RITEC

Celebrating Our 2026 Well-Being by Design Fellows

by Catherine Jhee
May 21, 2026

On May 19, 2026 the Joan Ganz Cooney Center celebrated our third cohort of Well-Being by Design Fellows with a webinar bringing together designers, researchers, game developers, educators, and media

What Makes Play Meaningful?

by Jen Chiou
April 22, 2026

“You see a Stone Lion blocking your path.”At SXSW Edu, a room full of educators leaned in as they approached the first NPC (nonplayer character) of the game. “Wait… what do

Designing Safe Online Communities to Promote Digital Thriving

by Catherine Jhee
December 15, 2025

What do kids have to do with the 500 billion dollar video game industry?Here at the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, we recognize that for so many young people, online play

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

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