Recommendations for a smart toy parental control tool

Albuquerque, Otavio de Paula; Fantinato, Marcelo; Hung, Patrick C. K.; Peres, Sarajane Marques; Iqbal, Farkhund; Rehman, Umair; Shah, Muhammad Umair

doi:10.1007/s11227-022-04319-4

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“…(2021) also recommends using a stakeholder-centric design process to advance and promote an inclusive and sustainable games development model. Other studies stress the importance of stakeholder inclusion in designing software and hardware technologies for social robots (Shah and Iqbal, 2022; Albuquerque et al ., 2022), wearable devices (Shah et al ., 2020) and autonomous vehicles (Shah et al ., 2021, 2022) to cater to a wider audience, such as children, parents, seniors and people with special needs. The overarching theme in these articles has been around technology ethics, where multiple stakeholders, especially humans, remain in the core of designing sustainable technologies.…”

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Guest editorial: Human factors in business technology management

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Danzinger

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Guest editorial: Human factors in business technology management

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“…Smart toys have provoked both relevant debates in the press media [Mathews 2017, Harris 2015] and scientific research, mainly related to children's data privacy such as the perceptions regarding smart toys and privacy in different countries [Fantinato et al 2017, Fantinato et al 2018, privacy risks that the context brought to light [Hung et al 2016a, Albuquerque et al 2019, proposed solutions to preserving privacy [Albuquerque et al 2020, Albuquerque et al 2022], the issues and consequences which involve related to their complexity, and the prospect of market growth. However, an equally relevant issue, but probably more difficult to define, understand and solve, has been overlooked or even neglected: the risks of the harmful behavior that smart toys built with inductive reasoning implemented in machine learning strategies could perform.…”

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“…The second enhances the smart toy's functionalities through mobile services. The third represents applications that interact with the physical toy to process and store data [Albuquerque et al 2022]. For the scope of our study, we are analyzing the interaction of the physical toy with a user, which is usually a child, through the mobile application represented by the speech recognition functionality (see Figure 1).…”

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An exploratory research about ethical issues on a smart toy: The Hello Barbie case study

Albuquerque

Fantinato

Peres

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Anais Do III Workshop Sobre as Implicações Da Computação Na Sociedade (WICS 2022)

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Smart toys are becoming increasingly present in children's lives, reinforcing the relevance of this market niche. Advances in user interfaces and artificial intelligence have been incorporated into smart toys to provide greater autonomy and inductive reasoning skills through machine learning. However, machine learning embedded in smart toys not only brings benefits but also potential problems of bias, possibly related to prejudice and discrimination. This work aims to explore Mattel's Hello Barbie smart toy in a case study, seeking to analyze its knowledge base and conversational functionality to identify possible ethical issues that could cause harm to children. The intention is to show unknown risks that can occur in the evolution's process of smart toys.

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Is My Child Safe Online? - On Requirements for Parental Control Tools in Apps used by Children

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Valença

2024

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Following the Covid-19 pandemic, children have increased their use of mobile electronic devices to access the internet. Among the main applications used by children between 9 and 17 years old are the social and communication media platforms Instagram and TikTok. Consequently, they are more exposed to risky situations (e.g. objectionable content, sexual predators, cyberbullying, etc.). To address this scenario, we conducted a systematic mapping study and a snowballing process evaluating 33 primary studies to identify recommendations and general guidelines for parental control tools, which should be part of any social media app used by children. Based on this study, we derived 16 functional (FR) and 13 non-functional requirements (NFR) for IT companies to develop features that help caregivers and children promote online protection via assertive decisions and proper safeguards. We used those functional requirements as lenses of analysis of the two main social media software platforms largely used by children: Instagram and TikTok. Our findings revealed that TikTok’s parental control features are more mature and present more options for supervising and restricting children’s online activities than Instagram’s. Therefore, this research expands knowledge about the features for parental control and raises the discussion around children’s protection and welfare as relevant digital citizens.

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Recommendations for a smart toy parental control tool

Cited by 3 publications

References 32 publications

Guest editorial: Human factors in business technology management

Guest editorial: Human factors in business technology management

An exploratory research about ethical issues on a smart toy: The Hello Barbie case study

Is My Child Safe Online? - On Requirements for Parental Control Tools in Apps used by Children

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