Mifrenz: A new email client application for children

Hunt, Tim D. (2007) Mifrenz: A new email client application for children. In: NACCQ07: Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the National Advisory Committee on Computing Qualifications. National Advisory Committee on Computing Qualifications, Hamilton, New Zealand, pp. 99-105.

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Products currently available for monitoring childrens’ email usage are either considered to encourage dubious ethical behaviour or are time consuming for parents to administer. This paper describes the development of a new email client application for children called Mifrenz (http://mifrenz.com/). This new application gives parents the ability to let their children safely use email, with the minimum of intervention. It was developed using mostly free software and also with the desire to provide real first hand programming examples to demonstrate to students.

Item Type:Book Section
Additional Information:Conference held 8-11 July, 2007, in Nelson, New Zealand
Keywords that describe the item:Email, Java, Children, Parental supervision, SPAM, white list
Subjects:T Technology > T Technology (General)
Divisions:Schools > Centre for Business, Information Technology and Enterprise > School of Information Technology
ID Code:109
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Deposited On:17 Feb 2009 04:43
Last Modified:09 Jul 2020 23:32

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