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An Exploration of how Trust Online Relates to Psychological and Subjective Wellbeing (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Dowthwaite, L., Perez Vallejos, E., Portillo, V., Patel, M., Zhao, J., & Creswick, H. (2023). An Exploration of how Trust Online Relates to Psychological and Subjective Wellbeing. In TAS ‘23: Proceedings of The First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems 11-12 July 2023 Edinburgh, UK. https://doi.org/10.1145/3597512.3599708

Internet users often report feelings of stress, anxiety, and a lack of control, often related to uncertainty about the use of algorithms and autonomous systems (AS) behind what they encounter. This may lead to a loss of trust in the services, content... Read More about An Exploration of how Trust Online Relates to Psychological and Subjective Wellbeing.

The impact of algorithmic decision-making processes on young people’s well-being (2021)
Journal Article
Perez Vallejos, E., Dowthwaite, L., Creswick, H., Portillo, V., Koene, A., Jirotka, M., …McAuley, D. (2021). The impact of algorithmic decision-making processes on young people’s well-being. Health Informatics Journal, 27(1), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1177/1460458220972750

This study aims to capture the online experiences of young people when interacting with algorithm mediated systems and their impact on their well-being. We draw on qualitative (focus groups) and quantitative (survey) data from a total of 260 young pe... Read More about The impact of algorithmic decision-making processes on young people’s well-being.

Developing a measure of online wellbeing and user trust (2020)
Book Chapter
DOWTHWAITE, L., Perez Vallejos, E., Creswick, H., Portillo, V., Patel, M., & Zhao, J. (2020). Developing a measure of online wellbeing and user trust. In M. Arias-Oliva, J. Pelegrín-Borondo, K. Murata, & A. María Lara Palma (Eds.), Societal Challenges in the Smart Society (21-33). Logrono: Universidad de La Rioja

Developing a measure of online wellbeing and user trust (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Dowthwaite, L., Perez Vallejos, E., Creswick, H., Portillo, V., Patel, M., & Zhao, J. (2020). Developing a measure of online wellbeing and user trust. In Paradigm Shifts in ICT Ethics: Proceedings of the ETHICOMP 2020 18th International Conference on the Ethical and Social Impacts of ICT (26-28)

This paper describes the first stage of the ongoing development of two scales to measure online wellbeing and trust, based on the results of a series of workshops with younger and older adults. The first, the Online Wellbeing Scale includes subscales... Read More about Developing a measure of online wellbeing and user trust.

"It's your private information. it's your life.": young people's views of personal data use by online technologies (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Dowthwaite, L., Creswick, H., Portillo, V., Zhao, J., Patel, M., Perez Vallejos, E., …Jirotka, M. (2020). "It's your private information. it's your life.": young people's views of personal data use by online technologies. In IDC '20: Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children Conference (121-134). https://doi.org/10.1145/3392063.3394410

Children and young people make extensive and varied use of digital and online technologies, yet issues about how their personal data may be collected and used by online platforms are rarely discussed. Additionally, despite calls to increase awareness... Read More about "It's your private information. it's your life.": young people's views of personal data use by online technologies.

“… They don’t really listen to people”: Young people’s concerns and recommendations for improving online experiences (2019)
Journal Article
Creswick, H., Dowthwaite, L., Koene, A., Vallejos, E. P., Portillo, V., Cano, M., & Woodard, C. (2019). “… They don’t really listen to people”: Young people’s concerns and recommendations for improving online experiences. Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, 17(2), 167-182. https://doi.org/10.1108/JICES-11-2018-0090

© 2019, Helen Creswick, Liz Dowthwaite, Ansgar Koene, Elvira Perez Vallejos, Virginia Portillo, Monica Cano and Christopher Woodard. Purpose: The voices of children and young people have been largely neglected in discussions of the extent to which th... Read More about “… They don’t really listen to people”: Young people’s concerns and recommendations for improving online experiences.

Citizens’ juries: when older adults deliberate on the benefits and risks of smart health and smart homes (2019)
Journal Article
Chadborn, N., Blair, K., Creswick, H., Perez Vallejos, E., Hughes, N., Dowthwaite, L., & Adenekan, O. (2019). Citizens’ juries: when older adults deliberate on the benefits and risks of smart health and smart homes. Healthcare, 7(2), Article 54. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare7020054

Background: Technology-enabled healthcare or smart health has provided a wealth of products and services to enable older people to monitor and manage their own health conditions at home, thereby maintaining independence, whilst also reducing healthca... Read More about Citizens’ juries: when older adults deliberate on the benefits and risks of smart health and smart homes.

UnBias Youth Juries (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Dowthwaite, L., Creswick, H., Portillo, V., Cano, M., Vallejos, E. P., Koene, A., & Patel, M. (2018). UnBias Youth Juries. In SMSociety '18: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society (276-280). https://doi.org/10.1145/3217804.3217928

The UnBias Youth Juries engage young people in discussion of issues that affect their online lives, especially in relation to algorithms, through the presentation of scenarios and prompts. Results from the first wave of juries, held in February 2017,... Read More about UnBias Youth Juries.

Falling for fake news: Investigating the consumption of news via social media (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Flintham, M., Karner, C., Creswick, H., Bachour, K., Gupta, N., & Moran, S. (2018). Falling for fake news: Investigating the consumption of news via social media. In CHI '18: Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (1–10). https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173950

In the so called ‘post-truth’ era, characterized by a loss of public trust in various institutions, and the rise of ‘fake news’ disseminated via the internet and social media, individuals may face uncertainty about the veracity of information availab... Read More about Falling for fake news: Investigating the consumption of news via social media.