text: 242,2,1357442374239023104,14754639,Kai Lukoff,"Ever get lost on YouTube? We have a new CHI 2021 paper just for you: “How the Design of YouTube Influences User Sense of Agency” <LINK> Co-authored w/ @ulyngs @himanshuzade Vera Liao, James Choi, Kaiyue Fan, @smunson & Alexis Hiniker [1/5] We identify which design mechanisms users say affect their sense of control over the time they spend in the YouTube mobile app. Less control: recommendations, ads, autoplay. More control: Playlists, search, subscriptions, play controls, watch history [2/5] <LINK> The mechanism called out most often is recommendations. YouTube is wickedly good at the local optimization problem: Out of millions of videos, which one is the user most likely to watch? But the user lacks the ability to align these video recs w/ their long-term goals. [3/5] On the flipside, a design idea to support greater control: microplaning, i.e., making a lightweight plan to guide behavior for a short time. For example, encourage the user to create a short video playlist for their current session of use. [4/5] Our paper builds on fantastic earlier work by @UichinLee @EricPSB @gezakovacs @youngho_yhkim @gratydesign @AnnaCox_ @jcccf @elena_agapie and many others! [5/5]",https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.11778,"In the attention economy, video apps employ design mechanisms like autoplay that exploit psychological vulnerabilities to maximize watch time. Consequently, many people feel a lack of agency over their app use, which is linked to negative life effects such as loss of sleep. Prior design research has innovated external mechanisms that police multiple apps, such as lockout timers. In this work, we shift the focus to how the internal mechanisms of an app can support user agency, taking the popular YouTube mobile app as a test case. From a survey of 120 U.S. users, we find that autoplay and recommendations primarily undermine sense of agency, while search and playlists support it. From 13 co-design sessions, we find that when users have a specific intention for how they want to use YouTube they prefer interfaces that support greater agency. We discuss implications for how designers can help users reclaim a sense of agency over their media use. ",How the Design of YouTube Influences User Sense of Agency,5,"['Ever get lost on YouTube? We have a new CHI 2021 paper just for you: “How the Design of YouTube Influences User Sense of Agency” <LINK> Co-authored w/ @ulyngs @himanshuzade Vera Liao, James Choi, Kaiyue Fan, @smunson &amp; Alexis Hiniker [1/5]', 'We identify which design mechanisms users say affect their sense of control over the time they spend in the YouTube mobile app. Less control: recommendations, ads, autoplay. More control: Playlists, search, subscriptions, play controls, watch history [2/5] https://t.co/Ltps7vbcT4', 'The mechanism called out most often is recommendations. YouTube is wickedly good at the local optimization problem: Out of millions of videos, which one is the user most likely to watch? But the user lacks the ability to align these video recs w/ their long-term goals. [3/5]', 'On the flipside, a design idea to support greater control: microplaning, i.e., making a lightweight plan to guide behavior for a short time. For example, encourage the user to create a short video playlist for their current session of use. [4/5]', 'Our paper builds on fantastic earlier work by @UichinLee @EricPSB @gezakovacs @youngho_yhkim @gratydesign @AnnaCox_ @jcccf @elena_agapie and many others! [5/5]']",21,01,1185