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Call for Papers – Digital Wellbeing for Teens: Designing Educational Systems (DIGI-Teens
2025)
CHItaly 2025 Workshop
October 2025 - Salerno, Italy
More info:
https://sites.google.com/view/2nd-digiteens-ws
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ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
Recently, researchers have been examining the unforeseen issues caused by the excessive
use of personal devices and online services, especially as companies increasingly employ
"attention-capture" tactics like guilty-pleasure recommendations and automatic
content playback. These strategies exploit users' psychological vulnerabilities,
aiming to boost advertising revenue, resulting in tangible repercussions on users'
perceived agency and often leading to a perceived lack of control over their technology
use. These problems gave rise to a new kind of psychological "digital
wellbeing," investigated in fields such as Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and
psychology.
Traditional strategies employed by practitioners and researchers involve the creation of
Digital Self-Control Tools (DSCTs), i.e., mobile applications and browser extensions that
empower users to monitor their usage patterns and implement interventions, such as timers
and lock-out mechanisms, to self-regulate device usage. Yet, researchers and the users
themselves are starting to warn that achieving digital wellbeing is a path of personal
growth that requires education more than self-monitoring strategies.
The objective of this workshop is to establish a venue for the academic and industrial
communities to discuss ongoing research and ideas at the intersection of digital wellbeing
and education, aiming to promote the development of strategies and tools to
"teach" users – particularly children and teenagers – to use technology more
meaningfully and consciously. This objective can be achieved in multiple ways, such as by
creating novel DSCTs that include educational aspects, serious games, collaborative
platforms to introduce and support digital wellbeing learning at school, or leveraging AI
and, in particular, large language models (LLMs) to create adaptive, personalized
educational experiences that help users develop healthier digital habits and skills for
navigating online environments.
This workshop is part of the 16th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter
(CHItaly 2025).
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
We invite researchers and practitioners in interdisciplinary domains intersecting HCI, AI,
psychology, design, and/or education to engage in dialog on the topics below. A key
priority of our workshop will be to invite submissions from an intellectually diverse and
global group of participants to further discussions on how appropriate human-centered
design can contribute to digital wellbeing education. Prospective workshop participants
are invited to submit a position paper (2-4 pages) describing and highlighting their
contributions to the workshop topics.
The topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to:
- participatory and co-design of digital wellbeing systems;
- tools and strategies to teach digital wellbeing at school;
- strategies and tools for measuring students’ digital wellbeing;
- novel DSCTs that include educational aspects;
- gamification strategies for digital wellbeing;
- AI-based personalized digital wellbeing learning;
- ethical, social, and policy-making factors.
SUBMISSIONS
Submissions of position papers should be of 2-4 pages, in the ACM Primary Article
Submission Templates (single column,
https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template).
Papers should be submitted via EasyChair
(
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=digiteens2025). They will be reviewed by at least
one qualified reviewer with expertise in the relevant subject area. The workshop chairs
will make final acceptance decisions based on these reviews, considering factors such as
relevance to the workshop themes, originality of contribution, and overall quality. Upon
acceptance, at least one author of each accepted paper will be required to attend the
workshop. Virtual participation will be made possible.
Accepted and presented papers will be made available on CEUR Workshop Proceedings, if
possible, while workshop results will be published on our website.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: 14 July 2025
Notification: 1 August 2025
WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
Luca Scibetta, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Luigi De Russis, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Alberto Monge Roffarello, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Catia Prandi, Università di Bologna, Italy
Chiara Ceccarini, Università di Bologna, Italy