Developing and Evaluating the Quality of a Website to Combat Online Sexual Violence Against Children and Teens

ABSTRACTOnline sexual violence against children and teens is a problem thatdemands organized collective efforts to strengthen a protectionnetwork between different institutions. This paper describes the developmentand quality evaluation process of a website for a nationalObservatory to combat online sexual violence against children andteens, which gathers studies and knowledge about this violence andorganizes protection actions. The developing process went throughstages of Requirements Analysis, Prototyping, Coding, Testing andEvaluation. The main contribution of this paper is the proposal anddevelopment of an unprecedented website for an observatory withthe evaluation of its quality, including the application of techniquessuch as Inspection, Testing and Card Sorting. Moreover, we presentthe lessons learned for constructing other Observatories that fightrelevant social problems. This project had the participation of nationaland international agencies, including a federal university, afederal government ministry, an ONU programme and a researchsupport foundation.