A value sensitive design approach to parental software for young children

Nouwen, Marije; Mechelen, Maarten Van; Zaman, Bieke

doi:10.1145/2771839.2771917

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“…Current research has emphasized the importance of balancing the needs of parents to monitor and manage usage with the needs of children to maintain the agency and autonomy that children need to develop into self-dependent adults [16,29,61]. Several studies have reported that appropriate balance in parental mediation can mitigate the negative aspects of digital media [37,24,58,6,33] and help to develop digital literacy and practical abilities in the use of digital devices [2]. It has been shown that mediation enforced by technology are more effective than mediation enforced by parents [19].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Research has been published, exploring both positive and negative consequences of this increase [58]. Important research being done includes topics such as children online safety [16,58], parental control [61,37], benefits of early education using mobile technology, inclusion of children in system and user interface (UI) design [59,57]. Systems and applications have also been built based on these research efforts.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Kid on the phone! Toward automatic detection of children on mobile devices

Nguyen

Roy

Memon

2019

Computers & Security

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Studies have shown that children can be exposed to smart devices at a very early age. This has important implications on research in children-computer interaction, children online safety and early education. Many systems have been built based on such research. In this work, we present multiple techniques to automatically detect the presence of a child on a smart device, which could be used as the first step on such systems. Our methods distinguish children from adults based on behavioral differences while operating a touch-enabled modern computing device. Behavioral differences are extracted from data recorded by the touchscreen and built-in sensors.To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed methods, a new data set has been created from 50 children and adults who interacted with off-the-shelf applications on smart phones. Results show that it is possible to achieve 99% accuracy and less than 0.5% error rate after 8 consecutive touch gestures using only touch information or 5 seconds of sensor reading. If information is used from multiple sensors, then only after 3 gestures, similar performance could be achieved.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Kid on the phone! Toward automatic detection of children on mobile devices

Nguyen

Roy

Memon

2019

Computers & Security

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“…Nouwen et al [19] also point to values for children in their work with a value sensitive design approach towards parental software for young children. They state that the software developed must emphasize values related to how parents bring up their children using digital media aiming at control for safety, involvement, morality, independence and fun [19, p. 365].…”

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Editorial special issue on assumptions about the concept of childhood and the roles of children in design

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Barendregt

Skovbjerg

et al. 2019

International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction

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“…Previous research within teen mobile safety has used this tripartite approach for identifying key technical design challenges with teens and parents (Czeskis et al, 2010); through this lens, research found that safety, trust, and privacy were values that caused tension between parents and teens. Nouwen, Van Mechelen, and Zaman (2015) found that parents value involvement, in addition to safety and control. VSD is well-suited for the context of adolescent online safety because it allows designers (in this case, college students) to reflect on core values that can help design better safety measures for teens.…”

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Beyond Parental Control: Designing Adolescent Online Safety Apps Using Value Sensitive Design

Badillo-Urquiola

Chouhan

Chancellor

et al. 2019

Journal of Adolescent Research

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Parental control applications are designed to help parents monitor their teens and protect them from online risks. Generally, parents are considered the primary stakeholders for these apps; therefore, the apps often emphasize increased parental control through restriction and monitoring. By taking a developmental perspective and a Value Sensitive Design approach, we explore the possibility of designing more youth-centric online safety features. We asked 39 undergraduate students in the United States to create design charrettes of parental control apps that would better represent teens as stakeholders. As emerging adults, students discussed the value tensions between teens and parents and designed features to reduce and balance these tensions. While they emphasized safety, the students also designed to improve parent-teen communication, teen autonomy and privacy, and parental support. Our research contributes to the adolescent online safety literature by presenting design ideas from emerging adults that depart from the traditional paradigm of parental control. We also make a pedagogical contribution by leveraging design charrettes as a classroom tool for engaging college students in the design of youth-centered apps. We discuss why features that support parent-teen cooperation, teen privacy, and autonomy may be more developmentally appropriate for adolescents than existing parental control app designs.

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A value sensitive design approach to parental software for young children

Cited by 34 publications

References 14 publications

Kid on the phone! Toward automatic detection of children on mobile devices

Kid on the phone! Toward automatic detection of children on mobile devices

Editorial special issue on assumptions about the concept of childhood and the roles of children in design

Beyond Parental Control: Designing Adolescent Online Safety Apps Using Value Sensitive Design

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