Online Parent Monitoring Tool

Stoev, Martin (2022)

There are many dangers for children, aged between 6 and 13, who are using the Internet. They can be exposed to age-inappropriate or hateful content. They can have their privacy violated by websites that track them or collect their data. Excessive use may lead to negative physical changes, sleep troubles and the development of addiction. To prevent this effect, parents may choose to use parental monitoring applications, monitoring their children's activities and protecting them from such dangers. However, there are many features (filtering websites, monitoring calls, messages and social media), that are desired by parents but not implemented in free popular applications (Google Family link, Kids Place Parental Controls and Parental Control - Screen Time & Location Tracker). This project aims to analyze these free applications and other paid applications (Norton Family Parental Control, MMGuardian, Qustodio, FamiSafe), gather the requirements of parents by conducting quantitative research and develop an Android application for the mobile phone of the child and a web interface for the parent to use.
Stoev_BA_EEMCS.pdf