“It Takes a Village to Raise a Child” -Who and What to Consider in Designing Parental Mediation Features?
Abstract
Introduction: The pandemic intensified children’s use of connected devices, especially social media apps. The 2024 TIC Kids survey shows that over 60% of children aged 9–12 have profiles on these platforms (despite being under the minimum age of 13). This exposes them to risks like privacy loss, inappropriate content, and commercial exploitation. Objective: We aim to understand the main recommendations to design parental mediation and control features arising from the public consultation on platform regulation by CGI.br. Methodology or Steps: We analyzed the contributions on parental mediation regulations through thematic synthesis. Results: Based on this, we derived early requirements and evaluated TikTok and Instagram on these requirements.
Keywords:
Parental Control, Child Protection, Design, Requirements
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Domingos, L. (2017). Telas e crianças: Conheça os mitos e riscos desta exposição. [link]. Accessed: 2025-05-09.
dos Santos Madeira, F. N., de Souza Rosa, M., Ferreira, A. G. N., Dias, I. C. C. M., e Bezerra, J. M. (2023). Análise de aplicativos móveis voltados para controle parental: revisão narrativa. Arquivos de Ciências da Saúde da UNIPAR, 27(3):1457–1476.
Geržiylek, V. (2023).cáková, M., Dedkova, L., e M` What do parents know about children’s risky online experiences? the role of parental mediation strategies. Computers in Human Behavior, 141:107626.
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United Nations (1989). Convention on the rights of the child. [link]. com/yc3tj2tk. Accessed: 2025-05-09.
Winther, D. K., Livingstone, S., Saeed, M., et al. (2019). Growing up in a connected world. [link]. Accessed: 2025-05-09.
Wisniewski, P., Ghosh, A. K., Xu, H., Rosson, M. B., e Carroll, J. M. (2017). Parental control vs. teen self-regulation: Is there a middle ground for mobile online safety? In ACM Conf. on Computer Sup. Cooperative Work and Social Comp., pages 51–69.
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Zaman, B., Nouwen, M., Vanattenhoven, J., De Ferrerre, E., e Looy, J. V. (2016). A qualitative inquiry into the contextualized parental mediation practices of young children’s digital media use at home. J. of Broadcasting & Elec. Media, 60(1):1–22.
Published
2025-09-08
How to Cite
VALENÇA, George; ASSIS, João Victor; DE MELLO, Maria Góes.
“It Takes a Village to Raise a Child” -Who and What to Consider in Designing Parental Mediation Features?. In: BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM ON HUMAN FACTORS IN COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEMS (IHC), 24. , 2025, Belo Horizonte/MG.
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Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação,
2025
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p. 576-594.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/ihc.2025.10790.
