Cyberheroes: The Design and Evaluation of an Interactive Ebook to Educate Children about Online Privacy
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Date
2017-07
Authors
Zhang-Kennedy, Leah
Abdelaziz, Yomna
Chiasson, Sonia
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Elsevier
Abstract
We designed an educational interactive ebook called Cyberheroes and evaluated it to assess its effectiveness at increasing children’s online privacy knowledge and behaviour, and supporting child-parent privacy-related discussions. We con- ducted a user study with 22 children (aged 7 to 9) and 22 parents that included usability evaluations and privacy knowledge and behaviour assessments with children pre/post-reading and 1-week later. Cyberheroes considerably increased children’s online privacy knowledge and reported privacy behaviour, and led to superior 1-week knowledge retention compared to the text-only control. Fur- thermore, Cyberheroes facilitated longer child-parent privacy discussions during co-reading than the control. Children and parents found Cyberheroes engag- ing, easy to use, and easy to learn. We discuss our interactive ebook’s role in children’s acquisition, retention, and transfer of knowledge, and the role that in- teractivity, previous knowledge, and parental guidance play in children’s online privacy education.
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The final publication is available at Elsevier via http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcci.2017.05.001. © 2017. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Keywords
privacy education, interactive ebook, mobile learning, prototyping, user study, children