HCC: Medium: Intelligent Agents for Protecting Users in Cyberspace

这个跨学科的项目研究了互联网上正常活动中固有的风险的本质，对这些风险的感知，对行为权衡的判断，以及可以提醒用户危险行为并帮助保护他们的个性化代理的设计。关键的观点是，充分的安全和隐私保护需要计算机和用户的共同努力。跨学科的研究团队结合了心理学、计算机安全和人工智能的专业知识，提出了MIPA（混合主动保护代理）——一种半自主、智能和个性化的代理方法，利用心理学研究来了解用户想要/需要什么，以及迫在眉睫的安全和隐私风险。这些技术将针对一个挑战人工智能、安全和用户模型当前技术水平的实际问题进行开发和测试。由于用户越来越难以保护自己并了解他们在互联网上所承担的风险，本项目有可能对系统设计产生积极影响，从而有效地增强用户的安全性。以家庭电脑用户（大学生和老年人）为研究对象，调查他们如何感知、使用互联网应用软件，以及如何最好地为他们服务。结果可以改善这些用户的体验，并显着推进智能代理和计算机安全技术。此外，由于家庭用户和机器往往是安全的薄弱环节，保护他们可能更好地保护他人。

This interdisciplinary project studies the nature of the risks inherent in normal activity on the Internet, the perception of those risks, the judgment about trade-offs in behavior and the design of a personalized agent that can alert users to risky behavior and help to protect them. The key insight is that adequate security and privacy protection requires the concerted efforts of both the computer and the user. The interdisciplinary research team combines expertise from psychology, computer security and artificial intelligence to propose MIPA (MIxed Initiative Protective Agent) -- a semi-autonomous, intelligent and personalized agent approach that leverages psychological studies of what users want/need and what security and privacy risks are imminent. The techniques will be developed for and tested on a real problem that challenges the current state of the art in artificial intelligence, security and user models.As it is becoming increasingly difficult for users to protect themselves and understand the risks they are taking on the Internet, this project has the potential to positively impact system design to effectively enhance user security. Focusing on home computer users (college students and senior citizens), the proposed research will investigate how they perceive, use and can best be served by Internet application software. Results could improve the experiences of these users as well as significantly advance techniques in intelligent agents and computer security. Additionally, because home users and machines tend to be the weak link in security, protecting them may better protect others.