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: 2330941
• 负责人: Pamela Wisniewski
• 金额: $ 34.49万
• 依托单位: Vanderbilt 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=2330941&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.

网络室已成为一个严重的社会关注，肇事者通过互联网利用与青年人的信任和情感联系，以进行性剥削或虐待。该项目旨在通过制定一项技术增强的教育计划来解决这个问题，以教青年如何有效保护自己免受在线性掠夺。这项研究的新颖贡献在于，青少年与实践互动（即“按锻炼”）互动的对话代理（即聊天机器人）的设计和开发如何以使他们不那么容易受到网络室进展的方式做出反应。对话剂提供互动教练，以便青少年可以理解增加或减少他们对性剥削的脆弱性并解释原因的反应。该团队正在收集父母和青少年的对话数据示例，以培训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，以自定义聊天机器人的界面并构建一个教育计划。该团队与预防网络滥用和性贩运方面的专家合作，以开发培训材料，并确保对话代理人对青少年安全。该项目研究成果将有助于公众了解人工智能如何促进在线安全。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，被认为值得通过评估来获得支持。