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HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND THE INTERNET: EDUCATING OUR COMMUNITY OF THE GROWING PANDEMIC
Title
HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND THE INTERNET: EDUCATING OUR COMMUNITY OF THE GROWING PANDEMIC
Creator
Ali, Md
Date
2020
Description
Human trafficking is a growing pandemic with many traffickers utilizing both the surface web and dark web to recruit and sell victims of human...
Show moreHuman trafficking is a growing pandemic with many traffickers utilizing both the surface web and dark web to recruit and sell victims of human trafficking. We will explore different cases regarding human trafficking as well as how traffickers are uti- lizing technology to conduct their criminal activities. We will be going over different research studies that went over new social engineering methods that technology has introduced into the world of human trafficking and coming to a statistical analysis on preventive measures to be aware of. With increasing advancements in encryption methods and communication the ease of this crime has been committed from one’s own bedroom. This thesis will be answering the question on how to minimize or remedy this atrocious criminal activity from society by analyzing all the recommendations from each study and finding possible solutions to avoid being a victim of human trafficking.
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Towards Assisting Human-Human Conversations
Title
Towards Assisting Human-Human Conversations
Creator
Nanaware, Tejas Suryakant
Date
2021
Description
The idea of the research is to understand the open-topic conversations and ways to provide assistance to humans who face difficulties in...
Show moreThe idea of the research is to understand the open-topic conversations and ways to provide assistance to humans who face difficulties in initiating conversations and overcome social anxiety so as to be able to talk and have successful conversations. By providing humans with assistive conversational support, we can augment the conversation that can be carried out. The AdvisorBot can also help to reduce the time taken to type and convey the message if the AdvisorBot is context aware and capable of providing good responses.There has been a significant research for creating conversational chatbots in open-domain conversations that have claimed to have passed the Turing Test and can converse with humans while not seeming like a bot. However, if these chatbots can converse like humans, can they provide actual assistance in human conversations? This research study observes and improves the advanced open-domain conversational chatbots that are put in practice for providing conversational assistance.While performing this thesis research, the chatbots were deployed to provide conversational assistance and a human study was performed to identify and improve the ways to tackle social anxiety by connecting strangers to perform conversations that would be aided by AdvisorBot. Through the questionnaires that the research subjects filled during their participation, and by performing linguistic analysis, the quality of the AdvisorBot can be improved so that humans can achieve better conversational skills and are able to clearly convey their message while conversing. The results were further enhanced by using transfer learning techniques and quickly improve the quality of the AdvisorBot.
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DATA SHARING WITH PRIVACY AND SECURITY
Title
DATA SHARING WITH PRIVACY AND SECURITY
Creator
Qian, Jianwei
Date
2019
Description
Data is a non-exclusive resource and has synergistic effects. Open data sharing will enhance the utilization of big data’s value and...
Show moreData is a non-exclusive resource and has synergistic effects. Open data sharing will enhance the utilization of big data’s value and tremendously boost economic growth and transparency. Data sharing platforms have emerged worldwide, but with very limited services. Security is one of the main reasons why most data are not commonly shared. This dissertation aims to tackle several security issues in building a trustworthy data sharing ecosystem. First, I reveal the privacy risks in data sharing by designing de-anonymization and privacy inference attacks. Second, I present an analysis of the relationship between the attacker's knowledge and the privacy risk of data sharing, and try quantifying and estimating the risk. Then, I propose anonymization algorithms to protect the privacy of participants in data sharing. Finally, I survey the status quo, privacy and security concerns, and opportunities in data trading. This dissertation involves various data types with a focus on graph data and speech data; it also involves various forms of data sharing including collection, publishing, query, and trading.
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ENGAGEMENT FRAMEWORK FOR SERIOUS THERAPEUTIC GAMES FOR HEALTH
Title
ENGAGEMENT FRAMEWORK FOR SERIOUS THERAPEUTIC GAMES FOR HEALTH
Creator
Damarjian, Alex G.
Date
2022
Description
The conventional treatment of amblyopia in pediatric patients routinely experience low patient compliance due toits limitations. Therapeutic...
Show moreThe conventional treatment of amblyopia in pediatric patients routinely experience low patient compliance due toits limitations. Therapeutic games that utilize VR technology have the potential to open new avenues of medical research and treatment. A review of the prevailing literature shows the effectiveness of VR based games for therapeutic applications and the potential for increased patient compliance. A strong component of the literature is grounded in the medical humanities, specifically the way in which thought patterns, cognitive development, and perceived social rejection affect patient engagement and treatment efficacy. In order to increase the effectiveness of therapeutic games and streamline their development, a new framework has been created using existing research into therapeutic games. This framework ensures that all therapeutic games meet certain criteria within ethics, immersion, active learning, universal accessibility, aesthetics, and medicine. When applied to game development, specifically virtual and extended reality games, it can be used to transform existing therapeutic or diagnostic models into games operating as health care tools. The result is a more effective, lower cost, more accessible treatment option with increased patient compliance and greater overall outcomes.
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