Extended Reality and Children: Risks, Opportunities, and Ethics, IDC 2025 Workshop

Juan Pablo Hourcade

Juan Pablo Hourcade is a Professor at The University of Iowa's Department of Computer Science and Director of Graduate Studies for the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Informatics.

Meryl Alper

Meryl Alper is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northeastern University, where she studies the social and cultural implications of communication technologies, with a focus on disability, digital media, and children and families’ technology use.

Elizabeth (Beth) Bonsignore

Elizabeth (Beth) Bonsignore is an assistant research scientist at the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies and Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL).

Tamara Clegg

Tamara Clegg is an Associate Professor and Program Director for the BA in Tech & Info Design at the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland.

Jerry Alan Fails

Jerry Alan Fails Jerry Alan Fails is Chair and Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho. His general area of research is Human-Computer Interaction, with a focus on designing technology with and for children. His current projects focus on seeking to support children as they search for information online, understanding privacy and fear, supporting children’s privacy and security, and expanding methods of designing technologies.

Greg Walsh

Greg Walsh is an Associate Professor in the Division of Science, Information Arts and Technologies in The University of Baltimore's Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences.

Svetlana "Lana" Yarosh

Svetlana "Lana" Yarosh is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science & Engineering Department at University of Minnesota.