“It takes a village to raise a child” – who and what to consider in designing parental mediation features?

George Valença, Maria Góes de Mello e João Victor Assis

Artigo aceito no XXIV Simpósio Brasileiro sobre Fatores Humanos em Sistemas Computacionais (8 a 10 de Setembro de 2025).

The pandemic intensifed children’s use of connected devices, especially social media apps. The 2024 TIC Kids survey shows that over 60% of children aged 9–12 have profles on these platforms (despite being under the minimum age of 13). This exposes them to risks like privacy loss, inappropriate content, and commercial exploitation. We aim to understand the main recommendations to design parental mediation and control features arising from the public consultation on platform regulation by CGI.br. We analyzed the contributions on parental mediation regulations through thematic synthesis. Based on this, we derived early
requirements and evaluated TikTok and Instagram on these requirements.

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