K.S. Kuppusamy, Leena Mary Francis and G. Aghila
Pondicherry University, India

The mammoth growth in the information technology sector in terms of both quantity and pervasiveness hasopened up a Pandora’s Box of issueswhich are relevant in technical and social aspects.This paperattempts to address one of the critical issuesamongthem whichisconcernedwith theproperutilization ofcomputer systemsand mobile devicesby children and teens.This paper proposes amodel termed “RePort(RemoteParental Control System using Smartphones) which is aimed towards monitoring the accessbehaviour ofcomputers and smartphonesin general and internetto be specific, by teens and childreninaprivateenvironment. The model isbuilt such that the access behaviour shall be monitored from a remotelocation withthehelp of smartphone devices. The access-characteristics are modelled using variousparametersin four different layers of the model.The proposed model is validated with a prototypeimplementationin the Android platformfor smartphones and as a background service for computersystems. Various experiments were conducted onthe prototype implementation andresults of theexperiments validatethe efficiencyof the proposedmodel with respect to user’s relevancy metric which iscomputed as93.46%.

Parental Control,Mobile Computing, Smartphones