Document Type

Article

Author ORCID Identifier

Prakriti Dumaru https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6326-5810

Mahdi Nasrullah Al-Ameen https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5764-2253

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

Publication Date

5-11-2024

Journal Article Version

Version of Record

First Page

1

Last Page

8

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License

Abstract

As children are getting access to devices at an increasingly younger age, parents need to grapple with new ways to protect them from online risks. This indicates the need for support from parental control tools to enhance their self-efficacy, which we refer to as educational features. This is little addressed in the existing literature on parental mediation. As we begin to address this gap, we created a low-fidelity prototype with designs of Google's existing parental control as our baseline design. We used the baseline design in semi-structured interviews with 12 parents whose children (aged below 14) are active Internet users, to understand design changes, aligning with their expectations. Our study presents the prototype updated based on the needs and expectations of parents regarding educational features in different contexts and offers guidelines for future research in these directions.

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