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IPTV parental control: A collaborative model for the Social Web

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Whether traditional TV or Internet multimedia content, parental control systems based on the intermediate filtering criteria of broadcasters or content producers may be not flexible enough. From parent’s perspective, the ideal scenario would be one in which they could dynamically decide about the suitability of any content. Since this desired scenario entails many practical problems, we propose an intermediate solution where parents delegate the decision of blocking any piece of TV content on a trustworthy set of parents. Our approach provides a collaborative parental control model based on two pillar: (1) a parenting social network where parents interact, freely give their opinion about TV content and tag this content (collaborative tagging); and (2) a model of trust relationship between parents. Regarding the deployment of parental control, we introduce a parental monitoring system for DVB-IPTV content, which is based on social technologies. The proposal combines information from the service provider and from parents in a social network to predict whether content should be blocked.

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  1. http://www.tvguidelines.org

  2. With the aim of being cautious, we select a low threshold and block content as a precautionary measure. Parents always have the possibility to unblock the content, which also give us information for future predictions.

  3. IMDB (Internet Movie Database), the online database of films and television programs at http://www.imdb.com.

  4. Netflix, the USA provider of on-demand Internet Streming Media (see http://www.netflix.com).

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This work was supported in part by the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Gobierno de España) research project TIN2010-20797 (partly financed with ERDF funds); by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Galician Regional Government under agreement for funding the Atlantic Research Center for Information and Communication Technologies (AtlantTIC); by the Spanish Government and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) under project TACTICA.

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    Ana Fernández-Vilas, Rebeca P. Díaz-Redondo & Sandra Servia-Rodríguez

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Fernández-Vilas, A., Díaz-Redondo, R.P. & Servia-Rodríguez, S. IPTV parental control: A collaborative model for the Social Web. Inf Syst Front 17, 1161–1176 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-014-9494-5

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