Innovative Strategies for Preventing Online Child Grooming: A Multilingual Web Application

This article investigates modern approaches to preventing online child grooming, emphasizing raising awareness and analyzing current trends. It focuses on identifying emerging threats and examining existing prevention methods and available data within established models. Based on these findings, a multilingual web application was developed at the Technical University of Košice to protect children from online grooming in Slovakia and beyond. The web application allows users to assess online conversations and statements to determine whether they are safe or show signs of grooming, vulgarity, blackmail, or other related behaviors. The platform is available in three languages: English, Slovak, and Norwegian. The results from testing the app, collected from unique users, are presented and analyzed in the final section.