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Towards Digital Well-being Education in High-School

Year: 2025

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: As technology becomes pervasive in our lives, particularly among young people, concerns about digital well-being are increasingly important. While self-regulatory approaches like digital self-control tools (DSCT) offer immediate solutions, their long-term effectiveness is not guaranteed. Though less explored, educational interventions may provide more profound changes in digital habits. Combining four co-design sessions with 74 high-school students and online questionnaires with 18 teachers, we investigated both students' and educators' preferences to develop innovative and acceptable solutions for digital well-being challenges. Analyzing the findings of these investigations, we provide 7 guidelines on modalities and approaches to enhance the design of digital well-being educational applications. Our findings advance the understanding of effective educational digital well-being interventions.

Source: Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA)

DOI: 10.1145/3706599.3720101

Authors: Luca Scibetta, Francesco Ballarini, Chiara Ceccarini, Alberto Monge Roffarello, Catia Prandi, Luigi De Russis

Institutions: Politecnico di Torino, University of Bologna

Language: English

Topic: Impact of Technology on Adolescents

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Quality education, Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: European Commission, NextGenerationEU