Enhancing Child Safety in MMOGs

This paper presents a method for improving child safety in Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs). The focus is to monitor and detect relationships forming with a child in online games, and to alert if the relationship indicates that an offline meeting with the child has been arranged or has the...

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Published inThe Influence of Technology on Social Network Analysis and Mining pp. 471 - 495
Main Authors Penna, Lyta, Clark, Andrew, Mohay, George
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Vienna Springer Vienna 21.12.2012
SeriesLecture Notes in Social Networks
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Base Experiment
Contextual Meaning
False Positive
Regular Expression
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Summary:This paper presents a method for improving child safety in Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs). The focus is to monitor and detect relationships forming with a child in online games, and to alert if the relationship indicates that an offline meeting with the child has been arranged or has the potential to occur. The research problem involves determining contextual meaning of messages in MMOGs which is addressed by use of a ranking system. The paper extends previous work (Penna L, Clark A, Mohay G (2010) A framework for improved adolescent and child safety in MMOs. In: Memon N, Alhajj R (eds) 2010 international conference on advances in social network analysis and mining (ASONAM 2010), IEEE Computer Society, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, pp 33–40; Penna L, Clark A, Mohay G (2005) Challenges of automating the detection of paedophile activity on the internet. In: Proceedings of Systematic Approaches to Digital Forensic Engineering (SADFE’2005), Taiwan, pp 206–222) by providing a systematic and comprehensive evaluation using World of Warcraft as a case study MMOG and a prototype of the design.
ISBN:3709113458
9783709113455
ISSN:2190-5428
2190-5436
DOI:10.1007/978-3-7091-1346-2_21