Keeping Children Safe Online: Understanding the Concerns of Carers of Children with Autism

Mike Just; Tessa Berg

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-67687-6_3

Keeping Children Safe Online: Understanding the Concerns of Carers of Children with Autism

Mike Just, Tessa Berg

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Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have difficulty making sense of the world, and have an impaired ability to socially interact. This impacts their ability to understand inappropriate behaviour or recognize dangers online. Because of this, parent carers of children with ASD struggle to protect their children online. In this paper, we report on the results of two workshops with 16 parent carers of children with ASD in which we used rich pictures and group discussions to identify carers’ concerns and protection methods. Our results indicate that carers have significant challenges with protecting their children, who they describe as "devious" and "obsessive" (but also "clever" and "naive"). In addition, carers often rely on physical controls and rules, which meet with limited success. From our results, we highlight the importance of educational approaches, and recommend the development of educational nudging tools to assist children, and to keep them safe online.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2017
Subtitle of host publication	16th IFIP TC 13 International Conference Mumbai, India, September 25–29, 2017 Proceedings, Part III
Publisher	Springer
Pages	34-53
Number of pages	20
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319676876
ISBN (Print)	9783319676869
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67687-6_3
Publication status	Published - 21 Sept 2017
Event	16th IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2017 - Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India Duration: 25 Sept 2017 → 29 Sept 2017 https://www.interact2017.org/

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer
Volume	10515
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Conference	16th IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2017
Abbreviated title	INTERACT 2017
Country/Territory	India
City	Mumbai
Period	25/09/17 → 29/09/17
Internet address	https://www.interact2017.org/

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Just, M., & Berg, T. (2017). Keeping Children Safe Online: Understanding the Concerns of Carers of Children with Autism. In Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2017: 16th IFIP TC 13 International Conference Mumbai, India, September 25–29, 2017 Proceedings, Part III (pp. 34-53). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 10515). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67687-6_3

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Just, M & Berg, T 2017, Keeping Children Safe Online: Understanding the Concerns of Carers of Children with Autism. in Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2017: 16th IFIP TC 13 International Conference Mumbai, India, September 25–29, 2017 Proceedings, Part III. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 10515, Springer, pp. 34-53, 16th IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2017, Mumbai, India, 25/09/17. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67687-6_3

Keeping Children Safe Online: Understanding the Concerns of Carers of Children with Autism. / Just, Mike ; Berg, Tessa.
Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2017: 16th IFIP TC 13 International Conference Mumbai, India, September 25–29, 2017 Proceedings, Part III. Springer, 2017. p. 34-53 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 10515).

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