RITEC

Youth and Well-Being at UNGA80

by Catherine Jhee
October 2, 2025

Last week, during the United Nations General Assembly (#UNGA80), the Joan Ganz Cooney Center was honored to participate in important conversations about how technology is shaping young people’s lives—and what

The 2025 WBxD Fellows Take Their Show on the Road

by Sarah Jacobstein
July 31, 2025

What did our 2025 Well-Being by Design Fellows learn about designing tech with kids’ well-being in mind? A lot, it turns out!During the intensive five-month program, the 12 mid-career designers

Panel at IDC 2025: Innovating Digital Play: Partnership for research-driven industry impact

by Administrator
June 10, 2025

The goal of this panel is to present a research and industry design deployment collaboration, in designing digital play for children’s well-being. The panel will share processes, learnings, and ideas moving forward,

Into the Digital Future: Designing Children’s Digital Play for Well-Being with Shuli Gilutz

by Laura Higgins and Jordan Shapiro
November 19, 2024

In this episode of Into the Digital Future, Shuli Gilutz speaks with Jordan Shapiro and Laura Higgins about the Responsible Innovation in Technology for Children (RITEC) initiative, led by The

Introducing the RITEC Design Toolbox to support children’s well-being in digital play

by Sarah Jacobstein
November 13, 2024

Here at the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, we talk to a lot of folks who design digital products for children. One topic that comes up consistently is the challenge of

Preparing Engineers to Design the Future of Well-being in Digital Spaces

by Franceli Cibrian
July 30, 2024

As an instructor at the Fowler School of Engineering at Chapman University, I teach an undergraduate Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) class regularly. This class is a hands-on, project-based course that teaches

Bringing RITEC Learnings to Life and Putting them into Practice

by Sarah Jacobstein
July 16, 2024

During the week of the 2024 Games for Change Festival, the Cooney Center had the privilege of helping to organize a series of events to bring the Responsible Innovation in

Celebrating Our Inaugural Well-Being by Design Fellows

by Catherine Jhee
July 12, 2024

In 2024, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center invited 10 professionals who design kids tech to join us for the inaugural Well-Being by Design Fellowship. The organizations that these fellows represent

New Research from UNICEF Innocenti Tests the RITEC Framework with Kids

by Sarah Jacobstein
April 30, 2024

We are very excited to share new research produced by UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight as part of the Responsible Innovation in Technology for Children (RITEC)

Can Digital Games Enhance Children’s Well-being?

by Bruce D. Homer, Jan L. Plass, & Fabian Froehlich
April 30, 2024

The importance of play for children’s development and learning has long been recognized by parents, educators and researchers.1 Much of our lives are now being lived in digital contexts, and

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