Using A Value Sensitive Design Approach To Promote Adolescent Online Safety On Mobile Platforms

Keywords

Parental control; Teen online safety; Teen self-regulation

Abstract

With the rise of adolescent smart phone use, concerns about teen online safety are also on the rise. A number of parental control apps are available for mobile devices but adoption of these apps has been markedly low. To address this problem, I have already conducted a structured, qualitative feature analysis of 75 Android mobile apps designed for the purpose of promoting adolescent online safety. My advisor helped to develop a conceptual framework for Teen Online Safety Strategies (TOSS) and mapped our feature analysis results to this conceptual framework. Overall, I found that the available apps overwhelmingly supported parental control through restriction and monitoring over teen self-regulation or parental active mediation, which has been shown to be a more effective parenting approach. Next, I plan to conduct a web-survey based to confirm our hypotheses that the values promoted in the design of these apps (e.g., distrust, authoritarian parenting, etc.) are sub-optimal and do not cater to the needs of parents or teens (e.g., trust building, accountability, etc.), thus contributing to the low rate of adoption. Then I will develop a mobile app prototype suggesting alternative designs for keeping teens safe online. In summary, my research will enable the HCI social computing community to create more effective solutions to teen online safety that will help promote positive parent-teen relationships.

Publication Date

1-1-2016

Publication Title

Proceedings - 2016 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems, CTS 2016

Number of Pages

593-596

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2016.107

Socpus ID

85016966442 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85016966442

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