Technological Influence on Self-esteem: Towards a Research Agenda Through a Systematic Literature Review

Design recommendations under the Self-determination theory: Analyzing some systems and their implication to self-esteem

“…In a previous study (Muriana & Baranauskas, 2021b), we conducted a SLR (Systematic Literature Review) whose key question was "Have technologies been designed to explicitly (positively) affect/impact self-esteem?". Based on the PRISMA protocol (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyzes) (Moher et al, 2010), a specific search string drove an automatic search on the main scientific sources considered by the computer academic community: ACM Digital Library, IEEE Xplore, SpringerLink and Science Direct.…”

“…Thus, the SLR process was conducted in three stages: the automatic search in pre-defined scientific sources, to which we applied a defined search string (resulting in 3,668 papers); the pre-selection, which occurred from the reading of the title and abstract of the papers raised from the previous stage, considering the inclusion and exclusion criteria defined for this stage (resulting in 171 studies); and the final selection, which required us the full and detailed reading the pre-selected papers (resulting in 41 studies). Details of the SLR process and its major results are out of the scope of this paper, and are reported elsewhere (Muriana & Baranauskas, 2021b).…”

“…Regarding the current work, we proceeded with considering also other inclusion and exclusion criteria defined specifically for the aims of this work. From the 41 studies we got previously (Muriana & Baranauskas, 2021b), we carried out a meta-analysis on a subset of these original final selected set of papers in a way we could raise design recommendations regarding the user's self-esteem. As the 41 papers address the relation between technology and self-esteem in different ways, we proceeded with considering two specific questions defined specifically for this current work: i) Does the paper discuss systems' features to affect self-esteem?…”

“…Results of the SLR (Muriana & Baranauskas, 2021b) in which 41 papers were selected for further analysis showed three main types of studies: i) general analysis of how technology may affect self-esteem or how the person's level of self-esteem affects technology usage; ii) studies discussing how and why technology may affect self-esteem; and iii) technological systems specifically designed to affect self-esteem. In this study, we directed attention to the 21 papers from "ii and iii studies" to carry on a meta-analysis, i.e., we looked at papers that addressed the systems' features and their influence on self-esteem.…”

“…For verifying the recommendations completeness and analyze how they encompass the capacity of influencing selfesteem, we chose four systems from the systematic literature review we performed (Muriana & Baranauskas, 2021b). We chose these systems based on their type of technology and interaction mode.…”