Usability Impact on Effectiveness of Parental Controls

Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) Baltimore, MD
October 1, 2007

By Leslie McFarlin, User Experience Specialist
Kevin Buffardi, User Experience Specialist
Robert Schumacher, Ph.D., Managing Director
Maura Vij, Marketing Specialist

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Abstract

The presentation highlights the difficulties experienced by both parents and children when attempting to configure parental controls on entertainment and communication devices. Discrepancies between confidence ratings and actual performance when setting parental controls are discussed.

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