A Crowdsourcing Approach for Families to Adapt in the New Internet Landscape with Real-Time Online Safety Information
Date
2-19-2025
Faculty Mentor
Arup Ghosh, Mathematics, Computing, and Information Science
Files
Submission Type
Conference Proceeding
Location
12:45-12:55 pm | Houston Cole Library, 11th Floor
Description
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The fluidity of today’s online environment presents increasingly complex safety challenges, especially for those with limited digital literacy skills. Addressing these issues requires comprehensive co-design work to create adaptive tools that can respond to threats as they appear. There is an opportunity to utilize the collective knowledge of adults from all backgrounds to establish a dynamic knowledge base that can educate children about avoiding threatening websites and developing healthy digital habits. This paper introduces a lightweight Google Chrome extension that crowdsources online safety information. Adults submit website reviews based on a set of broad safety categories, while children receive context-specific warnings about flagged sites, including tailored explanations of the websites’ specific risks. Unlike traditional parental control applications, this project emphasizes education over restriction, thereby focusing on fostering a culture of trust and encouraging constructive conversations between parents and children. The initial implementation includes a simplistic user-friendly review interface, safety metrics, and real-time warning capabilities. Preliminary feedback from five lab members demonstrated feasibility and highlighted potential for improving safety awareness. Future work includes user studies to refine functionality and evaluate impact.
Keywords
student research, computing
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Disciplines
Computer Sciences
Recommended Citation
Skipper, Jakob, "A Crowdsourcing Approach for Families to Adapt in the New Internet Landscape with Real-Time Online Safety Information" (2025). JSU Student Symposium 2025. 48.
https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/ce_jsustudentsymp_2025/48
