Agha, Z., Dumaru, P., Samreen Ali, N., & Wisniewski, P. J. (2026, June). Training Wheels, Not Guardrails: Supporting Teen Agency Through Real-Time Online Safety Nudges for Social Media. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (pp. 320-340). https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3773077.3806123
Ma, R., Geissler, D., Feuerriegel, S., Lauinger, T., McCoy, D., & Wisniewski, P. J. (2026). Analyzing Social Media Claims regarding Youth Online Safety Features to Identify Problem Areas and Communication Gaps. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 10(2), 1-31. https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3788041
Alluhidan, A., Ma, R., Park, J. K., Agha, Z., Yin, Z., & Wisniewski, P. J. (2026, April). Leveraging Affordances as a Lens: A Systematic Review of Social Media Benefits and Risks for Adolescents. In Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-21). https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3772318.3791092
Sweigart, E. A., & Wisniewski, P. J. (2026). Decentralized Governance for Youth Online Safety: Open Innovation, Digital Democracy, and Federated Social Media. https://www.intechopen.com/online-first/1248562
2025
Agha, Z., Martinez, M., Ali, N. S., DiFranzo, D., & Wisniewski, P. J. (2025, October). SocialSim: An Open Source Platform for Conducting Behavioral Intervention Research on Social Media. In Companion Publication of the 2025 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (pp. 528-531). https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3715070.3757229
Ali, N. S., Ma, R., Agha, Z., Park, J. K., & Wisniewski, P. J. (2025). Teens as co-researchers: Advocating for disruptive change to engage youth meaningfully in online safety research and the design of social media. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 9(7), 1-31. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3757665
Park, J. K., Ma, R., Ali, N. S., Baptiste, N. J., Agha, Z., & Wisniewski, P. J. (2025). Teens, privacy, and algorithms: Navigating and co-designing solutions for interpersonal boundary management on social media. In Proceedings of the 24th Interaction Design and Children (pp. 589-607). https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3713043.3728840
Sweigart, E. A., Valliani, A., & Wisniewski, P. J. (2025). Pause, reflect, and redirect: An approach to empowering youth to be safer online by helping them make better decisions. Social Sciences, 14(5), 302. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/14/5/302
2024
Ali, N. S., Ahn, T., Agha, Z., Park, J. K., & Wisniewski, P. J. (2024, May). From ideas to impact: Cracking the code for effectively engaging teens in long-term online safety research. In Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-7). https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3613905.3650765
Agha, Z., Park, J., Wan, R., Ali, N. S., Wang, Y., Difranzo, D., … & Wisniewski, P. J. (2024, May). Tricky vs. transparent: Towards an ecologically valid and safe approach for evaluating online safety nudges for teens. In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-20). https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3613904.3642313
Ali, N. S., Agha, Z., Chatlani, N., Park, J., & Wisniewski, P. J. (2024, May). A case study on facilitating a long-term youth advisory board to involve youth in adolescent online safety research. In Extended abstracts of the CHI conference on human factors in computing systems (pp. 1-8). https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3613905.3637121
Obajemu, O., Agha, Z., Chowdhury, F. A., & Wisniewski, P. J. (2024). Towards enforcing good digital citizenship: identifying opportunities for adolescent online safety nudges. Proceedings of the ACM on human-computer interaction, 8(CSCW1), 1-37. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3637413
2023
Agha, Z., Miu, K., Piper, S., Park, J., & Wisniewski, P. J. (2023, October). Co-designing user personas and risk scenarios for evaluating adolescent online safety interventions. In Companion publication of the 2023 conference on computer supported cooperative work and social computing (pp. 249-253). https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3584931.3606964
Jean Baptiste, N., Park, J., Chatlani, N., Ali, N. S., & Wisniewski, P. J. (2023, October). Teens on Tech: Using an Asynchronous Remote Community to Explore Adolescents’ Online Safety Perspectives. In Companion publication of the 2023 conference on computer supported cooperative work and social computing (pp. 45-49). https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3584931.3606967
Razi, A., Alsoubai, A., Kim, S., Ali, S., Stringhini, G., De Choudhury, M., & Wisniewski, P. J. (2023). Sliding into my DMs: Detecting uncomfortable or unsafe sexual risk experiences within Instagram direct messages grounded in the perspective of youth. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 7(CSCW1), 1-29. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3579522
Agha, Z., Badillo-Urquiola, K., & Wisniewski, P. J. (2023). ” Strike at the root”: co-designing real-time social media interventions for adolescent online risk prevention. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 7(CSCW1), 1-32. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3579625
Chatlani, N., Davis, A., Badillo-Urquiola, K., Bonsignore, E., & Wisniewski, P. (2023). Teen as research-apprentice: A restorative justice approach for centering adolescents as the authority of their own online safety. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, 35, 100549. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2212868922000678
2022
Dev, P., Medina, J., Agha, Z., De Choudhury, M., Razi, A., & Wisniewski, P. J. (2022, November). From ignoring strangers’ solicitations to mutual sexting with friends: Understanding youth’s online sexual risks in Instagram private conversations. In Companion Publication of the 2022 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (pp. 94-97). https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3500868.3559469
Ali, S., Razi, A., Kim, S., Soubai, A., Gracie, J., Choudhury, M., Wisniewski, P., Stringhini, G., (2022) “Understanding the Digital Lives of Youth: Analyzing Media Shared within Safe Versus Unsafe Private Conversations on Instagram,” In the Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, (CHI 2022).
Razi, A., Alsoubai, A., Kim, S., Naher, N., Ali, S., Stringhini, G., De Choudhury, M., and Wisniewski, P. , (2022) “Instagram Data Donation: A Case Study on Collecting Ecologically Valid Social Media Data for the Purpose of Adolescent Online Risk Detection,” In the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, (CHI 2022)
Agha, Z., Zhang, Z., Obajemu, O., Shirley, L., Wisniewski, P. , (2022) “A Case Study on User Experience Bootcamps with Teens to Co-Design Real-Time Online Safety Interventions,” In the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, (CHI 2022)
2021
Rutkowski, T., Hartikainen, H., Kristen, R., and Wisniewski, P. , (2021) “Family Communication: Examining the Differing Perceptions of Parents and Teens Regarding Online Safety Communication,” In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, (CSCW 2021)https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3479517
Caddle, X., Razi, A., Kim, S., Ali, S., Popo, T., Stringhini, G., De Choudhury, M., and Wisniewski, P. , (2021) “MOSafely: Building an Open-Source HCAI Community to Make the Internet a Safer Place for Youth,” Workshop at the 2021 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2021)
Badillo-Urquiola, K., Shea, Z., Agha, Z., Lediaeva, I., Wisniewski, P., (2021) “Conducting Risky Research with Teens: Co-designing for the Ethical Treatment and Protection of Adolescents” In the Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2021) https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3432930
2020
Agha, Z., Chatlani, N., Razi, A., Wisniewski, P., (2020) “Towards Conducting Responsible Research with Teens and Parents regarding Online Risks” Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2020), Honolulu, HI, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3334480.3383073
Razi, A., Agha, Z., Chatlani, N., Wisniewski, P., (2020) “Privacy Challenges for Adolescents as a Vulnerable Population” Networked Privacy Workshop of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2020), Honolulu, HI, USA. https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3587558
Chatlani, N., Shea, Z., Wisniewski, P., (2020) “Teenovate: Using Intergenerational Participatory Design to Teach Students about Adolescent Online Safety” Extended Abstract presented at the 2020 ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference on Teaching the Next Generation of Child-Computer Interaction Researchers and Designers Workshop (IDC 2020)
Agha, Z., Badillo-Urquiola, K. Chatlani, N., Alsoubai, A., Wisniewski, P., (2020) “Socially Responsible Computing in Adolescent Online Safety” Extended Abstract presented at the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Workshop on Collective Organizing and Social Responsibility, (CSCW 2020)