Cyberspace Odyssey: A Competitive Team-Oriented Serious Game in Computer Networking
Cyberspace Odyssey: A Competitive Team-Oriented Serious Game in Computer Networking
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《赛博空间奥德赛》：计算机网络中以团队为导向的严肃游戏
DOI：
10.1109/tlt.2020.3008607
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Laurence D. Merkle
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作者：
Kendra Graham;James Anderson;Conrad Rife;Bryce Heitmeyer;Pranav R. Patel;Scott L Nykl;Alan C. Lin;Laurence D. Merkle
网络空间奥德赛（CSO）是一款支持计算机网络教育的新型严肃游戏，通过让学生参加一场成功执行各种网络安全任务的竞赛，以收集线索并解决虚拟近地三维空间中的难题。每个团队通过呈现多模式界面的专用客户端与游戏服务器进行交互，使用游戏控制器进行导航，并使用各种桌面计算机网络工具来执行游戏物理网络上的网络安全任务。具体来说，团队连接到无线接入点，使用数据包监视器拦截网络流量，对该流量进行解密和逆向工程，制作格式良好且有意义的响应，并传输这些响应。成功完成这些物理网络动作以解决一系列日益复杂的问题对于完成虚拟故事驱动的冒险是必要的。网络工具的使用强化了网络理论，并为当今的网络操作员提供了必要的实践培训。本文介绍了基于 CSO 的课堂干预的目标学习成果、游戏的设计和实施、整体干预的教学概述以及评估其有效性的四年定量和定性数据。
Cyberspace odyssey (CSO) is a novel serious game supporting computer networking education by engaging students in a race to successfully perform various cybersecurity tasks in order to collect clues and solve a puzzle in virtual near-Earth three-dimensional space. Each team interacts with the game server through a dedicated client presenting a multimodal interface, using a game controller for navigation and various desktop computer networking tools of the trade for cybersecurity tasks on the game's physical network. Specifically, teams connect to wireless access points, use packet monitors to intercept network traffic, decrypt and reverse engineer that traffic, craft well-formed and meaningful responses, and transmit those responses. Successful completion of these physical network actions to solve a sequence of increasingly complex problems is necessary to progress through the virtual story-driven adventure. Use of the networking tools reinforces networking theory and offers hands-on practical training requisite for today's cyber operators. This article presents the learning outcomes targeted by a classroom intervention based on CSO, the design and implementation of the game, a pedagogical overview of the overall intervention, and four years of quantitative and qualitative data assessing its effectiveness.