On 19 May 2026, CiTiP hosted a one-day interdisciplinary workshop titled Designing for Meaningful Choice: Protecting Children and Their Rights in Algorithmic Recommender Systems, bringing together scholars from law, ethics, computer science, human-computer interaction, communication science, and media psychology, alongside policy researchers and advocates.
Participants explored what it means to design for meaningful choice in recommender systems when the user is a child, a question that sits at the intersection of platform design, children’s rights, and cognitive development, to establish a longer-term research agenda on this subject.
The workshop was co-organized with the Knight-Georgetown Institute at Georgetown University, and supported by Ethics@KU Leuven and the Hoover Foundation Belgium through the Hoover Ethical Initiatives Seed Fund, which supports new transatlantic research collaborations.
The organizing team consisted of Prof. Dr. Aleksandra Kuczerawy and doctoral researcher Emine Özge Yıldırım Vranckaert, with special thanks to Alissa Cooper and Peter Chapman from the Knight-Georgetown Institute for their partnership from the very beginning.
