and can increase cooperation and empowerment for both the teacher and the children. We present the human centered design process and early results from a user study with 12 children. Our findings show high engagement with the system, and user awareness before texting.",
keywords = "Cyberbullying, Elementary school, Empathy, Real-time Feedback, Reflective technologies, Virtual keyboard",
author = "{Morag Yaar}, Noa and Eden Grossman and Noam Kimchi and Ofir Nash and Sagi Hatan and Hadas Erel",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 ACM.; 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2022 ; Conference date: 30-04-2022 Through 05-05-2022",
year = "2022",
month = apr,
day = "28",
doi = "10.1145/3491101.3519731",
language = "English",
series = "Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
booktitle = "CHI 2022 - Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems",
}
