Virtual plagues and real-world pandemics: reflecting on the potential for online computer role-playing games to inform real world epidemic research

2013 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Oultram

In this developing virtual era, the recreational activities like online games have turned into very intriguing tasks by giving whole new identities and avatars to individuals. This allows the individual to interact and also do anything that seemed possible as well as impossible in real lives. This virtual identification sometimes crosses into the real world, as they allow gamers to sell virtual game items for real-world money in markets and sometimes even requires use of real money to create or purchase personal property in their online world. This has created an opportunity for virtual crimes involving social and technical risks. The widespread adoptions of such Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) have not only become a dedicated activity for gamers but also act as a platform for social engineers. Social Engineering is considered as an art of collecting sensitive data/information by persuasion or manipulation of individuals and is the first step involving social risk in virtual crimes. MMORPGs were found to be highly socially interactive environments providing the opportunity to not only form relationships but also to be targeted by social engineers. In this study, we are reviewing and evaluating social interactions and psychological factors of MMORPG gamers which are making them vulnerable to social engineering threats. Various studies have assessed the psychological factors making an individual vulnerable to social engineering on social network interactions and also few studies have analysed the behaviours and relationships of gamers in online interactions. Observing such factors, in this study we analysed how the social engineers, disguised as fellow gamer, would target similar psychological vulnerabilities in the gamers by using social interaction platform on MMORPGs to gather personal and sensitive data from the targeted gamers.


Author(s):  
Dave Mobley

Real-world problems exhibit a few defining criteria that make them hard for computers to solve. Problems such as driving a car or flying a helicopter have primary goals of reaching a destination as well as doing it safely and timely. These problems must each manage many resources and tasks to achieve their primary goals. The tasks themselves are made up of states that are represented by variables or features. As the feature set grows, the problems become intractable. Computer games are smaller problems but also are representative of real-world problems of this type. In my research, I will look at a particular class of computer game, namely computer role-playing games (RPGs), which are made up of a collection of overarching goals such as improving the player avatar, navigating a virtual world, and keeping the avatar alive. While playing there are also subtasks such as combatting other characters and managing inventory which are not primary, but yet important to overall game play. I will be exploring tiered Reinforcement Learning techniques coupled with training from expert policies using Inverse Reinforcement Learning as a starting point on learning how to play a complex game while attempting to extrapolate ideal goals and rewards.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-33
Author(s):  
Iu. V. Amelina ◽  
R. V. Amelin

The article discusses the prospects of role-playing games in the educational process to increase students’ motivation and involvement, as well as the possibility of modern information technologies (primarily social networks) for constructing innovative forms of such games. The author’s format of the live-action role-playing game is presented. It was developed and tested at the Saratov State University. It involves the integration of numerous educational tasks into a single plot, within which each participant plays a role and communicates with other participants to complete tasks. The main interaction, plot development and group activities occur in dialogs, conversations and groups of social networks. This approach has shown its viability in teaching legal disciplines, and also has prospects for use in IT education.


1970 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-172
Author(s):  
Оксана Воронкевич

У   статті   актуалізовано   проблему   поширеності   шкільного   насильства   у   середовищі   учнів  початкових класів. Особлива увага звертається на необхідність діалогічної взаємодії учасників освітнього  процесу як необхідної умови попередження насилля у школі.  Опираючись на результати власного дослідницького пошуку, автор пропонує варіант програми  психологічної профілактики шкільного насильства вчителів стосовно учнів. Дана програма спрямована на  формування  у  педагогів  навичок  глибинного  самопізнання  й  пізнання  дітей,  апробування  нових  форм  поведінки та базується на ідеї діалогізації педагогічної взаємодії, оскільки важливо налагодити суб’єкт- суб’єктну взаємодію учня та вчителя й не використовувати монологічну модель спілкування. Наголошено,  що педагоги повинні стимулювати будь-які прояви суб’єктної активності дітей, що сприяють виробленню  у них адекватної оцінки себе та свого оточення, розвитку здатності до самовизначення. Відзначено, що  для   діалогічного   освітнього   середовища   характерними   є   такі   властивості,   як   різноманітність,  динамічність, напруженість, достатність, кожна з яких сприяє високій ефективності освітньої взаємодії,  здійснює істотний вплив на розвиток особистості. Під час занять використано різні тренінгові методи:  рольові ігри, міні-лекції, мозковий штурм, обговорення в загальному колі тощо. Разом із тим поширено  інформацію з актуальних для педагогів питань спілкування з дитиною без агресії, злості та конфлікту.  Представлено  результати  успішної  апробації  програми  психологічної  профілактики  шкільного  насильства  з  боку  вчителів,  що проявилися в розумінні важливості толерантного ставлення до учнів,  набутті практичних умінь відчувати психологічний стан іншої людини та адекватно реагувати на нього,  виявляти доброзичливість, прихильність до школярів та надавати їм необхідну допомогу.  The article actualizes the problem of the prevalence of school violence among elementary school pupils.  Special attention is drawn to the need for dialogical interaction of participants in the educational process as a  necessary condition for preventing violence in school.  Relying on the results of his own research, the author suggests a variant of school violence psychological  prevention program of teachers in relation to pupils. This program is aimed at educating the students the skills of  deep self-cognition and cognition of children, testing new forms of behavior and is based on the idea of pedagogical  interaction dialogization, since it is important to establish subject-subject interaction between the pupil and the  teacher and not use the monologue model of communication. It is highlighted that teachers should stimulate any  manifestation of children's subject activity, which helps to develop an adequate assessment of themselves and their  environment, development of self-determination ability. It is noted that a dialogical educational environment is  characterized by such attributes as diversity, dynamism, intensity, sufficiency, each of them contributes to the high  effectiveness of educational interaction, have a significant impact on the development of personality. During the  classes various training methods were used: role-playing games, mini-lectures, brainstorming, discussions in the  general circle, etc. At the same time, information on relevant for teachers issues about communicating with a child  without aggression, anger and conflict is propagated.  Was presented results of successful approbation of the school violence psychological prevention program  from teacher’s part, manifested in the understanding importance of the tolerant attitude towards pupils, acquiring  practical skills of feeling the another’s person psychological state and react adequately to it, showing benevolence,  adherence to schoolchildren and providing them the necessary assistance. 


Temática ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Naiade Caparelli

O crescente desenvolvimento tecnológico tem transformado as diversas mídias do cotidiano. As mídias analógicas ganharam suas versões digitais e, junto com essa transformação, as características presentes nos primeiros meios também têm se reconfigurado para o digital, mostrando uma possível relação entre as novas e velhas mídias. O mesmo acontece com os jogos, em que os modelos analógicos constantemente influenciam as novas versões. Desta forma o presente artigo tem como objetivo entender como os livros-jogos analógicos se relacionam com os Role-playing games eletrônicos. Para compreender como ocorreu essa relação, foi necessário realizarmos uma comparação entre as diferentes modalidades de épocas distintas. Através desta pesquisa, foi possível demonstrar não somente a relação mútua dos livros-jogos com o RPG eletrônico atual, como também, de forma geral, entender como as novas mídias se apropriam de recursos de outros meios.Palavras-chave: Livros-jogos. RPG. Videogames.


2010 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 436-440
Author(s):  
Zhi Ming Qu

In recent years, much research has been devoted to the refinement of IPv6; on the other hand, few have investigated the confusing unification of interrupts and Internet QoS. In this position paper, it demonstrates the emulation of interrupts. In order to overcome this quagmire, a novel system is presented for the intuitive unification of expert systems and massive multiplayer online role-playing games. It is concluded that erasure coding can be verified to make heterogeneous, interposable, and event-driven, which is proved to be applicable.


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