Collaborative Research: SaTC: CORE: Medium: Using Intelligent Conversational Agents to Empower Adolescents to be Resilient Against Cybergrooming

合作研究：SaTC：核心：中：使用智能会话代理使青少年能够抵御网络诱骗

• 批准号: 2330940
• 负责人: Jin-Hee Cho
• 金额: $ 85.51万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-03-01 至 2027-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2330940&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; SaTC; CORE; Medium

Cybergrooming has emerged as a serious social concern, where perpetrators exploit the trust and emotional bond with youth through the internet for sexual exploitation or abuse. This project aims to address this issue by developing a technology-enhanced educational program to teach youth how to effectively protect themselves from online sexual predation. The novel contribution of this research is in the design and development of a conversational agent (i.e., chatbot) that teens interact with to practice (i.e., “learning-by-doing”) how to respond in ways that make them less vulnerable to cybergrooming advances. The conversational agent provides interactive coaching so that teens can understand responses that increase or decrease their vulnerability to sexual exploitation and explain why. The team is collecting examples of conversational data from parents and teens to train the conversational agent and uses natural language processing, to develop the chatbot. The research team works with teens and experts to conceptualize and design features to customize the interface of the chatbot and builds an educational program. The team partners with experts in cyber abuse and sex trafficking prevention to develop training materials and ensure that the conversational agent is safe for teens. This project research outcome will help the public understand how artificial intelligence can promote online safety.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

网络诱骗已成为一个严重的社会问题，犯罪者利用通过互联网与青年建立的信任和情感纽带进行性剥削或性虐待。该项目旨在通过开发一个技术增强的教育计划来解决这个问题，以教青少年如何有效地保护自己免受在线性掠夺。这项研究的新贡献是设计和开发了一个会话代理（即，聊天机器人），青少年与之交互以练习（即，“边做边学”）如何以使他们不那么容易受到网络美容进步影响的方式作出反应。对话代理提供互动式辅导，使青少年能够理解增加或减少他们对性剥削的脆弱性的反应，并解释原因。该团队正在从父母和青少年那里收集对话数据的例子，以训练对话代理，并使用自然语言处理来开发聊天机器人。研究团队与青少年和专家合作，概念化和设计功能，以定制聊天机器人的界面，并建立一个教育计划。该团队与网络虐待和性交易预防专家合作，开发培训材料，并确保对话代理对青少年是安全的。该项目的研究成果将帮助公众了解人工智能如何促进在线安全。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。